Over the past few decades, several powerful placement algorithms have been used successfully in performing VLSI placement. With the increasing complexity of the VLSI chips, there is no clear dominant placement paradigm today. This work attempts to explore hybrid algorithms for large-scale VLSI placement. Our work aims to evaluate existing placement algorithms, estimate the ease of their reuse, ...

Most current load balancing systems are based on process placement or process migration. We introduce placement of user login sessions as a load balancing approach, and compare it to the process placement and process migration approaches. A load balancing system based on user placement is described, and some experimental results are given. We conclude that user placement has several advantages ...

INTRODUCTION Evidence indicates a need to recruit more GPs to a career in rural general practice (GP). Research has indicated that placement experiences have the potential to impact on medical career decision-making. Research also suggests that rural placements can raise both professional and psychosocial concerns, but there is no existing evidence about whether pre-placement expectations trans...

Background: The purpose of this prospective study was to determine the accuracy of pedicular screw insertion withoutthe use of fluoroscopy.Methods: This study was conducted on patients with spinal diseases in need of pedicular screw fixation and fusion.The included patients suffered from such conditions as vertebral fracture, spinal stenosis, kyphosis, tumor, and pelvicf...

VLSI physical design automation plays a vital role as we move to deep sub-micron designs below 0.18 microns. Power dissipation, performance and area are dominated by interconnections between elements in the circuit under consideration. Global Placement followed by iterative improvement placement (detailed placement) is the most robust, simple and successful approach in solving the placement pro...

BACKGROUND Pulmonary artery catheters are usually placed by resident anesthesiologists with pressure wave monitoring from educational point of view. In some cases, the placement needs longer time or is difficult only by observing the pressure waves. AIMS We sought to examine the time required for the catheter placement in adult patients and determine factors influencing the placement. SETTI...

background: proper placement of central venous catheter (cvc) tip could reduce early and late catheter-related complications.although the live fluoroscopy is standard of care for placement of the catheter, it is not available in many centers. therefore, the present study evaluated the sensitivity and specificity of bedside chest x-ray (cxr) for proper positioning of the catheter tip. materials ...