BACKGROUND Lower levels of physical activity in children with developmental delay (DD) usually are attributed to higher energy costs. However, there is no evidence that children with DD spend more energy on daily physical activities, such as walking. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to compare energy costs during walking and movement initiation times in children with DD and children with t...

The optimal viewing position (OVP) effect indicates that words are identified most quickly when the eyes fixate near word centre in alphabetic languages. In two studies, we tested OVP typically developing readers and children with developmental dyslexia (DD), coordination disorder (DCD) both disorders (DD + DCD), using a variable-viewing-position technique. Study 1 showed had developed highly a...

BACKGROUND Some studies suggested that psychological stress may be associated with the severity and duration of infectious diseases. In this population-based study, we investigated associations between depressive disorder (DD) and pneumonia outcomes in Taiwan with a large-scale database from the National Health Insurance. METHODS Our study defined 112,198 patients who were hospitalized with a...

We describe a method to enhance the sensitivity of eukaryotic cDNA detection in differential display (DD). Typically, DD protocols require between 200 and 500 ng RNA for each reverse transcription reaction. The addition of Escherichia coli RNA before reverse transcription of eukaryotic RNA increases the detection of DD patterns more than tenfold. The method broadens the applicability of DD and ...

BACKGROUND Dupuytren's Disease (DD) is a debilitating contractile fibrosis of the palmar fascia characterised by excess collagen deposition, contractile myofibroblast development, increased transforming growth factor-beta levels and beta-catenin accumulation. The aim of this study was to determine if a collagen-enriched environment, similar to in vivo conditions, altered beta-catenin accumulati...

With multi-antenna synchronized global navigation satellite system (GNSS) receivers, the single difference (SD) between two antennas is able to eliminate both satellite and receiver clock error, thus it becomes necessary to reconsider the equivalency problem between the SD and double difference (DD) models. In this paper, we quantitatively compared the formal uncertainties and dispersions betwe...

The purpose of this study was to estimate the prevalence of children aged 0-6 years with developmental delay (DD) and to examine age-period trends in the prevalence of DD diagnosis in Taiwan. For the study population, we selected children aged <6 years at baseline (in 1997-2002, N=2,308,790) from the National Health Insurance Research Database (a longitudinal database with annual medical record...

Developmental dyscalculia (DD) is a disability that impacts math learning and skill acquisition in school-age children. Here we investigate arithmetic problem solving deficits in young children with DD using univariate and multivariate analysis of fMRI data. During fMRI scanning, 17 children with DD (ages 7-9, grades 2 and 3) and 17 IQ- and reading ability-matched typically developing (TD) chil...

We describe our experience porting the Regensburg implementation of the DD-αAMG solver from QPACE 2 to QPACE 3. We first review how the code was ported from the first generation Intel Xeon Phi processor (Knights Corner) to its successor (Knights Landing). We then describe the modifications in the communication library necessitated by the switch from InfiniBand to Omni-Path. Finally, we present ...