Treatment outcomes for adolescent substance abuse at 4– and 7–month assessments. QUESTION: Does cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), functional family therapy (FFT), combined FFT and CBT, or a group psychoeducational intervention reduce adolescent substance abuse? Design Randomised (unclear allocation concealment*), unblinded*, controlled trial with 7 months of follow up. Patients 120 adolescen...

The new Proposed design has been designed and developed by novel parallel-pipelined Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) architecture. The most important and fastest efficient algorithm is a FFT. FFT is used to computes the Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT). FFT is mainly applied in autocorrelation, spectrum analysis, linear filtering and pattern recognition system. The proposed architectures were desig...

This paper shows a design and implementation of a radix-4 FFT in FPGA using a Xilinx Spartan-6. The decimation in time equations are reviewed and in sequence several FPGA modules are presented according to algorithm architecture looking for optimization in execution time and occupied device area. Several tests were performed in order to validate the algorithm performance, FFT functionality, and...

-Motor Current Signature Analysis (MCSA) has been successfully used for fault diagnosis in induction machines. The current spectrum of the induction machine for locating characteristic fault frequencies is used in MCSA. The spectrum is obtained using a Fast Fourier Transformation (FFT) that is performed on the signal under analysis. The fault frequencies occur in the motor current spectra are u...

The averaged electronencephologram (EEG) response of the brain to an external stimulus (evoked potential, EP) is usually subjected to spectral analysis using the fast Fourier transform (FFT), especially to discover the relation of cognitive ability to so-called brain dynamics. There is indeed a discrepancy between these two systems, because the brain is a highly complex nonlinear system, analyz...

This paper presents method that offers the fast and accurate analysis of large-scale periodic array antennas by conjugate-gradient fast Fourier transform (CG-FFT) combined with an equivalent sub-array preconditioner. Method of moments (MoM) is used to discretize the electric field integral equation (EFIE) and form the impedance matrix equation. By properly dividing a large array into equivalent...

Hermes’ Sub Harmonic Summation (SHS) pitch determination algorithm is an effective technique for extracting the percept of pitch from human speech [1]. Effective determination of the pitch in a passage of speech is believed to be fundamental for higher level speech processing applications such as speech or speaker recognition. Of particular interest is the need to extract pitch from speech in l...

• We compute estimates of inefficiency when its distribution is unknown in Stochastic Frontier Models (SFMs) and Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Our procedure based on the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) utilizes empirical characteristic function. The new techniques perform well Monte Carlo experiments. They deliver reasonable results an application to large U.S. banks. Deconvolution DEA scores w...