Serkan Askar Ma iej Ciesielski Department of Ele tri al & Computer Engineering University of Massa husetts, Amherst, MA 01003 fsaskar, iesielg e s.umass.edu Abstra t|This paper addresses the problem of layout design automation of datapath ells. We present a novel approa h to transistor pla ement problem for ustom datapath designs and demonstrate that it an be applied to pra ti al designs. Our a...

A slumber did my spirit seal, I had no human fears: She seemed a thing that could not feel The touch of earthly years. No motion has she now, force; neither hears nor sees; Rolled round in earth’s diurnal course, With rocks, and stones, trees!1 ‘A steal, /I fears.’ Given Wordsworth’s celebrated lyric is suspended its entirety above this essay, there decent chance you, reader, will have noticed ...

Two experiments investigated the hypothesis that arm crossing serves as a proprioceptive cue for perseverance within achievement settings. Experiment 1 found that inducing participants to cross their arms led to greater persistence on an unsolvable anagram. Experiment 2 revealed that arm crossing led to better performance on solvable anagrams, and that this effect was mediated by greater persis...

To eliminate a “back-door rule”, Rec. 60C.1 in the Melbourne Code (McNeill & al. Regnum Veg. 154. 2012) was moved into Art. 60.8 of Shenzhen (Turland 159. 2018), but doing so opening sentence rewritten. The wording introduces several new issues, one which is added phrase “derived from personal names”. This can be read variously, could include any, or all, following: translations names Latin (or...

Because red pens are closely associated with error-marking and poor performance, the use of red pens when correcting student work can activate these concepts. People using red pens to complete a word-stem task completed more words related to errors and poor performance than did people using black pens (Study 1), suggesting relatively greater accessibility of these concepts. Moreover, people usi...

A transformational approach to visual perception is presented, in which image structure is encoded in the parameters of those transformations that produce an output maximally symmetric with the current input. Results are presented for a computer program, dubbed SMART (Symmetry Maximizing Array using Random Transformations). SMART consists of a parallel array of independent symmetry detectors. E...

Trusted timestamping is a process for proving that certain information existed at a given point in time. This paper presents a trusted timestamping concept and its implementation in form of a web-based service that uses the decentralized Bitcoin block chain to store anonymous, tamper-proof timestamps for digital content. The service allows users to hash files, such as text, photos or videos, an...

We test whether specific, challenging goals increase risk taking. We propose that goals serve as reference points, creating a region of perceived losses for outcomes below a goal (Kahneman & Tversky, 1979; Tversky & Kahneman, 1992). According to the Prospect Theory value function, decision makers become more risk seeking in the domain of losses. In three experiments we compared a “do your best”...

It is well understood that individuals’ own goals are often in conflict with the goals and preferences of the people around them, but yet to be considered is how such interpersonal goal conflicts might emerge or escalate automatically in social situations. Past research suggests that individuals often automatically accommodate to the goals and preferences of the people around them; however, rec...

This chapter reports the discussion of a group of mostly behavioral biologists, who attempt to put research on search from their own discipline into a framework that might help identify parallels with cognitive search. Essential components of search are a functional goal, uncertainty about goal location, the adaptive varying of position, and often a stopping rule. The chapter considers a divers...