A miniature, stand-alone, countertop freezer primarily for domestic use, and a soft-serve dispensing method, that allows extended storage of a food product at an optimum soft-serve sub-freezing temperature prior to dispensing. A motion estimator applies a set of polyphase filters to some data in the reference picture and generates motion vectors, an estimated macroblock of video data, and a residual error macroblock of video data. Based on the model, related sets of input data are determined. Visibility of the disposition information can be controlled through authorization. The computer reads a factory-measured value A of the calibration signal amplitude from a memory of the first module. Such antagonists include soluble receptors, antibodies and fragments, derivative, or variants thereof.