WHO signals intent to trim sails

WHO signals intent to trim sails.

a time of substantial change for the World Health Organization (WHO), which plans on initiating reforms to improve its leadership, increase cooperation between member states and become more efficient and transparent. Though the proposals for reform have only been described in broad strokes thus far, one thing is certain: It all begins with money. “This WHO debate about reform has been going on ...

Relativistic Light Sails

One proposed method for spacecraft to reach nearby stars is by accelerating sails using either solar radiation pressure or beamed lasers. This idea constitutes the thesis behind the Breakthrough Starshot Initiative, which aims to accelerate a gram-mass spacecraft up to one-fifth the speed of light towards Proxima Centauri. For such a case, the spacecraft’s low mass and relativistic terminal vel...

As the ship sails forth.

This concluding article comments on what we learned from the conference, what we still need to know, and what we need to do now. It describes what participants said about the impact of the conference and the follow-up steps that have been taken so far. In terms of what we learned, there was agreement on the importance of culture in understanding literacy and health literacy; the importance of c...

To TRIM or Not to TRIM: Judicious TRIMing for Solid State Drives

Fig.1(a): Files A and B initially exist in file system and SSD Fig.1(b): Two different (file system and SSD) viewpoints after file system overwrites file A with A’ and deletes file B Fig.1(c): Pages (B1, B2, and B3) in SSD are not removed even after garbage collection Fig.1(d): Changes to SSD as TRIM is first issued in Fig.1(b) and then, garbage collection performed in SSD ⌘ FTL takes note that...

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