This paper presents a novel ultra-high speed, high conversion-gain, low noise CMOS image sensor (CIS) based on charge-sweep transfer gates implemented in standard 180 nm CIS process. Through the optimization of photodiode geometry and utilization gates, proposed pixels achieve charge time less than 10 ns without requiring any process modifications. Moreover, gate structure significantly reduces...

Background: Diets in the Lake Victoria region of Kenya have been described as monotonous, consisting chiefly starchy staple foods, accompanied by green vegetables and oil. To promote healthy eating region, 11 food-based dietary guidelines (FBDGs) were proposed.Objective: This study was designed to assess perception proposed FBDGs amongst consumers region.Design setting: A qualitative, descripti...

conclusions according to the results, parents need accurate information about the health and the death of their neonates in the nicu. they also need to communicate with healthcare professionals and their babies. communication is regarded as a channel for obtaining information. therefore, the healthcare team needs to address these families’ needs and attempt to fulfill their requirements in neon...

INTRODUCTION Medical student should be trained in medical ethics and one of the most essential issues in this field is taking informed consents. In this research, we compared the effect of effectiveness of teaching methods on students' ability intaking informed consent from patients. METHODS This semi-experimental study was carried out on fifty eight subjects from the 4th-year students  of Sh...

The Core Conflictual Relationship Theme (CCRT) method establishes psychotherapeutic guidelines for a patient's relational patterns. The CCRT was used in the analysis of narratives coming from psychodynamic psychotherapy sessions (taped and transcribed) from a patient suffering from Binge Eating Episodes. The CCRT method made it possible to systematize the connection between psychological confli...

The role of 4-channel EEG taped monitoring in the management of patients with severe epilepsy has been evaluated, by examining the recordings from 100 consecutive patients referred for monitoring. Six main reasons for referral have been identified and in 80% of subjects the relevant clinical event was recorded, leading directly to a change in treatment in 57% of cases. This technique has proved...

The use of discrete adjoints in the context of a hard time-dependent optimal control problem is considered. Gradients required for the steepest descent method are computed by code that is generated automatically by the differentiation-enabled NAGWare Fortran compiler. Single time steps are taped using an overloading approach. The entire evolution is reversed based on an efficient checkpointing ...

The application of archetypal analysis to high-dimensional data arising from video-taped images is presented. A hybrid principal components/archetypes technique has been developed to overcome the difficulties of applying archetypes to data sets with points living in a space of dimension higher than about 500. The advantages of the method lie in the creation of patterns typical of the set as a w...

A qualitative analysis of three video-taped and transcribed interviews of two-person developer teams solving a software design problem is presented. The transcripts are converted to XML and manually annotated with codes that identify engaged engineering activities and addressed requirements. The annotated transcripts are visualized, to support comparison, in a timeline matrix. The results are a...