The majority of currently available dynamic branch predictors base their prediction accuracy on the previous k branch outcomes. Such predictors sustain high prediction accuracy but they do not consider the impact of unbiased branches, which are difficult-to-predict. In this paper, we evaluate the impact of unbiased branches in terms of prediction accuracy on a range of branch difference predict...

Bank liquidity management has become a major issue during the financial crisis as liquidity shortages have intensified and have put pressure on banks to diversity and improve their liquidity sources. While a significant strand of the literature concentrates on wholesale liquidity generation and on the alternative to deposit funding, the management of an inventory of cash holdings within the ban...

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The olivocochlear (OC) pathway is the source of major feedback control of ascending acoustic information. Two main patterns of axonal branching are evident at this and other levels of the auditory pathway: long-distance collaterals and branches involved in feedback-control loops. Only a minority of OC neurons project to both cochlea, consistent with a role for the system in sound localization. ...

Actin branches out in yeast any of the same proteins control actin polymerization in budding yeast and mammalian cells. But budding yeast researchers—hampered by an emphasis on genetics and an inaccessible yeast cytoplasm dense with ribosomes and glycogen granules—have often lagged behind in providing structural descriptions based on electron microscopy (EM). This has fueled suspicions about wh...

NORMAL conjunctival vessels have been studied with the slit lamp by many observers, including Koeppe (1920-22), Vogt (1930-31), Graves (1934), Berliner (1943), and Meesmann (1927). The conjunctival vessels are capillaries, many of which are seen to be filled with red blood corpuscles; some of these capillaries are fairly large, but others are fine. These capillaries, containing one row of red b...

It has been proposed that antigenic evolution of hemagglutinin 1 (HA1) for H3N2 human influenza A virus was punctuated. In the population genetic analysis, however, it was controversial whether positive selection operated on HA1 in a punctuated manner for the branches of the phylogenetic tree where transitions to new antigenic clusters occurred (C branches), or continuously. In the molecular ev...

and steady-state net photosynthetic rates of lateral branch shoots of Pseudotsuga menziesii var. glauca (Beissn.) Franco seedlings growing in the open and in the forest understory were investigated in situ. Mean incident photosynthetic photon flux density (PPFD) was 702.5 μmol m s on open-grown branches and 52.0 μmol m s on understory-grown branches. Mean daily durations of PPFD greater than 50...

Two-year-old branches on control trees (Pinus strobus L.) were compared through a season with branches on trees stem-girdled just above, or below, the branch whorl. All branches first sagged down for 20 days and then moved up for 40 days. Then, control branches reversed and moved back down while branches in both girdle treatments continued to move up. Movement reversal correlated with cessation...