Sentence examples for mdd from inspiring English sources

Temper tantrums become disruptive mood dysregulation disorder (DMDD); grief becomes major depressive disorder (MDD), according to Allen Frances, an American psychiatrist who chaired the task force behind the fourth edition of the manual.

Because the MDD feature reduced its TV sets' power usage during US Department of Energy (DoE) tests – by an average of 22% compared to real-world situations, but by 45% in one LG TV – the report suggests that manufacturers could be gaming the industry-designed International Electrotechnical Commission test clip.

It is a feature known as "motion-detection dimming" (MDD), which Samsung retails in European stores as part of the firms' 9,000 and 7,000 series.

Samsung maintains that MDD reduces power whenever any video motion is detected and so is a bona fide energy-saving measure.

"If the MDD feature truly was intended to deliver energy savings and potentially reduce eye fatigue when content with certain characteristics is viewed, why would LG and Samsung design their TVs to disable this feature when the user selects a different picture setting?" the report asked.

With many Samsung TVs, a simple change to the contrast, brightness or backlight settings would disable the MDD feature, without any warning to users.

When viewers altered their TV's default settings – from "normal" to "cinema" for example – features such as MDD and automatic brightness control (ABC) were automatically disabled, the report found.

Some of them are: KNI-Kathy Needed It; MDD-My Dog Died; MYOB-Mind Your Own Business.

French officials from the Ministère du Développement Durable MDDD) will today destroy the country's 3 tonne stockpile of ivory.