New synthetic routes are presented to derivatives of a (known) M8L12 cubic coordination cage in which range different substituents attached at the C4 position pyridyl rings either end bis(pyrazolyl-pyridine) bridging ligands. The (i) –CN groups (new ligand LCN), (ii) –CH2OCH2–CCH (containing terminal alkyne) LCC); and (iii) –(CH2OCH2)3CH2OMe (tri-ethyleneglycol monomethyl ether) LPEG). resultin...

Abstract Software verification has recently made enormous progress due to the development of novel methods and speed-up supporting technologies like SMT solving. To keep software tools up date with these advances, tool developers on integrating newly designed into their tools, almost exclusively by re-implementing method within own framework. While this allows for a conceptual re-use methods, i...

Although most modern monolithic solid state operational amplifiers (op-amps) are internally compensated, externally compensated units provide an invaluable degree of freedom to analog designers. As a result, these op-amps offer true 'general purposeness,' since allowing the user to choose the amplifier's compensation can drastically improve performance in many applications. This thesis proposes...

A growing body of literature clearly shows typical LD children have trouble directing their attention to the central features of an externally-provided task. Further, LD children perceive the consequences surrounding their behavior to be more externally-controlled than does the average learner. This inactive, externally-controlled learning style is well documented. Further research needs now to...