Several articles reporting radiocarbon dates of Early Bronze Age (EB) material from excavations in the southern Levant have been published over the last 30 yr. The excavations conducted at Tell el-Hesi have produced material from which 2 additional 14C dates have been extracted to date. The 2 samples confirm the EB dating of Field VI material and suggest EB III settlement at Hesi might be earli...

Obesity and overweight in adolescence represent an important public health issue [1]; it has been suggested that they can be tracked from childhood and adolescence to adulthood, and are linked to many other diseases [2,3]. While sport is a promising setting for obesity prevention, the re-levant research has revealed controversial results [4]. Although soccer is the most widely practiced sport i...

Marc Cavazza (1), Olivier Martin (2), Fred Charles (1), Xavier Marichal (3) and Steven J. Mead (1) (1) School of Computing and Mathematics, University of Teesside, Middlesbrough, TS1 3BA, UK. (2) Laboratoire de Télécommunications et Télédétection, Université catholique de Louvain, 2 place du Levant, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. (3) Alterface, 10 Avenue Alexander Fleming, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuv...

This paper presents the design of a DC-AC power converter controller that bears the same benefits of a sliding mode controller but with the advantage of a fixedfrequency control signal. The controller is based on the imposition of zero averaged value of the sliding surface in each switching cycle. A keypoint of the presented controller is the calculation of the sliding surface’s derivative whic...

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