Will They Be Lost Again?

District general managers: who will they be?

Twelve of the 14 English regions have now appointed a general manager: a nurse, two treasurers, a medical administrator, and eight administrators. The next step in the process is to appoint district general managers. Many districts jumped the gunthey probably did not realise that there was going to be a formal start-and have interviewed and designated (some privately) their general manager. The...

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Will they come and will they stay?

Future networks-on-chip; will they be synchronous or asynchronous?

The purpose of the talk is to share some observations and to moderate a discussion of certain issues related to the implementation of networks-onchip (NoC). Future systems-on-chip (SoC) will contain a multitude of different IP-blocks and in order to support the communication between these blocks in a structured way, packet-switched networks-on-chip are expected to replace today’s bus-based solu...

Regional Trade Agreements in East Asia: Will They Be Sustainable?

Searching for sustainable regional trade agreements (RTAs) for East Asia, we quantitatively evaluated the likely impact of proposed East Asian RTA strategies─(i) the AFTA (a being-leftalone strategy), (ii) an ASEAN Hub RTA (a hub-and-spoke type of overlapping RTA strategy), (iii) the AFTA vs a China-Japan-Korea RTA (a duplicating or competing RTA strategy), (iv) an ASEAN+3 RTA (an expansionary ...