Thread Migration Prediction for Distributed Shared Caches

Chip-multiprocessors (CMPs) have become the mainstream parallel architecture in recent years; for scalability reasons, designs with high core counts tend towards tiled CMPs with physically distributed shared caches. This naturally leads to a Non-Uniform Cache Access (NUCA) design, where on-chip access latencies depend on the physical distances between requesting cores and home cores where the …

Threads and Data Mapping: Affinity Analysis for Traffic Reduction

Modern processors spend significant amount of time and energy moving data. With the increase in core count, the relative importance of such latency and energy expenditure will only increase with time. Inter-core communication traffic when executing a multithreaded application is one such source of latency and energy expenditure. This traffic is influenced by the mapping of threads and data onto…

Toggle-Aware Compression for GPUs

Memory bandwidth compression can be an effective way to achieve higher system performance and energy efficiency in modern data-intensive applications by exploiting redundancy in data. Prior works studied various data compression techniques to improve both capacity (e.g., of caches and main memory) and bandwidth utilization (e.g., of the on-chip and off-chip interconnects). These works addresse…

Toward Multi-Layer Holistic Evaluation of System Designs

The common practice for quantifying the benefit(s) of design-time architectural choices of server processors is often limited to the chip- or server-level. This quantification process invariably entails the use of salient metrics, such as performance, power, and reliability, which capture - in a tangible manner - a designs overall ramifications. This paper argues for the necessity of a more hol…

Towards High-Performance Bufferless NoCs with SCEPTER

In the many-core era, the network on-chip (NoC) is playing a larger role in meeting performance, area and power goals, as router buffers contribute greatly to NoC area and power usage. Proposals have advocated bufferless NoCs, however a performance wall has been reached such that high throughput performance has not been extracted. We present SCEPTER, a high-performance bufferless mesh NoC that …

Obamacare’s Impact on Labor Markets: Limits on the Predictive Value of Romn…

There has been great debate about the potential labor market impact of the Affordable Care Act (“ACA” or “Obamacare”). Some have pointed to Massachusetts as the harbinger of what is to come nationally,1 while others have predicted massive dumping of employer-based insurance.2 An extension of this labor market debate was on full display during the summer of 2012.3 Critics seized on a McK…

Preemption and the MLR Provision of the Affordable Care Act

This Note focuses on the medical loss ratio provision (“MLR Provision”) of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA).1 The MLR Provision states that health insurance companies must spend at least a certain percentage of their premium revenue on “activities that improve healthcare quality” (in other words, meet a minimum threshold medical loss ratio) and comply with reporting …

Health Insurance Is Dead; Long Live Health Insurance

Today, health insurance is no longer simply a class of insurance that covers risks to health, and it has not been so for many years.argues that health insurance has become a unique form of insurance—a mechanism to pay for healthcare that uses risk spreading as one of several pricing methods.explains how the ACA builds on this important payment function to create a complex social insurance sys…

Beyond Payment and Delivery Reform: The Individual Mandate’s Cost-Control P…

In a symposium1 focused on healthcare cost control, most of our authors have unsur prisingly highlighted and assessed Obamacare’s payment and delivery reforms—the supply-side efforts to decrease costs of medical treatment.2 But there is another party in healthcare decision-making who is equally or even more important: the patient. The question we will tackle here is whether the individual m…

Cells as Drugs?: Regulating the Future of Medicine

Regenerative Sciences, LLC, a Colorado company run by physicians, created the Regenexx-C (Cultured) (“Regenexx-C”) procedure to treat bone pain. The procedure involves harvesting a patient’s own mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), expanding the cells ex vivo, and then injecting the resulting cellular product into the site of injury, usually an injured joint. 2 The MSCs then repair the damaged …

Wave Flume Measurement using Image Analysis

Wave observation represented water surface elevation at a reference point is basic and essential data for ocean and coastal engineering that is mostly measured with traditional wave gauges, for instance capacitance, resistance and conductivity types. Therefore, accuracy and exactness are the most important aspects of data acquisition systems. In this study, we focus on the development of image …

Wave Flume Measurement using Image Analysis

Wave observation represented water surface elevation at a reference point is basic and essential data for ocean and coastal engineering that is mostly measured with traditional wave gauges, for instance capacitance, resistance and conductivity types. Therefore, accuracy and exactness are the most important aspects of data acquisition systems. In this study, we focus on the development of image …

