We report the results of an early performance evaluation of the SiCortex SC648 that contains 648 processor-cores. Performance was measured using microbenchmarks to evaluate node and network performance, and with real-world parallel scientific applications. The SiCortex machines are notable for a number of architectural innovations, including the use of a custom, very low power, six-core process...

Even though diverse digital watermarking algorithm was developed to protect copyright, existing methods vary in performances according to image characteristics. While there are simple methods suitable for black and white images like medical images, there is an algorithm which shows the performance in complicated images like general nature images. Because of these reasons, evaluation metrics to ...

Drawing on results from a number of studies exploring the community and healthservices response to the AIDS epidemic in Eastern Africa , this chapter discusses the role of different providers of health care: traditional healers and private and public professionals. More than half of all visits to health care providers (pharmacies excluded) for STD seem to occur outside the public services. The ...

in the information and communication era, management information systems play an undeniable role in organizations.  bank parsian is a iranian banking and financial services company, which has a network of 273 banking branch, known as the largest iranian private bank. this research examines the gaps in customer relationships systems in bank parsian based on characteristics of management informat...

Two studies were conducted to assess whether distraction has drivelike effects on task performance. In both, the effects of distraction over all trials interacted significantly with the nature of the task; jlistraction tended to facilitate the performances of simple tasks and signirkantiy~impaired performance on complex tasks. Moreover, analyses focusing upon drive carryover effects generally r...

The objective of this study is to estimate and evaluate the corporate intangibles management. This study proposes a framework to measure the corporate performances produced by intangibles. First, the operating profit is divided into the non-intangible profit, which the company can produce without its own intangibles, and the intangible determinants of the profit. To divide the non-intangible pr...

In order to test which musical aspects relate to what defines the melody in a musical piece, a method for feature selection, and an implementation for phrase segmentation of musical pieces have been proposed. The melody classification by the selected features have performed according to the highest performances in this field on the MIDI datasets that were used. MIDI datasets were used in order ...