Area estimation of I layouts has -:come an important requirement for early design and top-down chip planning tools. Especially the relation of area and aspect ratio (shape function) is necessary for chip planning. Statistical models have been published with good results for standard cell blocks with near unity aspect ratios. This paper describes a new model for the prediction of shape functions...

The new paradigm of aspect-oriented programming demands new modularization techniques in the early phases of software development, i.e. requirements analysis and architectural design. Especially during the requirements analysis phase, there is a potential for conflicts between the introduced aspect-oriented paradigm and traditionally postulated qualities that must be fulfilled by a requirements...

Two patients with penile skin loss who were operated in 1991 are reviewed retrospectively. In both of them skin grafting was mandatory (due to large skin defects on the penile shaft). Causative factors were localized infection in one case and verrucae accuminata in another. In both cases a random flap from the skin of the inner surface of the thigh was applied. The pedicle flap was later t...

Digging into the history of motivation research, we deduced that, the investigations have targeted individuals’ performance as the overt indication of this invisible drive. Yet, it is hypothesized that there exists a variation of motivation which does not lead to a certain action and is only confined to one’s mental engagement with a concept or activity. To further explicate, we put forward a d...

This paper presents the newly released Lancaster Corpus of Mandarin Chinese (LCMC), a Chinese match for the FLOB and Frown corpora of British and American English. We first discuss the major decisions we took when building the corpus. These relate to sampling, text collection, mark-up, and annotation. Following from this we use the corpus to study aspect marking in Chinese and British/American ...

In this paper, we demonstrate our tool Aspect-jEdit that supports the editing of inline aspects. Inline Aspects identify a new aspect oriented notation, which supports the editing of aspects in their context with the help of hyperplane visualization. Aspect-jEdit uses the concepts of aspect folding in order to depict all possible aspect hyperplanes.