`Intrinsic' Hardware Evolution is the use of artiicial evolution | such as a Genetic Algorithm | to design an electronic circuit automatically, where each tness evaluation is the measurement of a cir-cuit's performance when physically instantiated in a real reconngurable VLSI chip. This paper makes a detailed case-study of the rst such application of evolution directly to the connguration of a ...

Most implementations of IP security are deeply entwined in the source of of the protocol stack. However, such source code is not readily available for MS-DOS systems. We implemented a version using the packet driver interface. Our module sits between the generic Ethernet driver and the hardware driver; it emulates each to the other. Most of the code is straightforward; in a few places, though, ...

Pervasive computing environments will combine everyday physical spaces with network aware devices and services; hence providing computing behaviour that is much more entwined with the environments we inhabit. Within such environments, a nomadic user will own and make use of many services attached to, and organised around, physical space. This study introduces the concept of a personal operating...

This paper suggests a new integrative perspective on business – IT alignment as IT is becoming entwined with almost all business functions. As a consequence, the strategic value of IT is decreasing and IT is becoming a commodity. Therefore, we argue that the IT strategy domain in the Strategic Alignment model can be merged with business strategy and propose processes as the mediator between bus...

Making a program robust is often a recipe for making it ugly: the core logic becomes hopelessly entwined with error handling, and quickly dwarfed by it. The concerns are hard to separate, since error checking may depend on earlier bits of core logic, and the core logic may assume error-free input. In this pearl we show, through two distinct but related examples, how to wield first-class control...

rF he name of Dr. Charles E. Smith is closely entwined with the modern history of coccidioidomycosis. His early reports1 ’2delineated the endemic area of coccidioidomycosis, the epidemiologic aspects, the life history of the fungus C. immitis, the importance of dust control, the use of coccidioidin, and the development of accurate serologic procedures. He noted that military recruits and travel...

In the title mol-ecular salt [systematic name: triethylammonium 5-(2,4-dinitrophenyl)-2,6-dioxo-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyrim-idin-4-olate], C(6)H(16)N(+)·C(10)H(5)N(4)O(7) (-), the cation and anion are linked by an N-H⋯O hydrogen bond. In the crystal, inversion-related barbiturate rings are centrosymmetrically connected through pairs of N-H⋯O hydrogen bonds, forming R(2) (2)(8)R(2) (2)(8) ring motifs.

THE ASYMMETRIC UNIT OF THE TITLE COMPOUND [SYSTEMATIC NAME: 9,10-dimeth-oxy-7-methyl-6,7,7a,8-tetra-hydro-5H-benzo[g][1,3]benzodioxolo[6,5,4-de]quinoline], C(20)H(21)NO(4), contains two independent mol-ecules with very similar bond lengths and angles. The crystal packing exhibits voids of 131 Å(3).