Course: ECE 257A – Fault-Tolerant Computing, University of California, Santa Barbara, Fall 2006, Enrollment Code 49585 Catalog entry: 257A. Fault-Tolerant Computing. (4) PARHAMI. Prerequisite: ECE 154. Lecture, 4 hours. Basic concepts of dependable computing. Reliability of nonredundant and redundant systems. Dealing with circuit-level defects. Logic-level fault testing and tolerance. Error det...

BACKGROUND Thyroid carcinoma is a common endocrine tumor in the dog. Local invasive growth frequently precludes surgical excision and, in up to 38% of dogs, the tumor has already metastasized by the time of diagnosis. Therefore, it is important to investigate new treatment modalities that may be useful for the large number of dogs with inoperable tumors or metastatic disease. HYPOTHESIS/OBJEC...

This study develops a passive fault-tolerant control (FTC) method with weak conservatism for the discrete parameter system. For first time, application of (0-1) and symbolic parameters describing system is given. In addition, relationship between domain strategy feasible set discussed. paper mainly discusses significance intersection sets FTC. Moreover, suggestion that can be constructed in abs...

We estimate the effect of initial episodes under fixed-term contracts (FTCs) on job duration in the further course of the employment spell, using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) from 1985 to 2002. Using a statistical matching approach, we find that job exit rates are initially much higher if the employment spell began with an FTC. However, exit rates fall below those of compara...

PURPOSE Definite diagnosis of follicular thyroid carcinoma (FTC) is based on the presence of capsular or vascular invasion. To date, no reliable and practical method has been introduced to discriminate this malignant neoplasm from follicular thyroid adenoma (FTA) in fine needle aspiration biopsy material. Matrix metalloproteinase-2 (MMP-2), by degrading extracellular matrix, and caspase-3, by i...