Public higher education institutions (HEIs) are experiencing circumstantial changes due to increasing financial pressure, higher autonomy and diversified actors on an increasingly challenging "market". These changes have led to forms of "entrepreneurial behavior" in public HEIs, such as franchising arrangements,…

The common practice of using 30-year sub-samples of climatological data for describing past, present and future conditions has been widely applied, in many cases without considering the properties of the time series analyzed. This paper shows that this practice can…

In this thesis we explore how to utilize a loop cache to relieve the unnecessary pressure placed on the trace cache by loops. Due to the high temporal locality of loops, loops should be cached. We have observed that when…