OBJECTIVES To determine whether padding the long spine board improves patient comfort, affects cervical spine (c-spine) immobilization, or increases sacral transcutaneous O2 tension. METHODS A prospective randomized, controlled crossover study of healthy volunteers was conducted over a two-week period. Participants included 30 volunteers with no previous history of c-spine injury or disease. ...

A new computing method for discrete-signal sinc interpolation suitable for use in image and signal processing and the synthesis of holograms is described. It is shown to be superior to the commonly used zero-padding interpolation method in terms of interpolation accuracy, flexibility, and computational complexity.

Due to highly underdetermined nature of Single Image Super-Resolution (SISR) problem, deep learning neural networks are required be more deeper solve the problem effectively. One successful in (SR) is ResNet which can render capability with help skip connections. However, zero padding (ZP) scheme network restricts benefits connections SRResNet and its performance as ratio number pure input data...

Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing scheme being spectrally efficient is used in modern communication systems. To achieve error free communication guard interval is inserted using cyclic prefix and zero padding. The Bit Error Rate (BER) performance for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system with 16-QAM and varying length of guard interval (GI) is presented.

Strong security notions often introduce strong constraints on the construction of cryptographic schemes: semantic security implies probabilistic encryption, while the resistance to existential forgeries requires redundancy in signature schemes. Some paddings have thus been designed in order to provide these minimal requirements to each of them, in order to achieve secure primitives. A few years...

Introduction Diffusion weighted (DW) imaging is highly sensitive for bulk motion, which frequently occurs in vivo, such as in the lower brain areas, where the parenchyma pulsates rhythmically due to cardiac activity. It is known that for partial-Fourier (PF) imaging, the emergence of pulsation artefacts in DW images depends critically on the image reconstruction method. Specifically, it has bee...