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Analysis and comparison of functional verification and ATPG for testing design reliability
No full textAs the complexity of current hardware systems rises, it is challenging to harden these systems against faults and to complete their verification and manufacturing test. Not only that verification and testing take a considerable amount of time but the number of design errors, faults and manufacturing defects increases with the rising complexity as well. In this paper we performed a detailed analysis of two approaches devoted to generation of input test vectors with respect to detection of stuck-at faults: the first one is based on classical Automatic Test Pattern Generation, the second one on Constrained-random Stimulus Generation. We evaluated their qualities as well as their drawbacks and introduced ideas about their combination in order to create a new promising approach for testing reliable systems
Association of phytoplasmas and viruses with malformed clovers
No full textPlants of Trifolium spp. exhibiting two different kinds of symptoms - phyllody associated with yellowing/reddening, and dwarf growth habit without floral abnormalities, were observed in several areas of the Czech Republic. Nested polymerase chain reaction (PCR) with phytoplasma specific primers, and restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) analyses of 16SrDNA revealed that phyllody of T. repens was associated with phytoplasmas belonging to the 16SrI-C subgroup. Similar symptoms in T. hybridum and T. pratense plants revealed the presence of phytoplasmas belonging to two subgroups: 16SrI-C and 16SrIII-B. Dwarf disease of cultivated T. pratense plants was associated with more than one agent: eleven of twenty plants examined by PCR/RFLP analysis revealed the presence of phytoplasmas belonging to four distinct subgroups: 16SrI-B, 16SrI-C, 16SrIII-B and 16SrX-A. Moreover, two kinds of bacilliform virions were observed in ultrathin sections of fifteen T. pratense plants. Particles occurred mostly in the parenchymatous cells of vascular bundles and were located in the cytoplasm as aggregates within an extended network of membraneous cisternae. Phytoplasmas and rhabdoviruses occurred singly, and both together or in co-presence with filamentous virus-like particles
Leek proliferation: A new phytoplasma disease in the Czech Republic and Italy
No full textDuring the summer 1996, twelve of twenty-eight leek plants located in a garden near Ceske Budejovice, South Bohemia exhibited symptoms typical of diseases associated with phytoplasmas. In summer 1998 similar symptoms were detected in leek plants in a field used for seed production located in Romagna, North Italy. In both cases the plants were established in the spring of the previous year. Plants showed flower abnormalities: stamen elongation, anther sterility, pistil proliferation, as well as poor, if any, seed production. Phytoplasma-like structures were detected by scanning and transmission electron microscopy in phloem sieve elements in the Czech diseased plants, but not in healthy ones. Nested-PCR amplifications of extracted DNA with phytoplasma-specific oligonucleotide primer pairs confirmed the presence of phytoplasmas in these plants at low concentrations. Restriction fragment length polymorphism analyses of amplified ribosomal sequences allowed the identification of detected phytoplasmas: all the samples from the Czech Republic contained aster yellows related phytoplasmas (16SrI-B) while in the Italian samples aster yellows related phytoplasmas (16SrI-B) together with stolbur related phytoplasmas (16SrXII-A) were identified. This is the first report of detection and identification of a phytoplasma disease of leek in the Czech Republic and Italy
Dr. Duane M. Jackson, Morehouse College, July 2011
No full textThis video is a conversation with Dr. Duane M. Jackson. Dr. Jackson talks about his paper, "Recall and the Serial Position Effect: The Role of Primacy and Recency on Accounting Students' Performance." Jackie Daniel, AUC Woodruff Library, is the interviewer
"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States" By M. Carey.
No full text"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States: containing bried sketches of the moral and political character of those states.
By M. Carey, member of the American philosophical, and of the American Antiquarian Society, and author of The Olive Branch, Cindiciae Hibernicae, essays on banking, on political economy, and on internal improvement.
To which are now added the English editor's comments on the subject; together with Important Advice to Emigrants, and Cautions Against Impositions Practiced in the Outports
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Dr. Glendon Swarthout
No full textHosted by Roger M. Busfield, MSU Assistant Professor of Speech and Theater, Meet the Author is designed to introduce a general audience to a contemporary author and their work through in-depth interviews. This episode features a conversation between Dr. Glendon Swarthout, prolific author and English professor at MSU, and assistant professors Sam S. Baskett and Theodore B. Strandness
Simulation of thermal plant optimization and hydraulic aspects of thermal distribution loops for large campuses
No full textFollowing an introduction, the author describes Texas A&M University and its utilities system. After that, the author presents how to construct simulation models for chilled water and heating hot water distribution systems. The simulation model was used in a $2.3 million Ross Street chilled water pipe replacement project at Texas A&M University. A second project conducted at the University of Texas at San Antonio was used as an example to demonstrate how to identify and design an optimal distribution system by using a simulation model. The author found that the minor losses of these closed loop thermal distribution systems are significantly higher than potable water distribution systems. In the second part of the report, the author presents the latest development of software called the Plant Optimization Program, which can simulate cogeneration plant operation, estimate its operation cost and provide optimized operation suggestions. The author also developed detailed simulation models for a gas turbine and heat recovery steam generator and identified significant potential savings. Finally, the author also used a steam turbine as an example to present a multi-regression method on constructing simulation models by using basic statistics and optimization algorithms. This report presents a survey of the author??s working experience at the Energy Systems Laboratory (ESL) at Texas A&M University during the period of January 2002 through March 2004. The purpose of the above work was to allow the author to become familiar with the practice of engineering. The result is that the author knows how to complete a project from start to finish and understands how both technical and nontechnical aspects of a project need to be considered in order to ensure a quality deliverable and bring a project to successful completion. This report concludes that the objectives of the internship were successfully accomplished and that the requirements for the degree of Degree of Engineering have been satisfied
Fine mapping of Lr14 locus from the leaf rust resistant source cultivar Creso in durum wheat (Triticum durum Desf.)
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