The European Union is at a critical juncture in its history, not only in relation to the proposed constitution and planned enlargement, but also with respect to engagement with health and social issues. This publication provides an overview of health policy development within the European Union and the implications for Finnish health policies. Health is currently on the agenda in several sphere...

The most common practice to model the transistor chain, as it appears in CMOS gates, is to collapse it to a single equivalent transistor. This method is analyzed and improvements are presented in this paper. Inherent shortcomings are removed and an effective transistor width is calculated taking into account the operating conditions of the structure, resulting in very good agreement with SPICE ...

An energy-efficient distributed Scratchpad Video Memory Architecture (dSVM) for the next-generation parallel High Efficiency Video Coding is presented. Our dSVM combines private and overlapping (shared) Scratchpad Memories (SPMs) to support data reuse within and across different cores concurrently executing multiple parallel HEVC threads. We developed a statistical method to size and design the...