Network-on-Chips (NoC) are widely used in industrial applications since they provide communication parallelism and reduce energy consumption. The use of NoC has been recently extended to real-time systems, whose execution meet temporal constraints. Communication delays introduced by the network make scheduling analysis challenging. In this article, we propose a new model called ECTM . main goal...

The procedures for classical and operant conditioning, and for many timing procedures, involve the delivery of reinforcers that may be related to the time of previous reinforcers and responses, and to the time of onsets and terminations of stimuli. The behavior resulting from such procedures can be described as bouts of responding that occur in some pattern at some rate. A packet theory of timi...

Males and females of nearly all animals differ in their body size, a phenomenon called sexual size dimorphism (SSD). The degree and direction of SSD vary considerably among taxa, including among populations within species. A considerable amount of this variation is due to sex differences in body size plasticity. We examine how variation in these sex differences is generated by exploring sex dif...

In this paper, a dual perturb and combine algorithm is proposed which consists in producing the perturbed predictions at the prediction stage using only one model. To this end, the attribute vector of a test case is perturbed several times by an additive random noise, the model is applied to each of these perturbed vectors and the resulting predictions are aggregated. An analytical version of t...

Combining logics has become a rapidly expanding enterprise that is inspired mainly by concerns about modularity and the wish to join together tailor made logical tools into more powerful but still manageable ones. A natural question is whether it o ers anything new over and above existing standard languages. By analysing a number of applications where combined logics arise, we argue that combin...

two types of paddy combine harvester (head-feed and whole-crop) are commonly available in different widths in developed countries. the use of combine harvesters can greatly decrease labor costs and efficiency. combine harvesters have been introduced in several east asian countries (china, japan, south korea) to decrease costs, but their technical and economic performance has not yet been studie...