Gender and generational differences in omnichannel shopping travel decisions: What drives consumer choices to pick up in-store or ship direct?

Omnichannel distribution is a retail innovation that provides a seamless purchasing experience to customers through cohesive experience across channels, cross-channel integration, and integrated assistance. Blurring the lines between offline and online shopping, concepts like “Buy-Online-Pickup-In-Store” (BOPIS) and “Buy-In-Store-Ship-Direct”...

Crossing the Frontiers: Transdisciplinary Research and the Negotiated Approach for Peri-Urban Groundwater Management in the Indo-Gangetic Delta

In this publication, we share our experiences with combining transdisciplinary research with the Negotiated Approached to address the challenges in groundwater management in peri-urban villages near Khulna, Bangladesh and near Kolkata, India. From 2014 – 2019, our team of researchers and civil society organizations has been executing the...

From iteration to system failure: Characterizing the fitness of periodic weakly-hard systems

Estimating metrics such as the Mean Time To Failure (MTTF) or its inverse, the Failures-In-Time (FIT), is a central problem in reliability estimation of safety-critical systems. To this end, prior work in the real-time and embedded systems community has focused on bounding the probability of failures in a single iteration of the control loop,...

A Low-Power Microcontroller in a 40-nm CMOS Using Charge Recycling

A 40-nm microcontroller featuring voltage stacked memory and logic is presented. This involved connecting the power domains of the memory and logic in series, such that the ground of one power domain is connected to the positive supply rail of the other. In this paper, an ARM Cortex-M0+ and its peripherals are powered from 0 V to V<sub>DD<...

The Plastic Bakery: A Case of Material Driven Design

A growing number of scholars argue that understanding how people experience materials in products, i.e. Materials Experience, is essential in<br/>designing meaningful material applications. Material Driven Design (MDD) has been developed as the method to understand these experiential traits<br/>of materials and embed them in the design process....