This study aimed to describe the acceleration–speed (AS) profile of soccer players during competition and analyse their seasonal changes inter-player differences. The AS values (theoretical maximum acceleration (A0) speed (S0)) 14 elite were studied in 18 matches, which divided into five season periods. main findings showed A0 (6.20 ± 0.51 m/s2) S0 (9.18 0.58 m/s) average team values. Significa...

This paper investigates the relationships between friction velocity, 10m drag coefficient, and 10m wind speed using data collected at two offshore observation towers (one over the sea and the other on an island) from seven typhoon episodes in the South China Sea from 2008 to 2014. The two towers were placed in areas with different water depths along a shore-normal line. The depth of water at th...

The velocities of Ar+ and Xe+ ions near the presheath-sheath boundary in an Ar/Xe discharge are studied by particle-in-cell Monte Carlo simulation. For a pure argon discharge the argon ion has almost the same velocity profile as it does in the mixture of argon and xenon. Similarly, for a xenon discharge the xenon ion has almost the same velocity profile as it does in the mixture of argon and xe...

The objective of the paper consists in the development of a valid procedure able to plan the addition of Zero Emission Vehicles (ZEV) to existing lines. This led to the elaboration of the 3 analytical models that evaluate mission profiles (speed vs space and time), energy consumption and battery autonomy of an electric urban transit mode/vehicle. The models are determined on the basis of the ch...

Frequency-stabilized cavity ring-down spectroscopy was used to study CO2 lineshapes in the (20013) ← (00001) band centered near 2.06 μm. Two rovibrational transitions were chosen for this study to measure non-Voigt collisional effects for air-broadened lines over the pressure range of 7 kPa-28 kPa. Lineshape analysis for both lines revealed evidence of simultaneous Dicke (collisional) narrowing...

This paper develops an efficient three-dimensional localization method for transient acoustic sources, with uncertainty estimation, based on time differences between direct and surface-reflected arrivals at two hydrophones. The localization method accounts for refraction caused by a depth-dependent sound-speed profile using a ray-theoretic approach for calculating eigenray travel times and part...

Diffusion of penetrants through polymers often does not follow the standard Fickian model. Such anomalous behavior can cause difficulty when designing polymer networks for specific uses. One type of non-Fickian behavior that results is so-called case I1 diffusion, where Fickian-like fronts initially move like fi with a transition to a non-Fickian concentration profile and front speed for modera...

Abstract—Belt conveyors play an important role in continuous dry bulk material transport, especially at the mining industry. Speed control is expected to reduce the energy consumption of belt conveyors. Transient operation is the operation of increasing or decreasing conveyor speed for speed control. According to literature review, current research rarely takes the conveyor dynamics in transien...

This work proposes a novel control scheme for a variable speed wind turbine system based on the permanent magnet synchronous generator. Regions II and III for a wind speed profile are considered, hence the control is designed for maximizing the generated power from the wind turbine when the wind speed is below the nominal wind speed, and to saturate the generated power when the wind speed is ab...

Segmentation of apparently continuous movement has been reported for over a century by human movement researchers, but the existence of primitive submovements has never been proved. In 20 patients recovering from a single cerebral vascular accident (stroke), we identified the apparent submovements that composed a continuous arm motion in an unloaded task. Kinematic analysis demonstrated a submo...