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Can a bank crisis break your heart?

BACKGROUND To assess whether a banking system crisis increases short-term population cardiovascular mortality rates. METHODS International, longitudinal multivariate regression analysis of cardiovascular disease mortality data from 1960 to 2002 RESULTS A system-wide banking crisis increases population heart disease mortality rates by 6.4% (95% CI: 2.5% to 10.2%, p < 0.01) in high income cou...

1 Memory Bank Predictors

Cache memories are commonly implemented through multiple memory banks to improve bandwidth and latency. The early knowledge of the data cache bank that an instruction will access can help to improve the performance in several ways. One scenario that is likely to become increasingly important is clustered microprocessors with a distributed cache. This work presents a study of different cache ban...

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Wake up your patients!

In 1998, Thomas L. Petty expressed his concern about deep sedation and suggested a new link between sedation and severe complications.(1) His phrasing emphasized that it is not the underlying disease, but the physicians themselves that cause the gloomy situation he experienced in his intensive care unit (ICU). As more evidence supporting his theory has emerged, Petty’s editorial seems even more...