As smart, embedded devices are increasingly integrated into our daily life, the security of these devices has become a major concern. The ARM processor family, which powers more than 60% of embedded devices, introduced TrustZone technology to offer security protection via an isolated execution environment called secure world. Caches in TrustZone-enabled processors are extended with a nonsecure ...

Though a reduced flush response to niacin has been found in schizophrenic patients, whether it is a vulnerability indicator to schizophrenia remains little known. We aimed to examine the familial aggregation in niacin flush response among schizophrenic patients and their nonpsychotic relatives. In a sample of 153 schizophrenia probands, 217 parents, 70 siblings, and 94 normal subjects, 3 concen...

In May 2007, a widespread frost event defoliated much of Utah's high elevation aspen. About 5 weeks later, the frost-defoliated aspen produced a second leaf flush. The objective of this study was to characterize changes in leaf morphology and function in re-flush leaves following frost defoliation. Leaf size and thickness, photosynthesis, carbohydrate and nutrient status, and defense chemistry ...

Reload options, call options whose exercise entitles the holder to new options, are compound options that are commonly issued by firms to employees. Although reload options typically involve exercise at many dates, the optimal exercise policy is simple (always exercise when in the money) and surprisingly robust to assumptions about the employee’s ability to transact in the underlying stock as w...

This paper compares the performance, in highly-parallel shared-memory multiprocessors, of locating translation-lookaside buffers (TLBs) at processors with that of locating TLBs at memory. Our performance comparison is based on results of trace-driven simulations of multiprocessors with logN-stage networks interconnecting N processors and N memory modules. For the systems and workloads studied, ...

Given an edge-colored graph, a vertex on a path experiences a reload cost if it lies between two consecutive edges of different colors. The value of the reload cost depends only on the colors of the traversed edges. Reload cost has important applications in dynamic networks, such as transportation networks and dynamic spectrum access networks. In the minimum changeover cost arborescence (MinCCA...

The electrical liquid film thickness (LFT) sensor developed at ETH Zurich is applied to study wavy annular flows. LFT consists of a matrix electrodes put flush the surface wall which interest present. conductance between transmitter and receiver sampled converted into using calibration function obtained for flat without waves. Due limited lateral resolution non-linear response, waves are charac...