DC–DC converter fault diagnosis, executed via neural networks built by exploiting the information deriving from testability analysis, is the subject of this paper. The networks under consideration are complex valued neural networks (CVNNs), who...
Ensuring user safety has become increasingly essential, especially for safety-critical systems (SCSs) that are vital to human life or significant property. However, the prevailing design-for-testability (DFT) model, which relies on dependencies, over...
The multi-functional integrated RF system (MIRFS) is a crucial component of aircraft onboard systems. In the testability design process, traditional methods cannot effectively deal with the inevitable differences between system designs and usage requ...
The multi-valued dependency matrix (MVD matrix) is an important testability modeling approach, which can deliver more comprehensive testability information than the traditional dependency matrix (D-matrix). However, existing testability strategy opti...
Calculations testing can be effectively used in the construction of discrete self-checking devices. Calculations testing is based on the parity and self-duality of the calculated functions. This can be used for modern blocks and nodes of control syst...
This paper investigates the problem of selecting instrumental variables relative to a target causal influence
In this paper, we present a new method designed to recognize single parametric faults in analog circuits. The technique follows a rigorous approach constituted by three sequential steps: calculating the testability and extracting the ambiguity groups...
The review presents the basics of quantum decision theory, with an emphasis on temporary processes in decision making. The aim is to explain the principal points of the theory. How an operationally-testable, rational choice between alternatives diffe...
Metastatic progression of female breast and colon cancer represents a major cause of mortality in women. Spontaneous/acquired resistance to conventional and targeted chemo-endocrine therapy is associated with the emergence of drug-resistant tumor-ini...
The current debate about a possible change of paradigm from a single universe to a multiverse scenario could have deep implications on our view of cosmology and of science in general. These implications therefore deserve to be analyzed from a fundame...
Background and Objectives: Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often experience visual problems, yet their ophthalmic health remains underexplored due to testability challenges and limited-service access. This study evaluated ophthalmic scre...
The test in the production of microfluidic devices dedicated to medical applications poses several challenges in terms of contamination, reliability, and cost. The present article describes the Design-for-Testability approach used to make an insulin...
A train traction system is an important part of an urban rail transit system. However, a train traction system has many components and a high risk of internal faults. How to systematically evaluate the fault coverage and diagnosis ability of testing...
25 September 2022
Purpose: Given the increased exposure to e-cigarettes and nicotine among young adults, difficulty in quitting vaping is likely, which supports the need for effective behavioral interventions. Therefore, this cross-sectional study aims to assess the t...
Cryptographic circuits generally are used for applications of wireless sensor networks to ensure security and must be tested in a manufacturing process to guarantee their quality. Therefore, a scan architecture is widely used for testing the circuits...
Design for testability configures test points and plans tests during product design to support fault detection and isolation in service. Existing test strategy generation (TSG) methods mainly address offline diagnosis. As demand for uninterrupted ope...
Research on the socio-cognitive skills of different species often benefit from comparative experiments, however, the ecology of the species and development of the individuals may differently determine how they react to the same test situation. In thi...
A fan-out wafer level package (FOWLP) with double-sided four redistribution layers (RDLs) and the mega pillars connecting the front and back RDLs has been proposed for millimeter-wave applications. A well-matched package-board transition has been des...
Recent generative art outputs across music, literature, painting and moving-image media have attracted extensive scholarly and public interest, yet evaluations of their creative capacities are mostly limited to informal observational accounts. Drawin...
We address the need for a model by considering two competing theories regarding the origin of life: (i) the Metabolism First theory, and (ii) the RNA World theory. We discuss two interrelated points, namely: (i) Models are valuable tools for understa...
Long-term treatment options for conventional chemo-endocrine therapy and molecular-pathway-based targeted therapy are associated with acquired therapy resistance and the emergence of drug-resistant cancer-initiating stem cell populations, leading to...
Livestock production must reconcile animal health, food safety, ecological limits, and farm viability. This narrative review proposes proactive health-oriented livestock production (PHLP) as a testable conceptual framework for alpine pastoral systems...
15 November 2026
Perturbation-predictive cell models are advancing quickly, yet they remain predominantly molecular, even though the mechanical state of cells and tissues—stiffness, viscoelasticity, geometry, and force generation—can alter therapeutic res...
Herpesviruses establish lifelong persistence through acute replication, immune evasion, latency, and reactivation. Nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain-like receptors (NLRs) are most commonly discussed in the context of inflammasome sensors, pyr...
Severe burn injuries remain a major health problem due to high rates of mortality, residual morbidity, and/or aesthetic damages. To find new therapies aimed at promoting a harmonious healing of skin burns, it is important to develop models which take...
Traditionally the thermal behavior of power devices is characterized by temperature measurements at the junction and at accessible external points. In large modules composed of thin chips and materials of high thermal conductivity the shape and distr...
