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DIN Track Terminal Blocks with Screw Terminals

Global-standard DIN Terminal Blocks for Control Panels(XW5T-S)




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Common Terminal Blocks with Visible Indicators

Our Value Design Products Increase the Value of Your Control Panels. Contributing to downsize control panels and save work. It can proper wiring without skillful operators, because of indicators make wiring completion simply visible.(XW6T)




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Wachee VPN Bypasses Geo-Restrictions and Unblocks Streaming Websites

'Wachee' is used exclusively for streaming, bypasses geographical blocks, and is cheaper, faster and more stable than its competitors.




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Carbon Block Water Filter Systems Can Fight The Worst Contaminants With Advanced Structure

Carbon block water filter systems excel in increasing the quality of drinking water in city locations. These filters work by stopping common contaminants from entering residential water systems.




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Sphenopalatine Ganglion (SPG) Blocks and Neuromodulation: Prevention, Elimination and Treatment of Severe Headaches, Migraines, Cluster Headaches, Anxiety, Trigeminal Neuralgia and TMJ Disorders

A new paper in CRANIO Journal explains how the Sphenopalatine Ganglion is a common thread linking these disorders. Self-Administration of SPG Blocks and Neuromodulation on the Ganglion can dramtically improve patients quality of life.




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Unique Blockchain Training Initiative Seeks to Train 10,000 Developers in Hyperledger Fabric, Hyperledger Sawtooth, Corda and EOS Blockchain to fill Growing Skills Gap

10K Blockchain Developers Training Initative




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BlocWatch and BlockApps Partner to Help Blockchain Users Optimize their Networks

When used together, platforms provide a comprehensive solution to enterprises' key blockchain challenges




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Netsanity Launches Free Forever AI-Based Adult Content Blocking Service

Available worldwide and available free of charge for Apple iOS and Samsung mobile devices




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How a Simple $4 USB Port Blocker Can Be Your Best Cybersecurity Investment

The USB port blocker from The Connectivity Center guards your open "front door" against malware, viruses, and data breaches.




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Blockchain, One of the Most Disruptive Technologies in Decades, is a Game-changer

Today a new company was announced, TheBlockBox, to deliver blockchain product design and development to customers




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AuthenTrend Fingerprint enabled Blockchain Cold Wallet Proudly Wins CES 2020 Innovation Award Honoree for Cybersecurity and Personal Privacy

AT.Wallet, a fingerprint enabled card type wallet is AuthenTrend's answer to the ever-increasing hackers to blockchain related transactions which includes Cryptocurrency.




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How the USB Port Blocker Became the Mainstay of Cybersecurity

Considering the number of USB ports that surround us in the workplace, not protecting each one with a USB blocker is like leaving your front door wide open.




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Essential Hypertension In Newly Diagnosed Patients: Sphenopalatine Ganglion (SPG Blocks) Blocks Treat Essential Hypertension, Decrease and Eliminates Headaches, Migraines and Other Autonomic Disorders

The Sphenopalatine Ganglion Block has been called "The Miracle Block" due to effectiveness in treating all types of headaches and migraines including TACs. This autonomic block is also useful for a wide variety of eye, nose, and sinus issues.




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Denmark-based OpenLedger Announces First-of-its-kind Enterprise Blockchain Solution VPLedger

The distributed ledger platform is designed from the ground up for use by businesses, addressing concerns about evolving regulation, privacy and malicious activity from the outset.




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Loveonly: The World's First Premium Diamond Asset Brand Meets Blockchain Technology

Loveonly, Inc. unlocks the true asset potential of diamonds for all investors while re-establishing safety and trust through innovative transparent technology.




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Blockchain App Factory Launches an STO-in-a-Box Solution Containing Tokenization, Legal Compliance, Fundraising and Investor Management

Having a wide spectrum of clients from the ICO days, to corporate solutions on smart ledger technologies, Blockchain App Factory has now come up with the most comprehensive approach to Security Token Offerings.




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For interworks.cloud Microsoft Inspire 2019 was a Blockbuster...Powerful, Immense and Successful!

For the third year in a row as exhibitors, the interworks.cloud team wants to say a huge thank you to all its prospects and customers for helping make this year the greatest success, so far!




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Blockchain Management Company BlocWatch Secures $5.5 Million Funding Round

Funds will be deployed to help BlocWatch expand its blockchain management platform used for enterprise implementations of Hyperledger Fabric, Ethereum, and Corda.




