The Heart's Ease ("Tausendschön"). Song

The Ease Branch Predictor

Wide issue processors with many pipeline stages require e cient branch prediction for high throughput. In this paper, we propose an Embedded, Architecturally Simple and E cient (EASE) branch predictor, which performs well for programs having a small number (100) and a large number (16,000) of instructions. EASE uses a combination of a G-share predictor and a one-level predictor. In EASE, one-le...

The ease of detection

Material Ease

Space is an unforgiving environment – one of harshest known to mankind. Yet, space is far less understood than other service environments in which DOD systems operate. It has been known to limit the useful life of satellites, with 20 to 25% of all mission failures being attributed to the effects of the space environment.[1] Since access to space is so costly, materials and components must funct...

Exploring the hardship of ease: Subjective and objective effort in the ease-of-processing paradigm

Numerous studies examined the role of processing effort in judgments using the ‘‘ease-of-processing’’ paradigm in which participants generate or retrieve few or many issue-relevant thoughts. Because earlier studies only assessed the subjective effort, it is unclear if this paradigm also mobilizes objective effort, and how such effort relates to subjective effort. These questions were addressed ...

The development of within-song type variation in song sparrows.

We investigated the development of within-song type variation in song sparrows, Melospiza melodia, with two experiments designed to determine how exposure to within-type variation influences the song-learning process and whether within-type variation itself is a learned trait. In the first experiment, we compared learning between two groups of males, one group tutored exclusively with song mode...