In this paper, a curriculum for an introductory digital electronics course using VHDL based on a custom designed development board is presented. The development board is centered on the ispM4A CPLD. The development of the CPLD teaching aid is the direct result of collaboration between engineering faculty at Hochschule Harz (University of Applied Studies and Research) in Wernigerode, Germany and...

GUODONG XIE,* LONG LI, YONGXIONG REN, HAO HUANG, YAN YAN, NISAR AHMED, ZHE ZHAO, MARTIN P. J. LAVERY, NIMA ASHRAFI, SOLYMAN ASHRAFI, ROBERT BOCK, MOSHE TUR, ANDREAS F. MOLISCH, AND ALAN E. WILLNER Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, USA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, UK NxGen Partners,...

It could have been worse. "There are a lot of doctors, especially in some of the more litigious specialties, who just can't afford this coverage," says John W. Miller II, a principal at Sterling Risk Advisors in Marietta, GA. But the danger of rolling the dice and going bare, he says, is "potential bankruptcy down the road." Ironically, that's less likely to be the result of any actual judgment...

BACKGROUND Manganese (Mn) plays a vital role in brain growth and development, yet excessive exposure can result in neurotoxicity. Marietta, Ohio, is home to the nation's longest-operating ferromanganese refinery, and community concern about exposure led to the development of the research study. OBJECTIVES Our overall goal was to address the community's primary research question: "Does Mn affe...

A major difference between reptile and mammalian herbivores is that the former do not masticate their food. Actually, food particle size reduction by chewing is usually considered one of the adaptations facilitating the higher metabolic rates of mammals. However, quantitative comparisons of ingesta particle size between the clades have, to our knowledge, not been performed so far. We measured m...

Abstract The prehensile-tailed skink Corucia zebrata is endemic to the Solomon Islands. It most traded reptile from country. During 2000–2019, CITES reported legal export of 10,567 individuals. Although level this trade well documented, impacts on skink's survival in its native range are comparatively unknown. January–May 2020, we surveyed 146 people 12 islands collect information habitats pref...

Believable Agents must be able to handle a large number of goals, opportunistically acting on them while maintaining a focus of purpose. They also must be able to operate over long life times without signiicant performance degradations. We describe in this paper a method of managing an agent's goals so that the agent can make progress on as many goals as possible, without spending undue time co...

It is hypothesized that labor availability and related low levels of demand for women in agricultural work explain the high incidence of nuclear family formation in some Caribbean slave societies, as well as occasional high birth rates. Three paired comparisons, reflecting differing levels of labor supply, are examined: The Leewards and the Bahamas; Martinique and Barbados; and Cuba and Jamaica...