The combination of higher quality requirements and sensitivity of high performance circuits to delay defects has led to an increasing emphasis on delay testing of VLSI circuits. In this context, it has been proven that Single Input Change (SIC) test sequences are more effective than classical Multiple Input Change (MIC) test sequences when a high robust delay fault coverage is targeted. In this...

Salinity of soil and water is the most important agricultural hazard in arid and semi-aridregions. In saline soils, yield production directly influences by soluble salts in the root zone aswell as by shallow water table depth. The first step for reclamation of such soils is reducingsalinity to optimum level by leaching. The objective of this study was to develop a practicalmodel to estimate wat...

Service-oriented architecture facilitates the running time of interactions by using business integration on the networks. Currently, web services are considered as the best option to provide Internet services. Due to an increasing number of Web users and the complexity of users’ queries, simple and atomic services are not able to meet the needs of users; and to provide complex services, it requ...

A new memory-based architecture for real-time image convolution with variable kernels is proposed. The architecture exploits the highest possible bandwidth inherent in memory and achieves the fine-grain parallelism of computations inside the memory. Unlike existing approaches, the architecture ensures convolution with very large kernels under the real time constraints of video applications. It ...

The starting points of this paper are two size-optimal solutions: (i) one for implementing arbitrary Boolean functions (Horne, 1994); and (ii) another one for implementing a particular sub-class of Boolean functions (Red’kin, 1970). Because VLSI implementations do not cope well with highly interconnected nets—the area of a chip grows with the cube of the fan-in (Hammerstrom, 1988)—this paper wi...

A class of selection algorithms by binary partition is very efficient for median and rank order filtering. A unified discussion of Manuscript received November 23, 1991; revised November 6 , 1992. The associate editor coordinating the review of this correspondence and approving it for publication was Prof. Gonzalo Arce. This work was supported by the National Science Council, Taiwan, Republic o...

Because VLSI implementations do not cope well with highly interconnected nets—the area of a chip growing as the cube of the fan-in [25]—this paper analyses the influence of limited fan-in on the size and VLSI optimality of such nets. Two different approaches will show that VLSIand sizeoptimal discrete neural networks can be obtained for small (i.e. lower than linear) fan-in values. They have ap...

 Background: Recurrence rate of rotator cuff tears is still high despite the improvements of surgical techniques, materials used and a better knowledge of the healing process of the rotator cuff tendons. Large to massive rotator cuff tears are particularly associated with a high failure rate, especially in elderly. Augmentation of rotator cuff repairs with extracellular matrix or synthetic patc...