As the most quantitative measures of VLSI performance have improved by many orders of magnitude and it has been achieved by the unabated scaling of the sizes of MOSFETs. However, scaling also exacerbates fault, noise and reliability issues, thus posing new challenges in digital circuit design and system. Reliability becomes a major concern due to many and often correlated factors, such as param...

Osteoarthritis of the knee (kOA) is a disease that mainly affects the elderly and can lead to major physical and functional limitations. However, the specific effects of walking, particularly on the immune system, are unknown. Therefore, this study aimed to analyze the effect of 12 weeks of walking (3×/week) on the leukocyte profile and quality of life (QL) of elderly women with kOA. Sixteen wo...

A qualitative location (QL) refers to the reference of a spatial location using linguistic terms such as qualitative descriptions and qualitative spatial relations with other geo-referenced features. Qualitative locations will be increasingly more popular in the future, driven by theoretical, technological, and database developments. Multiplicity and uncertainty are two innate characteristics o...

Objective. To compare the effects of applying Extra-Corporal Shockwave treatment (ESWT) and Muscle Energy Technique (MET) to Quadratus lumborum (QL) with regards pain function. Methods. 77 participants were included in this study. Patients if they diagnosed as Myofascial syndrome, localized on QL muscle; surrounding tightness; tenderness; painful trigger points, causing referred around QL. Outc...

If X̃ is a Calabi–Yau threefold defined over Q, and p is a good prime (i.e., a prime such that the reduction of X̃ mod p is nonsingular) then the map Frob∗p : H i ét(X̃,Ql) −→ H i ét(X̃,Ql) on l–adic cohomology induced by the geometric Frobenius morphism gives rise to l–adic Galois representations ρl,i : Gal(Q/Q) −→ GLbi(Ql). If a Calabi–Yau threefold X̃ is rigid (i.e., h(X̃) = 0 or equivalently b(X̃)...

This addendum to [2] shows that the set of tautological quantum logical propositional formulas for a finite dimensional vector space C is different for every n, affirmatively answering a question posed therein. The paper [2] explored the properties of Birkhoff and Von Neumann’s propositional quantum logic (see [1]) as modelled by finite dimensional Hilbert spaces. One question asked in [2] is w...

Quality of life outcome (QOL) on dialysis is important. We determined the measurement properties of Spitzer's QL-index, a QOL measure, in our patients on chronic haemodialysis. The QL-index measures 5 dimensions of QOL (activity, daily activities, general health, social support and psychological outlook). 59 haemodialysis (HD) patients from 2 centres were rated by 5 raters. Inter-rater agreemen...

Let X be a smooth curve over a finite field of characteristic p , let l 6= p be a prime number, and let L be an irreducible lisse Ql -sheaf on X whose determinant is of finite order. By a theorem of L. Lafforgue, for each prime number l 6= p , there exists an irreducible lisse Ql′ -sheaf L ′ on X which is compatible with L , in the sense that at every closed point x of X , the characteristic po...

Directed neuroblast and neuronal migration is important in the proper development of nervous systems. In C. elegans the bilateral Q neuroblasts QR (on the right) and QL (on the left) undergo an identical pattern of cell division and differentiation but migrate in opposite directions (QR and descendants anteriorly and QL and descendants posteriorly). EGL-20/Wnt, via canonical Wnt signaling, driv...