Effective address calculation for load and store instructions needs to compete for ALU with other instructions and hence extra latencies might be incurred to data cache accesses. Fast address generation is an approach proposed to reduce cache access latencies. This paper presents a fast address generator that can eliminate most of the effective address computations. Experimental results show th...

Goods and services vary along a number of dimensions independently. Customers can choose to acquire information to assess some characteristics and not others. Their choices a¤ect …rms’ incentives to invest in quality and so lead to indirect externalities in consumers’choices. We illustrate these ideas by characterizing a model in which a monopolist sets price and invests in the quality of a pro...

Research has shown that alternating the routes in wireless sensor networks, can extend the network’s lifetime and increase communication savings. Many proposed data dissemination protocols, however, establish paths that guide data on a hop-level basis from sources to sinks. In this paper, we explain why such a tight-coupling (between the data dissemination and data routing) may be desired, even...

interaction with others in human beings. Social interaction is the basic ingredient that supports social environment and maintains it (Hargie, 2011). Communication meets one of fundamental psychological needs of human being; a need for interaction (Kaya, 2010). As a social being, human beings have a need to live with others, and building effective communication is a prerequisite for living toge...

Building on Tangcharoensathien and colleagues’ description of four tactics used by the tobacco, alcohol, processed food, and breast milk substitute industries to interfere with the development and implementation of health policies, we present a fifth tactic: trade and investment disputes. We describe recent examples of trade and investment claims filed by the tobacco in...

With development of technology and science and continuous increase in productivity, product life cycles are shortened and customer demands are more personalized and diversified, which makes companies face with ever changing and unpredictable competitive environment. Therefore, rapid response to market competition has become one of the main focuses and the competitive advantages. Today, one of t...

The maximum inner product search (MIPS), which finds the item with highest a given query user, is an essential problem in recommendation field. Usually e-commerce companies face situations where they want to promote and sell new or discounted items. In these situations, we have consider following questions: Who interested items, how do find them? This article answers this question by addressing...

With development of technology and science and continuous increase in productivity, product life cycles are shortened and customer demands are more personalized and diversified, which makes companies face with ever changing and unpredictable competitive environment. Therefore, rapid response to market competition has become one of the main focuses and the competitive advantages. Today, one of t...

We present a model that integrates real-time process control charting with simulation modeling to illustrate the effects and benefits of SPC charts for quality improvement efforts. The integrated model is particularly significant in addressing transition issues arising from changes in the input material. A case study based on a medical manufacturing .industry process is used to illustrate the a...

In this paper we present a real time computer vision approach to recognizing human movements based on pat terns of motion The underlying representation is a Motion History Image MHI which is characterized by multiple histograms of the local motion orientations The approach is adapted to accommodate movements of di erent durations by using a simple iterative technique Quantitative results are gi...