Even though system-on-chip (SoC) testing at multiple voltage settings significantly increases test complexity, the use of a different shift frequency at each voltage setting offers parallelism that can be exploited by time-division multiplexing (TDM) to reduce test length. We show that TDM is especially effective for small-bitwidth and heavily loaded test-access mechanisms (TAMs), thereby tangi...

Data rate requirements of backhaul connections for wireless base transceiver stations (BTSs) continue to increase, while the cost of available Gigabit Ethernet connections decreases. As a result, IP/Ethernet backhauling has become a prime choice for new installments. However, for the hundreds of thousands of basestations deployed with time-division multiplexed (TDM) connections (E1/T1), carrier...

Invasive fungal infections cause significant morbidity and mortality in patients with concomitant underlying immunosuppressive diseases. The recent addition of new triazoles to the antifungal armamentarium has allowed for extended-spectrum activity and flexibility of administration. Over the years, clinical use has raised concerns about the degree of drug exposure following standard approved dr...

This paper describes the integration of Amazon Alexa with the Talkamatic Dialogue Manager (TDM), and shows how flexible dialogue skills and rapid prototyping of dialogue apps can be brought to the Alexa platform. 1. Alexa Amazon’s Alexa 1 is a spoken dialogue interface open to third party developers who want to develop their own Alexa ”skills”. Alexa has received a lot of attention and has brou...

An elderly woman with human immunodeficiency virus-1 infection developed short bowel syndrome as a result of extensive intestinal resection. Considering the possibility of poor absorption of antiretroviral drugs (ARVs), therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) was performed. A single-dose test of 6 ARVs (darunavir, ritonavir, lopinavir, etravirine, maraviroc, and raltegravir) did not provide informati...

BACKGROUND Therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) is a useful tool for preventing Adverse Drug Events related to patient variability or inappropriate dosing. Typical physicians find proper interpretation of monitoring data difficult, however.' Patient follow-up by TDM experts is an effective method of improving TDM utilization, but the cost of having such a service track all patient visits across an...

Declarative approaches to process modeling are regarded well suited for highly volatile environments as they provide a high degree of flexibility. However, problems in understanding and maintaining declarative process models impede their usage. To compensate for these shortcomings, Test Driven Modeling (TDM) has been proposed. This paper reports on an empirical investigation in which TDM is vie...

The use of frequency-domain interleaving on a frame-byframe basis for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) combined with time division multiplexing (OFDM/TDM) is presented. In conventional OFDM, FDE is not designed to exploit the channel frequencyselectivity and consequently, the frequency diversity gain cannot be obtained. To further improve the bit error rate (BER) performance of...