This study investigated the effects of eccentric phase-emphasis strength training (EPE) on unilateral strength and performance in 180and 45-degree change of direction (COD) tasks in rugby union players. A 12-week cross-over design was used to compare the efficacy of resistance training executed with 3 s eccentric duration (EPE, n = 12) against conventional strength training, with no constraints...

A contributory paper on the study of VLSI architectures of various fuzzy processors and controllers designed for various applications is presented. The paper focuses on the study of VLSI implementation of fuzzy logic hardware to result in small silicon area, high speed of operation and adaptability to different application domains. This paper reviews the circuit and architecture level designing...

Firms that operate in the telecommunications industry often have to make large and risky investments in digital infrastructure. This paper examines how firm size affects the incentive to invest in infrastructure projects in industry environments that incur substantial network externalities. We suggest that, in the presence of network externalities, a firm's rate of growth first declines and the...

This study attempts to identify idiosyncrasies of organizational factors on safety and their influence mechanisms in Taiwan and Japan. Data were collected from employees of Taiwanese and Japanese oil refinery plants. Results show that organizational factors on safety differ in the two countries. Organizational characteristics in Taiwanese plants are highlighted as: higher level of management co...

With the Lv’s distribution (LVD), the chirp rates of linear frequency modulated (LFM) signals can be more accurately estimated for the local polynomial periodogram (LPP). Comparing to the estimation methods based on the polynomial Fourier transform (PFT) and fractional Fourier transform (FrFT), it is shown that LPP with the chirp rate estimated by LV’s distributioneffectively obtains better per...

February, 1996 Abstract In the automotive industry, Saturn and NUMMI are often touted as exemplars of successful implementation of manufacturing employee involvement. Building on data and extended on-site interviews, this paper explores the differences between the approaches taken at each plant and the relationship between worker involvement and plant performance. Based on this comparison, we o...

This paper proposes an algorithm for offline recognition of handwritten characters, especially effective for large set characters such as Korean and Chinese characters. The algorithm is based on a template matching method which is easy to implement but suffers from low recognition performance. Two strategies has been developed to improve the performance of the template matching: one is multi-st...