This work was one of ASIC basis technology project mainly managed by IDEC and supported by the ministry of trade, industry & energy and the ministry of science and technology of korea. Abstract In the conventional oating point multipliers, the rounding stage is usually constructed by using a high speed adder for the increment operation, increasing the overall execution time and occupying a larg...

INTRODUCTION Rounding that includes participation of individuals with authority to implement changes has been advocated as important to the transformation of an institution into a high-quality and safe organization. We describe a Department of Anesthesiology's experience with leadership rounding. METHODS The Department Chair or other senior faculty designate, a quality coordinator, up to four...

The matrix (M) protein of vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) is a multifunctional protein that is responsible for condensation of the ribonucleocapsid core during virus assembly and also plays a critical role in virus budding. The M protein is also responsible for most of the cytopathic effects (CPE) observed in infected cells. VSV CPE include inhibition of host gene expression, disablement of nu...

Mitotic cell rounding is the process of cell shape change in which a flat interphase cell becomes spherical at the onset of mitosis. Rearrangement of the actin cytoskeleton, de-adhesion, and an increase in cortical rigidity accompany mitotic cell rounding. The molecular mechanisms that contribute to this process have not been defined. We show that RhoA is required for cortical retraction but no...

1 2 Preface This book presents work in two of the most popular areas of geometric computation: Robust Geometric Computing and Optimal Visibility Coverage. Both areas have been extensively researched in recent years and attracted the attention of many researchers and developers in both the academic and the industrial worlds. The work we present here aims to contribute to this effort by providing...

We study Proportional Approval Voting (PAV)—an election system used for choosing representatives bodies, such as parliaments, based on preferences of a population of voters over individual candidates. We observe that the problem of computing the outcome of PAV can be cast as a variant of the standard k-median problem. Our main result is that, due to the specific (harmonic) cost structure, the p...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics rounds the Consumer Price Index (CPI) to a single decimal place before releasing it, and the published CPI inflation series is calculated from those rounded index values. While rounding has only a relatively small effect on the level of the CPI series at present, it can have a significant effect on CPI inflation, the monthly percent changes in the CPI. This paper ...

Arithmetic coding is a well-known technique for lossless coding or data compression. It is based on splitting a current interval into sub-intervals, each sub-interval corresponding to a possible symbol to be encoded and the size of each sub-interval corresponding to the probability of the associated symbol. This involves multiplying the current interval size A by one or more probabilities, whic...