and my brother Kiran, for their constant prayers and encouragement throughout my life. I am very grateful to my advisor Dr. A. Srivastava for his guidance, patience and understanding throughout this work. His suggestions, discussions and constant encouragement have helped me to get a deep insight in the field of VLSI design. Departments, for supporting me financially during my stay at LSU. I am...

This paper adds to the growing number of studies about mobility and wellbeing in later life. It proposes a broader understanding of mobility than movement through physical space. Drawing on the ‘mobility turn’ in the social sciences, we conceptualise mobility as the overcoming of any type of distance between a here and a there, which can be situated in physical, electronic, social, psychologica...

Although the death of a child is without doubt one of the most distressing events imaginable, when it occurs in suspicious circumstances, such as at the hand of a parent or close family member, its effects are often more acute and incomprehensible. This paper presents an exploratory study comparing the cognitive and emotional stressors experienced by police when investigating child and adult ho...

Human performance will be a critical factor in future long duration exploration missions in space, for instance to Mars. In addition to physical risks in a hazardous environment, crew face social and sensory deprivation in a confined, isolated habitat. A key paradigm affecting the mission will be the crew’s autonomy. How can the spacecraft itself support psychological wellbeing through meaningf...

This paper provides the results of experimental evaluation of effectiveness of pair-wise testing. We consider a non-traditional area of pair-wise testing application, namely using pair-wise approach for testing logical expressions. A tool has been developed for experimental numerical investigation. This tool generates faults of various specific types and applies the previously derived test sets...