With the emergence of mobile computing and communication, low power device design and implementation have got a significant role to play in VLSI circuit design. Continuous device performance improvement has been made possible only through a combination of device scaling, new device structures and material property improvement to its fundamental limits.

The new name of the industrial game is continuous innovation. But what is continuous innovation? And how can we manage and organise for it? This article addresses these questions by, first of all, defining continuous innovation as the ability to combine operational effectiveness and strategic flexibility – exploitation and exploration – capabilities that have traditionally been regarded as anti...

The paper describes a methodology and a software system that support a particular form of learning (to learn) processes, namely Continuous Improvement (CI) processes. Continuous Improvement is the planned, organised and systematic process of ongoing, incremental and company-wide change of existing practices aimed at improving company performance (Boer et al.). Full-blown CI includes both vertic...

In the current industrial context, strategies intended to bring about continuous improvement have to include the multi-criteria performance expression aspects. In complex systems, many actions may be envisaged to achieve the required levels of performance. A fuzzy representation is used to model the relationships between objectives and actions. Mostly, the potential improvement actions are dist...

Individuals with attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD) often have coexisting developmental coordination disorder (DCD). The positive therapeutic effect of methylphenidate on ADHD symptoms is well documented, but its effects on motor coordination are less studied. We assessed the influence of methylphenidate on motor performance in children with comorbid DCD and ADHD. Participants were 3...