The collision of large-scale computational capabilities (multi-core) and system-scale integration (system-on-chip) have produced a landscape in which networks-on-chip are a central critical element of system design. However, the traditional approaches and requirements from these two communities are quite different with divergence in requirements of cost, regularity, power, methodology, compatib...

Rare diseases de!ned as conditions a"ecting less than 5:10,000 population (according to the de!nition used in European Union), refer to limited number of patients in Poland, Europe and in the USA, but the collective number of disorders is very large. Currently evaluated by Orphanet (the portal for rare diseases and orphan drugs, www. orpha.net) the number of identi!ed rare disease is over 7,000...

Societal pressure on the global land and freshwater resources is increasing as a result of the rising food demand by the growing human population, dietary changes, and the enhancement of biofuel production induced by the rising oil prices and recent changes in United States and European Union bioethanol policies. Many countries and corporations have started to acquire relatively inexpensive and...

increasing of fresh water consumption and consecutively drought periods caused reduction of renewable freshwater resources in recent years. one of the basic strategies to conquer this problem is using non-conventional water resources particularly reuse of polluted water. in this study, activated carbon derived from walnut shell was used as tertiary treatment. activated carbon powder was used in...

With the increase of the populations, resources are becoming scarcer, and a smarter way to make use of them becomes a vital necessity of our societies. On the other hand, resource management is traditionally carried out through well established organizations, policies, and regulations that are often considered as impossible to restructure. Our position is that merely expanding the traditional a...