Muscles actuate running by developing forces that propel the body forward while supporting the body's weight. To understand how muscles contribute to propulsion (i.e., forward acceleration of the mass center) and support (i.e., upward acceleration of the mass center) during running we developed a three-dimensional muscle-actuated simulation of the running gait cycle. The simulation is driven by...

The aim of this study was to determine how an additional load influences the force-vs-time relationship of the countermovement vertical jump (CMVJ). The participants that took part in the experiment were 18 male university students who played sport recreationally, including regular games of volleyball. They were asked to perform a CMVJ without involving the arms under four conditions: without a...

one of the main concerns of processing algorithms used in synthetic aperture radar (sar) with a ballistic motion is the compensation of all phase errors in the data received from the target to achieve a clear picture of the target. in this article, by using range doppler algorithm and phase-gradient auto focus algorithm, imagery in one sar with a ballistic motion is considered according to the ...

This paper studies the solution of both asymmetric and symmetric linear complementarity problems by two-phase methods that consist of an active set prediction phase and an acceleration phase. The prediction phase employs matrix splitting iterations that are tailored to the structure of the linear complementarity problems studied in this paper. In the asymmetric case, the task of pairing an acce...

The calibration of vibration and acceleration pick-ups (hereinafter pick-ups) has become increasingly important due to the growing needs for accurate measurements of vibration and acceleration. To date, there is no official standard for calibration of the pick-ups in the middle to high vibration frequency rage (80 Hz ~ 5 kHz) in Japan. Thus the reliability of the vibration and acceleration meas...

we present observation of polar coronal hole plumes with foot point jets that shows evidence of longitudinal acceleration. the series of event, occurring in the north coronal hole on 10 july 2010, was observed by the aia telescopes of the solar dynamic observatory (sdo mission) in the euv lines, with unprecedented details. the structures along the plume show a propagating outward velocity of ab...

This study investigated changes in lower-extremity joint work and power during the swing phase in a maximal accelerated sprinting. Twelve male sprinters performed 60 m maximal sprints while motion data was recorded. Lower-extremity joint work and power during the swing phase of each stride for both legs were calculated. Positive hip and negative knee work (≈4.3 and ≈-2.9 J kg-1) and mean power ...

Stop and go traffic that leads to oscillate traffic flow frequently is observed on congestion flow. Unexpected reasons such as lane – changing maneuvers, lower speeds of leader vehicle and moving bottleneck cause stop and go traffic and amplifying delay and environment impacts. Stop and go traffic exactly can’t be modeled by traffic models, and also car following models based on kinematic flow ...

High-intensity laser plasma-based ion accelerators provide unsurpassed field gradients in the megavolt-per-micrometer range. They represent promising candidates for next-generation applications such as ion beam cancer therapy in compact facilities. The weak scaling of maximum ion energies with the square-root of the laser intensity, established for large sub-picosecond class laser systems, moti...