Loop Thread-Level Speculation on Hardware Transactional Memories is a promising strategy to improve application performance in the multicore era. However, the reuse of shared scalar or array variables introduces constraints ...

Parallelization constructs in OpenMP, such as parallel for or taskloop, are typically restricted to loops that have no loop-carried dependencies (DOALL) or that contain well-known structured dependence patterns (e.g. ...

Previous work proposed and evaluated Speculative taskloop (STL) on Intel Core implementing new clauses and constructs in OpenMP. The results indicated that, despite achieving some speed-ups, there was a phenomenon called ...

Quintilian (ca. 35-96 CE) in his book Institutio Oratoria consolidated the Greco-Roman rhetorical doctrine in a systematic way and determined the outline of a teaching system that had the dexterity in the art of persuasion ...

This text aims to address some issues and problems that concern the performance of the (s) Musicology (s) in the current Brazilian situation. Some questions are raised in the light of Denis Laborde, French musicologist; ...

This dissertation investigates how the issues of race, ethnicity, and sexuality are discussed in the novel 'Fledgling' (2006) by Octavia Butler, in the novel 'Brown Girl in the Ring' (1998) and in the short story 'Greedy ...