Value reuse improves a processor’s performance by dynamically caching the results of previous instructions and reusing those results to bypass the execution of future instructions that have the same opcode and input operands. However, continually replacing the least recently used entries could eventually fill the value reuse table with instructions that are not frequently executed. Furthermore,...

BACKGROUND This review addresses the strengths and weaknesses of 6 different prognostic indices, published since the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG) developed and validated the widely used 3-tiered prognostic index known as recursive partitioning analysis (RPA) classes, i.e. between 1997 and 2008. In addition, other analyses of prognostic factors in groups of patients, which typically a...

Many location based services, such as a those used in healthcare facilities to track medical personnel and equipment, need to keep track of mobile entities across wide areas. These services can be realized in a cost-effective and efficient manner using tiered sensor networks comprised of multiple wireless sensor networks connected by an IP network. To simplify the realization of such services, ...

This paper focuses on the role of city interaction in influencing local economic growth using county-level data in China. According to literature on urban and regional economics, the impacts of a high-tier city on its surrounding areas depend on the interaction of growth spillover effect and agglomeration shadow effect. The empirical evidence in this paper illustrates that higher-tier cities ha...

The current standard for laboratory diagnosis of Lyme disease in the United States is serologic detection of antibodies against Borrelia burgdorferi. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends a two-tiered testing algorithm; however, this scheme has limited sensitivity for detecting early Lyme disease. Thus, there is a need to improve diagnostics for Lyme disease at the early sta...

This paper evaluates the execution characteristics of two high-capability software-based approaches for detecting termination in distributed environments. The Tiered Algorithm relies on use of a global invariant that indicates equality between process production and consumption at each level of process nesting. The Credit Algorithm relies on the distribution of a unit value from the initial pa...

objectives: verbal self-instruction strategy is one of the useful techniques for treating individual with learning disability. the purpose of the present study was to determine the effect of verbal self-instructional package on the social competence of students with learning disability. methods: the study was done in a quasi-experimental research and pre-test, post-test design with control grou...

background: video-based instruction has been stated as an effective method of teaching and its potentials have encouraged instructors learners to opt this method purpose: the current study has compared the students' cognitive learning in the two approaches of lecture- based and video-based teaching. methods: this quasi-experimental study was conducted on 88 senior nursing students who were rand...

Two-tiered putting green profiles feature a sand root zone that sits above a layer of gravel, creating a textural boundary where water is perched or preferentially retained (6). The greater the difference in particle sizes, the more water is retained in the fine-textured layer above (8). Hard, brittle, cemented layers have been observed to form at textural boundaries in two-tiered putting green...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to determine whether reclassifying the Fuhrman grading system provides further prognostic information. MATERIALS AND METHODS We studied the pathological features and cancer specific survival of 237 patients with clear cell cancer undergoing surgery between 1997-2007 in a single centre. The original Fuhrman grading system was investigated as well as various si...