Nowadays Power has become a major concern in low power VLSI design. Achieving low power consumption is a tedious one in IC fabrication industries. In modern integrated circuits, clocking is the most dominating power consuming element. Hence this paper describes a method for reducing the power consumption by replacing some flip-flops with fewer multi-bit flip-flops. We perform a co-ordinate tran...

By examining discursive struggles around sexuality in contemporary India, I show how and when the legal status of sexuality becomes used by individuals and communities to make political claims about their relations in and to the post-colonial nation-state. The ‘modern’ legal system introduced by British colonial rule installed state regulation of homosexuality and sex work in India. I look at w...

The conflict between the sweeping power of technology to access and assemble personal information and the ongoing concern about our privacy and security is ever increasing. While we gradually need higher electronic access to medical information, issues relating to patient privacy and reducing vulnerability to security breaches surmount. In this paper, we take a legal perspective and examine the...

The major purpose of this paper was to investigate the information seeking behaviour of undergraduate law students of a developing country. Specifically, the paper made efforts to globally review related literature on legal information, library information and its relevance to lawyers and law students, Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) in the legal profession, information services t...

Via a case study of the pay equity movement’s legal mobilization in the 1970s and 1980s, Michael McCann’s Rights at Work demonstrates how litigation can provide empowering, identity-constituting experiences for social movement participants even when it fails to produce large-scale, top-down changes in public policy. Specifically, although the struggle for pay equity emerged following women’s in...

In 1989, Lawrence M. Friedman published Law, Lawyers and Popular Culture. Based in part on James Willard Hurst’s idea that markets create a social aggregate of behavior that shapes law, Friedman’s article offered one of the earliest arguments for the use of popular culture as a source of material for the study of law. According to Friedman, popular legal culture (a social aggregate of opinion a...

Objective This paper explores the legal and ethical frameworks that inform nursing practice and health care cultures. Using methodologies informed by critical race and feminist jurisprudence (also called ‘outsider scholarship’), images of nursing and the positive and negative effects of these images and their legal, moral and ethical impact on nursing practice, are explored. This exploration as...