Many claims are being made about the advantages of conducting surveys on the Web. However, there has been little research on the effects of format or design on the levels of unit and item response or on data quality. In a study conducted at the University of Michigan, a number of experiments were added to a survey of the student population to assess the impact of design features on resulting da...

The problem of optimal design of the assembly lines is considered. The paper is especially focused on the line balancing and resource planning step for the preliminary design stage. A survey of existing methods and software tools are given. Copyright © 2002 IFAC

Design automation or computer-aided design (CAD) for field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) has played a critical role in the rapid advancement and adoption of FPGA technology over the past two decades. The purpose of this paper is to meet the demand for an up-todate comprehensive survey/tutorial for FPGA design automation, with an emphasis on the recent developments within the past 5–10 years....

broached is through identifying respondents who have separated recently and then collecting information about their past retrospectively. This is problematic because of recall problems and because of the likely contamination of response as a result of the separation. Objective analyses of the impact of marital separation require data collected preand post-separation, which in turn require longi...