The wakeup logic in out-of-order superscalar microprocessors is responsible for resolving the data dependency hazard between instructions. Its performance is critical because it may prevent the processor to have deeper pipelines or to achieve the highest IPC (Instructions Per Cycle) possible. In this thesis, we implemented the circuit and layout...
The U.S. wood window and door industry has experienced much growth
for the past decade. However, to date, little information on factors that could
affect marketing strategies exists. This research represents an initial step for
providing this information.
A mail survey of U.S. wood window and door manufacturers was used...
In the recent years, resource depletion of inshore and coastal fisheries has seriously impacted Taiwan. Local fishing communities’ economic profits in these fisheries have declined and resulted in lower earned incomes for the fishermen. These phenomena have lead many scholars, government agencies and fishing communities to evaluate the optimal number...
Organismal development requires a precisely orchestrated transcriptional program to correctly deploy genetic information into the genome. This process requires sophisticated gene regulatory networks at multiple spatial and temporal levels from early embryonic development to adult physiological conditions. Molecular differences that define cell types are set up during the pattern formation...
Wireless technologies advance rapidly in the recent time. The maJor initiative is the realization of the third generation wireless network that provides high bandwidth access to digital data on the Internet. Moreover, recent improvements in computer and embedded systems have enabled portable devices with sufficiently high computing capability.
The combination...
As the number of mobile devices accessing large-scale WLANs such as campus
and metropolitan area networks increases, the need for load balancing among the
cells becomes crucial. In addition, the network must also support some minimum
handoff tolerance defined by an application.
A number of load balancing techniques have been...
Autonomous robotic agents are on their way to becoming in-home personal assistants, construction assistants, and warehouse workers. The degree of autonomy of such systems is reflected by the manner in which we specify goals to them; the abstraction of low-level commands to high-level goals goes hand-in-hand with increased autonomy. In...
Experimental data are reported for the time-averaged
local radiative and total heat transfer coefficients for
both an array of horizontal tubes as well as a single
horizontal tube immersed in a large-particle fluidized bed
at elevated temperatures. Spatial-averaged heat transfer
coefficients computed from the local values, using a simple
trapezoidal...