Nowadays, multimedia developed so quickly that we are overwhelmed by all sorts of images in our daily life, including the images on the billboard, internet websites, magazines as well as TV shows. However, some images are easily forgotten while others remain stable memory in people’s mind. As has been proved, images have inner characteristics that decide how memorable they are. So far, many dif...

Combinational equivalence checking (CEC) is a mainstream application in Electronic Design Automation used to determine the equivalence between two combinational netlists. Tools performing CEC are widely deployed in the design flow to determine the correctness of synthesis transformations and optimizations. One of the main limitations of these tools is their scalability, as industrial scale desi...

Spanish dry-cured ham is a high quality product whose economic value is mainly given by its curing time. An intense proteolysis takes place throughout the dry-cured processing, which results in the generation of a high amount of peptides and free amino acids responsible for the final quality of dry-cured hams. In this work, a peptidomics approach has been used to study the evolution of peptides...

Delivering an inadequate amount of light to a light-cured resin will result in a resin that is inadequately cured. This study measured the radiant exposure that students delivered to a simulated restoration to determine if instruction with immediate feedback increased the amount of light they delivered. The amount of light (radiant exposure in J/cm(2)) delivered to a simulated restoration by si...

Today concrete is most widely used construction material due to its good compressive strength and durability. Depending upon the nature of work the cement, fine aggregate, coarse aggregate and water are mixed in specific proportions to produce plain concrete. Plain concrete needs congenial atmosphere by providing moisture for a minimum period of 28 days for good hydration and to attain desired ...

in this paper, a combinational optimization algorithm is introduced to obtain the best size and location of static compensator (statcom) in power systems. its main contribution is considering contingency analysis where lines outages may lead to infeasible solutions especially at peak loads and it commonly can be vanished by load-shedding. the objective of the proposed algorithm is firstly to pr...

This paper presents accurate estimation of signal activity at the internal nodes of CMOS combinational logic circuits. The methodology is based on stochastic model of logic signals and takes correlations and simultaneous switching of signals at logic gate inputs into consideration. In combinational logic synthesis, in order to minimize spurious transitions due to nite propagation delays, it is ...

Recursive Learning (RL) is a circuit-structure-based method for computing all necessary assignments. Recursive learning technique can be combined with diierent CAD algorithms and techniques in testing, veriication and optimization. In particular, it is used for Automatic test pattern generation(ATPG) which has been applied to many areas of logic synthesis and formal veriication including combin...

A new method for estimating the glitching contribution to the power dissipation of multilevel combinational logic circuits based on complex-time cellular automata is presented for the first time. To bridge the gap between continuous time, in which the combinational logic circuits operate, and the discrete time, in which cellular automata operate, the concept of complex time is introduced. Both ...

Three types of experimental resin cements with different curing systems, dual, light, and chemical, were designed. The relationship between the flexural strengths of the three experimental and five commercial (Beauty Ortho Bond, Transbond™ XT, Light Cure Bond, Kurasper® F, and Super Bond) orthodontic resin cements on the tensile bond strength (TBS) and shear bond strength (SBS) of metal bracket...