Advanced microcontroller bus architecture (AMBA) is rapidly becoming the de facto standard for new system-on-chip (SoC) designs. The bus protocol is complex, making any peripherals that can interface to it valuable intellectual property (IP). This paper presents a lowpower bus encoding architecture which is able to deal with the complex advanced highperformance bus (AHB) protocol within AMBA, w...

Fluid models are powerful tools for evaluating the performance of packet telecommunication networks. By masking the complexity of discrete packet based systems, fluid models are in general easier to analyze and yield simple dimensioning formulas. Among fluid queuing systems, those with arrival rates modulated by Markov chains are very efficient to capture the burst structure of packet arrivals,...

user financial incentives (ufis) have emerged as a powerful tool for health promotion. strong evidence suggests that large enough incentives paid to individuals, conditional on behaviour they can control, encourages more of the desired behaviour. however, such interventions can have unintended consequences for non-targeted behaviours. implementation difficulties that result in individuals not u...

Agroecological transitions in the Global North are inhibited by cultural and legal norms of a ‘ownership model’ property that underpins agrarian capitalism. The resulting system limits asset transfers to agroecological regimes co-produces technologically oriented reforms. Scotland’s land reforms emergent interventions reshape ownership within Western context. By examining manoeuvres, mobilizing...

Abstract Despite its importance in various fields, analogical reasoning has not yet received a unified formal representation. Our contribution proposes general scheme of inference that is compatible with different types logic (deductive, probabilistic, non-monotonic). Firstly, assessment precisely defines the similarity two objects according to their properties, relative rather than absolute wa...

This article explores the resilience of orphaned young people in safeguarding physical assets (land and property) inherited from their parents and sustaining their households without a co-resident adult relative. Drawing on the concept of resilience and the sustainable livelihoods framework, the article analyses the findings of an exploratory study conducted in 2008-2009 in Tanzania and Uganda ...

Our aim is to study under what conditions the exact and numerical solution (based on equidistant nonrandom partitions of integration time-intervals) to a stochastic differential delay equation (SDDE) share the property of mean-square exponential stability. Our approach is trying to avoid the use of Lyapunov functions or functionals. We show that under a global Lipschitz assumption an SDDE is ex...