Despite recent innovations that might have reduced banks’ reliance on brick-and-mortar branches for distributing retail financial services, the number of U.S. bank branches has continued to increase steadily over time. Further, an increasing percentage of these branches are held by banks with large branch networks. This paper assesses the implications of these developments by examining a series...

this research project was carried out to evaluate the ph.d.theses in agricultural and natural resources branches in the universities of the country in the years of 2011 and 2012. totally 257 theses were evaluated. in this study, six scientific and applied indices were evaluated. one hundred points were given to each thesis; 70 points for scientific and 30 points for applied aspects of the thesi...

Extending the analysis of branching patterns of the drainage net of rivers, originated by Horton, the relation of average numbers and lengths of tree branches to size of branch was investigated. Size of branch was defined by branch order, or its position in the hierarchy of tributaries. It was found that, as in river drainage nets, there is a definite logarithmic relation between branch order a...

Implicational bases are objects of interest in formal concept analysis and its applications. Unfortunately, even the smallest base, the Duquenne-Guigues base, has an exponential size in the worst case. In this paper, we use results on the average number of minimal transversals in random hypergraphs to show that the base of proper premises is, on average, of quasi-polynomial size.

This paper discusses the effects of using a trace cache on the indirect branch prediction in ILP processors. The main contribution of the paper is an exploration of the fact that the trace cache captures context information about the recent control flow of the program, which can improve the accuracy of predictors that do not themselves explicitly use such information. We analyze and experiment ...

The relation between the site and severity of coronary artery lesion and infarct size was investigated in 59 patients with acute myocardial infarction. All patients had no prior myocardial infarction and had at least one significant coronary narrowing (greater than or equal to 75%) in one of the major coronary arteries or in the first diagonal branch. Left ventriculography and selective coronar...

To improve the performance of wide-issue superscalar processors, it is essential to increase the instruction fetch and issue rate. Removal of control hazard has been put forward as a significant new source of instruction level parallelism for superscalar processors and the conditional branch prediction is an important technique for improving processor performance. Branch mispredictions waste a ...

Perceptron branch predictors achieve high prediction accuracy by capturing correlation from very long histories. The required hardware, however, limits the history length to be explored practically. In this paper, an important observation is made that the perceptron weights can be used to estimate the strength of branch correlation. Based such an estimate, adaptive schemes are proposed to prepr...