When I was asked to speak here today on what the future holds for general purpose ATE designed to test complex systems on a chip (SoCs).....I immediately thought of this guy. Does anyone recognize him? This is Isaac Newton who when asked why gravity worked the way it did. .....said, “Hypotheses non fingo” Can anybody here translate this Latin phrase?............... I guess there are no lawyers,...

In a world where the ecological walls literally are closing in on us, the recent combination of world-system analysis and ecological economics provides a novel way to address one of the most pressing contradictions of global capitalism: the uneven distribution of natural resources and environmental burdens. As two scholarly strands sharing several conceptual overlaps, the biophysical lens of ec...

2 Agnostic Learning We will proceed without making any assumptions on the distribution PXY . This situation is often termed as Agnostic Learning. The root of the word agnostic literally means not known. The term agnostic learning is used to emphasize the fact that often, perhaps usually, we may have no prior knowledge about PXY and f∗. The question then arises about how we can reasonably select...

The current healthcare debate has brought up basic questions about how medicine should work. On one hand we have the medical establishment, with its enormous cadre of M.D.s, medical schools, Big Pharma, and incredibly expensive hospital care. On the other, we have the semi-condoned field of alternative medicine that attracts millions of patients a year and embraces literally thousands of treatm...

Nowadays, we find the idea of a miasma old-fashioned but it was widely used in Hahnemann’s time. Diseases that were thought to be caused by miasma included cholera, dysentery, leprosy, malaria (which literally means “bad air”), bubonic plague, and pulmonary tuberculosis. Miasma was understood to be “a dangerous, foreboding, or deathlike influence or atmosphere” – the “contamination” or “polluti...

We agree that an RCT cannot be compared with a retrospective analysis. However, we do not agree on the note of natural selection bias. On the contrary, we believe that our analysis is completely unbiased because literally all patients admitted for bifurcation stenting in the year 2013 were included. In a randomised controlled trial with strict inclusion and exclusion criteria, the population is...

In this paper we describe an approach for model-based realtime synchronization. We present an extension of the EMFStore platform which allows multiple collaborators to connect to each other directly via peer-to-peer and to synchronize changes on model instances with each other in real-time. With this approach we allow users to collaboratively work literally on the same model instance. We argue ...

The Israel Penn International Transplant Tumor Registry is literally the world's premier repository of information on patients who have developed malignancies after organ transplants. The administrators of the Registry not only collect information but also provide consulting services based on the accumulated knowledge that the Registry contains. By creating a secure Web-based front end, we have...

Programming by example (PBE) literally means making “programs” from examples, but PBE techniques are also useful for automating text composition tasks by creating editing procedures from the history of a user’s editing operations. Composition by example (CBE) is a practical approach to improve the efficiency of text composition tasks using various simple PBE techniques. Thousands of people are ...

India -"Hindustan" literally means the land of Hindus. It is a secular nation since 1950. Officially, there is no place for religious, cultural or caste segregation in the society. However, the framers of the Indian Constitution decided to give special benefits to the backward classes and women by forming a reservation policy that was included in the Constitution itself. This paper tries to loo...