As walking speed increases, consistent relationships emerge between the three determinant parameters of walking, speed, step frequency and step length. However, when step length or step frequency are predetermined rather than speed, different relationships are spontaneously selected. This result is expected if walking parameters are selected to optimize to an underlying objective function, know...

mixing conditions of nbr/pvc nanocomposites such as mixing temperature, rotor speed and mixing time are determining parameters in rheological, mechanical and morphological properties of the compound. three levels were chosen for each parameter using design expert software via box-behnken method. the nanocomposite samples were melt-mixed in brabender internal mixer. the effect of various mixing ...

Loss minimization is a long progressing issue mainly in distribution system. Nevertheless its effect led to temperature rise due to significant voltage drop through the distribution line. Thus, compensation scheme should be proper scheduled in the attempt to alleviate the voltage drop phenomenon. Distributed generation has been profoundly known for voltage profile improvement; provided that ove...

In this paper, we consider a variety of scheduling problems where n jobs with release times are to be scheduled non-preemptively on a set of m identical machines. The problems considered are machine minimization, (weighted) throughput maximization and min-sum objectives such as (weighted) flow time and (weighted) tardiness. We develop a novel quasi-polynomial time dynamic programming framework ...

An algorithm is presented for the adaptive restructuring of meshes on evolving surfaces. The resolution of the relevant local length scale is maintained everywhere with prescribed accuracy through the minimization of an appropriate mesh energy function by a sequence of local restructuring operations. The resulting discretization depends on the instantaneous configuration of the surface but is i...

While an “8-bit digitizer” might provide close to eight bits of accuracy and resolution on DC or slowly changing signals, that will not be the case for higher speed signals. Depending on the digitizing technology used and other system factors, dynamic digitizing performance can drop markedly as signal speeds increase. An 8-bit digitizer can drop to 6-bit, 4-bit, or even fewer effective bits of ...

Inverse treatment planning for intensity-modulated radiotherapy may include time consuming, multiple minimizations of an objective function. In this paper, methods are presented to speed up the process of (repeated) minimization of the well-known quadratic dose objective function, extended with a smoothing term that ensures generation of clinically acceptable beam profiles. In between two subse...

The scheduling of systems of periodic tasks upon multiprocessor systems with processors of di ering speeds is considered. Computation speeds may di er because the system is comprised of di erent types of processors | i.e. it may be a uniformmultiprocessor platform. Alternatively, the platform may be comprised of identical processors with speeds that di er because some processors may have their ...

Doppler lidars are frequently operated in a mode referred to as arc scans, wherein the lidar beam scans across a sector with a fixed elevation angle and the resulting measurements are used to derive an estimate of the nminute horizontal mean wind velocity (speed and direction). Previous studies have shown that the uncertainty in the measured wind speed originates from turbulent wind fluctuation...

purpose the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of a combined program including sprint repetitions and drop jump training in the same session on male handball players. methods twenty-two male handball players aged more than 20 years were assigned into 2 groups: experimental group (n=11) and control group (n=11). selection was based on variables “axis” and “lines”, goalkeepers were n...