Fatigue caused by sustaining submaximal-intensity muscle contraction(s) involves increased activation in the brain such as primary motor cortex (M1), primary sensory cortex (S1), premotor and supplementary motor area (PM&SMA) and prefrontal cortex (PFC). The synchronized increases in activation level in these cortical areas suggest fatigue-related strengthening of functional coupling within the...

Metric uncapacitated facility location is a well-studied problem for which linear programming methods have been used with great success in deriving approximation algorithms. Capacitated facility location (Cfl) is a generalization for which there are local-search-based constant-factor approximations, while there is no known compact relaxation with constant integrality gap. This paper produces, t...

The well-known necessary and su$cient condition to "nd a solution to the robust strictly positive real (SPR) problem, namely, that the phase di!erence of the polynomials involved must be less than p, was found to be also necessary and su$cient in the strengthened robust SPR problem by Anderson and Landau in a recent work, only for the continuous-time case. In this brief communication, we derive...

Abstract: This research examines the performance of strengthened non-uniformly corroded reinforced self-consolidating concrete (SCC) members. This paper focuses on three aspects of concrete including corrosion, concrete cover loss, and repair technique. Up to a 50% corrosion level is considered in this study. Corrosion was experimentally induced and was simulated in other cases. Twenty-six rein...

Let n denote the number of elements currently in a data structure. An in-place heap is stored in the first n locations of an array, uses O(1) extra space, and supports the operations: minimum , insert , and extract -min. We introduce an in-place heap, for which minimum and insert take O(1) worst-case time, and extract -min takes O(lg n) worst-case time and involves at most lg n+O(1) element com...

In this note we shall first strengthen Gage’s inequality as a more “isoperimetric-type” inequality. And then, we will use Minkowski’s support function to restate Gage’s inequality as an integral inequality which can be thought of as an analytic version of Gage’s inequality. Mathematics Subject Classification : 52A38, 52A40

This paper introduces a strengthening technique for steel monopole towers using high-modulus carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) materials. The technique is based on a theoretical and analytical investigation including testing large scale steel monopole towers strengthened with different CFRP materials and connection details. Based on the research findings, design aspects and installation pr...

Many complex timetabling problems, such as university course timetabling [1, 2] and employee rostering [3], have an underpinning bounded graph colouring component, a pattern penalisation component and a number of side constraints. The bounded graph colouring component corresponds to hard constraints such as “each student attends all events of courses of his choice, no student can be in two room...