1 Currently affiliated with Intel Corporation ABSTRACT This paper presents the results for very detailed studies of pattern and timing-dependent failures from the 309 dies in the retest of an experimental test chip. 22 out of the 50 CUTs with pattern-dependent failures had test escapes if the test sets were reordered. Some timing-dependent failures became timing-independent combinational (TIC) ...

General automata are considered with respect to normal-ization over semirings. Possibilistic automata are deened as normal pessimistic fuzzy automata. Possibilistic automata are analogous to stochas-tic automata where stochastic (+=) semirings are replaced by possi-bilistic (_=^) semirings; but where stochastic automata must be normal, fuzzy automata may be (resulting in possibilistic automata)...

With the advent of high-throughput technologies for data acquisition from different components (i.e., genes, proteins, and metabolites) of a given biological system, generation of hypotheses, and biological interpretations based on multivariate data sets become increasingly important. These technologies allow for simultaneous gathering of data from the same biological components under different...

Ti-TiC-TiC/DLC gradient nano-composite films have been prepared on the NiTi substrates by the technique of plasma immersion ion implantation and deposition (PIIID) combining with plasmaenhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD). The influence of C2H2 flow rate ranging from 30sccm to 50sccm on the chemical structure, microstructure, mechanical properties and corrosion resistance of resulting thi...

INTRODUCTION The main aim of the current study was to assess whether adults with either Tourette syndrome (TS) or chronic tic disorder (CTD) show a similar neuropsychological profile. Neuropsychological investigations of tic disorders have been mostly focused on children, mainly because symptoms peak during that period. Little has been carried out on adults, even if a significant proportion of ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the relationship between group A beta hemolytic streptococcus infection (GABHS) and tic disorders in children. METHODS This is a case-control study that was conducted in Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinic, Isfahan, Iran, between May 2008 and February 2009. Thirty-six children (aged 5-15) with tic and 36 children without tic and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) we...

Fifteen Rosa cultivated races were described by means of phenotypic frequencies (11 tables). Two groups of correlated contingency tables were identified by ACT-STATIS (Analyse Conjointe de Tableaux-Structuration de Tableaux à Trois Indices de la Statistique) interstructure analysis. Three data sets appeared to be independent from the others. Typologies of races were obtained after ACT-STATIS co...

The concept of approximate reasoning as it was con ceived by Zadeh provides a framework which al lows to model and process vague linguistic informa tion The idea is to model linguistic terms by fuzzy sets their logical relationship by fuzzy relations and their composition by the so called compositional rule of inference As an important eld of applica tions we refer to control processes for whic...

BACKGROUND The goal of this work is to develop a digital version of a standard cognitive assessment, the Trail Making Test (TMT), and assess its utility. OBJECTIVE This paper introduces a novel digital version of the TMT and introduces a machine learning based approach to assess its capabilities. METHODS Using digital Trail Making Test (dTMT) data collected from (N = 54) older adult partici...

Material and methods MR images of 100 patients with enhancing breast lesions (64 malignant, 36 benign) obtained before and repeatedly after intravenous injection of Gd-DOTA were evaluated. Signal intensity of lesions (SIlesion) and breast (SIbreast) were measured and TIC obtained. Relative signal intensity of the lesion was calculated as (SIlesion-SIbreast)/SIbreast and plotted versus time to o...