This paper discusses how an animat can develop its internal representation according to the complexity of the interactions with its environment through its capabilities of sensing and acting. The complexity should be carefully increased so that the animat can develop its internal representation so as to accomplish a task at hand. A method for controlling the complexity is proposed for a vision-...

Power consumption of Very Large Scale Integrated (VLSI) circuits has been growing at an alarmingly rapid rate. This increase in power consumption, coupled with the increasing demand for portable/hand-held electronics, has made power consumption a dominant concern in the design of VLSI circuits today. Traditionally dynamic (switching) power has dominated the total power consumption of VLSI circu...

Scaling of single-gate MOSFET faces great challenges in the nanometer regime due to the severe shortchannel effects that cause an exponential increase in the sub-threshold and gate-oxide leakage currents. Double-gate FinFET technology mitigates these limitations by the excellent control over a thin silicon body by two electrically coupled gates. In this paper a variable threshold voltage keeper...

York House Hospice is another hospice started on a small scale and making great accomplishments in hospice care. This author worked for some time as a thanatologist with a hospital. When the hospital closed, the author determined to open a hospice for AIDS patients. York House Hospice is a paradigm of the hard work and spirit of hospice. Here is the story of its beginning.

1 Have you acquired a reptile in the last five years? please circle Y / N If yes, continue with questionnaire 2 What type of reptile keeper do you consider yourself to be? Tick one option a Private reptile keeper (those keeping reptiles for pleasure) b Private reptile breeder (those keeping and breeding reptiles mainly for pleasure) c Private reptile breeder (those keeping reptiles mainly for m...

A novel technique using a keeper with a simultaneous low supply voltage and low body voltage is proposed to improve the overall performance of high fan-in OR gates without modifying the physical dimensions of the keeper. Simulation results of a 16-input domino OR gate using 45 nm CMOS technology show that the proposed technique could trade off between a high power/speed efficient operation and ...