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RISC

Cardiology A clinical trial–Risk of Myocardial Infarction & Death by Treatment with Low Dose Aspirin & Intravenous Heparin in Men with Unstable Coronary Artery Disease that evaluated the risk of MI and death during therapy with low-dose aspirin and IV heparin in high-risk men. See Acute myocardial infarction, Low-dose aspirin.
McGraw-Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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We have studied the ways that can be used to reduce or to eliminate the idle cycles of the RISC. One of these solutions is the use of a multi-bus based on the sending side.
The interim Reserves and Resource certification was completed by RISC under the Society of Petroleum Engineers Petroleum Resource Management System (SPE PRMS), as at 1 November 2011, and details can be found from the link at the bottom of the release.
"RISC works by degrading tumor-suppressor mRNAs, which transmit genetic information in a cell that prevents the formation of tumors.
RISConsulting (RISC), a Boston-based consulting and advisory firm that offers financial risk and capital management models, as well as risk-transfer solutions, has launched AircraftRisk.com (www.aircraftrisk.com), a new aircraft financial risk management portal.
This paper focuses on alliance blocks in the RISC microprocessor field.
has expanded its SuperH series of RISC microprocessors with the addition of the SH7615 CPU featuring a hybrid 32-bit RISC and digital signal processing (SH-DSP) core, and an on-chip Ethernet controller.
The 270 MHz and 300 MHz MIPS RISC R12000 CPUs deliver up to 28 percent improved graphics performance and 23 percent improved processor performance over existing O2 configurations for the same price.
The questionnaire submitted to manufacturers offered the following guidelines, "The workstation will generally possess the following features: it is designed to operate in a network environment; Unix or a Unix-based language is employed; the central processor is based on reduced-instruction-set computing (RISC) architecture; and the components and enclosure are selected to enable operation in harsh environments."
PowerPC microprocessors are a new family of chips - central processing units, the computer's "brains." These new chips use reduced instruction-set computing (RISC) tedmology.
Approximately three years ago Apple, IBM, and Motorola decided to adopt a common RISC architecture on which to base their future hardware and software systems.