Objective The study applies an adapted Family Stress Model (FSM) to analyze the relationship between child material deprivation and intra-family conflict about money using a nationally representative survey of children in England 2018. Background standard FSM holds that poverty is experienced by parents who, turn, impact children. Drawing on new social studies childhood, authors posit model doe...

A fast fault-tolerant controller structure is presented, which is capable of recovering from transient faults by performing a rollback operation in hardware. The proposed fault-tolerant controller structure utilizes the rollback hardware also for system mode and this way achieves performance improvements of more than 50% compared to controller structures made fault tolerant by conventional tech...

A fast fault-tolerant controller structure is presented, which is capable of recovering from transient faults by performing a rollback operation in hardware. The proposed fault-tolerant controller structure utilizes the rollback hardware also for system mode and this way achieves performance improvements of more than 50% compared to controller structures made fault tolerant by conventional tech...

Although functional size measurement (FSM) methods give roughly similar results, they’ve been designed neither to measure the same attribute nor to use the same rating scale. Consequently, when measured using different methods, a software product has different functional sizes. Each method has its own definition of functionality and uses different counting schemas for different func­ tional use...

Power gating is often used to reduce power of a system which is in the form of a finite state machine (FSM). Power gating can be applied to turn OFF the inactive sub-machine which is obtained after partitioning the FSM by gating the supply voltage. Adjustment of supply voltage of one submachine for ON to OFF or OFF to ON state needs time, called wakeup time which affects the partitioning of FSM...

In current practice, the design is still based on the sequential design methodology, which makes the process or manufacture information not considered at the preliminary design stage. In addition, the quality of design and the time to perform them are largely dependent on the experience of the engineers. Casebased design is an intelligent method which involves retrieving the most similar previo...

Fluorescent speckle microscopy (FSM) is a new imaging technique with the potential for simultaneous visualization of translocation and dynamic turnover of polymer structures. However, the use of FSM has been limited by the lack of specialized software for analysis of the positional and photometric fluctuations of hundreds of thousand speckles in an FSM time-lapse series, and for translating thi...

Software testing is an investigation conducted to provide stakeholders with information about the quality of the product or service under test. Software testing also provides an objective, independent view of the software to allow the business to appreciate and understand the risks of software implementation. Model-based testing refers to the processes and techniques for the automatic derivatio...

We present a model for scheduling power generation at a wind farm, and introduce a particle swarm optimization algorithm with a small world network structure to solve the model. The solution generated by the algorithm defines the operational status of wind turbines for a scheduling horizon selected by a decision maker. Different operational scenarios are constructed based on time series data of...

An automated analysis of all reachable states in a distributed system can be used to trace obscure logical errors that would be very hard to find manually. This type of validation is traditionally performed by the symbolic execution of a finite state machine (FSM) model of the system studied. The application of this method to systems of a practical size, though, is complicated by time and space...