The Transactions on Pattern Languages of Programming subline aims to publish papers on patterns and pattern languages as applied to software design, development, and use, throughout all phases of the software life cycle, from requirements and design to implementation, maintenance and evolution. The primary focus of this LNCS Transactions subline is on patterns, pattern collections, and pattern languages themselves. The journal also includes reviews, survey articles, criticisms of patterns and pattern languages, as well as other research on patterns and pattern languages. This book, the third volume in the Transactions on Pattern Languages of Programming series, presents five papers that have been through a careful peer review process involving both pattern experts and domain experts. The papers present various pattern languages and a study of applying patterns and represent some of the best work that has been carried out in design patterns and pattern languages of programming over the last few years.

This book presents a survey of the state-of-the-art on techniques for dealing with aliasing in object-oriented programming. It marks the 20th anniversary of the paper The Geneva Convention On The Treatment of Object Aliasing by John Hogg, Doug Lea, Alan Wills, Dennis de Champeaux and Richard Holt. The 22 revised papers were carefully reviewed to ensure the highest quality.The contributions are organized in topical sections on the Geneva convention, ownership, concurrency, alias analysis, controlling effects, verification, programming languages, and visions.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 26th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, ECOOP 2012, held in Beijing, China, in June 2012. The 27 revised full papers presented together with two keynote lectures were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 140 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on extensibility, language evaluation, ownership and initialisation, language features, special-purpose analyses, javascript, hardcore theory, modularity, updates and interference, general-purpose analyses.

From conception to birth is traditionally nine months. The first emails regarding the volume you now hold in your hands-or the bits you have downloaded onto your screen-are dated 11 June 2005. From conception to birth has taken over four years. Springer's LNCS Transactions on Pattern Languages of Programming is dedicated, first and foremost, to promoting, promulgating, presenting, describing, critiquing, interrogating, and evaluating all aspects of the use of patterns in programming. In the 15 years or so since Gamma, Helm, Johnson, Vlissides's Design Patterns became widely available, software patterns have become a highly effective means of improving the quality of programming, software engineering, system design, and development. Patterns capture the best practices of software design, making them available to everyone participating in the production of software. A key goal of the Transactions Series is to present material that is validated. Every contributed paper that appears in this volume has been reviewed by both patterns experts and domain experts, by researchers and practitioners. This reviewing process begins long before the paper is even submitted to Transactions. Every paper in the Series is first presented and critiqued at one of the Pattern Languages of Programming (PLoP) conferences held annually around the world. Prior to the conference, each submitted paper is assigned a shepherd who works with the authors to improve the paper. Based on several rounds of feedback, a paper may proceed to a writers' workshop at the conference itself.

Project X Origins is a ground-breaking guided reading programme for the whole school. This exciting Graphic Texts pack includes action-packed stories, fascinating non-fiction, carefully selected poetry and comprehensive guided reading support to meet the needs of children at every stage of their reading development. Each book contains inside cover notes with advice on supporting older children with their reading, ideas for follow-up activities and higher-level comprehension questions. Project X Origins guided reading notes offer step-by-step teaching support for each book with guidance about comprehension, vocabulary, fluency, spelling, punctuation, grammar and writing. Each set of notes has in-built assessment and is fully correlated to all UK curricula. This pack contains 1 set of guided reading notes and 4 reading books, 1 each of: The Jurchen Recruits, Treasure Island, The Pied Piper of Hamelin, Great Space Explorers.

The motif of death and dying traced through over a thousand years of the English Arthurian tradition. It is arguably the tragic end to Arthur's kingdom which gives the myth its exceptional resonance and power. The essays in this volume explore the presentation of death and dying in Arthurian literature and film produced in Englandand America from the middle ages to the modern day. Authors, texts and topics covered include Geoffrey of Monmouth, the chronicle tradition, and the alliterative Morte Arthure; Gawain and the Green Knight, Ywain and Gawain, the stanzaic Morte Arthur, and Malory's Morte Darthur; Tennyson's Idylls, Pyle's retelling of the myth for American children, David Jones, T.H. White, Donald Barthelme, Rosalind Miles and Parke Godwin. Featured films include Knight Rider, Excalibur, First Knight, and King Arthur. CONTRIBUTORS: Sian Echard, Edward Donald Kennedy, Karen Cherewatuk, Michael W. Twomey, K. S. Whetter, Thomas Crofts, MichaelWenthe, Lisa Robeson, Cory James Rushton, Janina P. Traxler, James Noble, Julie Nelson Couch, Samantha Rayner, Kevin J. Harty

