Defining and processing flexible queries is an important research topic in database area. We may distinguish two ways to support flexible querying in databases: (i) developing interface systems that allow queries in pseudo-natural language, or (ii) developing an extended SQL-like languages. In this paper, we have adopted this second approach. The objective of this paper is to introduce a concep...

− A number of Functional Size Measurement (FSM) methods have been proposed in the literature, but so far there has been no systematic evaluation of these methods. A major criticism is that little attention has been paid to the empirical validation of FSM methods. By empirical validation we refer to the evaluation of the efficacy of the method and its likely adoption in practice using experiment...

During fission yeast sporulation, a membrane compartment called the forespore membrane (FSM) is newly formed on the spindle pole body (SPB). The FSM expands by membrane vesicle fusion, encapsulates the daughter nucleus resulting from meiosis, and eventually matures into the plasma membrane of the spore. Although many of the genes involved in FSM formation have been identified, its molecular mec...

Power consumption in a synchronous FSM (Finite-State Machine) can be reduced by partitioning it into a number of coupled sub-FSMs where only the part that is involved in a state transition is clocked. Automatic synthesis of a partitioned FSM includes a partitioning algorithm and sub-FSM synthesis to an implementation architecture. In this paper, we first introduce an implementation architecture...

We address a problem of nding a nite state machine (FSM), which composed with a given FSM, satisses a given speciication. The composition we use is the standard synchronous automata composition restricted to cases which correctly model hardware interconnection. For the satisfaction relation, we use language containment. We present a procedure that will generate a solution (if one exists) which ...

Following from an adapted family stress model (FSM), we used two-wave, secondary data the Building Strong Families project, focusing on 4,424 primarily lower-income, unmarried couples expecting their first child together. We cross-lagged analyses to test directionality of associations among financial difficulties, depressive symptoms, destructive interparental conflict, and coparenting alliance...

Power dissipation is growing to be one of the most crucial parameter in the design of VLSI systems. Focusing the low power design of synchronous finite state machines (FSM) our paper presents a novel approach to reduce switching events by a profiling-based strategy. The idea of this strategy is to combine the deactivation of special self-loops with an appropriate state assignment. Analyzing the...

The paper presents a new two-step approach to FSM synthesis for PAL-based CPLDs that strives to find an optimum fit of an FSM to the structure of the CPLD. The first step, the original state assignment method, includes techniques of twolevel minimization and aims at area minimization. The second step, PAL-oriented multi-level optimization, is a search for implicants that can be shared by severa...

This study was carried out to investigate the effect of replacing fish meal protein with fermented soybean meal (FSM) in diets on growth performance, feed utilization, morphological parameters, body composition, activities of antioxidant and digestive enzymes and also blood biochemistry of juvenile olive flounder (Paralichthys olivaceus). Five isonitrogenic and isolipidic diets were prepare...