BACKGROUND: Current guidelines recommend continuous energy restriction (CER) and lifestyle change as the basis of obesity treatment. Recently, several intermittent fasting protocols have received considerable interest an alternative weight loss strategy. OBJECTIVE: This study compared effects 8-week CER versus along with 16/8 time-restricted feeding (16/8 TRF) on body composition metabolic mark...

Conventional microprocessor designs treat register operands as atomic units. In such designs, no portion of an operand may be consumed until the entire operand has been produced. In practice, logic circuits and arithmetic units that generate some portion of an operand in advance of the remaining portions are both feasible and desirable, and have been employed in several existing designs. In thi...

The contribution of this paper is two-fold. First, we describe an improved version of a blind steganalysis method previously proposed by Holotyak et al. and compare it to current state-of-the-art blind steganalyzers. The features for the blind classifier are calculated in the wavelet domain as higher-order absolute moments of the noise residual. This method clearly shows the benefit of calculat...

Many research teams have studied to make the blind see by stimulating the retina cells using electrical devices. But due to the limited number of electrodes, it needs to complement low resolution with image processing. In this paper, we tried to find the effect of image processing, especially with contrast enhancement (CE) technique. We investigated face recognition performance with three diffe...

It’s hard to believe that I’ve been asked to write an update to a paper that I co-wrote nearly 40 years ago (S.P. Morse, W.B. Pohlman, and B.W. Ravenel, “The Intel 8086 Microprocessor: A 16-bit Evolution of the 8080,” Computer, vol. 11, no. 6, 1978, pp. 18–27). In those days, 8-bit microprocessors were the state of the art, and Intel was facing a real threat when Zilog Inc. implemented an enhan...

Cost-sensitive consumer multimedia devices based on MPEG and JPEG type algorithms tend to have multiplications by constants, rather than by variables. In this paper, we show how slightly enhanced adders may be used to perform these constant multiplications with higher performance than more expensive hardware multipliers, using low-cost preshift_add instructions. We were able to find the shortes...

The purpose of this study was to test the longand short-term effects of the Transcendental Meditation technique on spontaneous skin resistance responses and habituation of evoked skin resistance responses. Measurements of spontaneous skin resistance responses and evoked skin resistance response habituation were taken on 24 experimental subjects just before and again one week after they were ins...

Robots can improve motor status after stroke with certain advantages, but there has been less emphasis to date on robotic developments for the hand. The goal of this study was to determine whether a hand-wrist robot would improve motor function, and to evaluate the specificity of therapy effects on brain reorganization. Subjects with chronic stroke producing moderate right arm/hand weakness rec...