This paper analyzes and distinguishes the role and importance of the shocks related to the aggregate demand and aggregate supply on the behavior of the Peruvian inflation during the period 1997:1-2009:2. We use the methodology based on structural vector autoregressive (SVAR) models using a long-run identification based on Blanchard and Quah (1989) which allows to obtain the historical decomposition of the annual inflation. Unlike Salas (2009), this paper uses a more simple model of aggregate demand and aggregate supply, and a larger sample. The results show that the behavior of inflation was largely explained for shocks related to the aggregate demand side in comparison with aggregate supply shocks. Furthermore, the results of the variance decomposition of the prediction error show that in the short and long term, the shocks of the demand side explain around 70% and 60% of the movements of the inflation. The results are robust to the inclusion of different variables in the set of information. / Este documento distingue y explica el rol y la importancia de los choques de demanda y oferta agregada en el comportamiento de la inflación peruana durante el periodo 1997:1-2009:2. Para esto se utiliza la metodología de Vectores Autoregresivos Estructurales (SVAR, por sus siglas en inglés) con una descomposición de largo plazo propuesta por Blanchard y Quah (1989), lo que permite obtener la descomposición histórica de la inflación anual. A diferencia de Salas (2009), el presente trabajo se basa en un modelo simple de demanda y oferta agregada, y una muestra más amplia. Los resultados muestran que el comportamiento de la inflación obedeció en mayor medida a choques de demanda agregada en comparación con los choques de oferta agregada. Los resultados de la descomposición de la varianza del error de predicción muestran que, en el corto y largo plazo, los choques de demanda agregada explican alrededor del 70% y 60% de los movimientos de la inflación. Los resultados son robustos a la inclusión de diferentes variables dentro del conjunto de información.

Submitted by Rosangela Silva (rosangela.silva3@unioeste.br) on 2018-06-25T14:39:55Z No. of bitstreams: 2 Douglas Ticiani Final.pdf: 15543424 bytes, checksum: 41d19b956e10c7116d923cf4330efe56 (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-06-25T14:39:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Douglas Ticiani Final.pdf: 15543424 bytes, checksum: 41d19b956e10c7116d923cf4330efe56 (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-06-11 / Run of River hydroelectric systems, beyond fragments aquatic environments, drastically reduced as flow discharges in the Reduced Flow Stretch (RDS). The objective of this study was to evaluate the influence of TVR formation and environmental variables on composition and spatial distribution of eggs and larvae, in dams cascade operating with free threshold and under the Run of River system. Fortnightly nocturnal samplings were carried out between October/2016 and January/2017, in four points of influence area of the Rio das Antas Energy Complex, Patos Lagoon ecoregion. The ichthyoplankton was collected with conical-cylindrical networks, in three sections of the river and by a light trap per point. The eggs were quantified, while larvae were identified using the sequence regression development technique, framed in larval periods (larval yolk, pre-flexion, flexion and post-flexion) and juvenile. Were collected 5,681 eggs, 2,124 larvae and 43 juveniles, belonging to 25 taxonomic groups. Small species, sedentary and without parental care (small characids) had the highest total abundance and density. Significant spatial differences were identified in egg and larval densities, as well in the stages of ontogenic development, influenced by flow, temperature, pH and dam-free river stretch. The higher density of upstream larvae and the greater species richness downstream of the complex, indicate disruption in the natural processes of drift and the displacement of many species in the upstream direction. Higher flow rates positively influenced the use of RDS as spawning sites. / Hidrelétricas que desviam o rio, além de fragmentar os ambientes aquáticos, reduzem drasticamente as descargas de fluxo hídrico nos Trechos de Vazão Reduzida (TVRs). O objetivo desse estudo foi avaliar a influência da formação de TVR’s e das variáveis ambientais na composição e a distribuição espacial de ovos e larvas, em um complexo de barragens em sequência, que operam com soleira livre e sistema de desvio do rio e soleira livre. Foram realizadas amostragens quinzenais noturnas entre outubro/2016 e janeiro/2017, em quatro pontos na área de influência do Complexo Energético Rio das Antas, ecorregião Lagoa dos Patos. O ictioplâncton foi coletado com redes cônico-cilindricas, em três secções do rio e por uma armadilha luminosa por ponto. Os ovos foram quantificados, enquanto as larvas foram identificadas através da técnica de sequência regressiva de desenvolvimento, enquadradas em períodos larval (larval vitelino, pré-flexão, flexão e pós-flexão) e juvenil. Foram coletados 5.681 ovos, 2.124 larvas e 43 juvenis, pertencentes a 25 grupos taxonômicos. Espécies de pequeno porte, sedentárias e sem cuidado parental (pequenos caracídeos) foram as maiores contribuintes para a abundância e densidade totais. Foram identificadas significativas diferenças espaciais nas densidades de ovos e larvas, bem como nos estágios de desenvolvimento ontogênico, influenciadas pela vazão, temperatura, transparência, pH e trecho de rio livre. A maior densidade de larvas à montante e a maior riqueza de espécies a jusante do complexo, indicam interrupção nos processos naturais de deriva e dispersão de muitas espécies no sentido montante. Maiores vazões influenciaram positivamente a utilização dos TVRs como sítios de desova.

