There was a time – in the dim historical past – when foundries actually made ASICs with only 5000 to 50,000 logic gates. But FPGAs and CPLDs conquered those markets and pushed ASIC silicon toward opportunities with more logic, volume, and speed. Today's largest FPGAs approach the few-million-gate size of a typical ASIC design, and continue to sprout embedded cores, such as CPUs, memories, and i...

The languages of Vietnam reflect the historical migrations of prehistoric people groups as well as successive waves of cultural influence by world civilizations over many thousands of years. In addition to cultural spread, certain of Vietnam’s ethnicities also constitutes social mosaics in the sense of Renfrew (2000), growing and flourishing in place. The linguistic fabric of the nation is wove...

This paper presents an experimental study of the compression behavior of a typical warp-knitted spacer fabric which is specially developed as a cushioning material for human body protection. The fabric has a highly heterogeneous and discontinuous structure and exhibits a complicated compression behavior. Different test boundary conditions and sample sizes were first adopted to conduct compressi...

This paper presents an adaptive image segmentation method based on a new Regional Growing Pulse Coupled Neural Network (PCNN) model for detecting fabric defects. In this method, the pixels of analyzed image are mapped on the neurons in a pulse coupled neural network. Improved PCNN model and regional growing theory are combined in the light of the requirements for fabric defect detection. And th...

Sensory Fabric is a technology that uses electrically conductive textiles to fabricate switches and sensors. In this article we examine how a number of broad device types, or form factors, can be reconfigured or made more ubiquitous by replacing their traditional interface hardware with Sensory Fabric. The implications of using a fabric solution are explored for handheld and personal devices, e...

Abstract The facciata double meaning as façade and outer appearance embodies the Italian city-state’s political, cultural, social values that Leon Battista Alberti outlined in his famed De re aedificatoria libri decem (1485). This concept lies at heart of Florence’s urban fabric: one early cradles Renaissance architecture originated from artistic expenditure prosperous families including, Medic...

Malaysia's global, regional and bilateral international health relations are surveyed against the historical backdrop of the country's foreign policy. Malaysia has always participated in multilateral agencies, most notably the World Health Organization, as such agencies are part of the longstanding fabric of "good international citizenship". The threats of infectious diseases to human health an...

The clothing of Mexican indigenous origin is characterized primarily by the materials of which it is made, the type of fabric, the icons woven or embroidered therein and the colours applied in its composition. Defining their origin and visual identification based on the icons requires ethnographic, technical and historical knowledge. This work presents the analysis of images (icons) identified ...

The conventional wisdom on the accelerating rate of technological change is a truism, and might actually be truer than we realize. In many respects, the changes to the fabric of daily life witnessed during the years from 1801 to 1900 were more fundamental than those occurring during the subsequent century from 1901 to 2000. But the 19 century’s transformation was largely predicated upon politic...

Abstract—Fabric textures are very common in our daily life. However, the representation of fabric textures has never been explored from neuroscience view. Theoretical studies suggest that primary visual cortex (V1) uses a sparse code to efficiently represent natural images. However, how the simple cells in V1 encode the artificial textures is still a mystery. So, here we will take fabric textur...