Thesis (M.S.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 179-186). / xix, 215 leaves, bound ill. 29 cm

Thesis (M.Eng.) -- University of Western Sydney, 2004. / A thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Engineering at the University of Western Sydney. Includes bibliography.

Thesis (M.Eng. (Chemical Engineering)) -- Universiteit van Pretoria, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.Arch.) - Carleton University, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 91-94). Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

Thesis (M.S.)--Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1993. / Vita. Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 94-98). Also available via the Internet.

Στη σύγχρονη εποχή το κενό απόδοσης μεταξύ του επεξεργαστή και της μνήμης ενός σύγχρονου υπολογιστικού συστήματος συνεχώς μεγαλώνει. Είναι λοιπόν σημαντικό να ερευνηθούν νέοι τρόποι για να καλυφθεί η αδυναμία της κύριας μνήμης να ακολουθήσει τον επεξεργαστή. Η μνήμη cache ήταν ανέκαθεν ένα χρήσιμο εργαλείο προς αυτήν την κατεύθυνση. Χρειάζεται όμως πλέον να προχωρήσει πέρα από την απλοϊκή μορφή της και τον αλγόριθμο LRU Η παρούσα διπλωματική έχει σαν σκοπό την μελέτη της cache σε πραγματικό περιβάλλον και την ανάλυση της δυνατότητας και της χρησιμότητας της πρόβλεψης της συμπεριφοράς ενός σύγχρονου προγράμματος όσον αφορά την προσπέλαση της μνήμης. Η εργασία επικεντρώνεται στην χρήση τεχνικών dynamic instrumentation για την υλοποίηση ενός μηχανισμού πρόβλεψης της απόστασης επαναχρησιμοποίησης μιας θέσης μνήμης, μέσω της ανάλυσης και μελέτης της συμπεριφοράς της εντολής, που ζητά να προσπελάσει την συγκεκριμένη θέση μνήμης. Αναλύεται εκτενώς η λειτουργία ενός τέτοιου μηχανισμού και παρέχονται στατιστικές μετρήσεις που επιβεβαιώνουν την χρησιμότητα και ευστοχία μιας τέτοιας πρόβλεψης. / In contemporary times the performance gap between the CPU and the main memory of a modern computer system grows larger. So it is important to find new ways to cover the inability of the main memory to cope with the CPU’s performance. Cache memory has always been a useful tool towards this goal. However the need arises for it to move beyond simplistic implementations and algorithms like LRU. The present end year project aims towards the study of cache memory in a real time environment and the analysis of the capability and usefulness of prediction of the memory access behaviour of a modern program. The thesis puts weight on the use of dynamic instrumentation techniques for the creation of a prediction mechanism of the reuse distance of a memory address, through the analysis and study of the behavior of the instruction that accessed this memory address. The function of such a mechanism is analyzed in depth and statistical measures are provided to prove the usefulness and accuracy of such a prediction.

