This chapter provides the first comprehensive overview of hardware integrated circuits (IC) protection by metering. Hardware metering, or IC metering refers to mechanisms, methods, and protocols that enable tracking of the ICs post-fabrication. Metering is particularly needed in the horizontal semiconductor business model where the design houses outsource their fabrication to (mostly offshore) ...

Examined digestive tracts of the red drum in Mississippi Sound contained mostly decapod crustaceans. Crustaceans accounted for 34 of 59 encountered taxa, more than reported from any other region. Nevertheless, the general diet for 104 fish with food contents out of the 107 examined is similar to that reported for red drum in several other studies from other areas. In addition to crustaceans, fi...

This publication presents a method for the automatic detection and classification of three distinct drum instruments in real world musical signals. The regarded instruments are kick, snare and hi-hat as agreed by the participants of the contest category Audio Drum Detection within the 2nd Annual Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange (MIREX 2005). There are two challenging issues inher...

Metal-doped boron clusters provide new opportunities to design nanoclusters with interesting structures and bonding. A cobalt-doped boron cluster, CoB18-, has been observed recently to be planar and can be viewed as a motif for metallo-borophenes, whereas the D9d drum isomer as a motif for metallo-boronanotubes is found to be much higher in energy. Hence, whether larger doped boron drums are po...

The purpose of this paper is to review the essential definitions, roles and characteristics of communication on metering system. We discuss measurement, data acquisition and metrological control of a signal sensor from dynamic metering system. After that, we present instruments of sensor communication with more detailed discussions to the reference standards and the important fundamental parame...

Many factors influence the quality of turbine meter flow measurement. Recognizing these factors allows a user to optimize the flow measurement performance of a turbine metering system. In order to ensure that turbine meters in the field are operating at their best, turbine metering stations must be properly designed, calibrated, installed, and maintained on a regular basis. This paper explains ...

Drum kits consist of various kinds of percussion instruments. As all percussion instruments are large and heavy, they are inconvenient for drummers to carry and set up. Virtual drums, which include motion sensors and enable drummers to imitate playing drums by stroking a virtual drum, are highly portable. However, drummers, who are used to playing real drums, have difficulty in demonstrating th...

In the recording of movement by means of a lever on a smoked drum, the use of a frontal writing point offers certain advantages. The lever is normal to the curve of the drum surface and terminates in a small hinge, which is tangential to this curve and supports the actual writing point. The latter usually has two arms projecting below and above the A hinge, the upper one being ibent back at an ...

The paper discusses the features of the Biomass Boiler drum water level. Conventional PID Control System can not reach a satisfaction result in nonlinearity and time different from Biomass Boiler Drum Water Control System. In this study, a kind of fuzzy self-adaptive PID controller is described and this controller is used in biomass boiler’s drum water level control system. Using the simulink t...

A metering scheme is a method by which an audit agency is able to measure the interaction between clients and servers on the web during a certain number of time frames. Naor and Pinkas 7] considered metering schemes in which any server is able to construct a proof to be sent to the audit agency if and only if it has been visited by at least a number, say h, of clients in a given time frame. In ...