Three Legged Articulated Support for 5 MW Offshore Wind Turbine

This numerical study discusses the preliminary design of a three-legged articulated supporting structure for 5 MW Offshore Wind Turbine.Although articulated tower has many advantages as deep water platform, studies on wind turbine installed over articulated supports are scarce.First stable configuration of a Multi-legged articulated support, the three legged articulated structure is selected fo…

An Examination of the Interactions of Race and Gender on Sentencing Decisions…

This study examined how race, gender, and age interact to affect defendants’sentences using a trichotomized dependent variable. The findings indicate that the racial and gender disparity found in sentencing decisions was largely due to Black men’s increased likelihood of receiving jail as opposed to probation. The results also show that being young resulted in increased odds of receiving pr…

A 3D numerical wave tank study for offshore structures with linear and nonlin…

As offshore industry progressively moves towards deeper water, coupled dynamic analysis of such structures with mooring lines and risers becomes increasingly important because of the growing influence of mooring lines on the response of these structures. Experimental studies for such deepwater structures with mooring lines face serious problems due to the involved scaling and modeling issues. F…

Disproportionate Minority Confinement of Juveniles: A National Examination of…

Beginning in fiscal year 1994, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention included, as a requirement for a state to receive Federal Formula Grants, the determination of whetherD isproportionate minority confinement existed in its juvenile justice system, the identification of its causes, and the development and implementation of corrective strategies. The current study examined t…

State Fiscal Considerations and Research Opportunities Emerging from the Affo…

As enacted, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) directed states to provide Medicaid coverage to most nonelderly adults with incomes up to 138% of the Federal Poverty Level (the “Medicaid expansion group”) beginning in 2014. 1 The Medicaid expansion provision of the ACA is an integral mponent of fulfilling the ACA’s primary objective to achieve near-universal health insurance coverage rates acr…

Modelling and CFD Analysis of Traditional Snake Boats of Kerala

Kerala has a rich maritime tradition dating back to several centuries. Snake boats, locally called Chundan vallams, are one of the icons of Kerala. Different types of snake boats take part in Vallamkali, the local name for traditional boat races. This paper presents the preliminary results of a study on a typical ChundanVallam. Data were collected at site using a total station and three dimensi…

Using Actor–Network Theory to understand planning practice: Exploring relat…

There has been a recent growth in interest within planning theory in Actor–Network Theory. This article explores the potential for Actor–Network Theory to deliver a distinctive perspective on planning practice. Using a case study of commercial office development and the discussion of its carbon performance within the regulatory planning process, an Actor–Network Theory– based analys…

Are Teleworkers Less Likely to Report Leave Intentions in the United States F…

Teleworking is the most common alternative work schedule used in public organizations. Despite the adoption of teleworking in government agencies, no studies were found that empirically examined the effect it has on retention in these agencies. This article therefore extends the literature by examining the impact of teleworking on turnover intentions in U.S. federal agencies. In so doing, the f…

Political Decentralization, Subnational Political Capital, and Intergovernmen…

Faced with ever increasing pressures for better performance and financial bottom line, governments around the world are devolving more responsibilities to subnational governments. Especially in developing countries, this trend has coupled with increased demands for greater democracy and disaffection with the services provided by the central government. This article examines what has happened in…

Solar Energy: Review of Potential Green & Clean Energy for Coastal and Offsho…

World appetite for energy and mineral resources seems insatiable. The study reveals that the natural reserve of fossil fuels represent 150 years (coal), 58 years (natural gas) and almost 46 years (oil) of consumption at current rates. The Ocean covers approximately 71% of the Earth's surface and full of abundant esoteric resources. This blue economy attracting greater interest for harnessing th…

Quantification of Acoustic Variability from ThermohalineFields in the Arabian…

Acoustic waves, when they propagate in water, exhibit fluctuations in their spectral characteristics due to multi-path and ocean medium variability, especially in coastal waters. Quantitative knowledge of these received signal fluctuations is essential to understand the randomness of acoustic wave propagation. Acoustic variability in the ocean can be attributed to various oceanographic proce…

Base line study for determination of effect of stacking sequence on Vibration…

An investigation of a conventional propeller made from composite materials was conducted in which its vibration characteristics were studied. Optimized designing of a composite propeller was performed for various constrained and unconstrained design objectives. Only symmetric ply stacking sequences were considered. Results show that the ply stacking sequence has an effect on the characteristics…

