Although networked-based computational environments such as Linda-LAN provide parallel processing capability, performance is still a major concern. One critical factor that can hinder the performance of any parallel processing environment is the high cost of interprocess communication. The goal of this project is to increase the performance of C-Linda programs executed in the Linda-LAN environment. With the current two packet message passing scheme, a receiving process listens for a header packet to arrive on a socket connection. Once the header packet has been received, the process then reads the data packet that follows. Reading the data packet may cause the process to block since the data may not have arrived. By modifying the two packet scheme to use only a single packet, the potential for blocking is removed since the header and data packets are guaranteed to arrive at the same time. Hence, the time spent waiting for the data is nullified, thus producing an increase in performance. / Master of Science

No description available.

Diese Arbeit stellt Perl-Linda, einen flexiblen Prototyp für die Implementation des Koordinations- und Kommunikationsmodells Linda für ein Netzwerk von Workstations vor. Der Autor zeigt zuerst Trends in der Informationstechnologie auf, insbesondere die globale Vernetzung durch das Internet, die eine Änderung der Anforderungen an Applikationen herbeiführen. Durch die immer weitere Verbreitung des Betriebsystems UNIX stellen Netzwerke von UNIX-Workstations eine preisgünstige und in einer Vielzahl von Organisationen verfügbare Variante zu Super- und Parallelrechnern dar. Aufbauend auf den bereits zu Linda existierenden Arbeiten und Implementationen, wird Perl-Linda, ein Prototyp geschaffen, der auf Client/Server-Basis eine einheitliche Schnittstelle für die Erweiterung von Programmiersprachen um den Linda-Befehlssatz implementiert. Auf Basis dieser Schnittstelle werden die für einige Programmiersprachen wie C, C++, Perl und APL, erstellten Client-APIs beschrieben und deren Funktion anhand von Beispielen erläutert. Die Entwicklungsschritte zum Design und zur Entwicklung einer Linda-Applikation werden beschrieben und an Beispielen durchgeführt. Abschließend wird der Einsatz von Linda für die Erweiterung der Funktionalität des World Wide Web-Systems (WWW) für die Schaffung von WWW-basierten Transaktionssystemen gezeigt. Es werden mit Linda und WWWrealisierte Informationssysteme als Beispielapplikationen vorgestellt und erläutert. (Autorenref.)

This thesis aims to analyze how Native American tradition storytelling functions in the life narratives of Leslie Marmon Silko and Linda Hogan¡XStoryteller and The Woman Who Watches over the World¡Xto portray the formation of the self which is inseparable from the themes of the stories that the authors constantly center on. I categorize their stories into three spheres¡Xthe land, the community and the myth¡Xand in so doing illustrate three dimensions of the self: the land-based self, the collective self and the mythical self. Through writing about the land, the community and the myth, indirect ways of self-telling can be observed and is worth further discussion. This thesis argues that it is through this indirect writing technique that Silko and Hogan are allowed to disclose their private selves without violating the Native American tradition and to turn the self-telling into a means of speaking for the community. In the end, this thesis will compare the selves that Silko and Hogan present in each dimension and point out that Silko¡¦s self is community-based while Hogan¡¦s self centers on the entire humanity.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2006. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.A.)--Florida State University, 2004. / Advisor: Dr. Dennis Moore, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Dept. of English. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed June 21, 2004). Includes bibliographical references.

<p>Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka hur ett antal olika faktorer påverkar arbetskraftsdeltagandet för kvinnor i Sverige från olika etniciteter. För detta har datamaterialet LINDA för år 2005 använts för att skatta probit-modeller.</p><p>Uppsatsen visar att variablerna antal barn i hushållet, ålder, civilstånd, utbildningsnivå, makes lön och förmögenhet, egen förmögenhet samt antal år i Sverige påverkar arbetskraftsdeltagandet olika beroende på var kvinnorna kommer ifrån. Vi tror dock inte att det enbart är dessa variabler som påverkar engagemanget i arbetskraften. Andra variabler som kunde tänkas vara viktiga så som tillgänglighet på dagisplatser och lediga jobb i närområdet, hade vi tyvärr inte tillgång till.</p>

Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka hur ett antal olika faktorer påverkar arbetskraftsdeltagandet för kvinnor i Sverige från olika etniciteter. För detta har datamaterialet LINDA för år 2005 använts för att skatta probit-modeller. Uppsatsen visar att variablerna antal barn i hushållet, ålder, civilstånd, utbildningsnivå, makes lön och förmögenhet, egen förmögenhet samt antal år i Sverige påverkar arbetskraftsdeltagandet olika beroende på var kvinnorna kommer ifrån. Vi tror dock inte att det enbart är dessa variabler som påverkar engagemanget i arbetskraften. Andra variabler som kunde tänkas vara viktiga så som tillgänglighet på dagisplatser och lediga jobb i närområdet, hade vi tyvärr inte tillgång till.

This thesis aims to examine how Native Americans survive through storytelling, using Linda Hogan¡¦s Solar Storms as my anchor text. The entire work proceeds in five chapters. The first chapter is my introduction. Chapter Two, ¡§Famine Stories,¡¨ delineates the mental starvation that Native Americans suffer. In this novel, there are abundant stories dealing with the trauma caused by colonial deprivation. Such stories are termed as ¡§famine stories,¡¨ which according to its influential level, is further divided into three kinds¡Xpersonal famine stories, familial famine stories, and communal famine stories. These stories intertwine with one another, and their causes can all be traced to the colonial history. Chapter Two, ¡§Feed Me Stories,¡¨ intends to seek a recovery from Native people¡¦s mental famine. Taking Angel¡¦s self-constructing journey as an example, I argue that storytelling reconnects the lost Native American with the lost past. In addition, stories reconstruct the Native worldview, which looks forward to harmony and balance between the human and non-human. Emerged in her grandmothers¡¦ storytelling, Angel comes to realize her mother culture and rebuild her Native identity. Moreover, she retrieves her correlation with the land, develops an intimacy with animals and plants and inherits her family tradition to be an herbal woman. She at last recovers from her psychical wounds. Chapter Three, ¡§The Future Storyteller,¡¨ sheds light on Hogan¡¦s intention to carry Native survivance into the future. Protesting against dam construction, Angel takes the tribal future as her responsibility. She devotes her love to nurturing the tribal youth and justifying her Native living right by revealing the deprivation which traumatizes the Native community. Her telling is powerful. It challenges the dominators¡¦ covering the truth up, and puts Native perspective into attention. She de-annihilates Native culture and assures its prosperity in the future. What she does corresponds to Gerald Vizenor¡¦s ¡§Native Survivance,¡¨ ensuring ¡§an active sense of presence,¡¨ and ¡§the continuance of native stories¡¨ (vii). The entire tribe is reunified due to storyteller¡¦s effort and the community is again ¡§the Beautiful People¡¨ (313).

Zugl.: Hannover, Univ., Habil.-Schr.