Until recently, VLSI designers rarely considered yield issues when selecting a floorplan for a newly designed chip. This paper demonstrates that for large area VLSI chips, especially those that incorporate some fault tolerance, changes in the floorplan can affect the projected yield. We study several general floorplan structures, make some specific recommendations, and apply them to actual VLSI...

The production of agricultural commodities faces increased risk of pests, diseases and other stresses due to climate change and variability. This study assesses the potential distribution of agricultural pests under projected climatic scenarios using evidence from the African coffee white stem borer (CWB), Monochamus leuconotus (Pascoe) (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae), an important pest of coffee in...

Two statistical downscaling models, the non-homogeneous hidden Markov model (NHMM) and the Statistical Down–Scaling Model (SDSM) were used to generate future scenarios of both mean and extremes in the Tarim River basin,which were based on nine combined scenarios including three general circulation models (GCMs) (CSIRO30, ECHAM5,and GFDL21) predictor sets and three special report on emission sce...

This paper employs a large-scale overlapping generation model quantifying that demographics account for decrease in the natural real interest rate of about 1.4 percentage points euro area compared with average 1980s to 2030 (roughly at its trough), under baseline calibration. Two channels prevail providing downward impact: increasing scarcity effective labor input and growing willingness indivi...

The ontogeny of suction feeding performance, as measured by peak suction generating capacity, was studied in the common snook, Centropomus undecimalis. Suction pressure inside the buccal cavity is a function of the total expansive force exerted on the buccal cavity distributed across the projected area of the buccal cavity. Thus, the scaling exponent of peak suction pressure with fish standard ...

physical characteristics of agricultural products are the most needed parameters in the design of grading, handling, processing and packing systems. among physical characteristics; dimensions, mass, volume, projected area as well as surface area are the important factors in sizing systems. for an assessment of morphological and physical characters in walnut, four genotypes of sizable kernels, l...