The amount of information recorded in the prediction tables of the proposed address predictors turns out to be comparable to the current on-chip cache sizes; for instance, a last-address predictor that records 4.096 64-bit effective addresses uses a 32 Kbytes storage space. Area cost of address predictors is proportional to address width. To reduce their area cost, we will take advantage of th...

In this paper we explore whether a financialisation perspective can provide a more empirically satisfying account of recent developments in the pharmaceutical industry than the more commonly used resource-based or transaction cost approaches. Specifically, we note the evolution of the pharmaceutical industry structure from giant vertically integrated firms, selling patent protected blockbuster ...

There has been slow progress with finding practical solutions to health systems corruption, a topic that has long languished in policy-makers “too difficult tray.” Efforts to achieve universal health coverage (UHC) provide a new imperative for addressing the long-standing problem of corruption in health systems making fighting corruption at all levels and in all its for...