Mechanical vibrations of a solar module mounting rack cause oscillations in the orientation of the module towards the sun. The resulting intensity oscillations of the incident light generate an a.c. current at the module’s terminals. We have investigated this effect in the laboratory by means of a vibration table and outdoors, where wind forces induce vibrations to the mounting rack. Although t...

The purpose of the present study was to evaluate muscular adaptations between heavyand moderate-load resistance training (RT) with all other variables controlled between conditions. Nineteen resistance-trained men were randomly assigned to either a strength-type RT routine (HEAVY) that trained in a loading range of 2-4 repetitions per set (n = 10) or a hypertrophy-type RT routine (MODERATE) tha...

Energy consumption in optical access networks costs carriers substantial operational expense (OPEX) every year and is one of contributing factors for the global warming. To reduce energy consumption in the 10-gigabit Ethernet passive optical network (10G-EPON), a hybrid intracycle and cyclic sleep mechanism is proposed in this paper. Under heavy traffic load, optical network units (ONUs) can ut...

This paper introduces SER – Scheduling by Edge Reversal with Hibernation, a novel distributed algorithm for the scheduling of atomic shared resources in the context of dynamic load reconfiguration. The new algorithm keeps the simplicity and daintiness of the Scheduling by Edge Reversal (SER) distributed algorithm, originally conceived to support the heavy load condition. Both SER and SER distri...

From a rare events perspective, scheduling disciplines that work well under light (exponential) tailed workload distributions do not perform well under heavy (power) tailed workload distributions, and vice-versa, leading to fundamental problems in designing schedulers that are robust to distributional assumptions on the job sizes. This paper shows how to exploit partial workload information (sy...