Dentistry: The Errant Branch. Shall Medicine Re-adopt It?

Ubiquitous Computing: Shall we Understand It?

Pervasive or ubiquitous computing has become an aspiration of the computing community in the last 15 years. Its vision, pioneered by Mark Weiser [1], is that populations of computing entities—hardware and software—will become an effective part of our environment, performing tasks that support our broad purposes without our continual direction, thus allowing us to be largely unaware of them. The...

Ask, and it shall be given you.

OUR Lord returns here in the Sermon on the Mount a second time to speak of prayer. The first time He had spoken of the Father who is to be found in secret, and rewards openly, and had given us the pattern prayer (Matt. vi. 5-15). Here He wants to teach us what in all Scripture is considered the chief thing in prayer: the assurance that prayer will be heard and answered. Observe how He uses word...

Knock and it shall be opened...

Branch Path Re-Aliasing

Deeper pipelines improve overall performance by allowing more aggressive clock rates, but some performance is lost due to increased branch misprediction penalties. Ironically, with shorter clock periods, the branch predictor has less time to make a prediction and might have to be scaled back to make it faster, which decreases accuracy and reduces the advantage of higher clock rates. We show how...

Ennals Errant

Christian Action recently published a 'league table' of local authority performance in providing after-care hostels for those discharged from hospitals for the mentally ill. So far, since the 1959 Mental Health Act, only about 2,500 beds have been provided for the whole of England and Wales. (15) headed the provincial league with Lewisham (20) taking first place in the metropolitan league. The ...