The purpose of this exploratory study was to evaluate opinions of elite athletes, coaches and classifiers regarding the International Wheelchair Basketball Federation’s (IWBF) functional classification system. We were also interested in the athletes’ perspective regarding potential changes to the classification system. In addition, we compared the generalized opinions reported by the athletes t...

In a collaboration initiated in 1997, Fujitsu and Philips have jointly developed a Design-for-Test methodology to facilitate assembly interconnection testing of complex memory devices. Complex memories require an initialisation sequence or are accessed by a more complex protocol and therefore complicate assembly test – examples are SDRAM, FCRAM and Flash. With the trend towards smaller pin pitc...

Hardware implementation of secure applications, e.g. cryptographic algorithms, is subject to various attacks. In fact, it has been previously demonstrated that scan chains introduced by Design for Testability open a backdoor to potential attacks. Here we propose a scan-protection scheme that provides testing facilities both at production time and over the course of the circuit’s life. The under...

This paper describes a novel test generation system, called Saturn, for testing digital circuits. The system differs from existing test generation systems in that it allows a designer to specify the structure and behavior of a design at a collection of abstraction levels that mirror the design refinement process. The system exploits the abstract design formulations to increase the efficiency of...

BACKGROUND 17β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 3 (17βHSD3) deficiency is a rare cause of disorder of sex development (DSD) due to impaired conversion of androstenedione to testosterone. Traditionally, the diagnosis was determined by βHCG-stimulated ratios of testosterone:androstenedione < 0.8. CASE PRESENTATION An otherwise phenotypically female infant presented with bilateral inguinal mass...

Runtime testing is emerging as the solution for the integration and assessment of highly dynamic, high availability software systems where traditional development-time integration testing is too costly, or cannot be performed. However, in many situations, an extra cost will have to be invested in implementing appropriate measures to enable runtime tests to be performed without affecting the run...