Power optimization has become an important factor in designing a VLSI circuit. Earlier dynamic power was single largest concern but as transistor size decreases static power dominates the dynamic power. A comparable analysis of different low power, leakage current reduction techniques like sleep, stack, sleepy keeper and reverse body bias with sleep and stack has been done. Based on simulations...

The role of the Soldier is not as strictly defined today, as it was in World War II. In place of battlefields, the Soldier is placed in roles from peace keeper to combat Soldier in collapsed first world counties to impoverished third world nations. This fogs the understanding of situations and the role the Soldier is to play in them. Within these changing and dynamic times, a Soldier’s situatio...

A consumer who purchases a product no longer deals with a local shop keeper, but makes a direct selection from the shelves of a supermarket or from the pages of a catalogue. When he buys gas, he uses a self service gas pump and pays his purchase with a credit card to an automated cashier. As a large part of today's service industry relies less and less upon direct human interaction, there is an...

1843, aged twenty, after being confined for a fortnight in Kensington House Asylum. He had been admitted with delusions that his bed was on fire, refusing to go to bed at night, and having on one occasion returned home naked. He had struck a keeper at Kensington House, but was normally tractable and good tempered. His attack was said to have begun six months previously, that is at about the sam...

Off-line beat trackers are often compared to human tappers who provide a ground truth against which they can be judged. In order to evaluate a real-time beat tracker, we have taken the paradigm of the ‘Turing Test’ in which an interrogator is asked to distinguish between human and machine. A drummer plays in succession with an interactive accompaniment that has one of three possible tempocontro...