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Toronto's "Contact Dance International Film Festival" Struggles to Bring Headliners from India and Costa Rica to Canada Due to Canadian Travel Visa Roadblocks

Out of the eight headliner guests invited to the festival, four that are people of colour from India and Costa Rica are unable to enter Canada. Cultural exchange and diversity has been undercut by unfair travel policies targeting certain regions.




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Block Entertainment Tells it All to 2 Chics Wit A Mic - Podcast Release Date February 28th

The sexy 2 Chics Wit A Mic Podcast launched late 2019 discussing topics that make the average person uncomfortable. Think modern day, empowered, black women who believe in old school values and new school rules. - 2 Chics Wit A Mic




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The Four Fears Blocking You from Great Ideas

Tom and David Kelley, leaders of IDEO and authors of the forthcoming HBR article "Reclaim Your Creative Confidence."




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Blockchain — What You Need to Know

Karim Lakhani, Harvard Business School professor and co-founder of the HBS Digital Initiative, discusses blockchain, an online record-keeping technology that many believe will revolutionize commerce. Lakhani breaks down how the technology behind bitcoin works and talks about the industries and companies that could see new growth opportunities or lose business. He also has recommendations for managers: start experimenting with blockchain as soon as possible. Lakhani is the co-author of the article “The Truth About Blockchain” in the January-February 2017 issue of Harvard Business Review.




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Olive oil producer deploys IBM Blockchain for full traceability

IBM helps CHO create provenance record for olive oil from grower to consumer




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Blockchain: A Quiet Revolution? A Disruptor? Both?

Think about many of the technologies we now take for granted, like the smartphone. Think about how significantly the smartphone has changed the way we live and work. Think about how your business life was a mere 10-12 years ago.… Read More

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How Blockchain Could Impact the Market

Contracts, transactions, and the records of them are among the defining structures of our economic, legal, and political systems. They establish and verify identities and chronicle events. Yet the bureaucracies formed to manage these have not kept up with the… Read More

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Blockchain…What is It?

If you have attended a financial or business seminar in the past six months, I’ll bet you heard about the concept of Blockchain, as it is a hot topic nowadays. If you’re like me, you left the venue scratching your… Read More

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AI and the Building Blocks of Intelligent Content

The data, information, and analytics economy runs on well-curated, structured data. No matter your industry?having good curated data and content is critical. It's increasingly important as more data and content are generated. Intelligent tools to sift through content are more robust and at the same time, more "needy." That means modern technology platforms, systems, and even content consumers require well-structured data and content to perform well. As most artificial intelligence (AI) practitioners state?"nothing starts without good data."




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Reliance Industries to sell its Asian Paints stake worth Rs 7000 cr via block deal: Sources

Reliance Industries to sell its Asian Paints stake worth Rs 7000 cr via block deal: Sources





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AMP shareholders block the 2019 remuneration report

AMP has been forced to defend its plans for executive pay after frustrated shareholders moved to block the company’s 2019 renumeration report. The Finance Giant’s report has been voted down by a 67 percent majority at the company’s annual general meeting. The report stated the AMP’s Chief executive officer had been paid approximately four million dollars in 2019, despite the bank recording a four year net loss of 2.5 billion dollars in February.




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A fuller picture: The building blocks of a 3-dimensional natural resource inventory

Accurate measurements of natural resources are a prerequisite for resource assessment. Demetrios Gatziolis, a scientist with the USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station, and his colleagues with Washington State University developed and tested protocols for using structure-from-motion photogrammetry to obtain data that can be used to construct 3-dimensional (3-D) representations of trees, other vegetation, and down wood. This type of photogrammetry is a remote-sensing technique based on a sequence of digital images or video footage. Gatziolis and his colleagues focused on developing protocols for using it under the forest canopy. Their method can serve as a guide for others interested in obtaining inexpensive, precise 3-D data of trees in field plots. The researchers continue to perfect the technology so it can be reliably deployed by field crews with a minimal amount of training.




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Triple Link block with rollover effect.

A three link block of information with rollover effect.




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City Block

Top of CN Tower seen through buildings on Spadina Avenue....




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Leg pain medication may prevent re-blockage of neck arteries after a stent

Research Highlights: Adding cilostazol, an antiplatelet medication for leg pain, to other drugs tended to prevent re-blockage of carotid artery stents within two years. This is the first trial to show potential effectiveness of medical management for...




