The Chairman's Address

a synchronic and diachronic approach to the change route of address terms in the two recent centuries of persian language

terms of address as an important linguistics items provide valuable information about the interlocutors, their relationship and their circumstances. this study was done to investigate the change route of persian address terms in the two recent centuries including three historical periods of qajar, pahlavi and after the islamic revolution. data were extracted from a corpus consisting 24 novels w...

The President's Address.

The Curse of Wealth – Middle Eastern Countries Need to Address the Rapidly Rising Burden of Diabetes

The energy boom of the last decade has led to rapidly increasing wealth in the Middle East, particularly in the oil and gas-rich Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. This exceptional growth in prosperity has brought with it rapid changes in lifestyles that have resulted in a significant rise in chronic disease. In particular the number of people diagnosed with diabetes has increased dramat...

Two-Level Address Storage and Address Prediction

The amount of information recorded in the prediction tables of the proposed address predictors turns out to be comparable to the current on-chip cache sizes; for instance, a last-address predictor that records 4.096 64-bit effective addresses uses a 32 Kbytes storage space. Area cost of address predictors is proportional to address width. To reduce their area cost, we will take advantage of th...

Presidential address: the Endocrine Society.

Last July when I assumed office I fully expected that my term as president of the Endocrine Society would be tranquil. Those serious internal problems of the Society that existed a few years ago had been effectively dealt with by my two predecessors, Dr. Liddle—and before him—Dr. Engel, and I was confident that there was so little that the president would be required to do during the year, that...