Η αλματώδης αύξηση της ταχύτητας του επεξεργαστή δημιούργησε ένα χάσμα μεταξύ αυτού και της κύριας μνήμης. Η αρχιτεκτονική υπολογιστών καλείται να δώσει λύση στο πρόβλημα αυτό εφαρμόζοντας νέες τεχνικές στην ιεραρχία μνημών. Να αποκρύψει δηλαδή αυτή την καθυστέρηση έχοντας όμως περιορισμούς στην σχεδίαση ως προς τον χώρο και την κατανάλωση. Για τον λόγο αυτό προτείνουμε μια νέα τεχνική που συνδυάζει συμπίεση και πρόγνωση αποστάσεων επαναχρησιμοποίησης. Η συμπίεση αυξάνει την αποθηκευτική δυνατότητα της μνήμης και η πρόγνωση αποστάσεων επαναχρησιμοποίησης βοηθά στην σωστή επιλογή του μπλοκ προς συμπίεση. Η διπλωματική εργασία έχει ως στόχο την διερεύνηση του μοντέλου συμπίεσης με αλγόριθμο (FPC) και πρόγνωσης βάση εντολής αποστάσεων επαναχρησιμοποίησης (IbRDP) σε κρυφές μνήμες δευτέρου επιπέδου, ως προς την βελτιστοποίηση που μπορεί να επιφέρει στην ταχύτητα εκτέλεσης των προγραμμάτων καθώς και σε άλλες παραμέτρους. Διερευνήθηκαν διάφορα μοντέλα και στο βέλτιστο μοντέλο επετεύχθησαν σημαντικές αυξήσεις στην ταχύτητα εκτέλεσης των μετροπρογραμμάτων (16% αύξηση γεωμετρικού μέσου IPC στο 1ΜΒ) ενώ μόνο ένα μετροπρόγραμμα παρουσίασε έντονη μείωση της τάξης του 17 %. / the gap of speed between CPU and main memory is a problem than need to be solved by proposing new techniques on cache hierarchies, so the delay of fetching data from the main memory will be eliminated. We propose a new techinque of compression and reuse distance prediction. This compression will increase the capacity of L2 cache memory and the reuse distance prediction will find the most appropriate block to compress The thesis aims to search the combinational model of compression (FPC) and Reuse distance Predictor (IbRDP)on L2 cache memories. Several models have been simulated and the optimal model had increased execution speed of benchmarks (16% improvement in geometric mean IPC 1MB) while only one bencmark reduced its execution speed by 17%.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:35:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2008-01-22Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:26:50Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 prior_m_dr_botfca.pdf: 609810 bytes, checksum: 6b9456e563b46b7994e59d010c70f78f (MD5) / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) / Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP) / A região Oeste do Paraná é grande produtora de suínos, devido a isso, tem-se tornado um problema sério o grande número de dejetos líquidos gerados por essa atividade, além de ser considerada como causadora de degradação ambiental. O uso da água residuária de suinocultura (ARS) vem sendo aplicado ao solo como forma de adubação em várias culturas, o que melhora as condições do solo devido ao fornecimento de nutrientes, além de economizar custos com fertilização e água potável. Entretanto, a utilização da ARS na agricultura pode causar problemas, quando realizada de forma inadequada, devido à falta de informações sobre a taxa de aplicação adequada. Neste contexto, este trabalho teve por objetivo quantificar elementos e variáveis no solo e lixiviado quanto aos parâmetro físicos e químicos, bem como avaliar o comportamento da cultura em função da aplicação de água residuária de suinocultura (ARS) em um Latossolo Vermelho Distroférrico típico cultivado com milho. O experimento foi conduzido em ambiente protegido, onde foram construídos 24 lisímetros de drenagem, que receberam água residuária de suinocultura (ARS), sendo aplicadas cinco taxas de ARS (0; 112,5; 225; 337,5 e 450 m3 ha-1 no ciclo), combinadas com duas adubações de solo (50 e 75%), em três repetições por tratamento, sendo distribuídas em cinco aplicações durante o ciclo da cultura. Fez-se irrigações de acordo com a precipitação média ocorrida no período, quinzenalmente, resultando em seis coletas do material lixiviado, que foi analisado quanto ao N total, NO3 -, NO- 2, pH, CE, Ca, Mg, Na, K e P. Durante o ciclo da cultura do milho foram coletadas cinco amostras de solo de cada uma das parcelas analisadas quanto ao N total, N orgânico, N inorgânico, NH4 +, NO3 -, Na, pH, CE, MO, P, Ca, Mg, K, V%, CTC, P, Cu, Fe, Mn e Zn. Para o comportamento da cultura foi avaliado o diâmetro... / West of Paraná is a big producer of swine, due to that, it has been turning a serious problem the great volume of liquid dejections generated by this activity, besides it is considered as responsible of environmental degradation. The use of the swine wastewater (ARS) has been applied to the soil as a manuring form in several cultures, that improves the conditions of the soil due to the supply of nutrients, besides saving costs with fertilization and drinking water. However, the use of ARS in the agriculture can cause problems, once the application is made in an inadequate way, due to the lack of information about the appropriate rate of application. In this context, this work had for objective to evaluate the effects caused in the soil and leached as for the parameters physicists and chemical, as well as to evaluate the behavior of the culture in function of the swine wastewater application (ARS) in a Typical Dystroferric Red Latosol cultivated with corn. The experiment was driven in protected atmosphere, where 24 drainage lisimiters were built, that received swine wastewater (ARS), where it was applied five rates of ARS (0; 112,5; 225; 337,5 and 450 m3 ha-1 in the cycle), combined with two soil manurings (50 and 75%), in three repetitions for treatment, where it was distributed in five applications during the cycle of the culture. It was made irrigations in agreement with the medium precipitation happened in the period, biweekly, resulting in six collections of the leached material, that it was analyzed as for total N, NO3, NO2, pH, CE, Ca, Mg, Na, K and P.

