With complexities of Systems-on-Chip rising almost daily, the system designers have been searching for new methodology that can handle given complexities with increased productivity and decreased times-to-market. The obvious solution that comes to mind is increasing the level of abstraction. However, the most important things that system designers care about are system architectures (components topology), HW/SW performance, and the communication protocols. System designer has to make decisions on these factors in a very short time. Furthermore, the transaction level model (TLM) can satisfy the requests on simulation speed and the information that system designer need. We implement a TLM virtual prototype platform with SystemC composing with the variable wrappers. The basic modules: ISS interface, user-define modules and a flexible bus. Based on the infrastructures, a much faster modeling process of the system can be achieved in this thesis. Finally, the platform will run the whole-system-simulation to verify the functional model and collect the dynamic information on the buses and IPs to diagnose the bottle-neck of the system.

ABSTRACT THE ROLE OF LOCAL AUTHORITIES IN THE MAINTENANCE AND SIMPLE REPAIR PROCESSES OF CULTURAL HERITAGE CASE STUDY: SiVRiHiSAR &Ccedil / eltik Sahlan, Kevser M.S. in Restoration, Department of Architecture Supervisor: Assoc.Prof. Dr. Emre Madran May 2007, 110 pages Turkey has a rich cultural heritage and traditional houses. However, this heritage is under the danger of extinction due to several reasons. On of the most important reason is not being able to make simple repair and maintenance of these buildings. Actually, to leave this heritage to future generations the most effective and low cost method for conserving traditional buildings is the simple repair and maintenance. In Turkey, the responsibility and authority of simple repair and maintenance is delegated to local administrations by the law of Conservation of Cultural and Natural Heritage no 2863 amended by law no 5226. According to this law Conservation Implementation Control and Education Bureaus (KUDEB) is the responsible organ in municipalities for simple repair and maintenance. In this thesis, in the light of current regulations KUDEB&amp / #8217 / s tasks in simple repair and maintenance together with functioning points. Later, a model was proposed regarding the functioning and financing of simple repair and maintenance in order to fill these missing points. Moreover, these proposals were tested in Sivrihisar scale and illustrated on the facades of Sivrihisar Houses.

Niksar (Tokat), is an urban area located in a seismically active zone of Turkey. The aim of this thesis is to prepare GIS-based microzonation map of Niksar settlement area for the purpose of urban planning. Liquefaction, activity, slope, aspect, fault proximity, ground amplification and lithology are considered during the overlay analysis by using Multicriteria Decision Making Analysis (MCDA) of Simple Additive Weighing (SAW) and Analytical Hierarchical Process (AHP) methods. Based on the evaluations, the study area is divided into four different zones, namely, (1) areas suitable for settlement / (2) provisional settlement areas / (3) areas requiring detailed geotechnical investigation / (4) unsuitable areas. Two microzonation maps obtained from analyses are compared. Maps prepared by SAW and AHP methods are found to be consistent with each other. However, the microzonation map prepared by AHP method is recommended for the purpose of urban planning because it has the ability to check consistency itself.

Forging is a metal forming process which involves non-linear deformations. Finite element and finite volume software programs are commonly used to simulate the process. In these simulations, material properties are required. However, stress-strain relations of the materials at some elevated temperatures are not available in the material libraries of the related software programs. In this study, the stress-strain curves have been obtained by applying the Cook and Larke Simple Compression Test to AISI 1045 steel at several temperatures on a forging press with a capacity of 1000 tons. The stress-strain curves have also been determined by simulating the processes in a commercial finite element software. It is observed that experimental results are consistent with the numerical ones. A modular die set has been designed and manufactured to conduct the Cook and Larke Simple Compression Test. It has been shown that the forging press with data acquisition system can be used as a material testing equipment to obtain stress-strain curves.

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The objective of this study is to elucidate the efficiency of enation-structure (at node) recognition method at pre-flowing stage and to understand the population genetic variation of the Mikania weeds in Taiwan. The plant materials collected by recognizing enation-structure symptom method from North, Central, South and East Taiwan and off-shore islands. Using PCR¡V sequencing marker techniques, the sequencing revealed that nrDNA ITS region could identify three Mikania weeds and the 97% similarity of phylogenetic relationship between M.cordata and M.micrantha are more closer than that between M.cordata and M.scandens, whose ITS sequence is obtained from GeneBank. However ,the sequences of chloroplast DNA of M.cordata and M.micrantha at trnL intron¡]436bp¡^or trnL-trnF IGS¡]345 bp¡^are almost the same and could not be used as molecular markers. The recognizing techniques of enation-structure was supported by the nrDNA ITS region and ISSR results at the end, thus the finding can be recommended to the Council of Agriculture in order to eliminate the weed and to reduce the impact on M.cordata, which is native in Taiwan. Moreover, the findings of ISSR analysis in the aspect of population genetic variation indicated that high genetic differentiation ¡]Gst>0.5¡^was found among the M. cordata and M.micrantha populations. Based on the Mantle test, there was no relationship between genetic distance and geographic distance in M.micrantha¡]r=0.0053,p=0.47¡^.This phenomenon revealed that populations of M.micrantha had complex population variability within the short-term invaded into Taiwan that might be resulted from the random dispersion of human activities. The population of M.micrantha was established by few individuals (founders) and grown rapidly in Taiwan, resulting in population differentiation via genetic drift. In contrast to M.micrantha ,there was relationship between genetic distance and geographic distance in M.cordata ¡]r=0.44,p=0.025¡¯¡^.It revealed that populations of M.cordata agreed to the concept of isolation by distance model, which might be evolved from the result of natural dispersion. In conclusion, the population structure of M.micrantha in Taiwan is stable , suggesting that control of Mikania population should be based on different populations where have large differentiation among them .

