Vehicles with dual clutch transmissions (DCT) are well known for their comfortable drivability since gear shifts can be performed jerklessly. The ability of blending the torque during from one to other, making type automated transmission a perfect alternative converters, which also comes higher efficiency. Nevertheless, DCT have some drawbacks. actuation two clutches requires an immense control...

PURPOSE Dose coverage is crucial for successful treatment in mono-brachytherapy. Since few and very high dose fractions are used, there is an important balance between dwell positioning outside the clinical target volume (CTV) and possible damage on adjacent normal tissue. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the possibility of having dwell positions close to the CTV surface, while maintai...

In the present study, we aim at showing how some characteristics of the serve summed up in the resulting ball trajectory can determine the efficiency of tennis serves. To that purpose, we analyzed a big set of data collected between 2003 and 2008 at international ATP, WTA and Grand Slam tournaments and corresponding to 84 tournaments, 1729 matches, 262,596 points. Using time-dependent three-dim...

The concept of scattering centers on a target is commonly used for radar signature modeling and data compression, as well as target recognition. In particular, two-dimensional (2-D) scattering centers are useful features in automatic target recognition, which uses a synthetic aperture radar system, because they are directly related to physical scattering mechanisms and also have small dimension...