OBJECTIVE To examine relationships between childhood autobiographical memory disturbance (CAMD) and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) which are defined as common forms of child maltreatment and related traumatic stressors. METHODS We use the ACE score (an integer count of eight different categories of ACEs) as a measure of cumulative exposure to traumatic stress during childhood. In a cros...

BACKGROUND The home address is a common spatial proxy for exposure assessment in epidemiological studies but mobility may introduce exposure misclassification. Mobility can be assessed using self-reports or objectively measured using GPS logging but self-reports may not assess the same information as measured mobility. We aimed to assess mobility patterns of a rural population in the Netherland...

Direct georeferencing (DG) for orthoimage production based on collinearity equations has emerging as a standard photogrammetric operation. In this paper, the basic idea of DG is realized and refined with 19 self-calibration parameters for rectifying airborne pushbroom hyperspectral images collected using the intelligent spectral imaging system (ISIS) scanner. Two experimental ISIS images along ...

In comparison to the coherent ultra-tight GPS/INS integration, the non-coherent ultra-tight integration is more preferable for tracking weak signals because the code discriminator used in the non-coherent integration is independent of the carrier phase, which makes it to be computed regardless of whether the SNR being strong enough or not to track the carrier phase. This paper proposes a specif...

Many ad hoc network protocols and applications assume the knowledge of geographic location of nodes. The absolute location of each networked node is an assumed fact by most sensor networks which can then present the sensed information on a geographical map. Finding location without the aid of GPS in each node of an ad hoc network is important in cases where GPS is either not accessible, or not ...

Tasks envisioned for future generation Mars rovers – sample collection, area survey, resource mining, habitat construction, etc. – will require greatly enhanced navigational capabilities over those possessed by the Mars Pathfinder rover. Many of these tasks will require cooperative efforts by multiple rovers, adding further requirements both for accuracy and commonality between users. This pape...

In ultra-tight GPS/INS integration, a Doppler signal derived from INS navigation data and GPS satellite ephemeris is integrated with the receiver tracking loops to remove the dynamics from the GPS signal. It is well known that this integration architecture provides several advantages such as improved S/N ratio, better ‘immunity’ to interference and jamming signals, lower order tracking loops ev...

An ultra-low-power constant charge injector (CCI) circuit is presented for wirelessly-powered electro-acupuncture (EA). The CCI adopts adaptive pulse-width and frequency-drift (APF) calibration loop that not only accommodates to body impedance variation (BIV) of 100-200k but also is tolerable to frequency-drift. The proposed 5Hz current starving clock generator combined with sub-Vth reference ...

Ž . Computer-aided molecular design CAMD provides a means for determining molecules or mixtures of Ž . molecules CAMMD having a desirable set of physicochemical properties. The application range of CAMD is restricted due to limitations on the complexity of the generated molecular structures and on the availability of suitable models for property prediction. A new CAMD methodology that addresses...

Electronic detection of the binding event between biotinylated bovine serum albumen (BSA) and streptavidin is demonstrated with the chemoreceptive neuron MOS (CnuMOS) device. Differing from the ion-sensitive field-effect transistors (ISFET), CnuMOS, with the potential of the extended floating gate determined by both the sensing and control gates in a neuromorphic style, can provide protein dete...