boosting the performance of task based asynchronous communications using caching

... Significance of the study Methods of the study Structure of the study .3 PART TWO: DEVELOPMENT CHAPTER ONE: LITERATURE REVIEW 1.1 Task- based ... List of tables viii List of figures viii PART ONE: INTRODUCTION .1 Rationale for the study Aims of the study Scope of the study ... Text books 11 CHAPTER TWO: THE STUDY 12 2.1 The context of the study 12 2.1.1 English language teaching at HaUI 12 2.1.2 The teaching materials and assessment...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2015, 08:56

... two-way tasks These tasks are information exchange tasks that are distinguished in terms of how the information to be shared In the case of one-way tasks, the burden of completing the task successfully ... From the teachers The first reason is the teachers are lack of experience The staff of teachers at Faculty of Foreign Languages of HaUI is very young Most of them are at the ages of 22 to 30 They ... nature of the outcome they will arrive at Students are aslo given time to plan the performance of the task Especially, teachers will support students in performing a task similar to the task they...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2015, 08:56

... activities;  task completion has some priority;  the assessment of the task is in terms of outcome 8 This definition addresses five characteristics of a task That is, the cope of a task, the authenticity ... familiarizes them with -the topic and the task to be performed  Task Cycle: During the task cycle, the students perform the task in pairs or small group while the teacher monitors from the distance The ... authenticity of a task, the linguistic skills required to perform a task, the cognitive processes involved in task performance and the outcome of a task Ellis (2003, p 16) lists six „criterial features of...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2015, 14:34

... function of the LQI of the link The link cost is an estimate of the number of transmission attempts required for successful frame delivery in a link The path cost is the sum of the link costs of the ... enable the calculation of the cost of a path, based on the LQI values of all links Therefore, we chose to evaluate the performance of these LQI -based routing metrics for NST-AODV Note that the PATH-DR ... considers the quality of the worst link of a path It does not explicitly take into account the other characteristics of the path, such as the hop count or the LQI of the rest of the links 4.9 PATH-DR...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 11:20

... This type of competence reveals an understanding of the social context in which language is used, of the roles of the participant, of the information they share and of the function of the interaction ... framework of tasks: the pre -task stage, the task cycle and the language focus At the pre -task stage, the teacher first introduces the topic in the way that most motivates the students Then, clear ... task- as-workplan, i.e the designed task with the intension of the designer and task- as-process, i.e the learners actual performance of the task Then, these two terms have widely used by other researchers...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2015, 08:50

... and thereby to improve the functional performance of the scaffolds The hypothesis, objectives and significance of this research will be elaborated in the following sections 1.3 Research hypothesis ... significant contribution in the field of extrusion based AM scaffolds by improving mechanical properties of the scaffolds by using coupling agents, and functional performance of the scaffolds by developing ... which hampers the supply of nutrients and the ingrowth of tissue into the scaffold [65] Besides these limitations, most of the conventional techniques usually involve extensive use of toxic organic...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 15:51

... THE STUDY The thesis consists of five chapters The first chapter is the introductory part of this research and it talks about the objectives of the study and definition of key words The second ... understanding of the research topic Therefore, the most suitable method in this case, were the aim of our thesis is to indicate the importance of customer based- brand equity on consumer perceptions of brand ... indicate the importance of customer based brand equity on consumer perceptions of brand The purpose of the questionnaire is to help find out consumers opinion about the product and services of the...

Ngày tải lên: 24/09/2012, 17:19

... persuaded of the benefit This may be based on the kind of teaching they have had before and then what benefit the task make to them This is the report from Willis (1996) about the advantages of TBLT ... take the role of an instructor in pre -task phase, the role of a monitor and encourager in the task stage, the role of a language adviser in the planning stage, the role of a chairperson in the ... as tasks Tasks may or may not involve the production of language A task usually requires the teacher to specify what will be regarded as successful completion of the task The use of a variety of...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 15:01

