At present, as we enter the nanD and giga·scaled integrated-circuit era, there are many systna design challenges which must be overcome to resolve problems ill current systems. The incredibly increased Ilollrecllrring engineering (NRE) cost, abruptly shortelled Time­ to-Market (ITA) period and ever widening design productive gaps are good examples illllstrating the problems ill clfrrelil system...

Professor Ted Cowan was the epitome of all-embracing dedication to Scottish past that Society Antiquaries Scotland represents.

Text and context are two essential elements in human communication. Text can not exist in a vacuum. Its production and comprehension are influenced and restricted by context. This paper aims to analyze the relations between context and text with the framework of both traditional context and cognitive context by Sperber & Wilson.

The n factor of Staphylococcus aureus (Haukenes and Oeding, Acta Pathol. Microbiol. Scand. 49:237, 1960) was originally demonstrated as a component of the old "e" factor of Oeding. Methods were described for preparing specific antiserum for n factor by use of serum for Cowan III (serotype abcn) and adsorption with strains F21 (baim) and 2095 (abc). Haukenes and Oeding (personal communication) u...

In 1972-1973 Wilson and Cowan introduced a mathematical model of the population dynamics of synaptically coupled excitatory and inhibitory neurons in the neocortex. The model dealt only with the mean numbers of activated and quiescent excitatory and inhibitory neurons, and said nothing about fluctuations and correlations of such activity. However, in 1997 Ohira and Cowan, and then in 2007-2009 ...

Five gram-positive bacterial strains were selected for absorption studies of human serum samples. Strain AR1 (group A, M-type 1) and G148 (group G), with strong immunoglobulin G (IgG) binding capacities, and strain AW43 (group A, M-type 60), binding both IgA1 and IgA2, were compared with Staphylococcus aureus Cowan I and with Staphylococcus epidermidis L603. Both AR1 and G148 were capable of co...