People have advocated barefoot running, claiming that it is better suited to human nature. Humans usually run barefoot using a forefoot strike and run shod using a heel strike. The striking pattern was thought to be a key factor that contributes to the benefit of barefoot running. The purpose of this study is to use scientific data to prove that the striking pattern is more important than baref...

We consider the problem of identifying optimal sparse graph representations of dense consensus networks. The performance of the sparse representation is characterized by the global performance measure which quantifies the difference between the output of the sparse graph and the output of the original graph. By minimizing the sum of this performance measure and a sparsity-promoting penalty func...

Until a child is approximately 3 years old, their normal gait doesn't resemble that of an adult. Initially there is a wide-based stance with rapid cadence and short steps. Toddlers have a broad-based gait for support, and appear to be high-stepped and flat-footed, with arms outstretched for balance. Legs are externally rotated, with a degree of bowing. Heel strike develops at around 15-18 month...

The stress-and-strain state of the rock massif and kinematic type faults Vuoksi fault zone (Karelian Isthmus) for latest stage tectonic history were determined by field tectonophysical methods. main information was obtained from geological stress/strain indicators, which mostly represented measurements minor slickensides with (the direction relative displacement) on plane. Near zone, systems an...

This paper proposes a method for detecting geomagnetic sudden commencement (SC) from a geomagnetic horizontal (H) component b y using lifting wavelet lters. Lifting wavelet lters are biorthog-onal wavelet lers containing free parameters. Our method is to learn such free parameters based on some training signals which c o n tain the SC. The learnt w avelet lters have the feature of training sign...

We prove a symmetry relationship between floating-strike and fixed-strike Asian options for assets driven by general Lévy processes using a change of numéraire and the characteristic triplet of the dual process. We apply the same technique to prove a similar relationship between floating-strike and fixed-strike lookback options.