Os sistemas dinamicamente reconfiguráveis (SDRs) são uma alternativa para o desenvolvimento de sistemas sobre silício baseados em circuitos programáveis (SoPC), cujo principal beneficio é o bom aproveitamento da área do dispositivo. Sendo neles implementados circuitos que representam as tarefas que devem operar numa etapa específica do tempo de operação do sistema, permitem um menor consumo de área e de energia, parâmetros importantes nos sistemas portáveis. Isto tem gerado muito interesse no que se refere às metodologias de projeto utilizando FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) dinamicamente reconfiguráveis (DRFPGAs) e à definição de um meio de comunicação estruturado para tratar da transferência de dados entre as partes reconfiguráveis e as fixas, mas estas tarefas, assim como a concretização de sua comunicação, seguem sendo ainda essencialmente manuais, devido à falta de metodologias de projeto e ferramentas de CAD que simplifiquem o projeto de SDRs. Este trabalho foca uma das limitações mais efetivas para a adoção da reconfiguração dinâmica: a falta de ferramentas de CAD que suportem o projeto de SDRs, inclusive os baseados em redes intra-chip (NoCs), em particular, no posicionamento dos módulos. Neste trabalho, uma arquitetura para SDRs baseado em NoCs é proposta e um algoritmo de posicionamento dos módulos de um SDR baseado em aspectos reais da família do DRFPGAs é desenvolvido, dentro de uma ferramenta denominada DynoPlace. Desenvolveu-se também um modelo de validação e simulação de SDRs, em tempo de operação, utilizando-se a técnica de chaveamento dinâmico de circuitos. Para o estudo do caso, de validação da arquitetura e metodologia, propõe-se uma aplicação teste baseada em computação de operações aritméticas. A metodologia de simulação permite determinar o tempo da reconfiguração e verificar o comportamento do SDR no momento da reconfiguração. A ferramenta DynoPlace permite gerar os arquivos de restrição de usuário (UCF) de posicionamento dos módulos do SDR no DRFPGA Virtex-4LX25. Este contém informações do posicionamento dos módulos do sistema, dos dispositivos usados para as entradas e saídas do sistema além do posicionamento dos bus-macros. Com os arquivos gerados pela metodologia e ferramenta DynoPlace, pode-se executar com sucesso os scripts da metodologia Early Access da Xilinx para gerar o SDR de forma automática. / Dynamically Reconfigurable Systems (DRSs) are an alternative for developing Systems on a Programmable Chip (SoPC), being the efficient use of device\'s area one of its main advantages. Circuits implemented as DRSs represent tasks which must be active in specific times into the system operation, allowing area and energy saving, which is an important goal for portable systems. This has generated interests on the design methodology using Dynamically Reconfigurable Field Programmable Gate Arrays (DRFPGAs) and on the definition of communication systems for handling data transfer between static and reconfigurable partitions. However, these tasks, as well as the communication structure, are still carried out manually due to lack of design methodologies and CAD tools applied to DRSs design. This work focuses on the one of main drawbacks to the adoption of dynamic reconfiguration methods: the absence of CAD tools which support DRS designs, specifically, in the module positioning task, included, for those based on Network-on-Chip (NoCs). In this work, an architecture for DRSs based on NoCs is presented and an algorithm for module positioning is developed in a tool called DynoPlace as well, based on real specifications of DRFPGAs families. It is also developed a run-time simulation and validation model for DRSs, through a dynamic circuit switching technique. For the validation of architecture and methodology study case, an application test based on arithmetic operations has been proposed. The simulations methodology allows to determine the reconfiguration time and verify the DRS behavior at the moment of reconfiguration. The DynoPlace tool allows to generate User Constraint File (UCF) of DRS\'s modules positioning for the DRFPGA Virtex-4LX25. This file contains information of modules positioning in the system, of the devices used for inputs and outputs of the system, and the positioning of bus-macros. After the files generation by the methodology, and the DynoPlace tool, it is possible to successfully execute the Early Access scripts for generating the DRS automatically.

