Almost all publications in mathematics and natural sciences are originally created using LaTeX. This format has many advantages, especially concerning the retrieval of information. Moreover, given a LaTeX-document, one can easily obtain the corresponding dvi-, psor pdf-file and it is possible to generate almost every custom format. In contrast to its importance, however, the LaTeX-format has be...

At present, the most common genetic diagnostic method for chimerism evaluation following hematopoietic stem cell transplantation is microsatellite analysis by capillary electrophoresis. The main objective was to establish, through repeated analysis over time, if a complete chimerism was present, or if the mixed chimerism was stable, increasing or decreasing over time. Considering the recent int...

| This paper presents a fast and eecient algorithm to estimate the area cost of a given RTL datapath. This is achieved by considering the physical length of components (provided by a component library) and connections data (given by the datapath description) within an actual layout model and using analytical formulas in a constructive algorithm. Our layout estimator uses a non-probabilistic bas...

This paper investigates the degradation in diagnosability of bridging faults caused by situations of active feedback and logically unresolvable intermediate values under different fault modeling assumptions. The experimental results show that active feedback may reduce the fault coverage by as much as 7% for stuck-at test sets and realistic bridging fault sets. A test generation method for full...

This paper presents the vision-based road detection system currently operative onto the MOB-LAB land vehicle. Based on a full-custom low-cost massively parallel system, it achieves real-time performances (' 17 Hz) in the processing of image sequences, thanks to the extremely eecient implementation of the algorithm. Assuming a at road and the complete set of acquisition parameters to be known (c...

Recent years, offshore outsourcing has received large amount of attention from both industry and academia because of its attractive advantages such as cost reduction, talent access. As an alternative way to implement information systems in operation management, offshore insourcing has been greatly overlooked. Though organizations shun from the contractual obligations in offshore insourcing, the...

Modern AC drives require a fast digital realization of many mathematical operations concerning control and estimator’s algorithms, which are time consuming. Therefore developing of custom built digital interfaces as well as digital data processing blocks and sometimes even integration of ADC converters into single integrated circuit is necessary. Due to the fact that developing an ASIC chip is ...

Custom has generally defined the standard of care in medical malpractice claims against physicians. Nevertheless, commentators and courts have been reluctant to hold the practice of complementary and alternative medicine ("CAM") by physicians to be a per se breach of the standard of care even though CAM is by definition not customary. Despite this inconsistency, there has been little discussion...

Application specific instruction set processors (ASIPs) can be optimized both for speed and power taking advantage of the flexibility of a synthesized semi-custom implementation. The current case study evaluates the effect of datapath and instruction set optimization using two examples from terrestrial digital video broadcasting (DVB-T) acquisition and tracking algorithms. Starting from a conve...