In light of the COVID-19 crisis, enthusiasm for a European Financial Transaction Tax (FTT) has been revitalised, driven by similar economic factors as decade before. As such, this essay offers timely exposition failures original FTT proposals bringing together academic literature on with that FTTs in general within larger framework international tax cooperation. By dissecting reasons f...

In this paper an architecture of a distributed embedded system, that offers the advantages of the Java programming model and the flexibility and timeliness of the Flexible Time-Triggered (FTT) paradigm, is presented. The architecture builds on previous work by the authors in which a simple mechanism to dispatch tasks and messages was proposed for CAN-based distributed systems. In order to overc...

Distance education, reaching students through accessible, high quality, individualized instruction is a major challenge for today’s universities. Increased access to computers and the Internet has made this idea more feasible, but researchers are still working on the most effective ways to deliver individualized instruction in inexpensive, expandable ways. This paper explores the evolution of t...

The electron-proton collider HERA is being upgraded to provide higher luminosity from the end of the year 2001. In order to enhance the selectivity on exclusive processes a Fast Track Trigger (FTT) with high momentum resolution is being built for the H1 Collaboration. The FTT will perform a 3-dimensional reconstruction of curved tracks in a magnetic field of 1.1 Tesla down to 100 MeV in transve...

This paper proposes a test-case design method for black-box testing, called “Feature Oriented Testing (FOT)”. The method is realized by applying Feature Models (FMs) developed in software product line engineering to test-case designs. We develop a graphical language for test-case design called “Feature Trees for Testing (FTT)” based on FMs. To firmly underpin the method, we provide a formal sem...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Cystic fibrosis (CF) in infancy and childhood is often associated with failure to thrive (FTT). This would suggest that in countries without a newborn screening program for CF, FTT could be used as a clinical screening tool. The aim of this study is to assess the diagnostic performance of FTT for identifying children with CF. METHODS Longitudinal length and weight measurements...

The HERA collider has recently been upgraded to produce a factor of approximately 5 more luminosity. In parallel, upgrades to the H1 detector and trigger have been necessary. One of the projects was the design of an improved Fast Track Trigger (FTT) which should replace the old track trigger and is based on the central drift chambers of the H1 experiment. This work describes the design and expe...

Francisella tularensis is composed of a number of subspecies with varied geographic distribution, host ranges, and virulence. In view of these marked differences, comparative functional genomics may elucidate some of the molecular mechanism(s) behind these differences. In this study a shared probe microarray was designed that could be used to compare the transcriptomes of Francisella tularensis...

We present a general discussion of the unitarity triangle from εK , ∆Md,s and K → πνν in models with minimal flavour violation (MFV), allowing for arbitrary signs of the generalized Inami–Lim functions Ftt and X relevant for (εK ,∆Md,s) and K → πνν, respectively. In the models in which Ftt has a sign opposite to the one in the Standard Model, i.e. Ftt < 0, the data for (εK ,∆Md,s) imply an abso...

One possible origin of prebiotic organic material is that these compounds were formed via Fischer-Tropsch-type (FTT) reactions of carbon monoxide and hydrogen on silicate and oxide grains in the warm, inner-solar nebula. To investigate this possibility, an experimental system has been built in which the catalytic efficiency of different grain-analog materials can be tested. During such runs, th...