Erik Amnå and Joakim Ekman European Political Science Review / FirstView Article / June 2013, pp 1 ­ 21 DOI: 10.1017/S175577391300009X, Published online: 17 June 2013 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S175577391300009X How to cite this article: Erik Amnå and Joakim Ekman Standby citizens: diverse faces of political passivity. European Political Science Review, Availab...

With the release of Rdb version 7.0, Oracle offered a powerful and economical new solution to the reliability problem that has confounded data processing professionals from the earliest days of computing. Because of disk drive failures, the data we store in “persistent” storage isn’t really persistent. Disasters beyond our control—fires, floods and explosions—can destroy whole computer systems....

Uncertain variable is defined as a measurable function from an uncertainty space to the set of real numbers for describing subjective uncertain phenomena, which is employed to characterize the element, component and system lifetimes in this paper. Within the framework of uncertainty theory, reliability measure and percentile lifetime are defined to measure the system reliability in this paper. ...

‘Cache decay’ is a set of leakage-reduction mechanisms that put cache lines that have not been accessed for a specific duration into a low-leakage standby mode. This duration is called the decay interval, and its optimal value varies across applications. This paper provides an extended discussion of the results previously presented in our journal paper [13]. It describes an adaptation technique...

A 1.0 mm general-purpose sensor node platform with heterogeneous multi-layer structure is proposed. The sensor platform benefits from modularity by allowing the addition/removal of IC layers. A new low power C interface is introduced for energy efficient inter-layer communication with compatibility to commercial C protocols. A self-adapting power management unit is proposed for efficient batter...

Aggregated power consumption of homenetwork devices such as home-gateway, home-server, settop box is rapidly increased because these devices are operated in powered-on state to support anyone, anywhere, anytime services. But power utilization of these devices is very low because there is much idle time under powered-on state. To reduce the overall power consumption in homenetwork, we are develo...

An ultralow-standby-power technology has been developed in both 0.18m and 0.13m lithography nodes for embedded and standalone SRAM applications. The ultralow-leakage sixtransistor (6T) SRAM cell sizes are 4.81 m and 2.34 m, corresponding respectively to the 0.18m and 0.13m design dimensions. The measured array standby leakage is equal to an average cell leakage current of less than 50 fA per ce...

In this paper, we propose the design of low power level-converting retention flip-flop (RFF)using LSSR technique for Zigbee System-onchips (SoCs).The proposed retention flip-flop allows the voltage regulator which generates the core supply voltage (VDD, core) is turned off during the standby mode and thus reduces the standby power and dc current of the Zigbee SoCs. This method is the combinatio...

Abstract: In this paper, we study the reliability measures of a repairable system with M operating units, W warm standby units, and R repairmen in which switching failures and reboot delay are considered. It is assumed that there is a significant failure probability q in the switching process. Failure times of an operating unit and of a standby unit are assumed to be exponentially distributed w...

In this paper, we treat the problem of stochastic comparison of standby [active] redundancy at component level versus system level. In the case of standby redundancy, we present some interesting comparison results of both series systems and parallel systems in the sense of various stochastic orderings for both the matching spares case and non-matching spares case, respectively. In the case of a...