The micro-friends are being chased by the Krools. Find out if they can escape the heat-seeking gel boomerangs and reach Planet Moxor in Space Hunt. Ant, Tiger and Seven are alone in a desert on Planet Moxor. They take shelter in a cave, but have they made the right decision? Find out in The Deadly Cave. Can Max, Cat and Nok make it through the treacherous cactus forest, escape the Krools and find their friends? Find out in Grumptus Attack. Our heroes enter The Mines of Moxor in their quest to save their friend, Seven, and find the fragment of Exis. Will they succeed? In The Contest, Max has to race the Moxorian champion in a deadly contest, but who will win? The micro-friends return to Planet Exis with the four fragments. Will they be able to re-form the Core, or will Badlaw get in the way? Find out in Return to Exis. Each book comes with notes on the inside front and back covers for teachers, TAs and parents/carers, which give question prompts and points for discussion, challenge words, and additional activities that children can do.

The micro-friends are being chased by the Krools. Find out if they can escape the heat-seeking gel boomerangs and reach Planet Moxor in Space Hunt. Ant, Tiger and Seven are alone in a desert on Planet Moxor. They take shelter in a cave, but have they made the right decision? Find out in The Deadly Cave. Can Max, Cat and Nok make it through the treacherous cactus forest, escape the Krools and find their friends? Find out in Grumptus Attack. Our heroes enter The Mines of Moxor in their quest to save their friend, Seven, and find the fragment of Exis. Will they succeed? In The Contest, Max has to race the Moxorian champion in a deadly contest, but who will win? The micro-friends return to Planet Exis with the four fragments. Will they be able to re-form the Core, or will Badlaw get in the way? Find out in Return to Exis. Each book comes with notes on the inside front and back covers for teachers, TAs and parents/carers, which give question prompts and points for discussion, challenge words, and additional activities that children can do.

The micro-friends are being chased by the Krools. Find out if they can escape the heat-seeking gel boomerangs and reach Planet Moxor in Space Hunt. Ant, Tiger and Seven are alone in a desert on Planet Moxor. They take shelter in a cave, but have they made the right decision? Find out in The Deadly Cave. Can Max, Cat and Nok make it through the treacherous cactus forest, escape the Krools and find their friends? Find out in Grumptus Attack. Our heroes enter The Mines of Moxor in their quest to save their friend, Seven, and find the fragment of Exis. Will they succeed? In The Contest, Max has to race the Moxorian champion in a deadly contest, but who will win? The micro-friends return to Planet Exis with the four fragments. Will they be able to re-form the Core, or will Badlaw get in the way? Find out in Return to Exis. Each book comes with notes on the inside front and back covers for teachers, TAs and parents/carers, which give question prompts and points for discussion, challenge words, and additional activities that children can do.

Essays reflecting the present state of Layamon studies, identifying problems and outlining current directions in research. This volume investigates the problems with which the contemporary reader of Layamon's Brut is faced: To what extent is the archaic feel of the Brut part of a deliberate aesthetic strategy of Layamon's? For what sortof audience could it have been written? How can one define its relation to older or more recent texts and traditions? What ideological stance (if any) is to be deduced from the work? The seventeen articles in this book tackle the different issues from a variety of fields: codicology and palaeography; Linguistics, stylists and syntax; the socio-political dimension of the work and its possible audience; the tradition upon which Layamon was drawing, and his contribution to later writers; literary theory and more general issues such as gender and spatial symbolism in the Brut. A number of essays present a synthesis of points of view, specifically intended to provide students with a yardstick against which to measure the more controversial articlesin the volume. Contributors: MARIE-FRANCOISE ALAMICHEL, ROSAMUND ALLEN, STEPHEN K. BREHE, BETH BRYAN, ARTHUR WAYNE GLOWKA, MARSHAL S. GRANT, DOUGLAS MOFFAT, YOKO IYEIRI, LESLEY JOHNSON, FRANCOICE LE SAUX, JAMES I. McNELIS III, JAMES NOBLE, HERBERT PILCH, JANE ROBERTS, ERIC G. STANLEY, CAROLE WEINBERG, KELLEY M. WICKHAM-CROWLEY, NEIL WRIGHT Dr FRANCOISE LE SAUXlectures in Medieval English language and literature at the University of Lausanne.

Studies of the influence of the middle ages on aspects of European and American life and culture from 16c to the present day. The eleven essays in this volume are studies of specific instances of the influence and impact of the middle ages on Western life and culture from the sixteenth century to the present day. They cover a wide range of topics -literature, stylistics, lexicography, art, the cinema, philosophy, history and myth-making, oral traditions, feminist issues - and reflect the enduring influence of the middle ages on European art and life. Dr MARIE-FRANCOISE ALAMICHEL is lecturer in English at the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne; the late DEREK BREWER was Emeritus Professor of English, University of Cambridge. Contributors: CLAIRE VIAL, DERICK S. THOMSON, KEES DEKKER, ERIC G. STANLEY, FLORENCE BOURGNE, RENATE HAAS, DEREK BREWER, LAURA KENDRICK, RENE GALLET, JAMES NOBLE, SANDRA GORGIEVSKI.

