BACKGROUND Although impaired social-emotional ability is a hallmark of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), the perceptual skills and mediating strategies contributing to the social deficits of autism are not well understood. A perceptual skill that is fundamental to effective social communication is the ability to accurately perceive and interpret facial emotions. To evaluate the expression process...

BACKGROUND There is a paucity of data concerning the energy requirements (ERs) of preschool-age children with cerebral palsy (CP), the knowledge of which is essential for early nutritional management. OBJECTIVE We aimed to determine the ERs for preschool-age children with CP in relation to functional ability, motor type, and distribution and compared with typically developing children (TDC) a...

Abstract It remains unclear if participation in moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) differs between children with ASD and typically developing (TDC). We compared daily MVPA, time spent MVPA during education (PE) recess, odds of not meeting recommendation (60 min/day) TDC. Nine studies reporting accelerometer-measured were included the meta-analyses. was 30 min lower/day, 12% 8% lower ...

OBJECTIVE This two-year follow-up study investigates the course of and association among measures of cognitive control, focused attention, decision-making and symptom severity (anxiety, depression and behavior) in children and adolescents with Tourette's Syndrome (TS) or Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder-Combined subtype (ADHD-C). METHOD 19 children with TS, 33 with ADHD-C, and 50 typi...

An Efficient analog to digital interface (TDC/DTC) is presented. In particular, we explore time-based techniques for data conversion, which can potentially achieve significant reductions in power consumption while keeping silicon chip area will be very small. On the basis of a generic mixed-signal system the scaling difficulties of analog and mixed-signal circuits based on a signal representati...

This paper presents the design rationale and measured results of a low power, low jitter, PVT-stable FBAR-based RF synthesizer implemented in 0.13μm CMOS. A digitally controlled FBAR oscillator, tuned with a switched-capacitor array, provides 5800ppm of frequency tuning, sufficient to cover a wide range of manufacturing and temperature variations of an FBAR. An all-digital phase-locked loop (AD...

This study examined the cerebral functional lateralization, from a phonological perspective, in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and typically developing children (TDC). With near infrared spectroscopy, we measured auditory evoked-responses in the temporal areas to phonemic and prosodic contrasts in word contexts. The results of TDC showed stronger left-dominant and right-dominant r...

In this paper a discrete-time design of continuous-time delay (TDC) is presented. The main goals are: (i) to eliminate the TDC assumption of accessibility to all the delayed derivative of the plant state variables, and (ii) to design discrete-time controllers based on approximate discrete-time models. Simulations results are given, for an articulated arm actuated with linear hydraulic motors wi...

This paper presents low power and high speed on-chip temperature sensor that uses only two ring oscillators which have different CMOS delay characteristics, counters and Time-to-Digital Converters (TDC) to maintain the performance benefit of the CMOS digital circuit. This novel temperature sensor does not require any bias circuits or external reference clocks. It measures the delay variations b...

BACKGROUND The relationship between cortical thickness (CThick) and sulcal depth (SDepth) changes across brain regions during development. Epilepsy youth have CThick and SDepth abnormalities and prevalent psychiatric disorders. AIMS This study compared the CThick-SDepth relationship in children with focal epilepsy with typically developing children (TDC) and the role played by seizure and psy...