CMOS IC scaling has provided significant improvements in electronic circuit performance.
Advances in test methodologies to deal with new failure mechanisms and nanometer issues
are required. Interconnect opens are an important defect mechanism that requires detailed
knowledge of its physical…

In June 2008, the Brazilian Interdisciplinary AIDS Association (ABIA) and the Indian NGO SAHARA submitted a joint pre-grant opposition to the patent application of Tenofovir Disoproxil Fumarate in India. This joint action provides a pertinent case model of the potential…

Concept maps are graphical representations of relationships among concepts that can be an effective tool for teaching, designing, and organizing information in a variety of library settings. Concept maps can be used wherever training or formal teaching occurs as a…

This essay illuminates the historical context of the contemporary language of globalization. It argues that the key concepts of the “global” began in ancient Greek thought about unseen space, before being reified through the Renaissance invention of the terrestrial globe.…

This thesis explores how an agent can autonomously learn about its environment
just by interacting with it. This is not an easy task, since traditional
machine learning algorithms strongly depend on the user's intervention to define
the data to…

With the increasing demand for composite materials by the industry, the adhesive joints emer ge as an attractive alternative to traditional mechanical joints. The latter require as a preliminary step, the drilling of the laminates with consequent damage to the…

This dissertation sets out to examine the conceptual domains of CHANGE and
POSSESSION by selecting two main verbal classes, namely entity-specific change-ofstate verbs for the domain of CHANGE and contribute verbs for that of POSSESSION.
The most important step consisted…

Potato is an important staple food and horticultural crop for Argentina and it is included in almost every meal prepared by households. The annual average per capita consumption of potatoes is 40 kg. Despite the rapid rise of supermarkets, small…

Many asymptotic results for kernel-based estimators were established under some smoothness assumption on density. For cases where smoothness assumptions that are used to derive unbiasedness or asymptotic rate may not hold we propose a combined estimator that could lead to…

BACKGROUND:A variety of definitions of evidence-based practice (EBP) exist. However, definitions are in themselves insufficient to explain the underlying processes of EBP and to differentiate between an evidence-based process and evidence-based outcome. There is a need for a clear statement…