Behavioral changes have long been hypothesized to be an important driver of evolutionary diversification in animals, as they expose individuals to new environmental pressures and thus favor evolutionary divergence. There have been few empirical tests of this hypothesis, however, and the mechanisms linking behavioral changes and diversification processes remain controversial. We show here that H...

Deeper pipelines improve overall performance by allowing more aggressive clock rates, but some performance is lost due to increased branch misprediction penalties. Ironically, with shorter clock periods, the branch predictor has less time to make a prediction and might have to be scaled back to make it faster, which decreases accuracy and reduces the advantage of higher clock rates. We show how...

Visitors enter a website through a variety of means, including web searches, links from other sites, and personal bookmarks. In some cases the first page loaded satisfies the visitor’s needs and no additional navigation is necessary. In other cases, however, the visitor is better served by content located elsewhere on the site found by navigating links. If the path between a user’s current loca...

Using path analysis, we investigate the direct and indirect links between three measures of earnings quality and the cost of equity. Our investigation is motivated by analytical models that specify both a direct link and an indirect link that is mediated by information asymmetry, but do not suggest which link would be more important empirically. We measure information asymmetry as both the adve...

Abstract. The Dark Triad personality traits have previously been linked with dysfunctional types of procrastination (i.e., delaying certain tasks). From an evolutionary perspective, is recognized for facilitating a fast life history strategy. present study investigated links between active and passive the extended Tetrad (psychopathy, Machiavellianism, narcissism, sadism). Participants ( N = 35...

Presented in the paper is a tool-path planning algorithm for direction-parallel area milling consisting of three modules: (1) finding the optimal inclination; (2) calculating and storing tool-path elements; and (3) tool-path linking. For the optimal inclination, we suggest an algorithm that selects an inclination by reflecting the shape of the machining area as well as the tool-path interval. W...