OBJECTIVE Blood contact with synthetic surfaces during cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB), inevitably results in the activation of a variety of interrelated pathways of inflammation and coagulation that may contribute to postoperative complications in cardiac surgery patients. The objective of this trial was to evaluate clinical events and complement activation related to the use of a novel biomateri...

In-circuit testers are widely used for manufacturing tests and for the measurement of printed circuit board (PCB) systems. In-circuit testers can also program and verify programmable logic devices (PLDs) that support in-system programmability (ISP). Using in-circuit testers to program ISP-capable devices allows device programming to fit into the standard manufacturing flow, reducing time-to-mar...

In this paper we present our new educational chip. This chip is one of three chips which were designed for educational purposes within the framework of the IST project REASON. Nowadays the Boundary Scan (BS) has become to be a standard for diagnostic access to the circuits, for in-circuit programming and for several other tasks. The Boundary Scan access is sometimes combined with a scan chain o...

Building novel synthetic biological devices is a time-consuming task because of the lengthy cellbased testing and optimization processes. Recent progress made in the cell-free field suggests that the utilization of mathematical models and cell-free transcription-translation testing platforms to systematically design and test novel synthetic biocircuits may help streamline some of the processes....

Re-identification is generally carried out by encoding the appearance of a subject in terms of outfit, suggesting scenarios where people do not change their attire. In this paper we overcome this restriction, by proposing a framework based on a deep convolutional neural network, SOMAnet, that additionally models other discriminative aspects, namely, structural attributes of the human figure (e....

While complex dynamic biological networks control gene expression in all living organisms, the forward engineering of comparable synthetic networks remains challenging. The current paradigm of characterizing synthetic networks in cells results in lengthy design-build-test cycles, minimal data collection, and poor quantitative characterization. Cell-free systems are appealing alternative environ...

1 Characterization and Parameterized Generation of Synthetic Combinational Benchmark Circuits Michael D. Hutton, Member, IEEE, Jonathan Rose, Member, IEEE, J. P. Grossman and Derek G. Corneil Abstract| The development of new Field-Programmed, Mask-Programmed and Laser-Programmed Gate Array architectures is hampered by the lack of realistic test circuits that exercise both the architectures and ...

Background The study of simplified, ad-hoc constructed model systems can help to elucidate if quantitatively characterized biological parts can be effectively re-used in composite circuits to yield predictable functions. Synthetic systems designed from the bottom-up can enable the building of complex interconnected devices via rational approach, supported by mathematical modelling. However, suc...