As a promising nonvolatile memory technology, Phase Change Memory (PCM) has many advantages over traditional DRAM. Multilevel Cell PCM (MLC) has the benefit of increased memory capacity with low fabrication cost. Due to high per-cell write power and long write latency, MLC PCM requires careful power management to ensure write reliability. Unfortunately, existing power management schemes applied...

This paper describes a virtually pipelined memory architecture built on a dual-port phase change memory (PCM) substrate for high performance networking applications. The proposed dual-port PCM cell significantly reduces the probability of bank conflicts due to blocking writes, ensuring that the proposed memory architecture can provide the large bandwidth and bank parallelism necessary for such ...

When considering the principles of a pain control strategy by patients, reliable administration of additional bolus doses is important for providing the adequate analgesia and improving patient satisfaction. We compared the efficacy of elastomeric patient-control module (PCM) with conventional PCM providing epidural analgesia postoperatively.A noninferiority comparison was used. Eighty-six pati...

Asphalt pavement is a temperature−sensitive structure that prone to temperature-related diseases. Phase change material (PCM) an excellent candidate for mitigating these This paper looked into the effects of indirect composite shape-stabilized PCM incorporation on characteristics asphalt. The compatibility, physical properties, and rheological properties asphalt with various content before afte...

There is an increasing interest in developing Phase Change Memory (PCM) based main memory systems. In order to retain the latency benefits of DRAM, such systems typically have a small DRAM buffer as a part of the main memory. However, for these systems to be widely adopted, limitations of PCM such as low write endurance and expensive writes need to be addressed. In this paper, we propose PCMawa...

Use of a phase change material (PCM)-based heat sink in transient thermal management of plastic quad flat package (QFP) electronic devices was investigated experimentally and numerically. Results show that increased power inputs enhance the melting rate as well as the thermal performance of the PCM-based heat sinks until the PCM is fully melted. A three-dimensional computational fluid dynamics ...

The Palladio Bench is a tool to model, simulate and analyze Palladio Component Model (PCM) instances. However, for the Palladio Bench, no single interface to automate experiments or Application Programming Interface (API) to trigger the simulation of PCM instances and to extract performance prediction results is available. The Descartes Query Language (DQL) is a novel approach of a declarative ...

Pairwise comparison is a popular assessment method either for deriving criteria-weights or for evaluating alternatives according to a given criterion. In realworld applications consistency of the comparisons rarely happens: intransitivity can occur. The aim of the paper is to discuss the relationship between the consistency of the decision maker—described with the error-free property—and the co...

Combination regimens of Bifidobacterium infantis and Lactobacillus acidophilus have been demonstrated to prevent necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) in clinical trials. However, the molecular mechanisms responsible for this protective effect are not well understood. Additionally, conditioned media from individual cultures of these two probiotics show strain specific modulation of inflammation using...