We present a case study of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) Vector Extensions in GCC 4.7. In particular, we examine the relative performance of explicit vector code using the GCC Vector Extensions to that of automatically vectorized code from the Intel C++ Compiler (ICC). Our analysis focuses on the interactions between data-level and thread-level parallelism in the streamcluster benchmark fro...

The population of Linxian in north central China is at high risk for gastric cardia adenocarcinoma (GCC) and esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC), and chronic inflammation may contribute to this risk. Interleukin-8 (IL8), a potent chemoattractant, has three well-characterized single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP), one ( 251) of which alters transcriptional activity. Four well-described SNP...

BACKGROUND This study aims to review all published systematic reviews on the prevalence of modifiable cardiovascular disease risk factors among women from the Gulf Cooperation Council countries (GCC). This is the first review of other systematic reviews that concentrates on lifestyle related diseases among women in GCC countries only. METHOD Literature searches were carried out in three elect...

PURPOSE To investigate the potential of the optical coherence tomography (OCT) measurement of retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) thickness and ganglion cell complex (GCC) area and photopic negative response (PhNR) for predicting postoperative visual outcome in chiasmal compression, prospectively. METHODS Eighteen eyes of 18 patients undergoing chiasmal decompression surgery were prospectively a...

Objective. It is unknown whether advanced imaging (AI) is associated with higher quality breast cancer (BC) care. Materials and Methods. Claims and Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results data were linked for women diagnosed with incident stage I-III BC between 2002 and 2008 in western Washington State. We examined receipt of preoperative breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or AI (defined...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Mortality from road traffic collisions (RTC) is a major problem in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. Low compliance with seatbelt usage can be a contributing factor for increased mortality. The present study aimed to ascertain the presence of a relationship between seatbelt non-compliance of vehicle occupants and mortality rates in the GCC countries versus ...

PURPOSE To map ganglion cell complex (GCC) thickness with high-speed Fourier-domain optical coherence tomography (FD-OCT) and compute novel macular parameters for glaucoma diagnosis. DESIGN Observational, cross-sectional study. PARTICIPANTS One hundred seventy-eight participants in the Advanced Imaging for Glaucoma Study, divided into 3 groups: 65 persons in the normal group, 78 in the peri...

An effective way to deal with uncertainties in control of uncertain switched linear systems is so-called guaranteed cost control (GCC). Existing works on the GCC of these systems only provide asymptotical stability analysis. This paper focuses on the GCC to provide exponential stability in these systems. To this end, we design a new switching strategy and a state-feedback controller to exponent...

Supervisory control synthesis encounters with computational complexity. This can be reduced by decentralized supervisory control approach. In this paper, we define intrinsic control consistency for a pair of states of the plant. G-control consistency (GCC) is another concept which is defined for a natural projection w.r.t. the plant. We prove that, if a natural projection is output control cons...

The IA-64 architecture provides a rich set of features to aid the compiler in exploiting instruction-level parallelism to achieve high performance. Currently, GCC is a widely used open-source compiler for IA-64, but its performance, especially its floating-point performance, is poor compared to that of commercial compilers because it has not fully utilized IA-64 architectural features. Since la...