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The Block: Stories from a Meeting Place

These are stories about a patch of land in Sydney, an infamous acre known as the Block, a place steeped in a rich history of Aboriginal culture, activism and hope. Over time, tragedy, drug abuse and crime crept into the Indigenous-owned housing precinct. In September 2010, the few remaining tenants received notice to vacate their homes. The Aboriginal Housing Company, which owned the crumbling terraces, was keen to redevelop the land. Now vacant, the Block sits on the verge of a new, uncertain rebirth. This virtual time capsule invites you to explore the Block, to witness the events that defined its 40-year history, and to meet the people whose lives it has shaped.




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Judge rules Iowa law unconstitutional that blocked sex education funding to Planned Parenthood

An Iowa judge has ruled unconstitutional a state law that would have blocked Planned Parenthood of the Heartland from receiving federal money to provide sex education programs to Iowa youth. Fifth...




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Judge rules Iowa law unconstitutional that blocked sex education funding to Planned Parenthood

An Iowa judge has ruled unconstitutional a state law that would have blocked Planned Parenthood of the Heartland from receiving federal money to provide sex education programs to Iowa youth.

Fifth Judicial District Judge Paul Scott on Wednesday ruled the law “has no valid, ‘realistically conceivable’ purpose that serves a legitimate government interest as it is both irrationally overinclusive and under-inclusive.”

“The act violates (Planned Parenthood of the Heartland’s) right to equal protection under the law and is therefore unconstitutional,” Scott ruled in issuing a permanent injunction to prevent the law’s implementation.

House File 766, passed in 2019 by the Republican-controlled Iowa House and Senate, excluded any Iowa organization that “provides or promotes abortion” from receiving federal dollars that support sex education and related services to Iowa youth.

Planned Parenthood of the Heartland and ACLU of Iowa challenged the law, filing a lawsuit shortly after Gov. Kim Reynolds signed the bill into law.

Polk County District Court issued a temporary injunction blocking the law, which was to go into effect July 1, allowing Planned Parenthood to continue providing sex education programming throughout the past year.

The governor’s office did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the ruling.

Law challenged

In its lawsuit, Planned Parenthood and ACLU argued that by blocking the abortion provider from the two federal grants — the Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP) and the Community Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention (CAPP) — the law violated protections of free speech, due process and equal protection.

“The decision recognizes that the law blocking Planned Parenthood from receiving grants to provide this programming violated the constitutional requirement of equal protection,” ACLU of Iowa Legal Director Rita Bettis Austen said in a statement Thursday.

Though Planned Parenthood would be excluded, the law did allow “nonprofit health care delivery systems” to remain eligible for the federal funding, even if they are contracted with or are affiliated with an entity that performs abortions or maintains a facility where abortions are performed.

By doing so, the law effectively singles out Planned Parenthood, but allows other possible grant recipients to provide an array of abortion-related services, according to the court documents.

“The carved-out exception for the ‘nonprofit health care delivery system’ facilities undermines any rationale the State produces of not wanting to be affiliated with or provide funds to organizations that partake in any abortion-related activity,” Scott ruled. .

Programs in Iowa

In fiscal year 2019, Planned Parenthood received about $265,000 through the federal grants, including $85,000 to offer PREP curriculum in Polk, Pottawattamie and Woodbury counties.

It was awarded $182,000 this year to offer CAPP curriculum in Linn County, as well as in Dallas, Des Moines, Jasper, Lee, Polk, Plymouth and Woodbury counties.

The grants are administered by the Iowa Department of Human Services and the Iowa Department of Public Health.

Planned Parenthood has provided sex education to students in 31 schools and 12 community-based youth organizations in Iowa using state-approved curriculum since 2005, according to a new release.

The focus has remained “on areas with the highest rates of unintended pregnancies and sexually-transmitted infections,” the news release said.

“Today’s decision ensures that teens and young adults across Iowa will continue to have access to medically accurate sex education programs, despite the narrow and reckless policies of anti-abortion lawmakers,” said Erin Davison-Rippey, executive director of Planned Parenthood North Central States.

Comments: (319) 368-8536; michaela.ramm@thegazette.com




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Members – Block Permissions

Announcement of Members - Block Permissions, a WordPress plugin for showing/hiding content using the block editor (Gutenberg).




