BACKGROUND Maximum performance and long-term stability of bilateral cochlear implants has become an important topic because there has been increasing numbers of recipients of bilateral cochlear implants. PURPOSE To determine the performance over time (up to 6yr) of subjects with simultaneous bilateral cochlear implants (CI+CI) on word recognition and localization. RESEARCH DESIGN Over-time ...

We investigate three thread-based techniques to exploit SMT architectures on memory-resident data. First, we consider running independent operations in separate threads, a technique applied to conventional multiprocessor systems. Second, we describe a novel implementation strategy in which individual operators are implemented in a multi-threaded fashion. Finally, we introduce a new data-structu...

The performance of a multi-computer system based on the simultaneous optical multi-processor exchange bus (SOME-Bus) interconnection network is examined using queuing network models under the message-passing and distributed-shared-memory (DSM) paradigms. The SOME-Bus is a low latency, high bandwidth, ®ber-optic interconnection network which directly links arbitrary pairs of processor nodes with...

In the DSP world, many media workloads have to perform a specific amount of work in a specific period of time. This observation led us to examine how we can exploit Simultaneous Multithreading for VLIW DSP architectures to: 1) increase throughput in situations where performance is the most important attribute (e.g., base station workloads) and 2) decrease power consumption in situations where p...

E. H. Schumacher, T. L. Seymour, J. M. Glass, D. E. Kieras, and D. E. Meyer (2001) reported that dual-task costs are minimal when participants are practiced and give the 2 tasks equal emphasis. The present research examined whether such findings are compatible with the operation of an efficient response selection bottleneck. Participants trained until they were able to perform both tasks simult...

The aim of this study was to determine the effects of alpha neurofeedback and EMG biofeedback protocols for improvement of musical performance in violinists. The sample consisted of 12 music students (10 violinists and 2 viola players) from the Faculty of Music, Skopje (3 males, mean age of 20 +/- 0 and 9 females, mean age = 20.89 +/- 2.98). Six of them had a low alpha peak frequency (APF) (< 1...

Sequential place and route tools for field programmable gate arrays (FPGA’s) are inherently weak at addressing both wirability and timing optimizations. This is primarily due to the difficulty of accurately predicting wirability and delay during placement. A set of new performancedriven simultaneous placement/routing techniques has been developed for both row-based and island-style FPGA designs...

A typical approach in surrogate-based modeling is to assess the performance of alternative surrogate models and select the model that performs the best. In this paper, we extend the utility of an ensemble of surrogates to: i) identify regions of high uncertainties at locations where predictions of surrogates widely differ, and ii) provide a more robust approximation approach. We explore the pos...

The simultaneous ascending auction has proved to be a successful method of auctioning many related items. Simultaneous sale and ascending bids promote price discovery, which helps bidders build desirable packages of items. Although package bids are not allowed, the auction format does handle mild complementarities well. I examine the auction design and its performance in practice.

This paper presents a new computing model for constructing a two-way simultaneous interpretation system between Korean and Japanese. We also propose several methodological approaches to the construction of a two-way simultaneous interpretation system, and realize the two-way interpreting process as a model unifying both linguistic competence and linguistic performance. The model is verified the...