Historically, egg-bound reptile embryos were thought to passively thermoconform to the nest environment. However, recent observations of thermal taxis by embryos of multiple reptile species have led to the widely discussed hypothesis that embryos behaviorally thermoregulate. Because temperature affects development, such thermoregulation could allow embryos to control their fate far more than hi...

Model-based testers design tests in terms of models, such as paths in graphs. Abstract tests cannot be run directly because they use names and events that exist in the model, but not the implementation. Testers usually solve this mapping problem by hand. Model elements often appear in many abstract tests, so testers write the same redundant code many times. This is time-consuming, labor-intensi...

A novel full design and test generation system with combined High-Level Synthesis (HLS) and automated Hierarchical Test Pattern Generation (HTPG) was developed and experimented in cooperation between Linköping University and Tallinn Technical University. The high-level synthesis is based on an internal model of Extended Timed Petri Net (ETPN) representations. In the test generator both, registe...

This paper proposes a behavioral-level test pattern generation algorithm for behavioral VHDL descriptions. The proposed approach is based on the comparison between the implicit description of the fault-free behavior and the faulty behavior, obtained through a new behav-ioral fault model. The paper will experimentally show that the test patterns generated at the behavioral level provide a very h...

Presence, the impression of being existent in artificially created places, is an important factor for achieving maximum experience in virtual environments (VEs) and hence in their use for experiments or therapy. To date, most clinical studies have used selfreport questionnaires or physiological measures to appraise the degree of presence. Some studies that have tested behavioral scales have use...

Introduction: Peripheral nerve injury leads to neuropathic pain syndromes and different sensation like allodynia and hyperalgesia. Different animal models of neuropathic pain are used to study the neuropathic pain mechanisms. The present study was performed on two models, (SNI). The purpose of this study was comparing the behavioral responses of yhese two models and the role of saphenous and...

Behavioral thermoregulation represents an important strategy for reducing energetic costs in thermally challenging environments, particularly among terrestrial vertebrates. Because of the cryptic lifestyle of aquatic species, the energetic benefits of such behaviors in marine endotherms have been much more difficult to demonstrate. In this study, I examined the importance of behavioral thermore...

background : obesity and over weight is one of the causes of threatening children's present and future life. one of the factors that cause this problem is parents' attitude toward preschool children's nutritional patterns. education can improve the parents’ attitude and prevents from this big issue. this study aimed to assess changes in mother's attitude and behavioral intention using intention...

We propose an integrated approach to generate test cases from UML sequence and activity diagrams. We first transform these UML diagrams into a graph. Then, we propose an algorithm to generate test scenarios from the constructed graph. Next, the necessary information for test case generation, such as method-activity sequence, associated objects, and constraint conditions are extracted from test ...