Introduction Plants usually show intricate structures whose representation and management are an important source of complexity of models. Yet plant structures are also repetitive: although not identical, the organs, axes, and branches at different positions are often highly similar. From a formal perspective, this repetitive character of plant structures was first exploited in fractal-based pl...

In our previous published research we discovered some very difficult to predict branches, called unbiased branches that have a “random” dynamical behavior. We developed some improved state of the art branch predictors to predict successfully unbiased branches. Even these powerful predictors obtained very modest average prediction accuracies on the unbiased branches while their global average pr...

The performance and hardware complexity of superscalar architectures is hindered by conditional branch instructions. When conditional branches are encountered in a program, the instruction fetch unit must rapidly predict the branch predicate and begin speculatively fetching instructions with no loss of instruction throughput. Speculative execution increases hardware cost, since speculative inst...

The compressed signal in compressed sensing (CS) may be corrupted by noise during transmission. The effect of Gaussian noise can be reduced by averaging, hence a robust reconstruction method using compressed signal ensemble from one compressed signal is proposed. The compressed signal is subsampled for L times to create the ensemble of L compressed signals. Orthogonal matching pursuit with part...

Image hashing allows compression, enhancement or other signal processing operations on digital images which are usually acceptable manipulations. Whereas, cryptographic hash functions are very sensitive to even single bit changes in image. Image hashing is a sum of important quality features in quantized form. In this paper, we proposed a novel image hashing algorithm for authentication which i...

A new species of antipatharian coral is described from Jamaica. Antipathes rubusiformis forms sprawling colonies, which spread sideways beneath overhangs on steep cliffs below 20 m depth. Colonies are attached by multiple holdfasts that develop at the tips of recurved branches where they contact the substratum. Branches are thin, often curved and set at wide angles; branching is irregular. Axia...

the purpose of this study is to provide a model for performance evaluation of sepah bank branches by using partial indicators through combining controllable and uncontrollable potential variables with performance variables. with description and expansion of performance concepts of branches, a complete list of pre-test variables, including forty nine potential variables and five performance vari...

The majority of currently available dynamic branch predictors base their prediction accuracy on the previous k branch outcomes. Such predictors sustain high prediction accuracy but they do not consider the impact of unbiased branches, which are difficult-to-predict. In this paper, we evaluate the impact of unbiased branches in terms of prediction accuracy on a range of branch difference predict...

Bank liquidity management has become a major issue during the financial crisis as liquidity shortages have intensified and have put pressure on banks to diversity and improve their liquidity sources. While a significant strand of the literature concentrates on wholesale liquidity generation and on the alternative to deposit funding, the management of an inventory of cash holdings within the ban...

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