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Modeling the input history of programs for improved instruction-memory performance
When a program is loaded into memory for execution, the relative position of
its basic blocks is crucial, since loading basic blocks that are unlikely to be
executed first places them high in the instruction-memory hierarchy only to be
dislodged as the execution goes on. In this paper we study the use of Bayesian
networks as models of the input history of a program. The main point is the
creation of a probabilistic model that persists as the program is run on
different inputs and at each new input refines its own parameters in order to
reflect the program's input history more accurately. As the model is thus
tuned, it causes basic blocks to be reordered so that, upon arrival of the next
input for execution, loading the basic blocks into memory automatically takes
into account the input history of the program. We report on extensive
experiments, whose results demonstrate the efficacy of the overall approach in
progressively lowering the execution times of a program on identical inputs
placed randomly in a sequence of varied inputs. We provide results on selected
SPEC CINT2000 programs and also evaluate our approach as compared to the gcc
level-3 optimization and to Pettis-Hansen reordering
Analyses of shocked quartz at the global K-P boundary indicate an origin from a single, high-angle, oblique impact at Chicxulub
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Diversidade genética de Xylella fastidiosa em regiões produtoras de citros na Bahia.
O objetivo deste trabalho foi avaliar, por meio de marcadores SSR, a diversidade genética de Xylella fastidiosa no Estado da Bahia. Foram estudadas duas das principais regiões produtoras de citros no Estado, o Litoral Norte e o Recôncavo Sul. Para fins comparativos, utilizaram-se dez amostras provenientes do Estado de São Paulo. Foram empregados os seguintes iniciadores: ASSR20, OSSR9, OSSR17, CSSR4, CSSR12 e CSSR20, dos quais os quatro últimos permitiram identificar 22 loci polimórficos. As populações de X. fastidiosa presentes em citros no Estado da Bahia apresentam elevada diversidade genética, com base nos marcadores SSR, com pools gênicos distintos e agrupamento geográfico. No Litoral Norte, as populações do isolado apresentam maior diversidade genética do que as da região do Recôncavo Sul da Bahia
Crossover of thermal to shot noise in chaotic cavities
We study the crossover between thermal and shot-noise power in a chaotic
quantum dot in the presence of non-ideal contacts at finite temperature. The
result explicitly demonstrates that the temperature affect the
suppression-amplification effect present in the main quantum noise. In
particular, the weak localization contribution to the noise has an anomalous
thermal behavior when one let the barriers vary, indicating the presence of a
critical point related to specific value of the tunneling barriers. We also
show how to get to the opaque limit of the quantum dot at finite temperature.Comment: 6 pages, 5 figures. To be published in Europhysics Letter
Localizing gravity on thick branes: a solution for massive KK modes of the Schroedinger equation
We generate scalar thick brane configurations in a 5D Riemannian space time
which describes gravity coupled to a self-interacting scalar field. We also
show that 4D gravity can be localized on a thick brane which does not
necessarily respect Z_2-symmetry, generalizing several previous models based on
the Randall-Sundrum system and avoiding the restriction to orbifold geometries
as well as the introduction of the branes in the action by hand. We begin by
obtaining a smooth brane configuration that preserves 4D Poincar'e invariance
and violates reflection symmetry along the fifth dimension. The extra dimension
can have either compact or extended topology, depending on the values of the
parameters of the solution. In the non-compact case, our field configuration
represents a thick brane with positive energy density centered at y=c_2,
whereas in the compact case we get pairs of thick branes. We recast as well the
wave equations of the transverse traceless modes of the linear fluctuations of
the classical solution into a Schroedinger's equation form with a volcano
potential of finite bottom. We solve Schroedinger equation for the massless
zero mode m^2=0 and obtain a single bound wave function which represents a
stable 4D graviton and is free of tachyonic modes with m^2<0. We also get a
continuum spectrum of Kaluza-Klein (KK) states with m^2>0 that are suppressed
at y=c_2 and turn asymptotically into plane waves. We found a particular case
in which the Schroedinger equation can be solved for all m^2>0, giving us the
opportunity of studying analytically the massive modes of the spectrum of KK
excitations, a rare fact when considering thick brane configurations.Comment: 8 pages in latex. We corrected signs in the field equations, the
expressions for the scalar field and the self-interacting potential. Due to
the fact that no changes are introduced in the warp factor, the physics of
the system remains the sam
Gravitation and Duality Symmetry
By generalizing the Hodge dual operator to the case of soldered bundles, and
working in the context of the teleparallel equivalent of general relativity, an
analysis of the duality symmetry in gravitation is performed. Although the
basic conclusion is that, at least in the general case, gravitation is not dual
symmetric, there is a particular theory in which this symmetry shows up. It is
a self dual (or anti-self dual) teleparallel gravity in which, due to the fact
that it does not contribute to the interaction of fermions with gravitation,
the purely tensor part of torsion is assumed to vanish. The ensuing fermionic
gravitational interaction is found to be chiral. Since duality is intimately
related to renormalizability, this theory may eventually be more amenable to
renormalization than teleparallel gravity or general relativity.Comment: 7 pages, no figures. Version 2: minor presentation changes,
references added. Accepted for publication in Int. J. Mod. Phys.
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