Managed futures funds are predominantly trend-followers. By analyzing positioning data, we provide novel evidence for this claim and estimate signals applied by these funds. We write trend-followers aggregate position as a weighted sum of past daily returns use generalized ridge regression regularization parameter estimation. This procedure prevents overfitting but remains flexible enough to ca...

Emerging design problems are prompting the use of instruction-level parallelism techniques during the high-level synthesis (HLS) of ASICs or ASIPs in order to meet tight time-constraints. Techniques like code motion and speculative execution can grant time-constraint satisfiability because they can shorten schedule lengths. The mechanism for inducing code motion and speculative execution relies...

?ld to the intelligent nurse of the present, and for their still further improvement the new edition of Mental Nursing is specially adapted. The sections on Elementary Anatomy and Physiology and First Aid have been omitted, and replaced by others of more immediate value. The book now forms a sound guide for the treatment of the insane from the practical nursing Point of view, and as such it can...

Objective: To evaluate the effect of the pattern of clinical pathway management upon the healthcare nursing for patients who were diagnosed with malignant tumors. Methods: A total of 186 intern nurses were recruited and randomly divided into the control (n=90) and clinical pathway groups (n=96). In the control group, all the intern nurses received traditional teaching management, and their coun...

Speculative evaluation can improve the performance of parallel graph reduction systems through increased parallelism. Although speculation is costly, much of the burden can be absorbed by processors which would otherwise be idle. Despite the overhead required for speculative task management, our prototype implementation achieves 70% eeciency for speculative graph reduction, with little impact o...