The Ericsson AXE-based systems are programmed using an internally developed language called Plex-C. Plex-C is normally compiled to execute on an Ericsson internal processor architecture. A transition to standard processors is currently in progress. This makes it interesting to examine if Plex-C can be compiled to execute on the JVM, which would make it processor independent. The purpose of the thesis is to examine if parts of the run-time environment of Plex-C can be translated to Java and if this can be done so that sufficient performance is obtained. It includes how language constructions in Plex-C can be translated to Java. The thesis describes how a limited part of the Plex-C run-time environment is implemented in Java. Optimizations are an important part of the implementation. It is also described how the JVM system was tested with a benchmark test. The test results indicate that the implemented system is a few times faster than the Ericsson internal processor architecture. But this performance is still not sufficient for the JVM system to be an interesting replacement for the currently used processor architecture. It might still be useful as a processor independent test platform.

L’étude a pour objectif de déterminer la qualité des eaux de surface sous différentes conditions climatiques et pratiques de gestion des eaux de surface. Trois sites ont étés choisis pour: (1) la rivière Jalle de Blanquefort, (2) le lac de Bordeaux, France et (3) la rivière Pasig aux Philippines. Les sites français présentent des collecteurs d'eau qui se déversent directement dans les eaux de surface. La rivière Pasig sert de collecteur d'eaux usées en l’absence de stations de traitement des eaux usées et collectées. Au cours des campagnes de mesure, il a été possible de suivre l’impact de la variabilité climatique (pluviométrie) et d’événements aléatoires sur la qualité chimiques (éléments traces métalliques et polluants organiques) des eaux ; en combinant échantillonnage classique et par capteurs passifs. Les propriétés physico-chimiques de l'eau ainsi que les caractéristiques des particules et l'utilisation d'analyses statistiques permettent de préciser le comportement des molécules détectées et de décrire l’evolution hydrochimique des eaux de surface urbaines et estuariennes vis-à-vis d’aléas climatiques contrastés. / The study aimed to assess the water quality of the surface water in differingclimate conditions and management practices. Three interesting sites were chosen, (1)Jalle River and (2) Bordeaux Lac both in France and the (3) Pasig River in thePhilippines. The French sites have rainfall and run-off collectors that directly dischargewater to the water bodies. Pasig River, on the other hand, becomes a waste collector aswaste management and treatment plant are lacking. Trace metals and organics(pesticides, herbicides, pharmaceuticals and drugs) were measured. Conventional andpassive sampling approches were employed. The mass fluxes were obtained in order tocalculate the pollution transport. Physico-chemical properties and the particlecharacteristics, integrating statistical analyses, facilitated in explaining the behavior of themeasured molecules and describing the hydrological system in relation to climatevariability.

The swine and cattle activities are of great economic and social importance in Brazil in the southern region, but generate of large volumes of waste, that when applied to the soil can be mineralized and part of the nutrients released can be absorbed by plants or transferred by runoff or percolation. The aimed of this study was to evaluate the rate of mineralization, availability and transferences of nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P) and potassium (K) for the solution runoff and percolation in the profile in a Sandy Typic Hapludalf under application of nutrient sources. Two experiments were carried out at the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM), in Santa Maria (RS). For the experiment 1, soil samples of a Sandy Typic Hapludalf were collected in October 2010, prepared and carried the following treatments: soil, soil + pig slurry, soil + deep-litter; soil + cattle slurry and soil + mineral fertilizer. These soils were incubated during 0, 20, 35, 58, 73 and 123 days and then, samples were collected and submitted to analysis of mineral-N (N-NH4 + e N-NO3 -), P extracted by exchanged anion resin and K by exchanged cation resin. The experiment 2 was installed in 2004, at the experimental area of the Department of Soils of UFSM. The treatments were: control, pig slurry, deeplitter, cattle slurry and mineral fertilizer. Each source of manure has been applied to provide the N demand of corn (Zea mays L.) and oat (Avena strigosa Schreb.). From May 2010 to February 2011, samples of runoff and percolated in the profile solution were collected; the volume was measured and the content mineral- N (N-NH4 + e N-NO3 -), P e K in the solution was analyzed. The highest rate of N mineralization occurred in soil under the application of pig slurry and increased