The role of inhibition in children's (5-, 7-, and 11-year-olds') false memory illusions in the Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) paradigm was examined using a list-wise directed-forgetting procedure. Children studied either a single DRM list (control) or two DRM lists in succession with a directed-remembering instruction or a directed-forgetting instruction between list presentations. The findings...

Binary tools such as disassemblers, just-in-time compilers, and executable code rewriters need to have an explicit representation of how machine instructions are encoded. Unfortunately, writing encodings for an entire instruction set by hand is both tedious and error-prone. We describe derive, a tool that extracts bit-level instruction encoding information from assemblers. The user provides der...

This investigation examined the mixed effects of visual input enhancement, explicit instruction, pushed output, and corrective feedback on noticing and intake of English conjunctive adverbs. Participants included 83 intermediate EFL students enrolled in a grammar and writing course. They were assigned to a control group (n = 22), explicit instruction + pushed output + explicit corrective feedba...

The DFU is based on a commodity DRC platform DS2004, containing two AMD Opteron 2350 quad core processors and two Opteron socket compatible DRC Reconfigurable Processor Units (RPUs), all of which are connected via Hypertransport interconnects. Internal Components of the DFU: 1. HT Interface: Used to decode the HT read/write signals to internal DFU components 2. Statistics Registers: Tuples Proc...

l2 research has shown that instruction in l2 pragmatics is necessary. the current study evaluated the impact of explicit instruction on efl learner's awareness and production of three speech acts of request, apology, and complaint. it also probed whether learners’ language proficiency plays any role in incorporating pragmatic instruction into the l2 classroom. iranian undergraduate students maj...

A huge application domain, in particular, wireless and handheld devices strongly requires flexible and powerefficient hardware with high performance. This can only be achieved with Application Specific Instruction-Set Processors (ASIPs). A key problem is to determine the instruction encoding of the processors for achieving minimum power consumption in the instruction bus and in the instruction ...

Several studies have pointed out that the values produced by the execution of a program’s instructions are often quite repetitive. There are basically two approaches that have been proposed for exploiting this value locality – 1) reusing the results of a prior execution of an instruction, and 2) predicting the value that will be produced by the current execution of an instruction based on the p...

Systematic phonics instruction in first language education has recently received considerable research attention due to its critical role in facilitating phonological awareness and processing skills. However, little is known about the effects of systematic phonics instruction on foreign language reading and spelling in an EFL context. This study examined the effects of spelling-based phonics in...