During the past two decades, a set of systematic comparative case analysis techniques has been developing at a steady pace. During the last few years especially, the main initial technique, qualitative comparative analysis (QCA), has been complemented by other related methods and techniques. The purpose of this article is to critically assess some main recent developments in this field. QCA and...

Quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA) is a field-coupled computing paradigm. States of a cell change due to mutual interactions of either electrostatic or magnetic fields. Due to their small sizes, power is an important design parameter. In this work, we derive an upper bound for power loss that will occur with input change, even with the circuit staying at respective ground states before and aft...

Quantum-dot Cellular Automata (QCA) is a prominent paradigm that is considered to continue its dominance in thecomputation at deep sub-micron regime in nanotechnology. The QCA realizations of five-input Majority Voter based multilevel parity generator circuits have been introduced in recent years. However, no attention has been paid towards the QCA instantiation of the generic (n-bit) even and ...

Quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA) are an emerging technology and a possible alternative for semiconductor transistor based technologies. A novel fault-tolerant QCA full-adder cell is proposed: This component is simple in structure and suitable for designing fault-tolerant QCA circuits. The redundant version of QCA full-adder cell is powerful in terms of implementing robust digital functions. ...

   Quantum-dot Cellular Automata (QCA) technology is a solution for implementation of the nanometer sized circuits and it can be a suitable replacement for CMOS. Similar to CMOS technology, designing the basic computational element such as adder with the QCA technology is regarded as one of the most important issues that extensive researches have been done about it. In this paper, a new eff...

Quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA) are an emerging technology and a possible alternative for semiconductor transistor based technologies. A novel fault-tolerant QCA full-adder cell is proposed: This component is simple in structure and suitable for designing fault-tolerant QCA circuits. The redundant version of QCA full-adder cell is powerful in terms of implementing robust digital functions. ...

Application of quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA) technology as an alternative to CMOS technology on the nanoscale has a promising future; QCA is an interesting technology for building memory. The proposed design and simulation of a new memory cell structure based on QCA with a minimum delay, area, and complexity is presented to implement a static random access memory (SRAM). This paper presen...

BACKGROUND Systematic reviews that address policy and practice questions in relation to complex interventions frequently need not only to assess the efficacy of a given intervention but to identify which intervention - and which intervention components - might be most effective in particular situations. Here, intervention replication is rare, and commonly used synthesis methods are less useful ...

Qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) focuses on the use of set theory and Boolean algebra to compare and contrast alternative causal recipes of antecedent conditions that may affect specific outcomes of scientific interest. Given that “culture” is a complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, custom and any other capabilities and habit acquired by man as a member of society, ...

Conventional coronary angiography (CAG) has limitations in evaluating lesions producing ischemia. Three dimensional quantitative coronary angiography (3D-QCA) shows reconstructed images of CAG using computer based algorithm, the Cardio-op B system (Paieon Medical, Rosh Ha'ayin, Israel). The aim of this study was to evaluate whether 3D-QCA can reliably predict ischemia assessed by myocardial fra...