These course notes provide an introduction to topics in the design of Low-Voltage Low-Power (LV-LP) Analog CMOS design. The course is suitable for professional designers of analog circuits and graduate engineers wishing to acquire knowledge in this area.

We present Window To The Stars, a graphical user interface to the popular TWIN single/binary stellar evolution code, for novices, students and professional astrophysicists. It removes the drudgery associated with the traditional approach to running the code, while maintaining the power, output quality and flexibility a modern stellar evolutionist requires. It is currently being used for cutting...

Appliance-level power usage monitoring may help conserve electricity in homes. Several existing systems achieve this goal by exploiting appliances’ power usage signatures identified in labor-intensive in situ training processes. Recent work shows that autonomous power usage monitoring can be achieved by supplementing a smart meter with distributed sensors that detect the working states of appli...

Engineers designing audio equipment for the high-end audiophile or professional recording markets have a limited selection of high-resolution signal amplifiers that will meet end-user demands for both outstanding objective and critical subjective performance. Suitable devices must provide a combination of state-of-the-art specifications for low noise and ultra-low distortion along with high GBP...

The purpose of this study was to investigate age-related changes in anthropometric and performance variables in professional baseball players. Baseball players (n = 1,157) from several professional baseball organizations were categorized into 7 cohorts based upon age. All adolescent athletes were categorized as age group 1 (AG1), whereas the next 5 groups (AG2-AG6) consisted of players 20-22, 2...

The decision in Goldfarb v. Virginia State Bar' in 1975 began a new chapter in the application of the antitrust laws to the professions and their professional organizations. The prosecution of professional organizations, and particularly of organized medicine, under the antitrust laws is not an entirely new development, however, because professional organizations had been involved in antitrust ...

The purpose of this study was to compare the effects of combined strength and plyometric training with strength training alone on power-related measurements in professional soccer players. Subjects in the intervention team were randomly divided into 2 groups. Group ST (n = 6) performed heavy strength training twice a week for 7 weeks in addition to 6 to 8 soccer sessions a week. Group ST+P (n =...

Efforts to 'modernize' the clinical workforce of the English National Health Service have sought to reconfigure the responsibilities of professional groups in pursuit of more effective, joined-up service provision. Such efforts have met resistance from professions eager to protect their jurisdictions, deploying legitimacy claims familiar from the insights of the sociology of professions. Yet to...

The ability to perform an explosive movement is of a great interest for athlete’s performance and success in sport. Developing qualities such as strength, power and rate of force development appear to be of greater importance than training at the actual movement velocity of a task. Aim: The aim of actual research was to determine difference in the explosive strength of upper extremities between...