This Motion Estimation (ME) has been widely used in most of the video standards. It is the most computationally intensive part of video compression. Speed up this process will open new real time applications. A novel Fast Diamond Search (FDS) algorithm is proposed in this journal. The proposed algorithm is a modified version of the conventional Diamond Search (DS) algorithm. Two main steps are ...

BACKGROUND Family doctors should care for individuals in the context of their family. Family has a powerful influence on health and illness and family interventions have been shown to improve health outcomes for a variety of health problems. The aim of the study was to investigate the Estonian family doctors' (FD) attitudes to the patients' family-related issues in their work: to explore the de...

We are interested in specifying functional dependencies (FDs) for data-centric XML documents (XML documents that are used mainly for data storage). FDs are a natural constraint. Specifying FDs for XML documents is more difficult because unlike relational databases, XML documents do not have uniform structures. This paper introduces XML Template Functional Dependencies (XTFDs), which are able to...

We study the complexity of enumerating the answers of Conjunctive Queries (CQs) in the presence of Functional Dependencies (FDs). Our focus is on the ability to list output tuples with a constant delay in between, following a linear-time preprocessing. A known dichotomy classifies the acyclic self-join-free CQs into those that admit such enumeration, and those that do not. However, this classif...

Accurate assessment of kidney function plays an essential role for optimal clinical decision making in a variety of diseases. The major intrinsic advantages of PET are superior spatial and temporal resolutions for quantitative tomographic renal imaging. 2-deoxy-2-18F-fluorodeoxysorbitol (18F-FDS) is an analog of sorbitol that is reported to be freely filtered at the renal glomerulus without rea...

the solubility enhancement of poorly soluble compounds is an important task in pharmaceutical technology as it leads to better bioavailability and a more efficient application. fused dispersions (fds) of simvastatin (sim) using peo-ppo block copolymer were prepared which paved the way for the formation of an amorphous product with enhanced dissolution and bioavailability. the accumulative solub...

We present the results of an investigation relation between space-weather parameters and cosmic ray (CR) intensity modulation using algorithm-selected Forbush decreases (FDs) from Moscow (MOSC) Apatity (APTY) neutron monitor (NM) stations during solar cycle 23. Our FD location program detected 408 383 FDs MOSC APTY NM respectively. A coincident computer code employed in this work, 229 that were...