Transient algebra is a multi-valued algebra for hazard detection in gate circuits. Sequences of alternating 0’s and 1’s, called transients, represent signal values, and gates are modeled by extensions of boolean functions to transients. Formulas for computing the output transient of a gate from the input transients are known for NOT, AND, OR and XOR gates and their complements, but, in general,...

Abstract Background: There is further evidence of breast feeding benefits for mother and infant health. In some regions of the world the rate of exclusive breastfeeding during the first 6 months of infant’s life has been decreased. The most important factors associated with the problem are socio-economic variables such as maternal age, mother’s employment status, level of education, and infant...

Background & aim: Considering the important role of exclusive breastfeeding in the first six months of birth and its relation with sociocultural beliefs, this study was conducted to explore the factors affecting exclusive breastfeeding in the first six months of birth in women residing in Neyshabour, Iran. Methods:</stro...

Exclusive Quality – Why Exclusive Distribution May Benefit the TV Viewers* Sports organizations, Hollywood studios and TV channels grant satellite and cable networks exclusive rights to televise their matches, movies and media contents. Exclusive distribution prevents viewers from watching attractive programs, and reduces the TV-distributors incentives to compete in prices. This paper demonstra...

The eStream cipher proposal Trivium outputs an XOR sum of six internal state bits. These in turn are obtained from 18 bits linearly, plus six ANDings of two bits each. We show that 4 of the 18 linear terms cancel between themselves.

We establish several new results on Marton’s inner bound on the capacity region of the general broadcastchannel. Inspired by the fact that Marton’s coding scheme without superposition coding is optimal in the Gaussiancase, we consider the class of binary input degraded broadcast channels with no common message that have thesame property. We characterize this class. We also establish...

It is shown that complexity of implementation of prefix sums of m variables (i.e. functions x1 ◦ . . . ◦ xi, 1 ≤ i ≤ m) by circuits of depth dlog2 me in the case m = 2n is exactly 3.5 · 2 − (8.5 + 3.5(n mod 2))2bn/2c + n + 5. As a consequence, for an arbitrary m an upper bound (3.5 − o(1))m holds. In addition, an upper bound ( 3 3 11 − o(1) ) m for complexity of the minimal depth prefix circuit...

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Recent analyses of the LEP and Υ(4S) data have better outlined the picture of semileptonic B decays. Results on inclusive and exclusive decay branching fractions and on the extraction of the |V ub | and |V cb | elements of the CKM mixing matrix are discussed, together with some of the still open questions and the sources of model systematics.