Nacrtak For sanitary reasons, spruce trees affected by bark beetles (Ips typographus L.) should be removed out of the stand as soon as possible, to avoid the propagation of the beetles to healthy trees. One possibility, to utilize the accruing crown material in a reasonable way (instead of burning it) could be, to use it as wood-chips for biomass heating plants. The aim of this project was ther...

Acrylamide (AA) is a chemical found in starchy foods that have been cooked at high temperatures. The objective of this study is to monitor the levels of AA in a total of 274 samples of potato chips, chips (except potato chips), biscuits, French fries, breakfast cereals, chocolate products, tea, seasoned laver, and nut products sampled in Korean market. These processed foods include (1) potato c...

Platform chips, which are pre-designed chips possessing numerous processors, memories, coprocessors, and field-programmable gates arrays, are becoming increasingly popular. Platforms eliminate the costs and risks associated with creating customized chips, but with the drawbacks of poorer performance and energy consumption. Making platforms highly configurable, so they can be tuned to the partic...

We describe a solution for physically obfuscating the representation of a cipher, to augment chips resistance against physical threats, by combining ideas from masking techniques and Physical Obfuscated Keys (POKs). With embedded chips – like RFID tags – as main motivation, we apply this strategy to the representation of a Linear Feedback Shift Register (LFSR). The application of this technique...

IDDQ test loses its effectiveness for deep sub-micron chips since it cannot distinguish between faulty and fault-free currents. The concept of current ratios, in which the ratio of maximum to minimum IDDQ is used to screen faulty chips, has been previously proposed. However, it is incapable of screening some defects. The neighboring chips on a wafer have similar fault-free properties and are co...

DNA sequencing is an important technology for the determination of the sequences of nucleotides that make up a given DNA fragment. In view of the limitations of current sequencing technology, it would be advantageous to have a DNA sequencing method that provides the sequences of long DNA fragments and is amenable to automation. Sequencing by Hybridization (SBH) is a challenging alternative to t...

Networking has been proven in the computer system arena to be an extremely effective means of managing parallel communication flows in distributed systems. By distilling the most applicable concepts from this domain and by applying them in a way that suits the constraints of semiconductor design, Networks-on-chip (NoCs) have been proposed as the communication backbone for large-scale integrated...

The present conditions of classroom instruction to numbers of children still too large to be adequately handled, makes it nearly inevitable that the problem of educafor teachers of backward children should become largely a question of measuring abilities, testing attainments and organising children into more homogeneous grades; and within those grades, diagnosing and treating by individual meth...

......Broad social and economic trends are challenging the semiconductor industry to adapt to the next generation of systems and services. Computing continues to migrate from desktops and notebooks to mobile devices and the cloud. Social media and multimedia growth will drive further consumer demand for wireless bandwidth. The emerging machineto-machine communication network known as the Intern...