As the number and diversity of electronic commerce participants grows, the complexity of purchasing from a vast and dynamic array of goods and services needs to be hidden from the end user. Putting the complexity into the commerce system instead means providing exible middleware for enabling commerce within di erent commercial communities. In this paper, we present one such commerce middleware ...

Many children eat a diet which supplies a higher than recommended amount of nonmilk extrinsic sugars and saturated fatty acids. The school setting is often targeted for nutrition intervention as many children consume food at school. In Scotland, attempts have been made to improve the nutritional content of food in schools and attention has now turned to food and drink available "beyond the scho...

A proof-of-concept metal–insulator–semiconductor (MIS) AlGaN/GaN high-electron mobility transistor (HEMT) that uses a self-aligned 10 nm AlOx gate insulator and SiNx passivation in the device access regions was investigated. Self-alignment of the gate insulator to metal was achieved by utilizing a submicron tri-layer photoresist pattern to lift-off sequentially-deposited AlOx dielectric and Ni/...

This research has investigated the impact of top management commitment to enhance operational performance through green purchasing and production Practices in manufacturing industry. The study surveyed 122 from 578 companies domiciled East Java, Indonesia, using a questionnaire designed with seven-point Likert scale. Data analysis used partial least square. result revealed that affects purchasi...

Life-cycle inventory (LCI) data are needed to scientifically document the environmental performance of materials for applications as governed by the many new green building standards, purchasing guidelines, and energy and climate change policy issues. This study develops the LCI data for particleboard, a composite wood panel product comprised of wood particles, urea–formaldehyde resin, wax, and...

Partial re-con ̄guration is the process of con ̄guring a portion of a FPGA while the rest of the device is still running/operating. This paper proposes a novel allocation methodology for realizing applications with partial and dynamic features on FPGAs. The methodology was implemented as a manager that incorporates two stages: the ̄rst one modi ̄es the con ̄guration data of each partial bitstream by...

This article analyses the racialization of discourses about national identities, and explores implications for populations racialized as white. Two extensive datasets have been brought together, spanning a decade 560 interviews, to explore discursive interplay, oppositional nature relationality majority minority claims belonging. We demonstrate that identity are constructed discursively from po...

This paper describes a 256-word 32-bit 4-read, 4-write ported register file for 6-GHz operation in 1.2-V 130-nm technology. The local bitline uses a pseudostatic technique for aggressive bitline active leakage reduction/tolerance to enable 16 bitcells/bitline, lowusage, and 50% keeper downsizing. Gate–source underdrive of cc on read-select transistors is established without additional supply/bi...