Digital signage design should be clean and simple, yet attractive. Display only the most important messages. As a rule of thumb, each layout should have a limitation of ten to fifteen words that a viewer will have to read. The viewer should be able to comprehend single-image layouts within five seconds and a series of layouts within eight to ten seconds. Using multiple layouts allows word count...

INTRODUCTION: The appropriate-use optimization of the limited spaces of the Iranian hospitals is believed to be a crucial step towards promoting the efficiency of these healthcare centers. The issue determining the optimization patterns of the layout of units has led to a lot of efforts by researchers as it increases the efficiency of the hospitals through patients’ improvement, changing the lo...

In this article, we describe the implementation of a Soft-Output Viterbi Decoder for an eight-state duo-binary code. This decoder is to be used in a turbo-decoder for convolutional codes. The implementation was made with the Synopsys environment and targeted a 0.18 m technology. The layout obtained has a working frequency of 150 MHz and thus an output data rate of 300 Mbits/s.

The development of the theory and construction of combinatorial designs originated with the work of Euler on Latin squares. A Latin square on symbols is an matrix ( is the order of the Latin square), in which each symbol occurs precisely once in each row and in each column. Several interesting research questions posed by Euler with respect to Latin squares, namely regarding orthogonality proper...

Abstract The evaluation of the aggregate risks to spatially distributed infrastructures and portfolios buildings requires quantification estimated shaking over a region. To characterize spatial dependency ground motion intensity measures (e.g. peak acceleration), common geostatistical tool is semivariogram. Over past decades, different fitting approaches have been proposed in geostatistics lite...

Graph layouts are in general data dependent and help to reveal structural and attribute relationships in the data set. However, there are situations when one may wish to alter the layout e.g. to emphasize parts of the data set or for aesthetic reasons. This paper strives to meet that need for the case of force-directed graph layout algorithms. Our approach is to add boundary constraints to spec...