The objective of this dissertation is to investigate the effect of sibling structure on women’s and men’s socialization and achievement outcomes in three areas: housework performance, education, and occupation. Data from China and the United States are used for analyses. The findings indicate that the effect of sibling structure largely depends on the cultural and structural contexts in each so...

The purpose of this paper is to compare two different automatic code generating software tools and the suitability of each for the development of safety-critical real-time software systems. The tools used are Rhapsody and SCADE for Avionics. Rhapsody will generate software under ANSI C++ standards and guidelines, while SCADE for Avionics will produce DO-178B certifiable ANSI C++ software. A sim...

The multidimensional data association methods were developed to establish the relation between plots and tracks especially in dense target situations. However, even these advanced multidimensional data association methods lack in situations of unresolved measurement. Specifically, in real dense target situations being of most interest the phenomena of unresolvedplots happens quite often due to ...

In this paper we present the design of a wearable temperature sensing device for remote neonatal monitoring. It is designed for continuous and real-time monitoring of the infants in remote rural areas, for the first few weeks after their birth. It is capable of sensing the neonate’s skin temperature with 0.1◦ C accuracy to detect the early onset of hypothermia. The sensed data is transferred se...

This paper describes the specification-based testing and analysis tools, and associated processes, that were used to develop and certify safety-critical avionics systems in an industrial organization. These tools comprise an integrated development environment supporting specification acquisition and analysis, requirement-based automatic test vector generation, test coverage analysis, test drive...

In this paper we present the minimal software environment -SimParfor Multi-SIMD massivelv oarallel orocessine system (SPHINX machine). It ddsdribes thk paral lz process management at software levels, and introduces the programming style for parallel software design, named coprogramming. The presented results can be easily applied to design of any parallel system with Multi-SIMD or MIMD control.

This paper proposes a procedure for comparison of target tracking filters in cluttered environment, using simulated experiments. Important simulation issues, including track generation and retention across simulation runs and true track definition are discussed. False track discrimination is identified as an important target tracking filter performance measure. This measure has two components; ...

Consent ought to be required to withhold treatment that is in a patient's best interests to receive. Do not resuscitate (DNR) orders are examples of best interests assessments at the end of life. Such assessments represent value judgments that cannot be validly ascertained without patient input. If patient input results in that patient dissenting to the DNR order then individual physicians are ...

Phase field and diffuse interface are popular methods for the modeling and simulations of evolving interfaces. They do not track the interface explicitly, and are insensitive to topological events. In some areas of applications, detecting and controlling topological change may be important. In this talk, we discuss some recent works with current and former colleagues at Penn State (C. Liu, R. R...

This White Paper points out the most significant issues which can be encountered during DO-254 compliant verification process for FPGA designs. It proposes the methods of saving development time during the functional verification process, reusing the work done during RTL simulation and performing the in-hardware at-speed testing in target FPGA devices assuring at the same time a high visibility...