The Intel R © Itanium R © architecture contains a number of innovative compiler-controllable features designed to exploit instruction level parallelism. New code generation and optimization techniques are critical to the application of these features to improve processor performance. For instance, the Itanium R © architecture provides a compilercontrollable virtual register stack to reduce the ...

SO, WON. Software Thread Integration for Converting TLP to ILP on VLIW/EPIC Architectures. (Under the direction of Alexander G. Dean.) Multimedia applications are pervasive in modern systems. They generally require a significantly higher level of performance than previous workloads of embedded systems. They have driven digital signal processor makers to adopt high-performance architectures like...

The Itanium architecture contains many features to enhance parallel execution, such as an explicitly parallel (EPIC) instruction set, large register files, predication, and support for speculation. It also contains features such as register rotation to support efficient software pipelining of loops. Softwarepipelining techniques have been shown to significantly improve the performance of loop-i...

OBJECTIVES To describe the research methods for the development of a new open source, cross-platform tool which processes data from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition Norfolk Food Frequency Questionnaire (EPIC-Norfolk FFQ). A further aim was to compare nutrient and food group values derived from the current tool (FETA, FFQ EPIC Tool for Analysis) with the previousl...

Aims: Peritoneal carcinomatosis is treated with Cytoreductive surgery (CRS) and Heated Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy (HIPEC) with or without Early Postoperative Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy (EPIC) depending on the pathology involved. Since 2010 heated intraperitoneal oxaliplatin has been utilised in our institution. Our aim was to determine if there was a significant cost difference between pati...

BACKGROUND Three prospective studies have examined the mortality of vegetarians in Britain. OBJECTIVE We describe these 3 studies and present preliminary results on mortality from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition-Oxford (EPIC-Oxford). DESIGN The Health Food Shoppers Study and the Oxford Vegetarian Study were established in the 1970s and 1980s, respectively; e...

PURPOSE There is little information in the literature on health-related quality of life (HRQOL) changes due to high-dose-rate (HDR) brachytherapy monotherapy for prostate cancer. MATERIALS AND METHODS We conducted a prospective study of HRQOL changes due to HDR brachytherapy monotherapy for low risk or favorable intermediate risk prostate cancer. Sixty-four of 84 (76 %) patients who were trea...

Summary The EPIC-CoGe browser is a web-based genome visualization utility that integrates the GMOD JBrowse genome browser with the extensive CoGe genome database (currently containing over 30,000 genomes). In addition, the EPIC-CoGe browser boasts many additional features over basic JBrowse, including enhanced search capability and on-the-fly analyses for comparisons and analyses between all ty...

Background To determine which preoperative factors drive patient-reported quality of life (QoL) after artificial urinary sphincter (AUS) implantation. Methods Men receiving AUS after prostate cancer treatment were identified from a prospectively collected dataset. Preoperative factors were recorded during the initial incontinence consultation. Patients underwent urodynamic testing (UDS) preop...