Sani Nassif received his Bachelors degree from the American University of Beirut in 1980, and his Masters and PhD degrees from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1981 and 1985, respectively. He worked at Bell Laboratories until 1996, then joined the IBM Austin Research Laboratory where he currently manages the Silicon Analytics department. He has authored numerous conference and journal publications...

FPGAs have an important role to play in System-on-a-Chip (SoC) designs by providing programmable hardware resources within complex ASIC designs. However, because the FPGA logic is custom-fabricated with the overall SoC, we have an opportunity to optimize that logic to the SoC’s specific needs. This gave rise to the Totem Project, which automates the creation of domain-specific reconfigurable lo...

oxidized ldl (ox-ldl) lipoproteins are proposed as important modified particles triggering pro-inflammatory events through receptor-mediated pathways. we evaluated the circulating ox-ldl level on the concept that the chronic immune events may affect ox-ldl clearance as the vessel stenosis develops in coronary arteries. one hundred sixty five subjects underwent coronary angiography and then, sub...

conclusions rs9364559 in the lpa gene may contribute to the risk of cad in the han chinese population; haplotypes which contain rs9346816-g were all associated with an increased risk of cad in this study. background mutations in the solute carrier family 22 member 3 (slc22a3), lipoprotein (a)-like 2 (lpal2), and the lipoprotein (a) (lpa) gene cluster, which encodes apolipoprotein (a) [apo (a)] ...

conclusions it is speculated that increased insulin resistance and increase in other adipokines such as il-6 may contribute to the decreased serum levels of adiponectin in patients with both cad and t2dm. objectives in this present study, we measured serum adiponectin levels in consecutive cad patients with and without t2dm and investigated whether decreased adiponectin is associated with risk ...

in this paper effect of sio 2 nanoparticles was investigated on potato starch films. potato starch films were prepared by casting method with addition of nano-silicon dioxide and a mixture of sorbitol/glycerol (weight ratio of 3 to 1) as plasticizers. sio 2 nanoparticles incorporated to the potato starch films at different concentrations 0, 1, 2, 3, and 5% of total solid, and the films were dri...