BACKGROUND The ideal programming of the implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) shock energy should be at least 10J above the defibrillation threshold (DFT), requiring alternative techniques when the DFT is elevated. OBJECTIVE To assess the clinical behavior of ICD patients with DFT>25J and the efficacy of the chosen therapy. METHODS Patients who had undergone ICD implantation between ...

Density functional theory (DFT) embedding provides a formally exact framework for interfacing correlated wave-function theory (WFT) methods with lower-level descriptions of electronic structure. Here, we report techniques to improve the accuracy and stability of WFT-in-DFT embedding calculations. In particular, we develop spin-dependent embedding potentials in both restricted and unrestricted o...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Childhood obesity has been associated with high refined sugar intake. The relationship between sucrose intake and development of dental caries has been established. The aim of this study was to determine the association between age-specific body mass index (BMI-for-age) and dental caries in children. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this cross-sectional study a total of 1003 child...

We give a detailed study of the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) of r-even arithmetic functions, which form a subspace of the space of r-periodic arithmetic functions. We consider the DFT of sequences of r-even functions, their mean values and Dirichlet series. Our results generalize properties of the Ramanujan sum. We show that some known properties of r-even functions and of the Ramanujan sum...

A. Table of contents by sections: 1. Abstract (you’re reading this now) 2. Summary of the DFT (How do I do the homework?) 3. Review of continuous-time Fourier series 4. Bandlimited signals and finite Fourier series 5. Sampling theorem for periodic signals 6. Review of quirks of discrete-time frequency 7. Orthogonality and its significance 8. Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) 9. Use of DFT to com...

Practical mixed-signal DFT solutions are presented with an emphasis on performance, cost, and test coverage. Special consideration is given to the possible DFT techniques for Phase-Locked Loops (PLLs) with associated implications on test coverage, performance, cost, and time to market. An introduction to practical DFT techniques for data converters (A/D and D/A) follow. An overview of IEEE P114...

Dynamic Fault Trees (DFT) are a generalization of Fault Trees which allows the evaluation of the reliability of complex and redundant systems. We propose to analyze DFT by a new version of time parallel simulation method we have recently introduced. This method takes into account the monotonicity of the sample-paths to derive upper and lower bounds of the paths which become tighter when we incr...

Density functional theory (DFT) is an incredible success story. The low computational cost, combined with useful (but not yet chemical) accuracy, has made DFT a standard technique in most branches of chemistry and materials science. Electronic structure problems in a dazzling variety of fields are currently being tackled. However, DFT has many limitations in its present form: too many approxima...

This brief paper describes design-for-testability (DFT) circuitry that reduces testing time and thus cost of testing DC linearity of SAR ADCs. We present here the basic concepts, an actual SAR ADC chip design employing the proposed DFT, as well as measurements that verify its effectiveness. Since the DFT circuit overhead is small, it is practicable. key words: SAR ADC, testing, DC linearity, de...

Coinage metal cyanides (MCN) form photoluminescent 1D coordination polymers. The decoration of these chains with amine and phosphine ligands shifts the wavelength for photoluminescence into the visible region. Density-functional theory (DFT) and time-dependent DFT (TD-DFT) calculations of zigzag and helical models of decorated chains are used to show that the transitions that contribute to the ...