Section 51 (xx): No Power of Incorporation

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ConnCensus Vol. 51 No. 3

PROSPECTS OF PREVENTION: A SYMPOSIUM (No. 51)

AT a time when the profession is coming under increasing criticism for its failure to influence significantly the ravages of our modern plagues while maintaining and increasing our interest in the newer and more sophisticated medical technologies, which in themselves play a relatively small part in the total promotion of health, this publication provides a most helpful and useful corrective to ...

XX Power Modeling in Database Management Systems

Data centers consume large amounts of energy. Since databases form one of the main energy sinks in a typical data center, building energy-aware database systems has become an active research topic recently. The quantification of the energy cost of database systems is an important task in designing such systems. In this paper, we report our recent efforts on this topic, with a focus on the power...

IMF Staff Papers, Vol. 51, No. 2

Well over a trillion dollars worth of state-owned firms have been privatized since 1980. The traditional argument is that governments choose to privatize in response to fiscal pressures. In this study, the authors examine the impact of IFI conditionality on privatization and find that IMF conditionality, in particular, has an important indirect economic benefit. Investors are willing to pay mor...