As Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) power consumption continues to increase, lower power FPGA circuitry, architectures, and Computer-Aided Design (CAD) tools need to be developed. Before designing low-power FPGA circuitry, architectures, or CAD tools, we must first determine where the biggest savings (in terms of energy dissipation) are to be made and whether these savings are cumulative. I...

Nicotinic acetycholine receptors are present at high density in the nervous system of insects (Sattelle, 1980). Studies on the structure of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors have shown a degree of homology between insect a-like subunits and a-subunits from other species (Bossy etal. 1988; Marshall etal. 1990; Sawruk etal. 1990a). The locust ar-subunit, when expressed in Xenopus oocytes, is able...

Syn op sis In spite of all the sig nif i cant changes re corded in the his tory of the uni ver sity the mere pos si bil ity to speak about uni ver si ties in all these (vary ing) cir cum stances pre-sup poses the con stant ap peal of its un der ly ing nor ma tive struc tural prin ci ple, which surely could be re al ized in a better or worse way. Only se ri ously ob serv ing this struc tural pri...

In the literature about the respiratory physiology of water-breathers, the arterial partial pressure of oxygen, P&o2, is reported to range from about 2 to 10-13 kPa (Shelton etal. 1986; McMahon and Wilkens, 1983). In fish, Shelton etal. (1986) reported that animals with low blood O2-affinity exhibit high P a ^ and vice versa. But in laboratory conditions, the excitation state of the animals may...

  Background: Personal Information Management (PIM) refers to the tools and activities to save and retrieve personal information for future uses. This study examined the PIM activities of faculty members of Iran University of Medical Sciences (IUMS) regarding their preferred PIM tools and four aspects of acquiring, organizing, storing and retrieving personal information.   Methods : The qualita...