BACKGROUND Nipple pain is associated with early cessation of breastfeeding and may be caused by high intra-oral vacuum. However identification of high intra-oral vacuum is typically restricted to the research setting. This is the first reported case of an infant with high intra-oral vacuum that was clinically identified through a specific pattern of nipple trauma associated with nipple shield u...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Hemodynamics is an important factor in the development and rupture of cerebral aneurysms. Current techniques for measuring blood flow in cerebral aneurysms suffer from various limitations and have not been able to address our clinical needs. A new technique has been developed for effective evaluation of intra-aneurysmal flow based on high-frame-rate cerebral angiography, ...

Northrop Grumman Space Technology has demonstrated the capability to manufacture intra-cavity interconnections (ICICs), which consistently yield greater than 99%. These ICICs are an integral part of MMICs packaged at the wafer level using wafer bonding techniques. Efficient test structures were designed to evaluate these interconnects, allowing fast on-wafer assessment of interconnect yield in ...

In this paper a coding unit early termination algorithm resulting in a fast intra prediction is proposed that terminates complete full search prediction for the coding unit. This is followed by a prediction unit mode decision to find the optimal modes HEVC encoder 35 prediction modes. This includes a two-step process: firstly calculating the Sum of Absolute Differences (SAD) of all the modes by...

Inclusion body hepatitis (IBH) has been reported in many countries in the world. The IBH or similar cases characterized by hepatitis and presence of intra-nuclear inclusion bodies in hepatocytes have not been reported in broiler chickens in Iran. This is the first report on outbreak of adenovirus-like inclusion body hepatitis in Iran. On October 2012, an onset of high acute mortality in a flock...

Systematic measurements of pseudorapidity (∆η) and azimuthal (∆φ) correlations between high-pt charged hadrons in √ sNN=200 GeV Au+Au collisions are presented. An enhancement of correlated yield at large ∆η on the near-side is observed. This effect persists up to trigger p t ∼ 9 GeV/c, indicating that it is associated with jet production. More detailed analysis suggests distinct short-range and...

The emerging High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard provides equivalent subjective quality with about 50% bit rate reduction compared to the H.264/AVC High profile. However, the improvement of coding efficiency is obtained at the expense of increased computational complexity. This paper presents a fast intra-encoding algorithm for HEVC, which is composed of the following four techniques. ...

Oscillatory activity in the beta frequency range (15-30Hz) recorded from human sensorimotor cortex is of increasing interest as a putative biomarker of motor system function and dysfunction. Despite its increasing use in basic and clinical research, surprisingly little is known about the test-retest reliability of spectral power and peak frequency measures of beta oscillatory signals from senso...