availability of P and K was observed with the application of litter of pigs. The greatest transfer of N, P and K occurred in the soil under the application of deeplitter / A suinocultura e a bovinocultura são atividades de grande importância econômica e social na região sul do Brasil, mas geram grande volume de dejetos, que quando aplicados ao solo podem ser mineralizados e parte dos nutrientes liberados podem ser absorvidos pelas plantas ou transferidos por escoamento superficial ou percolação. O objetivo do presente trabalho foi avaliar a taxa de mineralização, a disponibilidade e a transferência de nitrogênio (N), fósforo (P) e potássio (K) pela solução escoada na superfície do solo e percolada no perfil do solo, em um Argissolo Vermelho submetido à aplicação de fontes minerais e orgânicas de nutrientes. Foram conduzidos dois experimentos na Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM), em Santa Maria (RS). No experimento 1, para avaliação da disponibilidade de nutrientes no solo, amostras de um Argissolo Vermelho foram coletadas em outubro de 2010, preparadas e aplicados os seguintes tratamentos: solo; solo + dejetos líquidos de suínos; solo + cama sobreposta de suínos; solo + dejetos líquidos de bovinos e solo + adubação mineral. As amostras foram incubadas por 0, 20, 35, 58, 73 e 123 dias, coletadas e submetidas à análise de N-mineral (N-NH4 + e N-NO3 -), de P extraído pela Resina Trocadora de Ânions (RTA) e de K pela Resina Trocadora de Cátions (RTC). No experimento 2, para a avaliação das transferências de nutrientes foi instalado em 2004 na área experimental do Departamento de Solos da UFSM os tratamentos: testemunha, dejetos líquidos de suínos, cama sobreposta de suínos, dejetos líquidos de bovinos e adubação mineral. Cada fonte de nutriente foi aplicada para fornecer a demanda de N do milho e da aveia preta. Entre os meses de maio de 2010 a fevereiro de 2011 foram coletadas amostras da solução escoada na superfície do solo e percolada no perfil e, em seguida foi quantificado o volume e, logo depois foi analisado os teores de N mineral (N-NH4 + e N-NO3 -), P e K na solução. A maior taxa de mineralização de N aconteceu no solo submetido à aplicação de dejetos líquidos de suínos e a maior disponibilidade de P e K foi observada com a aplicação de cama sobreposta de suínos. As maiores transferências de N, P e K ocorreram no solo submetido à aplicação de cama sobreposta de suínos.

Magister Scientiae - MSc / The project was conducted on a small-scale catchment at Goedertrou in the Riebeek- Kasteel district. The focus of this study was to address some of the hydrological processes active in the research catchment, namely infiltration, run-off and sediment mobilisation on different soil types. It was done to investigate the origin of Berg River pollutants. To answer the overall question about what influence the natural salt load of the Berg River, a number of subprojects have been identified, one of which is to understand the hydrological processes in the soil mantle and vadose zone. Hence, the study aimed to answer the research questions mentioned and discussed in section 1.3 of Chapter 1. Considering the results, it could be suggested that decayed root systems from the rows of plants, soil cracks, small channels and openings created by small animals, as well as slope orientation and, therefore, soil composition, all played a major role in influencing the ability of the soil to absorb the simulated rainfall. In this study, the factors that influenced run-off are micro topography, soil moisture, root system, animal activities in soil profile, soil crack dimensions and the hydraulic conductivity. The main factors that played a major role to influence sediments mobilisation are strongly believed to be the micro topography within the ring, slope gradient and length, vegetation cover and rainfall-simulation intensity. After using different techniques, the results show that farmers must be aware that with storm rainfall, particles smaller than 65 μm are subject to mobilisation. It is important to let land-users know that they need proper and appropriate methods for land-use. / South Africa

The 20 Metre Multistage Shuttle Run Test (20 MST) was modified for application to ice-sports, more specifically for ice-hockey and figure-skating. Seventy two participants in ice-sports served as the total subject group. Subjects included in the study were National and Provincial standard male ice-hockey subjects (n=67) and female figure skaters (n=5) participating in the Gauteng area of South Africa (altitude of 1497 metres above sea level and barometric pressure of 655 mmHg). The mean age for the total group was 17.44±1.33 years. The research methodology entailed a repeated measures design to determine: a) velocity of motion on-ice vs. over-ground; b) energy expenditure on-ice vs. over-ground; and c) mechanical efficiency on-ice vs. over-ground. The mean velocity of motion measured over three distances (0 to 20, 0 to 30 and 0 to 40 m) indicated a significantly (p≤0.05) faster velocity on-ice (5.99±0.72 