L'analyse formelle des variantes fléchies du verbe à l'indicatif aboutit à la mise en évidence de la combinaison de deux morphèmes [Ø/(±R)] et [Ø/ai/a]. C'est ainsi que le conditionnel et le futur se différencient des autres temps de l'indicatif par la présence du (+R)- dont on peut postuler qu'il est commun également à l'infinitif- mais se distinguent l'un de l'autre par l'opposition ai/a, opposition qui différencie également l'imparfait du passé simple en se combinant au (–R). <br />Ce constat éclaire de façon nouvelle la relation qui se construit entre les différents « temps » du mode indicatif. En effet, la prise en compte d'une opposition supplémentaire conduit à réinterroger la prédominance de la temporalité dans les analyses des « temps » de l'indicatif au profit d'une déconstruction de la combinaison des valeurs. Cette analyse permet alors de rendre compte de la diversité des effets de sens tout en évitant l'atomisation des explications temporelles, modales, aspectuelles au gré des occurrences. <br />La première partie de la thèse s'articule autour de la relation entre cette analyse morphologique et les différentes analyses formelles du futur et du conditionnel qui ont pu être menées auparavant.<br />Dans un second temps, se nourrissant de la confrontation avec les analyses conceptuelles existantes de l'infinitif, du passé simple, de l'imparfait, du futur et du conditionnel, elle explore le versant sémantique de l'hypothèse de l'existence d'un morphème ±R qui se combine avec un autre morphème a/ai. Hypothèse qui oblige, d'une part, à caractériser la valeur sémantique du morphème dénoté par ±R et c'est le concept ±potentiel qui lui sera associé, d'autre part, à redéfinir l'opposition imparfait/passé simple puisque c'est cette même opposition qui se retrouve dans le couple futur/conditionnel. C'est le trait ± défini qui sera proposé.<br />La prise en compte de la combinaison de ces deux traits sémantiques permet de déjouer la complexité d'énoncés dont la richesse n'a d'égal que la variété.

Thesis (M.S. in Computer Science)--Naval Postgraduate School, March 2003. / Thesis advisor(s): Ted Lewis, Geoffrey Xie, Gurminder Singh. Includes bibliographical references (p. 89). Also available online.

This report is a summarization and extension of previous work done by Dr. Efraim Armendariz, University of Texas at Austin, and Dr. Henry E. Heatherly, University of Lousiana Lafayette, on the topic of rings with commuting ideals. Some of these authors’ results are extended to one-sided ideals instead of two-sided ideals. Topics discussed include homomorphic images of rings with commuting left ideals, finite direct products of rings with commuting left ideals, rings of n x n matrices over a ring with commuting left ideals, constructing rings with commuting ideals using an idempotent, and simple rings with commuting ideals over polynomials in X. Examples are given to illustrate some properties of rings with commuting ideals. A short a discussion regarding the inclusion of ring theory in the secondary mathematics classroom is also included. / text

Studien syftade till att undersöka hur avkodningen, för elever i avkodningssvårigheter, påverkades av en intervention med läslistor ställt mot tidigare liknande interventioner. Interventionen innefattade elever i avkodningssvårigheter som lästränade 20 tillfällen á 10 minuter med läslistor från Wendickmodellen Intensivläsning. Studien syftade också till att undersöka hur avkodningsutvecklingen för eleverna i interventionen tedde sig beroende på elevernas ålder. Därför genomfördes studien med elever från både låg- och högstadiet. Vidare syftade studien till att undersöka elevers motivation till att lästräna med läslistorna.  Studien lades upp enligt klassisk experimentell design med interventionsgrupper och kontrollgrupper från både låg- och högstadiet. Grupperna omfattade 15 elever i varje grupp vilket genererade totalt 60 elevers resultat. Studien genomfördes som en intervention med för- och eftertest samt en efterföljande intervju med eleverna i interventionsgrupperna om hur motiverade de varit till att lästräna med läslistorna. Testresultaten behandlades kvantitativt och intervjuerna utgjorde ett kvalitativt komplement till testresultaten. Interventionsgruppen på lågstadiet visade ökad avkodningsförmåga jämfört med kontrollgruppen i alla tester. Resultatet visar att interventionen med läslistorna har haft god påverkan på yngre barns avkodningsutveckling. På högstadiet ökade interventionsgruppen mer än kontrollgruppen i de flesta tester men en större ökning för interventionsgruppen än kontrollgruppen noterades särskilt vid nonsensordsläsningstest. I intervjuerna framkom att eleverna i interventionsgrupperna överlag var motiverade till att lästräna med metoden. Eleverna på lågstadiet var mer motiverade till metoden än högstadieeleverna, även om det bland högstadieeleverna inte fanns mer än någon enstaka som direkt ogillade metoden.