Stress Reduction, Bacterial Style

Stress and stress reduction.

Chronic stress contributes to preterm birth (PTB), through direct physiological mechanisms or behavioral pathways. This review identified interventions to prevent PTB through decreased maternal stress. Studies were grouped according to intervention: group prenatal care (11 studies), care coordination (8 studies), health insurance expansion (4 studies), expanded prenatal education/support in the...

Perceived Stress, Thinking Style and Paranormal Belief

Parallelizing Wavelet Transformation with a Reduction Style Framework

There is an increasing trend towards parallel processing and data processing using cloud environments. Simple APIs for expressing parallelism, such as map-reduce, are popular in cloud environments, but their expressibility is generally considered limited. This paper focuses on how a signal processing algorithm, wavelet transform, can be parallelized in a cloud environment comprising a cluster o...

A Novel HDL Coding Style for Power Reduction in FPGAs

Power consumption has become the major factor that has to be considered while designing systems using reconfigurable devices, especially for battery-operated applications. Minimizing transitions is one of the ways to reduce power consumption. Overwriting a register with the same value occurs frequently in real digital systems. Such unneeded transitions increase the power consumption. To avoid t...

Noise reduction of a Libbrecht-Hall style current driver.

The Libbrecht-Hall circuit is a well-known, low-noise current driver for narrow-linewidth diode lasers. An important feature of the circuit is a current limit to protect the laser diode. As the current approaches the maximum limit, however, the noise in the laser current increases dramatically. This paper documents this behavior and explores simple circuit modifications to alleviate this issue.