A conventional Network-on-Chip (NoC) router uses input buffers to store packets to improve performance, but consume significant power. While bufferless NoC design has shown reduction in area and power, and offers similar performance to conventional buffered designs for many workloads, than conventional buffered routers at high network load. This degradation is a significant problem for widespre...

We discuss the weak-field limit of induced gravity and show that results directly depend on the coupling and self–interaction potential of the scalar field. A static spherically symmetric exact solution is found and its conformal properties are studied. As an application, it is shown that the light deflection angle and the microlensing quantities can be parametrized by the coupling of the theory.

Geometrically nonlinear analysis of thin circular plates on Winkler elastic foundations has been studied in this paper. The nonlinear partial differential equations obtained from von Karman’s large deflection plate theory have been solved by using the discrete singular convolution (DSC) in the space domain and the harmonic differential quadrature (HDQ) method in the time domain.

We derive the deflection angle of light rays caused by a brane black hole with mass m and tidal charge q in the weak lensing approach, up to the second order in perturbation theory. We point out when the newly derived second order contributions become important.

Paraffin wax exhibits a volumetric expansion of ∼15%, at around its melting point. By exploiting this phenomenon, high performance bulkachined electrothermal hydraulic microactuators have been demonstrated. The microactuators have been integrated into microfluidic valves, icrogrippers and micropipettes. The paraffin wax is confined within a bulk-micromachined silicon container. This container i...

The effect of currents of mass on bending of light rays is considered in the weak field regime. Following Fermat’s principle and the standard theory of gravitational lensing, we derive the gravitomagnetic correction to time delay function and deflection angle caused by a geometrically-thin lens. The cases of both rotating and shifting deflectors are discussed.

The two current criteria for diagnosis of left anterior fascicular block (LAFB) were evaluated; they are marked left axis deviation (LAD) and a delay in the time of inscription of the intrinsicoid deflection (ID) in lead aVL asynchronous to V6. From 400 electrocardiograms with a LAD of --30 degrees or greater, 62 percent showed asynchronous activation of the left ventricle. There was only a gen...

In an effort to reduce the incidence of decubitus ulcers among wheelchair users, current work in cushion design concentrates on minimizing the pressure at the buttock-cushion interface. Finite element analysis can show the stress levels throughout the soft tissue between the cushion and the ischial tuberosity and give designers a better indication of the effects of a particular cushion. Finite ...

IN DIRECT LEADS obtained through a small electrode attached to the epicardium, there is a nearly perpendicular return of the R wave from its peak to the base line. This intrinsic deflection marks the extinction of the electric potential of the small core of ventricle to which the electrode is applied. In precordial leads, where a relatively large electrode is at a considerable distance from the...

To study integration of converging sensory inputs on single cortical neurons, we performed intracellular recordings in vivo in the barrel cortex of the barbiturate-anesthetized rat. We deflected the principal whisker (PW) for each cell either alone or preceded (at 20, 50, and 100 msec) by the deflection of a small number of remote whiskers (RWs) far from the PW. The synaptic responses to both t...