BACKGROUND The active recruitment of health workers from developing countries to developed countries has become a major threat to global health. In an effort to manage this migration, the 63rd World Health Assembly adopted the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel in May 2010. While the Code has been lauded as the first glob...

This paper presents a treegion-based global scheduling technique for wide issue VLIW/EPIC processors. A treegion is a single-entry/multiple-exit global scheduling scope that consists of basic blocks with control-flow forming a tree. We propose a two-phase approach to global scheduling within a treegion scope that enables speculative code motion in the first phase and uses predication of all ins...

Unified Parallel C (UPC) extends the C programming language (ISO C 99) with explicit parallel programming support for the partitioned global address space (PGAS), which provides a global memory space with localized partitions to each thread. Like its ancestor C, UPC is a low-level language that emphasizes code efficiency. The absence of dynamic (and static) safety checks allows programmer overs...

EUTERPE is a Lagrangian or particle-in-cell (PIC) gyrokinetic code for the simulation of fusion plasma instabilities. The aim of this code is to address global linear and nonlinear simulations of fusion plasmas in threedimensional geometries, in particular in stellarators. EUTERPE, like other gyrokinetic codes, is at the forefront of plasma simulations and requires a huge amount of computationa...

setback in elevation of a structure is a special irregularity with considerable effect on its seismic performance. this paper addresses multistory reinforced concrete (rc) frame buildings, regular and irregular in elevation. several multistory reinforced concrete moment resisting frames (rcmrfs) with different types of setbacks, as well as the regular frames in elevation, are designed according...