Submitted by Aline Michelle da Silva Barbosa (aline.m.barbosa@hotmail.com) on 2018-06-05T12:41:33Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertação_AlineBarbosa.pdf: 1928040 bytes, checksum: 78498434789a7210c9e13594314f6df8 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Alexandra Maria Donadon Lusser Segali null (alexmar@fcav.unesp.br) on 2018-06-05T18:44:07Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 barbosa_ams_me_jabo.pdf: 1928040 bytes, checksum: 78498434789a7210c9e13594314f6df8 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-06-05T18:44:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 barbosa_ams_me_jabo.pdf: 1928040 bytes, checksum: 78498434789a7210c9e13594314f6df8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-04-06 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / O reúso de esgoto tratado é uma alternativa promissora para a agricultura irrigada por suprir a alta demanda hídrica e nutricional dos cultivos, além de reduzir o impacto ambiental ao evitar o lançamento do efluente nos corpos hídricos. Porém, pode haver contaminação tóxica e patogênica do solo, da planta e das águas subterrâneas. Objetivou-se, avaliar o impacto da aplicação de efluente de estação de tratamento de esgoto (EETE), via fertirrigação, no solo e na solução do solo de uma área experimental cultivada com Brachiaria, em Jaboticabal, SP. O EETE foi aplicado durante 4 anos (2013 a 2017) em dois experimentos com delineamento em faixas, com quatro repetições. Nos experimentos, utilizou-se um sistema de aspersão em linha tripla para aplicar lâmina uniforme de irrigação, mas gradual de EETE, estabelecendo-se cinco tratamentos com as seguintes frações do efluente em água: E5 = 100%; E4 = 87%; E3 = 60%; E2 = 31%, E1 = 11% e E0 = 0. O tratamento E0, em que se aplicou apenas água, recebeu fertilizante a base de ureia, superfosfato triplo e cloreto de potássio, equivalente à aplicada no tratamento E3 via efluente. A aplicação do EETE no solo cultivado com Brachiaria durante 4 anos não resultou em risco de salinização, sodificação e contaminação por elementos potencialmente tóxicos do solo. A aplicação do efluente aumentou a fertilidade do solo, em consequência do aumento das concentrações de macro e micronutrientes. Concluiu-se que a aplicação de EETE em Latossolo de região úmida, como em Jaboticabal, SP, apresenta baixo risco de degradação ambiental, uma vez que não contamina o solo e a solução do solo. / The reuse of treated sewage is a promising alternative for irrigated agriculture by supplying the high water and nutritional demand of the crops, besides reducing the environmental impact by avoiding the discharge of the effluent in the water bodies. However, there may be toxic and pathogenic contamination of soil, plant and groundwater. The objective of this study was to evaluate the impact of application of treated sewage effluent (TSE) via fertigation on soil and soil solution of an experimental area cultivated with Brachiaria in Southeastern Brazil. The TSE was applied for 4 years (2013 to 2017) in two experiments conducted in a strip design, with four replications. In the experiments, a triple line source sprinkler system applied uniform but gradual irrigation depth of TSE, establishing five treatments with the following fractions of the effluent in water: E5 = 100%; E4 = 87%; E3 = 60%; E2 = 31%, E1 = 11% and E0 = 0. The E0 treatment, in which only water was applied, received fertilizer based on urea, triple superphosphate and potassium chloride in a dose equivalent to that applied to E3 treatment via effluent. TSE application increased soil fertility as a result of increased macro and micronutrient concentrations. The indices of salinization and sodification, as well as the concentration of potentially toxic elements, were not increased with TSE doses. It was concluded that the application of SET in Wetland Latosol, as in Jaboticabal, SP, presents low risk of environmental degradation, since it does not contaminate soil and soil solution.

As populations grow and urban centres expand, meeting water demand and wastewater management requirements will become increasingly difficult. Goal 6 of the Sustainable Development Goals is to: 'Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all'. Part of the approach to achieving this will be reusing wastewater and will require a greater understanding of the institutional arrangements that support or obstruct reuse. This research was designed to achieve this and aimed to develop a set of factors that investors could use to assess the institutional feasibility of reuse in a given setting. The methodology combined a case study approach, focusing on wastewater systems in Bangalore, India and Hanoi, Vietnam, with triangle analysis to assess: the content of policies and laws; the structures (formal and informal) to implement laws and reuse projects; and the culture around acceptance and engagement in reuse. The reuse practices observed in Bangalore were treatment and use within apartments, centralized treatment and sale to industries, use in agriculture after natural attenuation, groundwater recharge and lake regeneration. In Hanoi the only reuse was indirect use from rivers feeding fish ponds and fields, although formal treatment and use is planned. Critically, both cities have environmental and water resources policies and laws that advocate reuse, as well as related local legislation. However, support for reuse is not reciprocated in industrial, agricultural or fisheries law, the result being that reuse does not always take place as planned. Legislation is required along the whole sanitation chain to the point of wastewater use. Structures to implement reuse are also vital. In Bangalore the water board has initiated reuse projects and established the New Initiatives Division but resources are a limiting factor. Effective institutions include expertise, manpower and financing mechanisms, which are lacking in both cities. The environment agency is also engaged in reuse though legislation on recycling in residential and commercial complexes but guidance for users is inadequate, expectations are perceived to be excessive and monitoring is almost impossible. The driver for reuse is increasingly the benefits observed by users. In the case of apartments this is a reliable water source and reduced costs of water supply. As a result, a private sector in wastewater treatment is becoming established. The active civil society and strong, independent media are instrumental in providing information to potential users and holding authorities to account in Bangalore. Their absence in Hanoi is notable. In summary, institutional elements to be considered are: supportive legislation across all sectors; details of acceptable reuse, deterrents and inducements; budget allocation; structures to enable reuse; strong civil society, NGOs, courts, media and universities providing evidence of suitability and safety; donors and finance mechanisms; and stakeholders willing to use the products. Encumbrances are inconsistent or uncoordinated legislation, lack of cooperation and insufficient benefit sharing or perceptions of benefits along the reuse chain.