Design-for-test (DFT) is essential to ensure that complex designs can be thoroughly tested. Testing demands continue to increase as designs grow in gate count and fabrication process technologies evolve. Fortunately, advances in DFT techniques have avoided major design requirements and restrictions for test. In fact, some approaches have reduced the impact of test on designs. Structured DFT tec...

Rounding linear programs using techniques from discrepancy is a recent approach that has been very successful in certain settings. However this method also has some limitations when compared to approaches such as randomized and iterative rounding. We provide an extension of the discrepancy-based rounding algorithm due to Lovett-Meka that (i) combines the advantages of both randomized and iterat...

This paper describes an event dissemination algorithm that implements a topic-based publish/subscribe abstraction in mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs). Our algorithm relies on (1) the mobility of the processes and (2) the validity period of the events to ensure the reliability of the dissemination (under reasonable conditions) with a thrifty usage of the memory. The algorithm is inherently portab...

This paper proposes a new lock-based concurrent binary tree using a methodology for writing concurrent data structures. This methodology limits the high contention induced by today’s multicore environments to come up with efficient alternatives to the most widely used search structures. Data structures are generally constrained to guarantee a big-oh step complexity even in the presence of concu...

We discuss how to implement an " environmentally friendly " renormalization in the context of finite temperature field theory. Environmentally friendly renormalization provides a method for interpolating between the different effective field theories which characterize different asymptotic regimes. We give explicit two loop Padé resummed results for λφ 4 theory for T > T c. We examine the impli...

Many programs have named configuration options. If users misunderstand what an option does, or type the name wrong, the program will malfunction. These malfunctions are configuration errors and often result in error messages. Even when an error message is uniquely caused by a particular problem, it may not tell the user how to proceed. Bad error messages are a major problem in configuration deb...

The rapidly expanding fields of pharmacogenomics and pharmacodiagnostics have presented the pathology laboratories with many challenges and opportunities. As custodians of patient tissues, these laboratories are in the logical position to perform biomolecular testing for proper management of patients. In order to meet these challenges, the pathology laboratories of the twenty-first century shou...

Gfi-1 also dampens the cells’ tendencies toward the Th17 and T reg cell lineages. Gfi-1 inhibited production of IL-17 and blocked the expression of CD103, which is found on certain T reg cells. In a model of autoimmunity, mice that lacked Gfi-1 developed a preponderance of CD103expressing T reg cells, thus delaying the onset of disease. The protein prevented gene expression by binding to loci i...