Sequential Circuits with Combinational Test Generation Complexity under Single-Fault Assumption

We show that the test generation problem for all single stuck-at faults in sequential circuits with internally balanced structures can be reduced into the test generation problem for single stuck-at faults in combinational circuits. In our previous work, we introduced internally balanced structures as a class of sequential circuits with the combinational test generation complexity. However, single stuck-at faults on some primary inputs, called separable primary inputs, corresponded to multiple stuck-at faults in a transformed combinational circuit. In this paper, we resolve this problem. We show how to generate a test sequence and identify undetectability for single stuck-at faults on separable primary inputs.     

A 6-ns, 1.5-V, 4-Mb BiCMOS SRAM

A 0.3-μm 4-Mb BiCMOS SRAM with a 6-ns access time at a minimum supply voltage of 1.5 V has been developed. Circuit technologies contributing to the low-voltage, high-speed operations include: (1) boost-BiNMOS gates for address decoding circuits; (2) an optimized word-boost technique for a highly-resistive-load memory cell; (3) a stepped-down CML cascoded bipolar sense amplifier; (4) optimum boost-voltage detection circuits with dummies for boost-voltage generators     

Postsurgical oral administration of uracil and tegafur inhibits progression of micrometastasis of human breast cancer cells in nude mice

We recently established a metastasis model in nude mice using the MKL-4 cell line, a contransfectant of the MCF-7 human breast cancer cell line with fgf-4 and lacZ in which micrometastases in several organs can be quantitatively observed. First, to develop a new postsurgical metastasis model, we investigated the timing of occurrence of micrometastasis and the influence of tumor removal on the progression of micrometastasis in this model. Micrometastases into lymph nodes and lungs were detected 3 weeks after the cell injections. Tumor removal 3 weeks after the injections significantly enhanced the progression of micrometastasis into lymph nodes and bone. Second, to study the effect of a mixed compound, UFT (a molar ratio of uracil:tegafur of 4:1), which has been widely used in the postsurgical adjuvant setting in Japan, 15 or 20 mg/kg UFT were administered p.o. for 4 weeks to tumor-bearing mice or to mice in which transplanted tumors were resected 3 weeks after the injections. Either dose of UFT significantly inhibited the tumor growth as well as the progression of micrometastasis into lymph nodes, lungs, liver, and brain. In addition, enhanced progression of micrometastasis in all explored organs by the tumor removal was significantly inhibited by the administration of either dose of UFT. In conclusion, this new postsurgical metastasis model may be useful for evaluating the efficacy of agents used in the postoperative adjuvant setting. UFT may be an effective drug for inhibiting the progression of micrometastasis after surgery.     

Osteochondritis dissecans of the femoral condyle in the growth stage

The site of lesion, spontaneous healing, onset mechanism, and magnetic resonance imaging findings of 51 knees in 38 patients with osteochondritis dissecans involving the femoral condyle in the growth stage were investigated. tercondylar site, and the remaining 1/4 were in other sites. Compared with those in the other sites, the lesions in a medial intercondylar site had a lower healing rate and required a longer time to heal. T2 weighted images of the lesions showed a progression from low signal areas to the appearance of a high signal line at the fragment to parent to bone interface, to a high signal double line at the interface and parent-bone surface, or to disappearance of the line. Magnetic resonance imaging often revealed discoid menisci or meniscal tears in patients with lesions in the lateral condyle, suggesting that endogenous forces play an important role in the onset of osteochondritis dissecans.     

Analysis of the dynamic characteristics in the overcurrent limitedmode of the DC-DC converter

The steady-state and dynamic characteristics in the overcurrent-limited mode of a DC-DC converter are analyzed theoretically and experimentally. The circuit conditions are defined for foldback current limiting, constant current, and voltage drooping characteristics, which are realized when the DC voltage gain of the overcurrent limiting control loop is larger than, equal to, and less than unity, respectively. It is shown that the stability in the overcurrent-limited mode, as well as the transient response from the load point in the constant voltage-regulated mode to that in the current-limited mode, can be improved by using a relatively large DC voltage gain and by approximately adjusting the rate time and reset time in the derivative and integral compensators, respectively     

Recent developments of bending in Japan

Developments and researches concerning bending in Japan during the last ten years can be divided into three major subject matters; bending of plates, bending of pipes and bending of channels. In binding, of plates, the problems of forming pipes from plates by using the U-O method have been treated by practising engineers and researchers, so the forming conditions have been confirmed. On the other hand, new processes to manufacture long tubes or pipes by the successive U-O bending, a method of in-plane bending with rolling and so on, have been proposed. An analysis for bending which has been considered with sharing deformations has been presented too. In bending of pipes, experimental and theoretical researches for plastic bending of pipes have been carried out. In bending of channels, uniform bending and stretch forming for channel products have been researched experimentally and theoretically. In the following chapters, the researches and developments about the above three major subject matters of bending are described in detail.     

A significant stride toward the comparative study of control.

Comments on the discussion by J. R. Weisz et al (see record 1985-19980-001) of the distinction between the primary form of control, which is characteristic of Americans and emphasizes influence over existing reality, and the secondary form of control, which is characteristic of Japanese and emphasizes accommodation. The present author discusses forms of control in Japan in relation to the methods of control used, the context boundedness of interpersonal relations, and the concept of the self. (3 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)