Practical approaches for on-chip inductance extraction to obtain a sparse, stable and accurate inverse inductance matrix K are proposed. The novelty of our work is in using circuit characteristics to define the concept of resistance-dominant and inductancedominant lines. This notion is used to progressively refine a set of clusters that are inductively tightly-coupled. For reasonable designs, t...

This paper focuses on the interpretation of the Italian approximative adverb quasi ‘almost’ by primarily looking at cases in which it modifies temporal connectives, a domain which, to our knowledge, has been largely unexplored thus far. Consideration of this domain supports the need for a scalar account of the semantics of quasi (close in spirit to Hitzeman’s 1992 semantic analysis of almost). ...

Increased competition is making it difficult to distinguish products solely by attributes, creating room for cause-related marketing. In this study with a sample of 322 university students, we evaluated the changes in consumer attitudes toward cause and brand as consequences of Cause Brand Alliance (CBA), by using the product category as moderator. Four popular brands from two product categorie...

Reduction of complex protein networks models is of great importance. The accuracy of a passivity preserving algorithm (PRIMA) for model order reduction (MOR) is here tested on protein networks, introducing innovative variations of the standard PRIMA method to fit the problem at hand. The reduction method does not require to solve the complete system, resulting in a promising tool for studying v...

The second sentence on page 317 reads “The challenge is that, prima facie, it is hard to see how a negative truth, e.g., of something could be (or even needs to be) made true by the existence of some entity”. This sentence should read “The challenge is that, prima facie, it is hard to see how a negative truth, e.g., that is concerned with the non-e...

non-earthly matters are presumed invalid. In I Frederick Copleston, S.J., A History of Philosophy at pt. 4, 24-25 (1962), Father Copleston observes-with typical succinct brilliance-regarding the above passage from Aristotle: Thus if a patient who suffers from delirium tremens "sees" pink rats, the senses as such do not err; error arises when the patient judges that the pink rats are "out there,...