There has been some recent interest in the subject of whether circuits should be tested with built-in self-test (BIST) or automated test equipment (ATE). As with many such debates, neither extreme is a viable position, and the true answer lies somewhere in the middle. BIST patterns have their place with scan patterns, IDDQ patterns, etc. as part of a test program driven by ATE. 1. " Putting a t...

Problem statement: Kicking is one of the most important skills in indoor soccer. Kicking accuracy is an important component of this skill. The instep kick is often used when tacking a penalty kicks, as a combination of increased ball speed and kick accuracy can be maintained. The purpose of this research was to compare selected kinematic parameters of the kicking foot during the performance of ...

The CCSDS Telecommand (TC) and Telemetry (TM) standards are today being employed for a large number of scientific and commercial spacecraft. Using this standard allows reduced costs for on-board, ground and test equipment, as well as for spacecraft testing and in-orbit operation. This paper introduces the CCSDS/ESA standards, and presents the supporting standard components developed by ESA and ...

In this paper, we describe a fusion approach to finding opinion about a given target in blog postings. We tackled the opinion blog retrieval task by breaking it down to two sequential subtasks: ontopic retrieval followed by opinion classification. Our opinion retrieval approach was to first apply traditional IR methods to retrieve on-topic blogs, and then boost the ranks of opinionated blogs us...

Automated L2 speech assessment applications need some mechanism for validating the relevance of user responses before providing scores. In this paper, we discuss a method for off-topic detection in an automated speech assessment application: a high-stakes English test (PTE Academic). Different from traditional topic detection techniques that use characteristics of text alone, our method mainly ...