Downsides of Social Capital for Women During Disaster Recovery: Toward a More…

This article examines the downsides of social capital (networks of citizens) for women affected by disasters, an issue little understood in the public administration literature. Studying this issue is important due to women’s unique vulnerabilities and resilience in the face of isasters. Based on the case study of the epicenter of the August 17, 1999, earthquake in Turkey (in-depth interviews…

The Legitimacy of a Federal Commission as a Deliberative Democratic Process: …

In 2002, the Secretary of Education established a commission to examine ways to strengthen enforcement of the Title IX law and expand opportunities for school sports. This article examined the legitimacy of the commission in terms of realizing deliberative democratic process ideals. Interviews and document analysis revealed that degrees of legitimacy were reached in terms of representation, qua…

Global Social Policy Digest

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(2013), 13(1)

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DOI: 10.1177/1468018

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Global Social Policy 13(1) 100– 119, 2013

Judul Seri

Global Social Policy

No. Panggil

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Global social policy studies: Conceptual and analytical reflections

This article reviews the conceptual and analytical contribution of one strand of ‘global social policy studies’ since the mid-1990s. It outlines some of the strengths and weaknesses of the core conceptual basis of the approach acknowledging that the theoretical aspects have remained more implicit than explicit in many core texts. The article advances the case for using the ‘Agency, Struct…

Conceptualizing global social policy: Perspectives from the Global South

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13(1)

ISBN/ISSN

DOI: 10.1177/1468018

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Global Social Policy 13(1) 84– 99, 2013

Judul Seri

Global Social Policy

No. Panggil

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Contesting contestation: Global social policy prescriptions on pensions and h…

This article discusses the conceptualization of global social policy in its dimension of prescriptions on national social policy. By studying the global health systems discourse and comparing it to the discourse on pensions, the applicability and validity of common notions of contestation and struggle between global social policy actors and their ideas are discussed. On the basis of conceptu…

Institutions, discourse and welfare: Brazil as a distributional regime

This article aims at broadening the scope of global and regional social policy studies to include the ‘Global South’. A strategic-relational approach, based on a combination of the ASID framework with a historical-institutionalist approach to social and distributional policies, serves as point of departure. In the final section, the theoretical reflections are exemplified by an empirical ca…

The cultural construction of global social policy: Theorizing formations and …

Thinking about global social policy can take many paths, ranging from empirical studies to theoretical reflections, from in-depth investigations to conceptual clarifications. This article provides a cultural and constructivist perspective to the debate on how to theorize global social policy. The main argument of this article is that a combination of world society theory and discourse analys…

Managerial reforms, Public Service Bargains and top civil servant identity

In the past couple of decades, a wide range of managerial reforms have been witnessed in many OECD countries. These reforms may have significantly affected the identity of top civil servants. This change in identity may, in turn, have an impact on the performance of top officials, their roles, their views, their relations with political personnel and their expected competencies. Within a sample…

The success of an international development project: lessons drawn from a cas…

According to the literature on decisive criteria for the success of international development projects, this article presents a case of cooperation between Morocco and Canada on the Implementation of projects to institutionalize gender equality within the Moroccan public administration. Based on a triangulation of data and starting from an analytical framework on the factors decisive for the s…

Changing governance structures and the evolution of Public Service Bargains i…

The perspective of Public Service Bargains has been used to analyze the relationships between politicians and senior civil servants based on the premise of stable expectations about the roles of both parties. Changing governance arrangements and leadership changes, however, may destabilize and increase ambiguity about these expectations. Hong Kong provides a case of changing governance arrangem…

Explaining differences in ministerial me´nages a` trois: multiple bargains i…

While special advisers play an important role in most Western governments, the research on the subject is limited. This article aims to explain variations in the me´nage a` trois relationships between ministers, senior civil servants and special advisers in two different politico administrative systems. The theoretical starting point is to conceptualize and explain such trilateral relationship…

The evolution of Public Service Bargains of Australian senior public servants

The agreements between the Australian senior public service and the political executive have undergone several shifts during the reform era of the last thirty years. These have involved fundamental redefinitions of the role, responsibilities, identity and autonomy of the senior public servant.There has been a succession of challenges to the relationship focusing on the role and status of the pu…

New Public Management, Public Service Bargains and the challenges of interdep…

In this article we are interested in how the coordinating role of top civil servants is related to the argument that country-level differences in the adoption of New Public Management significantly alter the Public Service Bargains of top civil servants and consequently their capacity to accomplish interdepartmental coordination. A manager- ial PSB limits top civil servants’ role in interdepa…

