Introduction: A growing number of Muslim athletes now engage in international competition. This raises the question of the advice they should be given if a major event occurs during the month of Ramadan. Methods: A narrative review has been based upon books and extensive reviews completed by the author and other investigators. Results: Practical considerations hamper assessment of the effects o...

Weight windows are an important part of spectral analysis, especially in radar Doppler processing. Presently their study is in a stalemate, accepting the present tradeoff between mainlobe width and sidelobes attenuation as a fait accompli. An exception is Stankwitz et. al. Apodization technique for sidelobe reduction in SAR images. Our paper suggests an improved approach to windowing with perfo...

Dense local trajectories have been successfully used in action recognition. However, for most actions only a few local motion features (e.g., critical movement of hand, arm, leg etc.) are responsible for the action label. Therefore, highlighting the local features which are associated with important motion parts will lead to a more discriminative action representation. Inspired by recent advanc...

This paper highlights the improved Adaptive Tumbling Bacterial Foraging Optimization (ATBFO) to grant better solution particularly in emission economic power dispatch issue. The proposed methodology simply takes care in solving non-convex power system issues along maintaining the requirement of all equipped constraints for healthy power delivery operation. The performances are evaluated with di...

In this paper we propose a Petri net within a diagnosis system for construction design. We assimilate the construction process with an assembly process that composes parts and/or subassemblies into a unique product. We assume that the assembly supervisor (AS) system is distributed, and it solves several local AS attached to the nodes of the Petri net model of the assembly process. The research ...

Most existing TCP variants cannot distinguish between different packet loss causes within MANETs. TCP was, mainly, developed to deal with network congestion errors. While within MANETs, there are packet loss causes other than congestion. Studying the behaviour of TCP in front of such losses, we notice that TCP doesn’t have always the optimum behaviour as it reacts, in most cases, without consid...

Theoretical and practical aspects of diagonal algebraic space-time block codes over n transmit and m receive antennae are examined. The output signal-to-noise ratios of two pre-decoding filters and two decoding algorithms are derived. Analysis of the information loss incurred by using the codes considered is used to clarify their structures, and the expected performances. Different algebraic re...