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What’s New in Recipe Card Blocks Free & PRO

It’s been a few months since the release of the Recipe Card Blocks PRO plugin, and our team continued to release new updates constantly for both versions of the plugin: Free & PRO. As we’ve released many major updates for both versions in the past months, let’s make a quick overview of the most important changes and new features we’ve […]




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Social Icons Widget 4.0 — Now With a Social Icons Block for Gutenberg Included

In 2015 we launched Social Icons Widget by WPZOOM with the intent to provide WordPress users with a simple and easy-to-use widget for adding social links to their websites. With over 100k installs at the moment and continuous positive feedback from the users, it kept us motivated to constantly improve and keep updating this free plugin. Now, to keep the […]




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Creating a Block-based Theme Using Block Templates

This post outlines the steps I took to create a block-based theme version of Twenty Twenty. Thanks to Kjell Reigstad for helping develop the theme and write this post. There’s been a lot of conversation around how theme development changes as Full Site Editing using Gutenberg becomes a reality. Block templates are an experimental feature … Continue reading "Creating a Block-based Theme Using Block Templates"




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Adding Block Patterns to Your Theme

Block patterns are unique, predefined combinations of blocks you can use and tweak to create stunningly designed sections of your website.




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How to Create a Wood Block Printing Text Effect

Let’s go old school with recreating a time honored printing technique in Adobe Illustrator. With a modified photo texture, we’ll quickly edit any text to look like a wood block printing text effect, ready for whatever your digital needs may be! Tutorial Details: Wood Block Printing Text Effect Program: Adobe Illustrator CS6 – CC 2015 […]

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Categorification via blocks of modular representations for sl(n). (arXiv:1612.06941v3 [math.RT] UPDATED)

Bernstein, Frenkel, and Khovanov have constructed a categorification of tensor products of the standard representation of $mathfrak{sl}_2$, where they use singular blocks of category $mathcal{O}$ for $mathfrak{sl}_n$ and translation functors. Here we construct a positive characteristic analogue using blocks of representations of $mathfrak{sl}_n$ over a field $ extbf{k}$ of characteristic $p$ with zero Frobenius character, and singular Harish-Chandra character. We show that the aforementioned categorification admits a Koszul graded lift, which is equivalent to a geometric categorification constructed by Cautis, Kamnitzer, and Licata using coherent sheaves on cotangent bundles to Grassmanians. In particular, the latter admits an abelian refinement. With respect to this abelian refinement, the stratified Mukai flop induces a perverse equivalence on the derived categories for complementary Grassmanians. This is part of a larger project to give a combinatorial approach to Lusztig's conjectures for representations of Lie algebras in positive characteristic.




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ZebraLancer: Decentralized Crowdsourcing of Human Knowledge atop Open Blockchain. (arXiv:1803.01256v5 [cs.HC] UPDATED)

We design and implement the first private and anonymous decentralized crowdsourcing system ZebraLancer, and overcome two fundamental challenges of decentralizing crowdsourcing, i.e., data leakage and identity breach.

First, our outsource-then-prove methodology resolves the tension between the blockchain transparency and the data confidentiality to guarantee the basic utilities/fairness requirements of data crowdsourcing, thus ensuring: (i) a requester will not pay more than what data deserve, according to a policy announced when her task is published via the blockchain; (ii) each worker indeed gets a payment based on the policy, if he submits data to the blockchain; (iii) the above properties are realized not only without a central arbiter, but also without leaking the data to the open blockchain. Second, the transparency of blockchain allows one to infer private information about workers and requesters through their participation history. Simply enabling anonymity is seemingly attempting but will allow malicious workers to submit multiple times to reap rewards. ZebraLancer also overcomes this problem by allowing anonymous requests/submissions without sacrificing accountability. The idea behind is a subtle linkability: if a worker submits twice to a task, anyone can link the submissions, or else he stays anonymous and unlinkable across tasks. To realize this delicate linkability, we put forward a novel cryptographic concept, i.e., the common-prefix-linkable anonymous authentication. We remark the new anonymous authentication scheme might be of independent interest. Finally, we implement our protocol for a common image annotation task and deploy it in a test net of Ethereum. The experiment results show the applicability of our protocol atop the existing real-world blockchain.




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QuickSync: A Quickly Synchronizing PoS-Based Blockchain Protocol. (arXiv:2005.03564v1 [cs.CR])

To implement a blockchain, we need a blockchain protocol for all the nodes to follow. To design a blockchain protocol, we need a block publisher selection mechanism and a chain selection rule. In Proof-of-Stake (PoS) based blockchain protocols, block publisher selection mechanism selects the node to publish the next block based on the relative stake held by the node. However, PoS protocols may face vulnerability to fully adaptive corruptions. In literature, researchers address this issue at the cost of performance.

