The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of outside board on rm value in Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE) from the perspective of information transaction costs. To do so, a sample of 96 firms listed in TSE is selected to be studied during the period of 2003-2012. Tobin q ratio is used to measure rm's value and bid-ask spread for information transaction costs. In addition to these variable...

To enable real-time autonomous navigation, a mobile robot is equipped with on-board processing power, image-processing algorithms, and a fuzzy computation engine that allow the rover to safely navigate to a designated goal while avoiding obstacles and impassible terrains. The underlying architecture discussed in this paper utilizes real-time measurement of terrain characteristics and a fuzzy lo...

The concept of dynamic recon gurability combines advantages of hardware and software. The goal is to make use of the structural advantages of hardware without losing the exibility of software. In this paper we present a recon gurable processor board which is based on the concept of dynamic recon gurability. We emphasize on the dynamic recon gurability of the system and the multi-chip module (MC...

INTRODUCTION Understanding clinical reasoning is essential for patient care and medical education. Dual-processing theory suggests that nonanalytic reasoning is an essential aspect of expertise; however, assessing nonanalytic reasoning is challenging because it is believed to occur on the subconscious level. This assumption makes concurrent verbal protocols less reliable assessment tools. MET...

Multi-socket server boards have emerged to increase the processing power density on the board level and further flatten the data center networks beyond leaf-spine architectures. Scaling however the number of processors per board puts current electronic technologies into challenge, as it requires high bandwidth interconnects and high throughput switches with increased number of ports that are cu...

In this paper, we present and evaluate an FPGA acceleration fabric that uses VLIW softcores as processing elements, combined with a memory hierarchy that is designed to stream data between intermediate stages of an image processing pipeline. These pipelines are commonplace in medical applications such as X-ray imagers. By using a streaming memory hierarchy, performance is increased by a factor ...

This paper presents the investigation of metals production form artificial ore, which consists of printed circuit board (PCB) waste, processed in plasmatron plasma reactor. A test setup was designed and built that enabled research of plasma processing of PCB waste of more than 700 kg/day scale. The designed plasma process is presented and discussed. The process in tests consumed 2 kWh/kg of pro...

Many signals originating from low powered ground terminals may be observed from a space platform. Significant losses can occur through relaying the raw signals to ground; signal processing on-board the satellite can enhance detection and identification of signals of interest. Interference cancellation using Multi-User Decoding (MUD) techniques further improves sensitivity and is effective at ma...