Synchronous hardware design is facing significant challenges as we push for higher clock speeds and more complex chips. Aside from the incredible task of optimizing designs year after year, physical properties of circuits at the current scale and speed are becoming major roadblocks. For example, skew associated with high-fanout clock signals put a great burden the designer by increasing design ...

Reconfigurable resources are more and more envisaged inside System-on-Chip designs for facing with embedded computing power constraints. Moreover, a high level of flexibility of such platforms is required and can only be achieved with embedded software and real-time operating systems (RTOS) services. Unfortunately, this leads to very complex and heterogeneous platforms that cannot be easily val...

Dendritic polymers have attracted a great deal of scientific interest due to their well-defined unique structure and capability to be multifunctionalized. Here we present a comprehensive overview of various dendrimer-based nanomaterials that are currently being investigated for therapeutic delivery and diagnostic applications. Through a critical review of the old and new dendritic designs, we h...

The closing panel of the conference included senior interface architects and designers from several major hardware and software vendors. The panelists briefly outlined recent interface challenges facing their companies and products, including those related to large-scale computer deployments. Lively audience discussion followed the panelists’ presentation, which focused on the trade-offs betwee...

This paper evaluates four explanations for industrial facilities' incorporation of environmental considerations in their product designs (i.e., "green design"): organizational opportunity, organizational resources, cost reduction, and environmental regulatory pressure. Initial analyses of facility-level workplace practice and environmental data support all four explanations. Facilities vigorous...

One of the greatest problems facing luxury goods firms in a globalizing market is that of counterfeiting. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the different types of counterfeiting that take place in the fashion industry and the ethical issues raised. We argue that the problem partly lies in the industry itself. Copying of designs is endemic and condoned, which raises several ethical dilemma...

Molecular imaging using high-resolution PET instrumentation has a pivotal role in basic and clinical research. The development of optimized detection geometries combined with high-performance detector technologies and compact designs of PET tomographs has become the goal of active research groups in academic and corporate settings. More recently, the introduction of dual-modality PET/CT imaging...

This research forum addresses the question: what is the nature of the mathematical knowledge that is needed for secondary teaching? Six international contributors respond by making two claims (one related to an area where progress in research has been made and the other related to dilemmas facing researchers): preparing teachers, teaching practice, and research designs and methodologies. This s...

Transparent near-eye displays are shipping now for augmented reality applications. In addition to these applications, they promise a private display safe from shoulder surfing. Multiple researchers in the security and HCI communities have proposed systems building on the assumption these displays are private [14, 23, 24]. Unfortunately, this assumption is not always true. We find multiple shipp...

Starting in 2009, MTU began combining the properties of its existing successful submarine solutions for all customers’ submarine designs with new market requests from submarine building shipyards. The resulting product specification was then augmented with the modern submarine requirements (partly described on the following pages). In 2011, the detailed concept study for these functional and pe...