In this paper, we propose a novel PoS-based blockchain protocol, QuickSync, to achieve security against fully adaptive corruptions without compromising on performance. We propose a metric called block power, a value defined for each block, derived from the output of the verifiable random function based on the digital signature of the block publisher. With this metric, we compute chain power, the sum of block powers of all the blocks comprising the chain, for all the valid chains. These metrics are a function of the block publisher's stake to enable the PoS aspect of the protocol. The chain selection rule selects the chain with the highest chain power as the one to extend. This chain selection rule hence determines the selected block publisher of the previous block. When we use metrics to define the chain selection rule, it may lead to vulnerabilities against Sybil attacks. QuickSync uses a Sybil attack resistant function implemented using histogram matching. We prove that QuickSync satisfies common prefix, chain growth, and chain quality properties and hence it is secure. We also show that it is resilient to different types of adversarial attack strategies. Our analysis demonstrates that QuickSync performs better than Bitcoin by an order of magnitude on both transactions per second and time to finality, and better than Ouroboros v1 by a factor of three on time to finality.




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Computing with bricks and mortar: Classification of waveforms with a doped concrete blocks. (arXiv:2005.03498v1 [cs.ET])

We present results showing the capability of concrete-based information processing substrate in the signal classification task in accordance with in materio computing paradigm. As the Reservoir Computing is a suitable model for describing embedded in materio computation, we propose that this type of presented basic construction unit can be used as a source for "reservoir of states" necessary for simple tuning of the readout layer. In that perspective, buildings constructed from computing concrete could function as a highly parallel information processor for smart architecture. We present an electrical characterization of the set of samples with different additive concentrations followed by a dynamical analysis of selected specimens showing fingerprints of memfractive properties. Moreover, on the basis of obtained parameters, classification of the signal waveform shapes can be performed in scenarios explicitly tuned for a given device terminal.




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Fast Mapping onto Census Blocks. (arXiv:2005.03156v1 [cs.DC])

Pandemic measures such as social distancing and contact tracing can be enhanced by rapidly integrating dynamic location data and demographic data. Projecting billions of longitude and latitude locations onto hundreds of thousands of highly irregular demographic census block polygons is computationally challenging in both research and deployment contexts. This paper describes two approaches labeled "simple" and "fast". The simple approach can be implemented in any scripting language (Matlab/Octave, Python, Julia, R) and is easily integrated and customized to a variety of research goals. This simple approach uses a novel combination of hierarchy, sparse bounding boxes, polygon crossing-number, vectorization, and parallel processing to achieve 100,000,000+ projections per second on 100 servers. The simple approach is compact, does not increase data storage requirements, and is applicable to any country or region. The fast approach exploits the thread, vector, and memory optimizations that are possible using a low-level language (C++) and achieves similar performance on a single server. This paper details these approaches with the goal of enabling the broader community to quickly integrate location and demographic data.




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Bleed resistant, oil-extended olefin block copolymer composition with precipitated silica

Disclosed are oil-extended olefin block copolymer compositions with precipitated silica. The precipitated silica reduces oil-bleed while maintaining composition softness.




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Bleed resistant, oil-extended olefin block copolymer composition with microcrystalline wax

Disclosed are oil-extended olefin block copolymer compositions with microcrystalline wax. The microcrystalline wax reduces oil-bleed while maintaining composition softness.




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Functional fabric based test wrapper for circuit testing of IP blocks

A Test Wrapper and associated Test Access Mechanism (TAM) architecture for facilitating testing of IP blocks integrated on a System on a Chip (SoC). The TAM architecture includes a Test Controller and one or more Test Wrappers that are integrated on the SoC proximate to IP blocks. Test data and commands corresponding to input from an external tester are packaged by the Test Controller and sent to one or more Test Wrappers via an interconnect fabric. The Test Wrappers interface with one or more IP test ports to provide test data, control, and/or stimulus signals to the IP blocks to facilitate circuit-level testing of the IP blocks. Test results for the circuit-level tests are returned to the Test Controller via the fabric. Test Wrappers may be configured to pass through interconnect signals, enabling functional testing of IP blocks to be facilitated via test packages and test results transmitted between the Test Controller and the IP blocks via the fabric. Test wrappers may also be configured to test multiple IP blocks comprising a test partition.