Evolving public service bargains for top officials: some international compar…

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(2013), 79(1)

ISBN/ISSN

DOI: 10.1177/0020852

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nternational Review of Administrative Sciences 79(1) 3–8 , 201

Judul Seri

International Review of Administrative Sciences

No. Panggil

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Performance management systems for senior civil servants: how strong is the m…

During the past couple of decades we have witnessed important reforms in the public sector in OECD countries. Various forms of performance management systems have been introduced. This had an impact on the role and position of senior civil servants. The traditional public service bargain (PSB) came under pressure and was replaced by – at least partially – a managerial PSB. This article look…

Racial diversity, is it a blessing to an organization? Examining its organiza…

The present study, with a focus on ethnic and racial diversity, tested an implicit assumption of diversity studies that diversified workforces perform better and bring more benefits to organizations. Using data from 464 police departments of cities with more than 50,000 residents, this study found decreased crime control performance and increased employee turnover as workforces became more div…

Rethinking the ‘Public Service Bargain’: the changing (legal) position of…

It can be argued that because of the rise of New Public Management and the growing dominance of labor law and HRM practices, the so-called ‘traditional’ public law formulation of the position of civil servants has come under pressure in a number of Western European countries in recent decades and have shaken the ‘bargain’ agreed between the political and administrative leaders since the…

Rethinking Dispute Resolution in Public–Private Partnerships for Infrastruc…

Public–Private Partnership (PPP) has been a relatively successful model for infrastructure development in India. However, investment of private capital, especially foreign investment, is far from satisfactory keeping in mind the estimated investments of the Government under the XIth and XIIth plans. Several issues have been identified which include evolving a robust legislative framework and …

Scenario of Viability Gap Funding (VGF) Concept in Indian Infrastructure Proj…

Infrastructure is a key area since it provides the main thrust and impetus area in the growth of a developing nation like India. A major area of concern for sustaining the real gross domestic product (GDP) growth in India has been the lack of adequate infrastructure, which can support the growth process. The deplorably low levels of public investment have rendered India’s physical infrastruct…

What Role for Multilateral Development Banks in Project Finance? Some Thought…

This case study uses primary evidence from the Rift Valley Railways concession—a complex multinational rail concession originating from Mombasa (Kenya) and to Kampala (Uganda)—to discuss strategic roles of multilateral development banks in infrastructure project finance. We find that multilateral development banks were uniquely positioned to play the roles of advisor, honest broker, guarant…

Critical Issues Related to Metro Rail Projects in India

Rail-based ‘Mass Rapid Transit System’ has been widely accepted as a solution for most of the traffic and environmental pollution related problems which major cities throughout the world are facing now. Metro rail construction activities are being undertaken in a big way in India, existing metro rail network of the city of Kolkata and Delhi are being expanded, while it is under various stag…

Potential Pitfalls in PPP Policy Application: Lessons Learned from National H…

Successfully implementing public–private partnerships (PPP) depend on the establishment of effective policy and institutional frameworks. While such factors play a significant role, practitioners often face obstacles posed by other less visible, and often indefinable, factors. The purpose of this article is to identify such X factors which had delayed the delivery of the National Highway Deve…

A Modern Introduction to Quantum Field Theory

This book grew out of the notes of the course on quantum field theory that I give at the University of Geneva, for students in the fourth year. Most courses on quantum field theory focus on teaching the student how to compute cross-sections and decay rates in particle physics. This is, and will remain, an important part of the preparation of a highenergy physicist. However, the importance and …

A Handbook of Applied Biopolymer Technology Synthesis, Degradation and Applic…

Researchers are conducting active research in different fields of engineering, science and technology by adopting the 12 Principles of Green Chemistry and the inherent green methodologies to devise new processes with a view to help protect and ultimately save the environment from further anthropogenic interruptions and damage. With this in focus, this book provides an up-todate, coherently…

Flood Frequency Analysis of Tel Basin of Mahanadi River System, India using A…

Flood frequency analysis indicates the catchment characteristics, water availability and possible extreme hydrological conditions like floods and droughts at various locations of any river system. Such studies have been done in the past using long term annual maximum flood series for early warning, preparedness, mitigation and reduction of any kind of disasters. In the present study, Annual Max…