− There’re mainly two different situations for testing PLD (Programmable Logic Device) devices. One is testing of blank chips that haven’t been programmed; the other is testing of ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) devices that have been programmed. This paper presents a test method for programmed ASIC devices, including auto test and ATPG (Auto Test Pattern Generation) method for b...

THOUGH programmed learning is an educational technique which is gaining increasing acceptance In other spheres, its possible usefulness in medical education largely remains to be evaluated. The purpose of this investigation was to determine the relative efficiency of a teaching-machine course in electrocardiography and a series of conventional lectures on the same subject. In planning the exper...

In teaching mathematics the concept/concepts of function are very important, but also difficult. Thus, they are gradually introduced in the teaching process depending on the students’ age. The development of mathematics and education technologies allows different approaches for introducing students to these concepts as well as testing of their acquisition by students. The paper outlines the pos...

In pickup and delivery problems (PDPs), vehicles pickup and deliver a set of items under various constraints. We address the PDP with Transfers (PDP-T), in which vehicles plan to transfer items between one another to form more efficient schedules. We introduce the Very Large Neighborhood Search with Transfers (VLNS-T) algorithm to form schedules for the PDP-T. Our approach allows multiple trans...

BACKGROUND General practitioners (GPs) are confronted with a wide variety of clinical questions, many of which remain unanswered. METHODS In order to assist GPs in finding quick, evidence-based answers, we developed a learning program (LP) with a short interactive workshop based on a simple three-step-heuristic to improve their search and appraisal competence (SAC). We evaluated the LP effect...

L. Benjamin Wyckoff's seminal contributions to both psychological theory and application are the subject of this review. Wyckoff started his academic career as a graduate student at Indiana University, where he developed the observing-response procedure under the guidance of B. F. Skinner and C. J. Burke. At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wyckoff refined his mathematical theory of seconda...