This paper describes the design of a high speed motion estimator using the Z-D log search algorithm. The architecture consists of 5 simple processing elements (PE) where each PE is capable of computing the sum-of-absolute-difference (SAD) to exploit the parallelism. For each step in the 2-D log search procedure, the 5 SADs of the 5 search points are computed in parallel. The design is implement...

Administration of psychostimulants is often associated with increased seizure susceptibility. In our previous studies prenatal methamphetamine (MA) exposure increased seizure susceptibility of adult rats in models of primarily or secondarily generalized seizures induced by convulsant drugs. The effect of a single MA challenge dose in adulthood on chemically induced generalized seizures however,...

Main outcome measures Scores on the Achenbach Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL), the Center for Epidemiological StudiesDepression Scale (CES-D), the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HAM-D), the Schedule for Affective Disorder and Schizophrenia for School-Age Children, Epidemiological Version (K-SADS-E), and the Global Assessment of Functioning Scale (GAF); and risk of incident major depressive e...

Abstract Plant disease quantification, mainly the intensity of symptoms on individual units (severity), is basis for a plethora research and applied purposes in plant pathology related disciplines. These include evaluating treatment effect, monitoring epidemics, understanding yield loss, phenotyping host resistance. Although sensor technology has been available to measure severity using visible...

INTRODUCTION While many countries have adopted prominent pictorial warning labels (PWLs) for cigarette packs, the USA still requires only small, text-only labels located on one side of the cigarette pack that have little effect on smoking-related outcomes. Tobacco industry litigation blocked implementation of a 2011 Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) rule requiring large PWLs. To inform FDA a...

A species abundance distribution (herein ‘ SAD ’ ) describes the abundances of all species sampled within a given community (Ulrich et al. 2010). Because SADs characterise the structure of ecological communities, they constitute the foundation of much (macro-) ecological and biogeographical theory (Preston 1948). Th us, considerable eff ort has been made to characterise empirical SADs in a stat...

OBJECTIVE To examine changes in symptoms of oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) after treatment with the Incredible Years Program. The frequency of symptoms was also calculated. METHOD The participants were 84 children (aged 4.1-8.9 years) diagnosed with ODD before treatment. The data were collected with KIDDIE-SADS interviews before treatment and at a 1-year follow-up. RESULTS At the 1-yea...

Stearoyl-acyl carrier protein desaturase (SAD), locating in the plastid stroma, is an important fatty acid biosynthetic enzyme in higher plants. SAD catalyzes desaturation of stearoyl-ACP to oleyl-ACP and plays a key role in determining the homeostasis between saturated fatty acids and unsaturated fatty acids, which is an important player in cold acclimation in plants. Here, four new full-lengt...

AIMS To provide insight into the mechanism of sudden adult death syndrome (SADS) and to give new clinical guidelines for the cardiac management of patients with the most common mitochondrial DNA mutation, m.3243A>G. These studies were initiated after two young, asymptomatic adults harbouring the m.3243A>G mutation died suddenly and unexpectedly. The m.3243A>G mutation is present in ∼1 in 400 of...