Chapter 5 Questions: 1. List four design issues for which the concept of concurrency is relevant. 2. What is the basic requirement for the execution of concurrent processes? Problems 1. Consider a concurrent program with two processes‚ p and q‚ defines as follows. A‚ B‚ C‚ D and E are arbitrary atomic ( indivisible ) statements. Assume that the main program ( not shown ) does a parbegin of the two processes. Void p() Void q() { { A; D; B; E; C; } } Show all
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The team’s failure was a direct result of several detrimental factors. These included excess autonomy given to the team from Advert’s management‚ conformity within the team‚ and losing focus of the original goal. The complete autonomy that the team was given did not act as a beneficial asset‚ but as more of a slippery slope towards failure. Without any given guidelines or ideas of the client’s needs‚ they were unable to envision the right image that the client wanted to portray with their product
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the reasons for many crimes throughout the nation. Whether a criminal is mentally ill or not‚ he/she sometimes attempts to use this excuse with the hopes that a psychological institution will be better than prison. The doctors at the mental hospital are required to view the culprits as patients rather than criminals‚ meaning the convicts can perhaps benefit from going to a psych ward. However‚ receiving mental aid can be a long
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rather than paperback books. How we read books has been changing over the years since the advent of the computer and other gadgets. People are reading online text at an astonishing rate. One of my websites has over 11 million page views. That’s 11 million pages of text I wrote that nobody would have read without computers because it wouldn’t have been accessible. Here are some… You can password protect your e-books‚ keeping them private for you! You don’t need to find a place to hide your romance
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f I had a choice to live in Athens or Sparta‚ I would rather live in Athens than Sparta. I know that many people may ask why would you want to leave there where women had no rights. One of the reasons why I would rather live in Athens than Sparta is because I have two sons who are four years old and I would not want them to be taken away from me when they are seven years old. According to Andrews (2013)‚ at the age of seven‚ Spartan boys were removed from the homes of their parents and were placed
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WHY A COMPUTER IS BETTER THAN YOUR BRAIN The computer - Computers are getting smarter by the day. Computer programs at research labs are constantly learning anything that the programmers are feeding them with. Voice recognition engines are developed but feeding the program with thousands of different voices from entire towns so that it could pick up patterns in speech‚ accents and slangs and learn to reconigse them. OCR (optical character recognition) programs are picking up new tips and patterns
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Ethanol that is made of corn emits a lot of pollutants during production and consumption‚ but cellulosic ethanol reduces the pollutant admission to the atmosphere making it better than the ethanol made of corn. Corn ethanol and cellulosic ethanol are both made at biorefineries‚ but they must add heat to the corn in order to produce the corn ethanol. When they make cellulosic ethanol there is no heat added and the cellulosic ethanol
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Marijuana vs. Alcohol Is marijuana safer than alcohol‚ many people will say that marijuana is a dangerous and addictive drug that has destroyed many lives of teens and adults. It can lead to lung disease‚ heart disease and more importantly can influence the use of harder drugs such as cocaine‚ heroin and PCP. Alcohol on the other hand may not cause lung cancer‚ it’s simply a social indulgent. In my opinion‚ I believe that both marijuana and alcohol are equals. Use of both carry health risks
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The economic ideology of Capitalism and Communism are so extremely different from one another that it can never be joined or have common factors Out of the two ideologies‚I believe that Capitalism is more effective this is because it has far more advantages over Communism due to the generated economic growth it has on its nations. One of the reasons I believe capitalism is more effective is because without any competition there is no progress .Without competition‚nations stagnate with no opportunities
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This argument on the question; are women better rulers than men? Will focus on the example of Elizabeth I compared to the average of male rulers. It mostly depends which era you live in‚ in modern times it would really not make much of a difference as both genders are considered equal. But in the Tudor era‚ looking at it from the present‚ a female would definitely have had the upper hand‚ but from the common perspective of people in the Tudor times a female would have been considered lower‚ for
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