In this paper, we illustrate the application of two static techniques to reduce the activities of the branch predictor in a processor leading to its significant power reduction. We introduce the use of a static branch target buffer (BTB) that achieves the similar performance to the traditional branch target buffer but which eliminates most of the state updates thus reducing the power consumptio...

In this paper, we present a novel statistical approach to corpus-based speech synthesis. Classically, phonetic information is defined and considered as acoustic reference to be respected. In this way, many studies were elaborated for acoustical unit classification. This type of classification allows separating units according to their symbolic characteristics. Indeed, target cost and concatenat...

In this paper, we propose a score test for variance components in a semiparametric mixed-effects model when the random-effects and measurement errors are not normally distributed. The asymptotic null distribution of the test statistic is shown to be a simple chi-squared distribution with the degrees of freedom being the number of linearlyindependent variance components. The simulation results s...

A hygiene intervention study reduced diarrhoeal disease transmission in rural northeast Thailand by promoting hand-washing and dish-washing behaviour. Most of the target audience did not recognize a connection between these behaviours and diarrhoeal disease, and therefore a social marketing approach was used to develop a campaign promoting behaviours through a variety of communication channels ...

A novel unit preselection criterion for concatenative speech synthesis is proposed. To reduce the computational cost for unit selection, units that are unlikely to be selected should be pruned as preselection before Viterbi search. Since the criterion is defined as the difference between the cost of the locally optimal sequence where a unit is fixed and that of the globally optimal sequence, no...

PURPOSE To investigate the impact of clinical target volume (CTV) shape and size on CTV to planning target volume (PTV) margin expansion. METHODS AND MATERIALS Using numerical integration methods, margins accounting for random errors and systematic errors were calculated for CTVs of different shapes and sizes. We use k(r-95) and k(s-95) to represent the coefficients, for random errors and sys...

We cluster surface target feature vectors by position in a certain area of the battlespace and make inventories of the resulting clusters by type and count. The feature vectors come from the target tracks. Our new centralized-mean clustering method is robust. Next, we apply case-based reasoning to infer the enemy unit types and their posture for situation awareness. We then employ a weighted re...

This paper investigates an optimal search policy with stopping for a stationary target being in one of n boxes. It is assumed that the search is conducted continuously with a total search cost C per unit time and the search in box i costs ci per unit search effort. The conditional probability of detecting the target with unit search effort is Oli and a reward Ri is given to the searcher when he...

This manuscript reports the molecular basis for double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) binding of hairpin polyamides incorporating a 5-alkyl thiazole (Nt) unit. Hairpin polyamides containing an N-terminal Nt unit induce higher melting stabilisation of target dsDNA sequences relative to an archetypical hairpin polyamide incorporating an N-terminal imidazole (Im) unit. However, modification of the N-terminu...

Introduction: To write a computational program to calculate the average glandular dose in Mammography with Rh-Rh target-filter and also use it as an accurate and fast method of dose calculation founder different situations. Materials and Methods: In this research, the Sobol-Wu parameters are used to write a FORTRAN code for glandular dose calculation in Rh-Rh target-filter mammograms. The code ...