BACKGROUND Because of the increasing concern of the potential adverse effects of caffeine intake in children, recent estimates of caffeine consumption in a representative sample of children are needed. OBJECTIVES We provide estimates of caffeine intake in children in absolute amounts (mg) and in relation to body weight (mg/kg) to examine the association of caffeine consumption with sociodemog...

The art of game design and development is by nature a complex and multidisciplinary process that requires multiple roles, processes and talents for its successful completion. One of the most crucial steps, game design (that is the creation of mechanics, rules, mission and objectives of a videogame) is one of the processes that has less formal development, despite its importance in the conceptio...

Extended Abstract The multibody system approach is widely used for analyzing the dynamic behavior of mechanical systems with large motions, and several programs are available for this task 1]. But there is still a lack of tools for synthesizing nonlinear dynamic systems systematically. This synthesis requires an optimal choice of the system parameters with respect to a given performance measure...

Background: Because of the increasing concern of the potential adverse effects of caffeine intake in children, recent estimates of caffeine consumption in a representative sample of children are needed. Objectives: We provide estimates of caffeine intake in children in absolute amounts (mg) and in relation to body weight (mg/kg) to examine the association of caffeine consumption with sociodemog...

Silicon Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) have been proposed as an emerging hardware security primitive in various security applications such as device identification, authentication, and cryptographic key generation. Current so-called ‘strong’ PUFs, which allow a large challenge response space, are compositions of Arbiter PUFs (APUFs), e.g. the x-XOR APUF. Wide scale deployment of state-oft...

S In a case-augmented study, measurements on a random sample from a population are augmented by information from an independent sample of cases, that is units with some characteristic of interest. We show that inferences about the effect of the covariates on the probability of being a case can be made by fitting a modified prospective likelihood. We also show that this procedure is fully ...

Let G be a connected simple graph and let SG be the spectrum of integers v for which there exists a G-design of order v. Put e = {x, y}, with x ∈ V (G) and y 6∈ V (G). Denote by G + e the graph having vertex set V (G) ∪ {y} and edge set E(G) ∪ {e}. Let (X,D) be a (G+e)-design. We say that two G-designs (Vi,Bi), i = 1, 2, are exactly embedded into (X,D) if X = V1 ∪ V2, |V1 ∩ V2| = 0 and there is...

K E Y W O R D S : abduction, grounded theory, organizational design, qualitative research, military organizations

T h i s paper presents a novel m e m o r y arch i tec ture for motion e s t i m a t i o n processor design. By means of cond i t iona l select ion s t ra tegy , data i t e m s which can be reused are stored in m e m o r y banks and arranged i n a snakelike way. Both integer and half pixel motion vectors can be obtained b y the proposed architecture and an a r r a y processor, where m e m o r y ...

Given a stationary time series X and another stationary time series Y (with a different power spectral density), we describe an algorithm for constructing a stationary time series Z that contains exactly the same values as X permuted in an order such that the power spectral density of Z closely resembles that of Y. We call this method spectral mimicry. We prove (under certain restrictions) that...