Mood congruence refers to the tendency of individuals to attend to information more readily when it has the same emotional content as their current mood state. The aim of the present study was to ascertain whether attentional interference occurred for participants in sad mood states for emotionally relevant stimuli (mood-congruence), and to determine whether this interference occurred for both ...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether sagittal abdominal diameter (SAD) is associated with the metabolic syndrome independently of visceral fat area (VFA) and waist circumference (WC). METHODS Forty-three high-risk vascular patients were evaluated for metabolic syndrome criteria and underwent magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to quantify SAD and VFA at the L4-L5 disc. COMPARISONS: 1. Baseline differe...

BACKGROUND This review evaluates the DSM-IV criteria of social anxiety disorder (SAD), with a focus on the generalized specifier and alternative specifiers, the considerable overlap between the DSM-IV diagnostic criteria for SAD and avoidant personality disorder, and developmental issues. METHOD A literature review was conducted, using the validators provided by the DSM-V Spectrum Study Group...

BACKGROUND Despite increasing evidence that neuroanatomical abnormalities underlie pathological anxiety, social anxiety disorder (SAD)-although among the most common of anxiety disorders-has received little attention. With magnetic resonance imaging, we: 1) examined gray matter (GM) differences between generalized SAD and healthy control groups; 2) retested the findings in an independent clinic...

A key challenge in the SAD phasing method is solving a structure when the anomalous signal-to-noise ratio is low. Here, algorithms and tools for evaluating and optimizing the useful anomalous correlation and the anomalous signal in a SAD experiment are described. A simple theoretical framework [Terwilliger et al. (2016), Acta Cryst. D72, 346-358] is used to develop methods for planning a SAD ex...

Etiological models of social anxiety disorder (SAD) suggest that early childhood trauma contributes to the development of this disorder. However, surprisingly little is known about the link between different forms of childhood trauma and adult clinical symptoms in SAD. This study (1) compared levels of childhood trauma in adults with generalized SAD versus healthy controls (HCs), and (2) examin...

In this paper, we propose a new unit intended to augment a general-purpose core that is able to perform a SAD operation. We show that the SAD implementation can easily be extended to perform the complete SAD operation. The SAD operation is commonly used in many multimedia standards, including MPEG-1 and MPEG-2. We have chosen to implement the SAD operation in field-programmable gate arrays (FPG...

1 Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Clinical Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia; 2 School of Pharmacy, Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute, Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia; 3 School of Pharmacy, University of Montenegro, Podgorica, Montenegro; 4 Department of Microbiology, Institute of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Universi...

The SAD kinases are conserved regulators of neuronal polarity and synapse morphology. Although SAD kinases have been shown to play many different roles, the pathways through which they function remain largely unknown. Knockout mice for mammalian SAD kinases die immediately after birth. By contrast, C. elegans sad-1 genetic null mutants are healthy and viable, but exhibit a specific and fully pe...

Abstract : Video Compression (VC) is one of the resource hungry key element in video communication and is commonly achieved using Motion Estimation (ME). In this paper we proposed power efficient one bit full adder and one of the simple and easy metric called Sum of Absolute Difference (SAD) for estimating the motion vectors in motion estimation. SAD is primarily used to detect motion in the vi...