Electrical Engineering (ABSTRACT) Recent accomplishments in link-level and radio technologies have significantly improved the performance of wireless links. Wireless mobile ad hoc networks, however, typically only take limited advantage of these enhancements. In this research, the medium access control protocol and ad hoc routing protocol are extended to take advantage of radios offering multiu...

[Purpose] The present study sought to investigate the influence on static and dynamic lumbar stability of bridge exercise accompanied by an abdominal drawing-in maneuver (ADIM) performed on an uneven support surface. [Subjects] A total of 30 participants were divided into an experimental group (15 participants) and a control group (15 participants). [Methods] The experimental group performed br...

BACKGROUND Dance performance requires not only lower extremity muscle strength and endurance, but also sufficient core stabilization during dynamic dance movements. While previous studies have identified a link between core muscle performance and lower extremity injury risk, what has not been determined is if an extended core stabilization training program will improve specific measures of danc...

When it comes to web search, information retrieval (IR) represents a critical technique as pages have been increasingly growing. However, users face major problems; unrelated user query retrieved documents (i.e., low precision), lack of relevant document recall), acceptable time, and minimum storage space. This paper proposed novel advanced document-indexing method (ADIM) with an integrated evo...

CONTEXT Individuals with low back pain (LBP) are thought to benefit from interventions that improve motor control of the lumbopelvic region. It is unknown if therapeutic exercise can acutely facilitate activation of lateral abdominal musculature. OBJECTIVE To investigate the ability of 2 types of bridging-exercise progressions to facilitate lateral abdominal muscles during an abdominal drawin...

In this paper, we use finite-difference time domain beam propagation method (FDTD-BPM) to analyze the pulse propagation in directional couplers. FDTD-BPM is an efficient method in numerical computation of optical passive components. The alternating-direction implicit method (ADIM) is applied to discretize the wave equation. The generalized Douglas (GD) scheme is used to the second order derivat...