The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of deadlifts as a postactivation potentiation stimulus on vertical jump performance. Fifteen men (age, 23.9 ̆ 4.2 years; height, 176.3 ̆ 8.6 cm; mass, 76.1 ̆ 16.3 kg) participated in the study. Participants visited the lab for three sessions, each separated by at least 48 h. One repetition maximum (1RM) in the deadlift was measured during...

Strong local minimizers with surfaces of gradient discontinuity appear in variational problems when the energy density function is not rank-one convex. In this paper we show that stability of such surfaces is related to stability outside the surface via a single jump relation that can be regarded as interchange stability condition. Although this relation appears in the setting of equilibrium el...

A newly heuristic form of second-order slip/jump boundary conditions (BCs) for the Navier–Stokes–Fourier (NSF) equations is proposed from viewpoint generalized hydrodynamic (GHE) to extend capability NSF moderately rarefied gas flows. The nonlinear Rayleigh–Onsager dissipation function appearing in GHE, which contains useful information about nonequilibrium flow fields interest, introduced into...

The complex measure condition was introduced by Itô (1965) as a sufficient condition on the potential term in a one-dimensional Schrödinger equation and/or corresponding linear diffusion equation to obtain a FeynmanKac path integral formula. In this paper we provide an alternative probabilistic derivation of this condition and extend it to include any other lower order terms, i.e. drift and for...

This paper considers the problem of robust H∞ control using decentralized state feedback controllers for a class of large-scale systems with Markov jump parameters. A sufficient condition is developed to design controllers using local system states and local system operation modes. The sufficient condition is given in terms of rank constrained linear matrix inequalities. An illustrative numeric...

In this note we give a direct proof of the Gaussian integrability of distance function as μe (x,x0) <∞ for some δ > 0 provided the Lyapunov condition holds for symmetric diffusion operators, which answers a question in Cattiaux-Guillin-Wu [6, Page 295]. The similar argument still works for diffusions processes with unbounded diffusion coefficients and for jump processes such as birth-death chai...

This paper presents a bounded real lemma for discrete-time Markovian jump linear systems (MJLS). We show that the linear matrix inequality in the bounded real lemma is both necessary and sufficient for this class of systems. For the case of one plant mode, this condition reduces to the standard necessary and sufficient condition for discrete-time systems. We envision this lemma being used to co...

in a control structures, it is often preferred to minimize the gate width while utilizing the canal width in full for a stilling basin. therefore, to reach this, a gradually diverging stilling basin may be used. in this study, the effect of broad-crested sill on the expanding hydraulic jump in a rectangular channel was investigated. a total number of 79 tests were carried out for the range of i...