14 research outputs found
Gendered Representations of Male and Female Social Actors in Iranian Educational Materials
This research investigates the representations of gendered social actors within the subversionary discourse of equal educational opportunities for males and females in Iranian English as a Foreign Language (EFL) books. Using critical discourse analysis (CDA) as the theoretical framework, the authors blend van Leeuwen’s (Texts and practices: Readings in critical discourse analysis, Routledge, London, 2003) ‘Social Actor Network Model’ and Sunderland’s (Gendered discourses, Palgrave Macmillan, Hampshire, 2004) ‘Gendered Discourses Model’ in order to examine the depictions of male and female social actors within this gendered discourse. The gendered discourse of equal opportunities was buttressed by such representations within a tight perspective in proportion to gender ideologies prevailing in Iran. Resorting to CDA, we can claim that resistance against such gendered discourse in Iranian EFL textbooks militates against such gender norms. These representations of male and female social actors in school books are indicative of an all-encompassing education, reinforcing that the discourse of equal opportunities is yet to be realized in the education system of Iran
Gender Role Stereotyping in Hong Kong's Primary School Chinese Language Subject Textbooks
Testing analogue and mixed-signal integrated circuits by weighted sum of selected node voltages
Interaction of Parenting Styles and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in Iranian Parents
Low Cost Concurrent Error Detection Strategy for the Control Logic of High Performance Microprocessors and Its Application to the Instruction Decoder
We propose a low cost concurrent error detection strategy to improve the Reliability, Availability, Serviceability (RAS) of high performance microprocessors, by specifically targeting one of its most critical blocks (from the point of view of the microprocessor RAS), that is the control logic. By discovering codes that are inherently present within the control logic because of its performed functionality and verification needs (referred to as Control Logic Function-Inherent Codes), it allows to achieve concurrent error detection at very limited costs in terms of area, power consumption, impact on performance and design. Considering for instance the case of the instruction decoder of a public domain microprocessor, we will prove that our approach requires significantly lower area and power than traditional parity encoding, while providing higher concurrent error detection ability. Therefore, if adopted together with a system level (generally software implemented) recovery technique, our strategy constitutes a viable and successful approach to increase the microprocessor RAS, at very limited costs