Assertion remains strong

Myosin remains strong as muscle contracts

Myosin remains strong as muscle contracts A muscle held at fi xed length under a heavy load will contract rapidly if that load is suddenly decreased, reducing the force the muscle exerts as its velocity increases. During this contraction, what happens within the muscle fi ber? According to the prevailing model, all the myosin motors remain attached to actin fi laments, and the elasticity of ind...

Fragile-to-strong crossover in supercooled liquids remains elusive.

Transport properties of glass forming liquids change markedly around an onset temperature To. For temperatures T above To, these properties depend little with T , while for T < To these properties are super -Arrhenius – varying faster than exponentially in 1/T . Upon lowering temperature significantly further, theory [1] predicts that reversible transport in a supercooled liquid, if it can be o...

Understanding Assertion

Effective and Efficient Runtime Assertion Checking for JML Through Strong Validity

Previously, we presented an assertion semantics for JML based on “strong validity” in which an assertion is taken to be valid precisely when it is defined and true. Elsewhere we have shared our positive experiences with the realization and use of this new semantics in the context of ESC/Java2. In this paper, we describe the challenges faced by and the redesign required for the implementation of...

Native SystemC Assertion mechanism with transaction and temporal assertion support

SystemC [1] is rapidly becoming the language of choice for ESL-centric design methodologies. It is set to become the framework for higherlevel flows above today’s RTL, and has three key components: modeling, synthesis and verification. High-level modeling particularly demonstrates the language’s versatility and advantages. Strong progress is also being made in higher-level synthesis. However, o...