The Transactions on Pattern Languages of Programming subline aims to publish papers on patterns and pattern languages as applied to software design, development, and use, throughout all phases of the software life cycle, from requirements and design to implementation, maintenance and evolution. The primary focus of this LNCS Transactions subline is on patterns, pattern collections, and pattern languages themselves. The journal also includes reviews, survey articles, criticisms of patterns and pattern languages, as well as other research on patterns and pattern languages. This book, the third volume in the Transactions on Pattern Languages of Programming series, presents five papers that have been through a careful peer review process involving both pattern experts and domain experts. The papers present various pattern languages and a study of applying patterns and represent some of the best work that has been carried out in design patterns and pattern languages of programming over the last few years.

Project X Alien Adventures takes you on an incredible reading journey with this fantastic story featuring the popular Project X characters Max, Cat, Ant and Tiger. The micro-friends rip-jump to an apparently normal-looking dimension. But things turn out to be anything but normal when the inhabitants start disappearing before their eyes! Will Max, Cat, Ant and Tiger evade the cyber patrol ... or will they be erased? Carefully levelled and highly motivating, this book is ideal for independent reading. This book also contains notes on the inside front and back covers with advice on supporting older children with their reading, questions for readers, and a follow-up activity.

Project X Origins is a ground-breaking guided reading programme for the whole school. Action-packed stories, fascinating non-fiction and comprehensive guided reading support meet the needs of children at every stage of their reading development. SEEs' top astronauts are on a secret mission to the Moon in Theft in Space, but space is not as deserted as they first thought. Something is out there and it's heading straight for them. Can Team X come to their rescue? Each book also contains inside cover notes that highlight challenge words, prompt questions and a range of follow-up activities to support children in their reading.

The micro-friends are being chased by the Krools. Find out if they can escape the heat-seeking gel boomerangs and reach Planet Moxor in Space Hunt. Ant, Tiger and Seven are alone in a desert on Planet Moxor. They take shelter in a cave, but have they made the right decision? Find out in The Deadly Cave. Can Max, Cat and Nok make it through the treacherous cactus forest, escape the Krools and find their friends? Find out in Grumptus Attack. Our heroes enter The Mines of Moxor in their quest to save their friend, Seven, and find the fragment of Exis. Will they succeed? In The Contest, Max has to race the Moxorian champion in a deadly contest, but who will win? The micro-friends return to Planet Exis with the four fragments. Will they be able to re-form the Core, or will Badlaw get in the way? Find out in Return to Exis. Each book comes with notes on the inside front and back covers for teachers, TAs and parents/carers, which give question prompts and points for discussion, challenge words, and additional activities that children can do.

The micro-friends are being chased by the Krools. Find out if they can escape the heat-seeking gel boomerangs and reach Planet Moxor in Space Hunt. Ant, Tiger and Seven are alone in a desert on Planet Moxor. They take shelter in a cave, but have they made the right decision? Find out in The Deadly Cave. Can Max, Cat and Nok make it through the treacherous cactus forest, escape the Krools and find their friends? Find out in Grumptus Attack. Our heroes enter The Mines of Moxor in their quest to save their friend, Seven, and find the fragment of Exis. Will they succeed? In The Contest, Max has to race the Moxorian champion in a deadly contest, but who will win? The micro-friends return to Planet Exis with the four fragments. Will they be able to re-form the Core, or will Badlaw get in the way? Find out in Return to Exis. Each book comes with notes on the inside front and back covers for teachers, TAs and parents/carers, which give question prompts and points for discussion, challenge words, and additional activities that children can do.

The micro-friends are being chased by the Krools. Find out if they can escape the heat-seeking gel boomerangs and reach Planet Moxor in Space Hunt. Ant, Tiger and Seven are alone in a desert on Planet Moxor. They take shelter in a cave, but have they made the right decision? Find out in The Deadly Cave. Can Max, Cat and Nok make it through the treacherous cactus forest, escape the Krools and find their friends? Find out in Grumptus Attack. Our heroes enter The Mines of Moxor in their quest to save their friend, Seven, and find the fragment of Exis. Will they succeed? In The Contest, Max has to race the Moxorian champion in a deadly contest, but who will win? The micro-friends return to Planet Exis with the four fragments. Will they be able to re-form the Core, or will Badlaw get in the way? Find out in Return to Exis. Each book comes with notes on the inside front and back covers for teachers, TAs and parents/carers, which give question prompts and points for discussion, challenge words, and additional activities that children can do.