— The inter-die and intra-die variation in process parameters (in particular, threshold voltage (Vt)) result in large number of failures in an SRAM array degrading the design yield. The adaptive repairing techniques, such as adaptive body bias, can be used to improve the design yield. However, to apply adaptive repairing techniques it is necessary to distinguish between the dies from low-Vt pro...

BACKGROUND A new CD4 point-of-care instrument, the CyFlow miniPOC, which provides absolute and percentage CD4 T-cells, used for screening and monitoring of HIV-infected patients in resource-limited settings, was introduced recently. We assessed the performance of this novel instrument in a reference laboratory and in a field setting in Senegal. METHODOLOGY A total of 321 blood samples were ob...

BACKGROUND Cardiac output (CO) monitoring can be useful in high-risk patients during one-lung ventilation (OLV), but it is unclear whether thermodilution-derived CO monitoring is valid during OLV. Therefore, we compared pulmonary artery (CO(PATD)) and transcardiopulmonary thermodilution (CO(TPTD)) with an experimental reference in a porcine model. METHODS CO(PATD) and CO(TPTD) were measured i...

Introduction: The study was aimed to determine the measurement accuracy of The CDI TM blood parameter monitoring system 500 (Terumo Cardiovascular Systems Corporation, Ann Arbor MI) in the real-time continuous measurement of arterial blood gases under different cardiocirculatory stress conditions Methods: Inotropic stimulation (Dobutamine 2.5 and 5 μg/kg/min), vasoconstriction (Argininevasopres...

probabilistic approach of traffic assignment has been primarily developed to provide a more realistic and flexible theoretical framework to represent traveler’s route choice behavior in a transportation network. the problem of path overlapping in network modelling has been one of the main issues to be tackled. due to its flexible covariance structure, probit model can adequately address the pro...

Attending college seems to be a profitable and affordable investment in the US. Nevertheless, a number of academically talented young people still hesitate to attend college. This puzzle motivates this paper to test for whether college education is a risky investment. To measure the riskiness of college attendance, I estimate the risk differential in earnings between college attendees and high ...

Although deductive reasoning is a closed system, one's beliefs about the world can influence validity judgements. To understand the associated functional neuroanatomy of this belief-bias we studied 14 volunteers using event-related fMRI, as they performed reasoning tasks under neutral, facilitatory and inhibitory belief conditions. We found evidence for the engagement of a left temporal lobe sy...