Most of today’s high-level synthesis tools offer a fixed set of interfaces to communicate with the outer world. A direct integration of custom IP in the datapath would often be more beneficial than an integration using such communication interfaces. If a certain interface protocol is not offered by the tool, either translation blocks (wrappers) are needed or the code should be written at a lowe...

Web amenities are integrated software components for the support of interoperable machine to machine interaction over a network. Some previous problems are 1) earlier approaches are not succeed to consider the QoS variation according to users locations; and 2) earlier recommender systems are all black boxes it just takes input from user and provide different amenities that provide incomplete or...

Custom-tailored designs have attracted increasing attention from both consumers and manufacturers due to increasingly intense market competition. We propose verify a method for custom designing swimming goggles that is suitable use on the Internet. Twenty-five points representing head features were first identified, relationship between these size of confirmed. The correct position photography ...

The goal of this study was to investigate the use of custom-made orthopedic shoes (OS) and the association between the use of OS and the most relevant aspects of their usability. Over a 6-month period, patients meeting the inclusion criteria were recruited by 12 orthopedic shoe companies scattered throughout the Netherlands and asked to complete a questionnaire composed of a pre- and post-OS se...

A broad range of materials have been described for sternal reconstruction in order to guarantee not only the best preservation of respiratory mechanics, but also adequate mediastinal protection and acceptable cosmetic results. Today, titanium implants are preferred by many surgeons because of their optimal features. As a step forward, tridimensional (3D) laser sintering printing techniques allo...

Aim: Cranioplasty implants are used primarily in cases of surgical cranial decompression following pathological elevations of intracranial pressure. Available bone substitutes include porous hydroxyapatite (HA) and polymethylmethacrylate. Whichever material is used, however, prosthetic cranial implants are susceptible to intraand postsurgical complications and even failure. The aim of this stud...

Framework development involves many challenges, from a technical as well as a managerial point of view: reuse documentation, proliferation of versions, effort estimation, delta analysis, architectural drift. Several of these challenges are not, or scarcely, addressed by current OOA/OOD methodologies nor by the framework literature. We elaborate on the experiences we had with building a framewor...

INTRODUCTION Laryngeal stenosis has various causes and treatment options. Endoscopic resection of the stenotic part with CO2 laser is one of the treatment options of laryngotracheal stenosis. Keels are useful for preventing adhesion formation, restenosis and web formation, which may happen during the later stage. They can be put in place either via the endoscopic approach or through a micro thy...

1 Jack Rockart was the senior editor accepting this paper. Portions of this paper are adapted from a previously published teaching case study: Ives, B., G. Piccoli, “Custom-made Apparel and Individualized Service at Lands’ End,” Communications of the Association for Information Systems, (11:3), January 2003. 2 In mid-2002, Sears acquired Lands’ End. rugby shirts. Stressing quality and value rat...

The case describes a hugely successful example of IT-driven strategy, the Lands’ End custom tailored apparel initiative. In less than a year, 40% of Lands’ End customers buying chinos and jeans from the firm’s web site were buying tailored products. Over 20% of these customers never made a purchase over the web before. The case explores mass customization and web-based customer service initiati...