Recent research 6] has suggested that the branch history register need not contain the outcomes of the most recent branches in order for the Two-Level Adaptive Branch Predictor to work well. From this result, it is tempting to conclude that the branch history register need not be speculatively updated. This paper revis-its this work and explains when the most recent branch outcomes can be omitt...

background: score worksheets have been extracted for phd candidates in epidemiology, microbiology and parasitology for the academic year of 1386-87. the main objective in this study is the impact and importance of different subjects on the discrimination results of admission. methods: extracted scores from worksheets are analyzed by minitab15 statistical toolbox. the regression values of differ...

almond is among some of the most important nut crops requiring improvement in many aspects of its production. to do that, the first step is an evaluation of the genetic diversity of the existing germplasm. towards this end, 56 vigorous almond seedlings were evaluated with recording eight morphological characteristics (trunk diameter, height of main trunk, canopy density, canopy angle, branch nu...

Supramolecule self assembly polyamidoamine (PAMAM) dendrimer refers to the chemical systems made up of a discrete number of assembled molecular subunits or components. These strategies involve the covalent assembly of hierarchical components reactive monomers, branch cells or dendrons around atomic or molecular cores according to divergent/convergent dendritic branching principles, systematic f...

in order to study the effects of micronutrients application on some morphological traits associated with seed quantity and quality of sugar beet cultivar shirin, an experiment was conducted in 2001-02 at ardabil agricultural research station. based on soil test results, soil ph was 7.62-7.80 with 0.49- 0.53% organic matter content, and the quantity of absorbable p, total n, and k amounts were f...

A surprising number of recent Bayesian phylogenetic analyses contain branch-length estimates that are several orders of magnitude longer than corresponding maximum-likelihood estimates. The levels of divergence implied by such branch lengths are unreasonable for studies using biological data and are known to be false for studies using simulated data. We conducted additional Bayesian analyses an...

Despite recent innovations that might have reduced banks’ reliance on brick-and-mortar branches for distributing retail financial services, the number of U.S. bank branches has continued to increase steadily over time. Further, an increasing percentage of these branches are held by banks with large branch networks. This paper assesses the implications of these developments by examining a series...

Existing global optimization techniques for nonconvex quadratic programming (QP) branch by recursively partitioning the convex feasible set and thus generate an infinite number of branch-and-bound nodes. An open question of theoretical interest is how to develop a finite branch-and-bound algorithm for nonconvex QP. One idea, which guarantees a finite number of branching decisions, is to enforce...

Transmission of pinewood nematode, Bursaphelenchus xylophilus, to mature, field grown Scots pines through feeding wounds of Monochamus carolinensis was investigated by caging nematode-infested beetles on pine branches for 24 hours. Nematodes were transmitted to 31 of 64 branches. Frequency of successful transmission was independent of the sex of the beetle but dependent upon beetle age. Transmi...