A smart monitoring system capable of detecting and classifying the health conditions of MV (Medium Voltage) underground cables is presented in this work. Using the analysis technique proposed here, it is possible to prevent the occurrence of catastro...
Excessive power consumption during test application time has severely negative effects on chip reliability since it has an inevitable role in hot spots that appear, degradation of performance, circuit premature destruction, and functional failures. I...
Power modules composed of semiconductor dice, thermal interface layers, and cooling mounts can be characterized by thermal transient testing at their actual position (in situ). This paper demonstrates that transient testing enables tracking of change...
Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) is an on-going problem for the worldwide pig industry. Commercial and experimental vaccinations often demonstrate reduced pathology and improved growth performance; however, specific immune...
This paper proposes a testable three-layer retained-state framework for intelligent energy systems grounded in mem-element theory. The framework distinguishes constitutive physical memory (Layer I), distributed circuit/converter memory (Layer II), an...
Inherited mitochondrial cardiomyopathies arise from pathogenic variants affecting oxidative phosphorylation, mitochondrial DNA maintenance, cardiolipin remodeling, protein import, cofactor metabolism, and mitochondrial dynamics or proteostasis. These...
Modern readers who investigate religious theories and practices are exposed to diverse truth claims and worldviews. Such claims are often conflicting and subject the readers to various misconceptions and misguidance. In Buddhism, the Buddha is said t...
3-Nitropropionic acid (3-NPA) is an irreversible inhibitor of succinate dehydrogenase (SDH; mitochondrial complex II) that is widely used to model mitochondrial metabolic stress. Direct reproductive studies now show that 3-NPA can increase ovarian ox...
The autism spectrum disorder-associated SCN2A, ANK2, and SHANK-family genes encode molecularly distinct proteins that converge functionally on dendritic integration. Recent work established that ankyrin-B, encoded by ANK2, acts as an obligate dendrit...
Attachment scholars have long argued that insecure attachment patterns are associated with vulnerability to internalizing symptoms, such as depression and anxiety symptoms. However, accumulating evidence from the past four decades, summarized in four...
Background: Sleep loss is epidemiologically linked to atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, yet shared-transcriptome studies typically intersect differentially expressed gene lists and treat the overlap as a shared response, assuming rather than te...
Commercial age-friendly modes are increasingly embedded in smartphone applications, yet their task-performance implications for older adults remain uncertain. This two-stage study used a cognitively informed ecological-to-controlled strategy linking...
The transition from the quantum to the classical world is not yet understood. Here, we take a new approach. Central to this is the understanding that measurement and actualization cannot occur except on some specific basis. However, we have no establ...
Resulting from the short production cycle and rapid design technology development, traditional prognostic and health management (PHM) approaches become impractical and fail to match the requirement of systems with structural and functional complexity...
A theory-consistent CVAR scenario describes a set of testable regularieties one should expect to see in the data if the basic assumptions of the theoretical model are empirically valid. Using this method, the paper demonstrates that all basic assumpt...
Systems biology maps extensive networks but lacks a general principle identifying the minimum functional architecture of living organization. The Triadic Principle of Biology (TPB) proposes that stable, self-regulating biological systems require coor...
To ensure that a hardware Trojan remains hidden in a circuit, it is usually necessary to ensure that the trigger signal has a low testability, which has been widely recognized and proven. The most advanced testability-based detection methods are rath...
A theory-consistent CVAR scenario describes a set of testable regularities capturing basic assumptions of the theoretical model. Using this concept, the paper considers a standard model for exchange rate determination with forward-looking expectation...
Recent studies have identified phosphorylated α-synuclein in the skin of individuals with neurodegenerative disease. The levels of this protein in the skin have been correlated with disease severity. This protein has been specifically studied i...
Background: Otosclerosis is a focal disorder of otic capsule bone remodeling, but variant-to-cell-state mechanisms remain unresolved. Methods: We performed an entirely secondary hypothesis-generating analysis of otosclerosis GWAS, osteoclast cis-eQTL...
The recent review by Veron et al. (2025) posits that quantitative genomic evidence used to understand coral evolution should be secondary to species hypotheses derived from expert opinion based on field experience. The authors argue that morphologica...
Intensive care units generate dense physiological, laboratory, imaging, microbiological and treatment data, yet much of the clinical reasoning that drives decisions is recorded only in free text. Over the past decade, clinical sentiment analysis has...
The purpose of this study is twofold: firstly, to provide a literature review of sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) critical factors, practices and performance; and secondly, to develop a comprehensive and testable model of SSCM in the food i...
The purpose of the paper is to discuss ten things potential users should know about the limits of the Dynamic Conditional Correlation (DCC) representation for estimating and forecasting time-varying conditional correlations. The reasons given for cau...
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