0474 In Oxfam’s experience, disasters are profoundly discriminatory, even those that are “natural” rather than man-made. Factors that were present before a disaster, such as poor social conditions, mean that some people in the disaster zone will be more affected than others. People living in poverty are much more vulnerable to the effects of natural disasters. As women account for 70% of the 1....

∗ Supported by Spanish Government Grant CICYT TIC-99 0474 Abstract We present a new algorithm to improve the scheduling of heterogeneous specifications, i.e. those formed by operations of different types and widths. The scheduling is performed basically in two phases: first, the specification operations are transformed into new ones by extracting their common operative kernel, and secondly, the...