A student, supported by his classmates, throws a piece of chalk at the teacher who is writing on the blackboard. The teacher rapidly turns back and promptly catches him in the act. The student blushes and suddenly realizes how bad it was what he did. What happened to the guy? Why did he decide to throw the piece of chalk? And why, after a few seconds, he would have liked that what he did had ne...

Saul: "And it came to pass, when the evil spirit from God was upon Saul, that David took an harp* and played with his hand; so Saul was refreshed and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him." Music was a treatment for meflt3 diseases in ancient Egypt and Greec. The present interest in therapy dates from 1947. Sir SteUa Wilson, then Music Director of ^ Arts Council, pointed out tP, altho...

Most of the prediction mechanisms predict a single path to continue the execution on a branch. Alternatively, we may exploit parallelism from either possible paths of a branch, discarding wrong paths once the branch is resolved. This paper proposes a concept of Adaptive Branch Trees (ABT) to support highly speculative execution for processors with deeper pipelines and wide issue widths. The bas...

We study different possibilities to apply the principles of rough paths theory in a non-commutative probability setting. First, we extend previous results obtained by Capitaine, Donati-Martin and Victoir in Lyons’ original formulation of rough paths theory. Then we settle the bases of an alternative non-commutative integration procedure, in the spirit of Gubinelli’s controlled paths theory, and...

The dominant rational approach to rr-centered strategic change derives from the positioning literature in business strategy. It assumes a single best path to successful organizational transformation. Three cases are used to show that, in practice, there are multiple alternadve paths. The strategic IT and business strategy literatures are critiqued in terms of the process of fit so as to explain...

A path learning algorithm (PRA) has been recently proposed that addresses link prediction tasks on heterogenous graphs using learned combinations of labeled paths. Unlike most statistical relational learning methods, this approach scales to large data sets. In this paper, we extend PRA is terms of expressive power, while maintaining its high scalability. Mainly, we propose to compute backward r...

Alternative paths may significantly improve routing reliability in an IP network. One application of this technique is to enhance the reliability of the popular Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) routing protocol. In our proposed Reliable OSPF (ROSPF) routing protocol, one primary path and two alternate backup paths are deployed for data transmission. As expected, the number of shared links and ro...

Conventional robot path planning aims at nding a single best path for a robot to perform a task according to certain optimization criteria. However, as a robot operates in a real environment with uncertainties, it is often desirable and even necessary for the robot to know alternative feasible paths so that it can deal with unknowns or changes in both the environment and the task eeectively and...

The quality of teachers prepared for basic education in Africa and other continents of the world is a consequence of the knowledge of content acquired and the pedagogy. Effective teaching practice supervision could determine the level of teacher trainees’ performance in the art of teaching. The study investigated the differences in performance of teacher trainees who embarked on continuous Teac...

We analyze an equilibrium concept called revision-proofness for infinite-horizon games played by a dynasty of players. Revision-proofness requires strategies to be robust to joint deviations by multiple players and is a refinement of sub-game perfection. Sub-game perfect paths that can only be sustained by reversion to paths with payoffs below those of an alternative path are not revision-proof...