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Which of the following is not an example of areas that tend to be heavily fished?

In young children, hemopoiesis occurs in most of their bones, but in adulthood it primarily occurs in

Which are characteristic of leukocytes? a: Smaller than erythrocytesb: Have a nucleusc: Have no hemoglobind: More numerous than erythrocytese: Depending on type, may or may not contain granules

Plasma makes up about ______ percent of a centrifuged sample of whole blood.

One of the functions of blood is to regulate fluid levels in the body. If too much fluid escapes from the bloodstream and enters the tissues, blood pressure will

Leukocytes are the _______ of the formed elements, and leukocytes have ______________.

Factor completely. x3-216{“version”:”1.1″,”math”:”x3-216″}

As a platelet plug forms at an injury site, platelets become activated and their cytosol

Assume the code segment below is run on a 2-Issue wide, 4-stage (IF, DISP, EX, SU) FICO pipelined processor with the following configuration. (Note, in the review on Wednesday we were referring to SU (State Update) as WB.) The processor can fetch 2 instructions per clock cycle The dispatch queue can hold 4 entries Has the following function units: 2 ADD Units (1 cycle latency) 1 MUL Unit (3 cycle latency, Pipelined) 1 Floating Point ADD Unit (2 cycle latency, Unpipelined) Note: This is used by FADD instructions Fill in the pipeline timing diagram for the given instruction trace executing on the above pipeline. Each blank should have either one of the stages (IF, DISP, EX, SU), or a single dash, ‘-‘, (without the quotes) if nothing goes in that spot. You may or may not need to use every cycle. A: ADD    R1, R2, R6 B: MUL    R3, R4, R5 C: FADD   R1, R2, R6 D: ADD    R2, R1, R3 E: MUL    R6, R7, R6 F: ADD    R3, R2, R1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A [A0] [A1] [A2] [A3] [A4] [A5] [A6] [A7] [A8] [A9] B [B0] [B1] [B2] [B3] [B4] [B5] [B6] [B7] [B8] [B9] C [C0] [C1] [C2] [C3] [C4] [C5] [C6] [C7] [C8] [C9] D [D0] [D1] [D2] [D3] [D4] [D5] [D6] [D7] [D8] [D9] E [E0] [E1] [E2] [E3] [E4] [E5] [E6] [E7] [E8] [E9] F [F0] [F1] [F2] [F3] [F4] [F5] [F6] [F7] [F8] [F9]    

(2 points) What issue do return instructions pose for branch target buffers? (2 points) What hardware might we add to a branch target buffer to help with this issue?  (2 points) How would it help?