PURPOSE To examine the relationship between phonological processing skills prior to kindergarten entry and reading skills at the end of 1st grade, in children with speech sound disorders (SSD). METHOD The participants were 17 children with SSD and poor phonological processing skills (SSD-low PP), 16 children with SSD and good phonological processing skills (SSD-high PP), and 35 children with ...

Sexual size dimorphism (SSD) is almost universal in animals. Rensch’s rule proposes that SSD increases with increasing average body size in taxa where males are larger than females (malebiased SSD; MBSSD) and decreases when females are larger (femalebiased SSD; FBSSD). Although it was proposed that both patterns are part of the same evolutionary trend, there is more evidence for Rensch’s rule i...

PURPOSE In this study, the authors evaluated literacy outcome in children with histories of speech sound disorder (SSD) who were characterized along 2 dimensions: broader language function and persistence of SSD. In previous studies, authors have demonstrated that each dimension relates to literacy but have not disentangled their effects. Methods Two groups of children (86 SSD and 37 controls) ...

BACKGROUND Ecological models have emphasized that short sleep duration (SSD) is influenced by both individual and environmental variables. However, few studies have considered the latter. OBJECTIVES The present study explores the influence of urban and regional contextual factors, net of individual characteristics, on the prevalence of SSD among university students in China. METHODS Partici...

OBJECTIVE Medically unexplained somatic complaints are highly prevalent, and lead to significant impairment and disability. The number of effective treatment modalities for somatic symptom and related disorders (SSDs) or somatoform disorders (SDs) remains limited. To date, there is no formal indication for electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in SSD or SD. We report on the largest case series to dat...

Traditional CyberKnife (CK) calibration uses TG-51, which requires kQ to be defined using the standard reference condition of 100 cm SSD in a 10 cm × 10 cm field. Since the CK is calibrated using a 6 cm fixed-aperture collimating cone at 80 cm SAD, the BJR-25 method is commonly used to relate circular-field PDDs to square-field PDDs for kQ determination. Using the InCise MLC system, the CK is a...

This experiment was conducted in order to compare the effects of Nigella sativa (NS) and silver sulfadiazine (SSD) cream on healing of burn wounds in rats. Fifty four adult, male Wistar-albino rats were divided into three groups of equal numbers. A burn was generated on the backs of all the rats. The burned areas in the first, second and third groups were covered with daily cold cream (control)...

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have high performance in the fields of object recognition and classification. The strength CNNs comes from fact that they are able to extract information raw-pixel content learn features automatically. Feature extraction classification algorithms can be either hand-crafted or Deep Learning (DL) based. DL detection approaches two stages (region proposal approa...

To find out the psychological root cause of Secure System Development (SSD) innovation digestion behavior, this article establishes the double digestion model of SSD innovation based on psychological factors. The theoretical bases include the acceptance model, motivation theory and theories related to innovation digestion. Then, we use SPSS 19.0 and AMOS 17.0 to verify the model. The results in...

Power consumption now becomes the most critical performance limiting factor to solid state disk (SSD) in embedded systems. It is imperative to devise design methods and architectures for power efficient SSD designs. In our work, we present the first step towards low power SSD design, i.e., power estimation of SSD. We present a practical approach of SSD power estimation which tries to keep the a...