This paper describes a fully static Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) implementation of a Ling type adder. The implementation described herein saves up to one gate delay and always reduces the number of serial transistors in the worst-case (critical) path over the conventional carry look-ahead (CLA) approach with a negligible increase in hardware.

When a light stimulus covers the human natural blind spot (BS), perceptual filling-in corrects for the missing information inside the BS. Here, we examined whether a filled-in surface of light perceived inside the BS affects the size of the short-latency pupillary light reflex (PLR), a pupil response mediated by a subcortical pathway for unconscious vision. The PLR was not induced by a red surf...

This study determined if the pupillary light reflex (PLR) driven by brief stimulus presentations can be accounted for by the product of stimulus luminance and area (i.e., corneal flux density, CFD) under conditions biased toward the rod, cone, and melanopsin pathways. Five visually normal subjects participated in the study. Stimuli consisted of 1-s short- and long-wavelength flashes that spanne...

BACKGROUND Epicardial adipose tissue (EAT), mean platelet volume (MPV), platelet-to- lymphocyte ratio (PLR), and neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) have been shown to be helpful in predicting adverse cardiovascular events. However, to date, in the literature, there have been no studies demonstrating the relationship between EAT, MPV, PLR, NLR, and thromboembolism risk in atrial fibrillation (...

BACKGROUND A new lateral flow immunoassay (LFA) for the detection of cryptococcal antigen was developed. OBJECTIVE We aimed to systematically review all relevant studies to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of the cryptococcal antigen LFA on serum, CSF and urine specimens. METHODS We searched public databases including PubMed, Web of Science, Elsevier Science Direct and Cochrane Library for ...

In this paper, we propose a novel contextual classification of hyperspectral data. We use probabilistic label relaxation (PLR) process to incorporate context information into the spectral pixelwise classification procedure. In conventional PLR procedure, first a maximum likelihood classification is performed and class probabilities are computed by using multivariate normal models. However this ...

This paper is concerned with the research on fault tolerant control (FTC) of networked control system (NCS) with fixed data packet loss rate (PLR). A synthetic model of the whole closed-loop is presented which includes time delay, packet loss of NCS and the working condition of sensors and actuators. The time delay is supposed to be shorter than sampling period and packet loss to be random but ...

BACKGROUND Recently, the preoperative platelet to lymphocyte ratio (PLR) has been found reported to predict oncologic outcomes in multiple malignancies. However, its prognostic value in patients with pancreatic cancer (PC) remains controversial. The aim of this study was to assess the prognostic value of preoperative PLR in PC. METHODS MEDLINE, EMBASE, and Cochrane databases were searched to ...

Fractional sample delay (FD) filters are useful and necessary in many applications, such as the accurate steering of acoustic arrays [1], [2], delay lines for physical models of musical instruments [3] [4], and time delay estimation[5]. This paper addresses the design of finite impulse response (FIR) FD filters. The problem will be posed as a convex optimization problem in which the maximum mod...