Our branch predictor proposed for the Championship Branch Prediction (CBP) contest is a hybrid/mutation of many different ideas previously proposed in the literature, combined with a few new techniques. The mix of traces requires the predictor to handle both capacity (large tables) and deep correlation extraction (long branch histories), both made difficult by the relatively small hardware budg...

Let T be a competitive map on a rectangular region R ⊂ R, and assume T is C in a neighborhood of a fixed point x ∈ R. The main results of this paper give conditions on T that guarantee the existence of an invariant curve emanating from x when both eigenvalues of the Jacobian of T at x are nonzero and at least one of them has absolute value less than one, and establish that C is an increasing cu...

Madam, cetirizine hydrochloride, an antihistamine, is the active constituent of Zyrtec® that functions as competitive peripheral H1 receptor inhibitor.1 Cetirizine is known to have reduced blood-brain barrier penetration due to its larger mass, lipophobic properties and increased attraction for peripheral H1 receptors. Oculogyric crisis is a neurologic impairment defined by bilateral dystonic, ...

This study compared the efficacy of SPLAT-OrB, a new pheromone formulation for oriental beetle mating disruption that can be mechanically applied, with hand-applied plastic dispensers in commercial blueberry fields. Both formulations were tested at 2.5 and 5 g of the major sex pheromone component (Z)-7-tetradecen-2-one per hectare, and evaluated by measuring trap shut-down, mating success of ca...

introduction: today the market of medical tourism is growing as one of the competitive and profitable industries in the world. the aim of this study was to determine medical tourist attraction in tehran hospitals. methods: this is a descriptive study which was carried out in 8 hospitals of tehran in 2012. 195 people from the managing boards of these hospitals participated in the study. a questi...