The delay of on-chip interconnect wiring is having an important influence on the timing performance of logic path. This is particularly true where drivers are connected through non-negligible length of wire. If the Elmore resistance-capacitance delay model remains popular due to its simple formulation, limitations have been shown in submicrometer domain due to the inability of a so simple model...

Much of the methodological literature currently influential in the education policy community has focused on research studies and assessments intended to support generalizable conclusions about “what works” or what students “know and can do.” Until recently, far less attention has been paid to how educators actually interpret and use this information in making routine decisions in their local c...

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A pair of significant earthquakes occurred on conjugate faults in the western Imperial Valley involving the through-going Superstition Hills fault and the Elmore Ranch cross fault. The first event was located on the Elmore Ranch fault, Ms = 6.2, and the larger event on the Superstition Hills fault, Ms = 6.6. The latter event is seen as a doublet teleseismically with the amplitudes in the ratio ...

Fast delay estimation methods, as opposed to simulation techniques, are needed for incremental performance driven layout synthesis. On-chip inductive effects are becoming predominant in deep submicron interconnects due to increasing clock speed and circuit complexity. Inductance causes noise in signal waveforms, which can adversely affect the performance of the circuit and signal integrity. Sev...

Our proposal aims to develop and validate the next generation of on-line, formative assessment tools necessary for middle and high schools to establish the conditions for improving student learning. In today’s high-stakes accountability world, school and district leaders need guidance to design the kinds of school environments that improve student learning. Elmore (2002) explained that instruct...

tions by automating them. Automated intervention ensures treatment fidelity over time and across multiple schools and settings in a way that human instruction cannot. Automated tutoring is consistent whether studied in smallor large-scale implementations—a key property for scalability. That is, contextual factors may affect the amount of tutoring (implementation intensity), but not the interven...

Multiple sociodemographic factors affect cancer care patterns, including age, sex, race or ethnicity, insurance status, household income, level of education, and usual source of health care1–9. Timeliness of care (that is, rapid initiation of treatment after definitive diagnosis) is a key component of high-quality cancer treatment. For many types of cancer, timely treatment after diagnosis can ...

This paper presents a new algorithm for timingdriven cell placement using the notion of movable Steiner points that capture the net topology. The proposed algorithm improves the timing closure at the backend of the EDA design flow. Unlike conventional flows that perform placement and routing in two separate steps and use rough estimates of the net lengths during placement, our algorithm uses ac...