Revisiting Egypt's Energy Policy

Evaluating and revisiting the public government: a policy feedback perspective

Existing models of quality evaluation in public sector are mainly derived from the approaches within private sector. These models which represented by the New Public Management (NPM) paradigm, don&rsquot reflect the fundamental values of public administration, which are the very essence of the discipline and contrasting it from private sector. These core values, such as democratic citizenship, ...

Revisiting stochastic off-policy action-value gradients

Off-policy stochastic actor-critic methods rely on approximating the stochastic policy gradient in order to derive an optimal policy. One may also derive the optimal policy by approximating the action-value gradient. The use of action-value gradients is desirable as policy improvement occurs along the direction of steepest ascent. This has been studied extensively within the context of natural ...

Energy Efficiency and Energy Policy

Revisiting Stack Caches for Energy Efficiency

With the growing focus on energy efficiency, it is important to find ways to reduce energy without sacrificing performance. The L1 data cache is a significant contributor to processor energy consumption. We advocate treating data from the program’s stack differently from non-stack data to reduce energy. We characterize stack accesses to determine how they differ from general memory accesses in ...

Revisiting Energy Release Rates in Brittle Fracture

We revisit in a 2d setting the notion of energy release rate, which plays a pivotal role in brittle fracture. Through a blow-up method, we extend that notion to crack patterns which are merely closed sets connected to the crack tip. As an application, we demonstrate that, modulo a simple meta-stability principle, a moving crack cannot generically kink while growing continuously in time. This la...