Meltdown

Meltdown
Author: Chuck Holton
Publisher: Multnomah
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2009-08-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1601422644

The global war on terror has reached catastrophic proportions, leading the U.S. Special Operations EOD team–Task Force Valor–to Chernobyl, where ghosts of past disasters are nothing compared to the nuclear nightmare about to unfold. With CIA Agent Mary “Phoenix” Walker heading her first Special Ops mission and Master Sergeant Bobby Sweeney fighting demons on and off the battlefield, Task Force Valor races to stop a terrorist threat in the Ukraine before Europe is turned into a radioactive wasteland. But when the terror reaches American shores, the team is powerless to help until they can save themselves. And when they finally track down the source of the chaos, what they find is worse than anything they could have imagined.

DEP Task Booklet

DEP Task Booklet
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 26
Release: 1986
Genre: Basic training (Military education)
ISBN:

Task Sequencing and Instructed Second Language Learning

Task Sequencing and Instructed Second Language Learning
Author: Melissa Baralt
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2014-07-31
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1472570251

Task Sequencing and Instructed Second Language Learning provides theoretical rationales for, and empirical studies of, the effects of sequencing language learning tasks to maximize second language learning. Examples of task sequences, and both laboratory and classroom-based research into them, are presented. This is the first collection of so far under-researched studies on the effects of task sequencing, framed within the Cognition Hypothesis of Task-based Language Teaching (TBLT) and the SSARC model for task sequencing. Perspectives include -- laboratory-based and classroom-based research designs -- implications for teacher training -- laboratory and classroom research methods -- conversational interaction -- task sequencing and Task Based Language Teaching syllabus design

Multitasking: Executive Functioning in Dual-Task and Task Switching Situations

Multitasking: Executive Functioning in Dual-Task and Task Switching Situations
Author: Tilo Strobach
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2018-03-27
Genre:
ISBN: 2889454533

Multitasking refers to performance of multiple tasks. The most prominent types of multitasking are situations including either temporal overlap of the execution of multiple tasks (i.e., dual tasking) or executing multiple tasks in varying sequences (i.e., task switching). In the literature, numerous attempts have aimed at theorizing about the specific characteristics of executive functions that control interference between simultaneously and/or sequentially active component of task-sets in these situations. However, these approaches have been rather vague regarding explanatory concepts (e.g., task-set inhibition, preparation, shielding, capacity limitation), widely lacking theories on detailed mechanisms and/ or empirical evidence for specific subcomponents. The present research topic aims at providing a selection of contributions on the details of executive functioning in dual-task and task switching situations. The contributions specify these executive functions by focusing on (1) fractionating assumed mechanisms into constituent subcomponents, (2) their variations by age or in clinical subpopulations, and/ or (3) their plasticity as a response to practice and training.

Task book

Task book
Author: Federal Employees' Compensation Program (U.S.)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 412
Release: 1986
Genre: United States
ISBN:

Referent Similarity and Nominal Syntax in Task-Based Language Teaching

Referent Similarity and Nominal Syntax in Task-Based Language Teaching
Author: Craig Lambert
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2018-12-07
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9811330891

This volume addresses an important gap in the literature on task design and second language use. Building on insights from over 50 years of research on the relationship between task demands and language use, it examines how referent similarity relates to developmentally-relevant variation in the use of nominal structures, comparative structures and abstract lexis among first and second language speakers of English. In addition to providing an empirical basis for future research on tasks, it shares both theoretical and practical information on task design, which will greatly benefit curriculum and material developers.

Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics

Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics
Author: Roman Wyrzykowski
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 900
Release: 2003-08-01
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3540480862

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics, PPAM 2002, held in Naleczow, Poland, in September 2001. The 101 papers presented were carefully reviewed and improved during two rounds of reviewing and revision. The book offers topical sections on distributed and grid architectures, scheduling and load balancing, performance analysis and prediction, parallel non-numerical algorithms, parallel programming, tools and environments, parallel numerical algorithms, applications, and evolutionary computing and neural networks.