... from the solar radiation, the tank wall heats a thin vertical layer of water along the tank wall Part of this heat is then transferred by diffusion towards the core of the tank The water of the ... August and the theoretical results of [1] in June Figure 10 The time variation of solar radiation and stored energy of the present experimental study in August and the theoretical results of [1] ... difference of around 3% for the most of the day In both comparisons, the experimental study gives lower values for most hours of the day, which may be attributed to different kind of thermal losses...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 15:28

... depth) The objective of this work is to investigate the effect of brine depth on the productivity and efficiency of solar still under laboratory conditions Table shows a summary of some of the studies ... that the still with the lower brine depth starts producing earlier than that of greater thickness, but the productivity diminishes rapidly after turning the heaters off On the other hand, the ... resistance of 2.5 (Ω /m) on a piece of mica with thickness 0.4 mm The mica has a property of heat conducting and electric insulation Another pieces of mica where then put below and above the twisted...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:10

... addition  to  the country’s  stock  of need based aid,  its  creation did not herald the start of a new focus on need based aid.  Quite the contrary, in fact:  the creation of the Foundation was actually the last major investment in need‐ based aid made  ...   In terms of the source of assistance, at the start of the decade in question, the government of Nova Scotia was responsible for over 45 percent of total assistance distributed in the province.   ... Residency -Based Aw ards Grants   In  terms  of the source  of assistance,  at  the start  of the decade  in  question,  the provincial  government was responsible for only about 26 percent of total assistance provided to students.  ...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 19:20

... support the charities of the 14 companies‟ ranked bottom of the list less than 0.01% of the profits Looking at the other side of the coin, according to the research center on the management of Ashridge, ... indirectly, by the actions of the firm In the traditional view of the firm, the shareholders view, the shareholders or stockholders are the owners of the company, and the firm only addresses the needs ... out the survey, I also interviewed the director and chief accountant of the company on the CSR of the company The question is to play a close look at the financial situation of the company and the...

Ngày tải lên: 13/03/2014, 14:20

... Along the lines of the previous researches, they reported the negative influence of fund size on manager performance While digging deeper towards the origin of these diseconomies of scale, the ... checked the determinants of mutual fund performance using four factor models for the funds from 19 countries The major finding of the study explained that size of the funds did matter and the performance ... and performance Then, when the significance of the relationship or the error limit was tested to accept or reject the hypothesis, the value was far higher than the minimum limit of 5% Thus; the...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 17:20

... product of its inputs The experiments measure the effect of varying the selectivity of the scans on the inputs to the join as follows (1) Varying the selectivity of the outer collection (v1) The ... Cardinality of the left input Cardinality of the right input Length of the predicate Type of the object Number of objects Extent of the database (e.g AtomicParts) Number of pages Size of a bucket ... varied here is the selectivities of the scans of the collections being joined, not the join selectivity itself, which is ratio of the number of tuples returned by a join to the size of the Cartesian...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 00:20

... example output of the chunk model’s task structure Syntactic Annotation The goal of subtask segmentation is to predict if the current utterance in the dialog is part of the current subtask or starts ... subtask We compare two models for recovering the subtask structure – a chunk -based model and a parse -based model In the chunk -based model, we recover the precedence relations (sequence) of the ... tag set to those of SwitchboardDAMSL and Maptask using the same features and the same classifier learner The error rates for the catalog and the Maptask corpus are an average of ten-fold cross-validation...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 04:20

... advantage of the prior probabilities of the senses, so they would be at a disadvantage relative to the baseline if one of the senses had a very high prior, as is the case for the test word issue 10 The ... a task that is somewhat easier for the judges If the task is too hard (as Jorgensen's classification task may he), then there will be almost no room between the limits of the measurement and the ... when there is an unusual trade-off between the cost of a Type I error and the cost of a Type II error Nevertheless, the proposed baseline does seem to provide a usable rough estimate of the lower...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 08:20

... to the quantiles of the standard normal distribution The quality of the approximation depends on the values of the parameters N Y,, the number of rated entities with the same rating grade at the ... context the paper proposes a simple mechanism for the comparison of the performance of major rating agencies and that of other credit assessment systems, such as the internal ratings -based systems of ... should therefore combine the variance of the ex-ante estimated probability of default of the rating source and that of the benchmark in one measure in order to conduct the backtesting The difference...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 20:20