Speculative computing is a technique to improve the execution time of certain applications by starting some computations before it is known that the computations are required. A speculative computation will eventually become mandatory (i.e. required) or irrelevant (i.e. not required). In the absence of side e ects irrelevant computations may be aborted. However, with side e ects a computation w...

The present study was designed to test the effect of pravastatin, a new, 9hydroxy+methylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase inhibitor, on the progression of coronary artery disease in patients with moderate hypercholesterolemia. Angiographic eb try criteria included the presence of 21 stenosis 250% in a major epicardial coronary artery, and certiication of film quality through the core an@ography lab...

Processor architectures will increasingly rely on issuing multiple instructions to make full use of available processor resources. When issuing multiple instructions on conventional processors, accurate branch prediction is critical to performance; mispredicted branches may mean that ten’s of cycles may be wasted. Architectures combining very effective branch prediction mechanisms coupled with ...

We present a rigorous but transparent semantic de nition of VHDL'93 covering the complete signal behavior and time model including the various wait statements and signal assignment statements. We present a VHDL interpreter in the form of rules of a concurrent evolving algebra which faithfully re ects and supports the view given in the VHDL'93 standard language reference manual.

THE DEMONSTRATOR APPLICATION, WAXHOLM We intend to build a generic system where speech synthesis and speech recognition can be studied in a man-machine dialogue framework. In addition, the system should facilitate the collection of speech and text data that are required for the development of the system. The demonstator application, that we call WA)GIOLM, gives information on boat taffic in the...

The classical 2D cosmological model of Callan, Giddings, Harvey and Strominger possesses a global symmetry that is responsible for decoupling of matter fields. The model is quantized on the basis of the extended phase space method to allow an exhaustive, algebraic analysis to find potential anomalies. Under a certain set of reasonable assumptions we show that neither the BRST symmetry of the th...

The properties of periodized Daubechies wavelets on 0; 1] are detailed and contrasted against their counterparts which form a basis for L 2 (R). Numerical examples illustrate the analytical estimates for convergence and demonstrate by comparison with Fourier spectral methods the superiority of wavelet projection methods for approximations. The analytical solution to inner products of periodized...

4 tudies during 1992-93 in our long-term research and development program to introduce biologically based control agents for scarab grub control in turfgrass has focused on evaluating a number of entomopathogenic agents (entomopathic nematodes and fungi) against Japanese beetle grubs. Fourteen Metarhizium anisopliae isolates, a fungal pathogen of soil insects, were tested against Japanese beetl...

MIMO is a model that tries to integrate some of the main current object models (SQL3, ODMG-93, UML), covering all the database development phases. It is defined in the framework of the ENEASIBD project, that is being developed by the “Grupo de Bases de Datos Avanzadas ” at “Universidad Carlos III” (Madrid, Spain). An objective of ENEAYBD is to allow generation of ODMG-93 andor SQL3 schemata >om...