We introduce a new approach to the detection and the classification of effects in video sequences. We deal with the effects such as cuts, fades, dissolves, and camera motions. A global motion compensation based on block matching and a measure of block mean intensities are used to detect all the effects. We determine the dominant motion vectors to detect the camera motions for each shot and obse...

INTRODUCTION Poliomyelitis causes selective destruction of anterior horn cells and usually has a stable disease course post-infection. We assessed the excitability characteristics in patients with a stable course after past poliomyelitis and compared them with changes described in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). METHODS The excitability characteristics of motor and sensory nerves were st...

Despite the popularity of financial compensation as a means for addressing trust violations, the question whether (more) money can indeed buy trust back remains largely unexplored. In the present research, we focus on the role of violation type and compensation size. The results of a scenario study and a laboratory experiment show that financial compensation can effectively promote the restorat...

Multicarrier spread spectrum (MC-SS) systems exhibit good robustness against all kinds of narrowband interference, coloured noise or selective attenuation for power line communications. However, the systems’ vulnerability to frequency synchronization errors, which introduce loss of orthogonality between the subcarriers, is still a challenging problem for robust communications. This paper presen...

The present study aims to explain why research thus far has found only low to moderate associations between burnout and performance. We argue that employees use adaptive strategies that help them to maintain their performance (i.e., task performance, adaptivity to change) at acceptable levels despite experiencing burnout (i.e., exhaustion, disengagement). We focus on the strategies included in ...

Congenital blindness is one of the rare human models to explore the role of experience-driven cross-modal compensation after early sensory deprivation. We re-examined spatial attention abilities in congenitally blind participants and sighted controls using a paradigm comparable to the one of our previous study (Collignon, Renier, Bruyer, Tranduy, & Veraart, 2006), except that this time the audi...

This paper presents the calculation methods for the different filtering blocks of a selective active filter in order to minimize the active filter inverter size, keeping the harmonic emissions at the limits stated by the applicable regulations. Since it may be necessary to comply with the regulations at a remote place with respect to the active filter location, the method has been extended to t...

Successful aging is an important concept, and one that has been the subject of much research. During the last 15 years, the emphasis of this research has shifted from formulating criteria for successful aging to describing the processes involved in successful aging. The main purpose of the present article is to review psychological models of successful aging. The model of Selective Optimization...