m/s) versus over-ground (5.75±0.63 m/s). The corresponding mean time-lapsed on-ice/over-ground ratio was 0.97±0.11. Differences in mean energy expenditure whilst performing the original 20 MST over-ground as opposed to on-ice were measured at low (at 4 minutes of exercise and 10 km/h), intermediate (after 8 minutes of exercise and 12 km/h), and high intensity (after 12 min of exercise and 14 km/h). The mean of the three indicated a significantly (p≤0.05) higher energy expenditure over-ground (14.04±4.86 kcal/min) as apposed to on-ice (10.51±2.95 kcal/min). The mean energy expenditure ratio for the three different intensities on-ice vs. over-ground was 0.74±0.21. Similarly, the mechanical efficiency index over-ground (4.92±0.59) was found to be significantly (p≤0.001) poorer than on-ice (6.83±1.49). The mean mechanical efficiency ratio over-ground/over-ice was 0.74±0.13. Subsequently, based on the above results, the 20 MST was modified by: a) adapting (increasing) the velocity of motion required for each level of the test (distance of 20 m per shuttle); and b) establishing the reliability and validity of the modified 20 MST for use on-ice. The adapted 20 Metre Multistage Shuttle Skating Test (the modified (skating) 20 MST) started at a velocity of 2.8 m/s (10.1 km/h) and permitted 7.1 seconds to complete each shuttle for the first level of the test, which then decreased progressively at each level. This was based on an over-all variable-derived on-ice to over ground ratio of 0.84. Test-retest, on-ice reliability measures (n=15) for predicted VO2max (49.5±8.37 vs. 49.29±7.95 ml/kg/min) showed a highly significant (p£0.001) consistency (r=0.87). Similarly test-retest concurrent validity measures (n=10) for predicted VO2max over-ground with the original 20 MST (48.09±6.25 ml/kg/min) as designed by Léger and Lambert (1982) versus on-ice values with the adapted on-ice 20 MST (49.98±7.23 ml/kg/min), showed a very significant (p£0.01) correlation of 0.73 between the two tests. In conclusion the original 20 MST, as designed by Léger and Lambert (1982) for over-ground, proved inappropriate for use on-ice. Modification of the starting velocity as well as a progressive increase in velocity for all subsequent stages renders the modified 20 MST for ice-sports a reliable and valid test for cardiorespiratory fitness (VO2max), with surface-specific utility. The 20 Metre Multistage Shuttle Run Test (20 MST) was modified for application to ice-sports, more specifically for ice-hockey and figure-skating. Seventy two participants in ice-sports served as the total subject group. Subjects included in the study were National and Provincial standard male ice-hockey subjects (n=67) and female figure skaters (n=5) participating in the Gauteng area of South Africa (altitude of 1497 metres above sea level and barometric pressure of 655 mmHg). The mean age for the total group was 17.44±1.33 years. The research methodology entailed a repeated measures design to determine: a) velocity of motion on-ice vs. over-ground; b) energy expenditure on-ice vs. over-ground; and c) mechanical efficiency on-ice vs. over-ground. The mean velocity of motion measured over three distances (0 to 20, 0 to 30 and 0 to 40 m) indicated a significantly (p≤0.05) faster velocity on-ice (5.99±0.72 m/s) versus over-ground (5.75±0.63 m/s). The corresponding mean time-lapsed on-ice/over-ground ratio was 0.97±0.11. Differences in mean energy expenditure whilst performing the original 20 MST over-ground as opposed to on-ice were measured at low (at 4 minutes of exercise and 10 km/h), intermediate (after 8 minutes of exercise and 12 km/h), and high intensity (after 12 min of exercise and 14 km/h). The mean of the three indicated a significantly (p≤0.05) higher energy expenditure over-ground (14.04±4.86 kcal/min) as apposed to on-ice (10.51±2.95 kcal/min). The mean energy expenditure ratio for the three different intensities on-ice vs. over-ground was 0.74±0.21. Similarly, the mechanical efficiency index over-ground (4.92±0.59) was found to be significantly (p≤0.001) poorer than on-ice (6.83±1.49). The mean mechanical efficiency ratio over-ground/over-ice was 0.74±0.13. Subsequently, based on the above results, the 20 MST was modified by: a) adapting (increasing) the velocity of motion required for each level of the test (distance of 20 m per shuttle); and b) establishing the reliability and validity of the modified 20 MST for use on-ice. The adapted 20 Metre Multistage Shuttle Skating Test (the modified (skating) 20 MST) started at a velocity of 2.8 m/s (10.1 km/h) and permitted 7.1 seconds to complete each shuttle for the first level of the test, which then decreased progressively at each level. This was based on an over-all variable-derived on-ice to over ground ratio of 0.84. Test-retest, on-ice reliability measures (n=15) for predicted VO2max (49.5±8.37 vs. 49.29±7.95 ml/kg/min) showed a highly significant (p£0.001) consistency (r=0.87). Similarly test-retest concurrent validity measures (n=10) for predicted VO2max over-ground with the original 20 MST (48.09±6.25 ml/kg/min) as designed by Léger and Lambert (1982) versus on-ice values with the adapted on-ice 20 MST (49.98±7.23 ml/kg/min), showed a very significant (p£0.01) correlation of 0.73 between the two tests. In conclusion the original 20 MST, as designed by Léger and Lambert (1982) for over-ground, proved inappropriate for use on-ice. Modification of the starting velocity as well as a progressive increase in velocity for all subsequent stages renders the modified 20 MST for ice-sports a reliable and valid test for cardiorespiratory fitness (VO2max), with surface-specific utility. / Dissertation (MA (Human Movement Science))--University of Pretoria, 2005. / Biokinetics, Sport and Leisure Sciences / unrestricted

Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Architectures(CGRAs) can be employed for accelerating computational workloads that demand both flexibility and performance. CGRAs comprise a set of computation elements interconnected using a network and this interconnection of computation elements is referred to as a reconfigurable fabric. The size of application that can be accommodated on the reconfigurable fabric is limited by the size of instruction buffers associated with each Compute element. When an application cannot be accommodated entirely, application is partitioned such that each of these partitions can be executed on the reconfigurable fabric. These partitions are scheduled by an orchestrator. The orchestrator employs dynamic dataflow execution paradigm. Dynamic dataflow execution paradigm has inherent support for synchronization and helps in exploitation of parallelism that exists across application partitions. In this thesis, we present a compiler that targets such CGRAs. The compiler presented in this thesis is capable of accepting applications specified in C89 standard. To enable architectural design space exploration, the compiler is designed such that it can be customized for several instances of CGRAs employing dataflow execution paradigm at the orchestrator. This can be achieved by specifying the appropriate configuration parameters to the compiler. The focus of this thesis is to provide efficient support for various kinds of parallelism while ensuring correctness. The compiler is designed to support fine-grained task level parallelism that exists across iterations of loops and function calls. Additionally, compiler can also support pipeline parallelism, where a loop is split into multiple stages that execute in a pipelined manner. The prototype compiler, which targets multiple instances of a CGRA, is demonstrated in this thesis. We used this compiler to target multiple variants of CGRAs employing dataflow execution paradigm. We varied the reconfigur-able fabric, orchestration mechanism employed, size of instruction buffers. We also choose applications from two different domains viz. cryptography and linear algebra. The execution time of the CGRA (the best among all instances) is compared against an Intel Quad core processor. Cryptography applications show a performance improvement ranging from more than one order of magnitude to close to two orders of magnitude. These applications have large amounts of ILP and our compiler could successfully expose the ILP available in these applications. Further, the domain customization also played an important role in achieving good performance. We employed two custom functional units for accelerating Cryptography applications and compiler could efficiently use them. In linear algebra kernels we observe multiple iterations of the loop executing in parallel, effectively exploiting loop-level parallelism at runtime. Inspite of this we notice close to an order of magnitude performance degradation. The reason for this degradation can be attributed to the use of non-pipelined floating point units, and the delays involved in accessing memory. Pipeline parallelism was demonstrated using this compiler for FFT and QR factorization. Thus, the compiler is capable of efficiently supporting different kinds of parallelism and can support complete C89 standard. Further, the compiler can also support different instances of CGRAs employing dataflow execution paradigm.

The aim of this thesis is to analyse the research area of omitted intangible assets from the balance sheet and consider rewards of their potential recognition in the statement of financial position. The theoretical part provides the reader with the current regulation in force and compares it to the regulation prior the standardization and convergence process. The empirical part focuses on valuation of equity of three companies from the pharmaceutical industry based on the model pursued by American professor Stephen Penman. The values obtained are subsequently compared to market prices which are believed to reflect also the possession of omitted intangible assets. Differences identified speak in favour of potential recognition, however these are believed to be marginal comparing to probable inherent risks, which include, inter alia, stock market run-ups and earnings management.