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Large System-on-Chips (SOC) are now built by assembly of existing components, modeled at different representation levels(TLM, RTL . . . ). The IP-XACT standard was recently developed to help normalize interfaces of IP components, and ease their composition. Currently it does not fully face timing representation issues. The equally recent MARTE UML profile focuses explicitly on the rich expressi...

THE first Greek poet of whose personality we are certain, Arctinus of Lesbos (B.C. 770), sharply differentiated medicine and surgery, and held medicine responsible for the advancement of medical science. He relates how Esculapius "endowed one of his sons with nobler gifts than the other; for while to the one, Machaon, he gave skilled hands to draw out darts, -make incisions and heal sores and w...

Although The Interpretation of Dreams was published over a century ago, the integration of psychoanalysis into the broad matrix of modern social and cultural history has barely begun. During his lifetime, Freud’s charisma was so powerful that the historical landscape surrounding him remained in shadows. Only decades after his death did light begin to dawn. The earliest significant attempt to hi...