Objective(s)This study was designed to evaluate the effect of Ramadan fasting on body composition, aerobic and anaerobic power, strength, plasma lipids profile and serum glucose among collegiate wrestlers.Materials and Methods Fourteen male collegiate wrestlers (age, 20.12±2.5 yrs) volunteered as subjects for the study. Subjects were tested one week before the beginning of Ramadan, the last two...

Energy and power density are the key figures of merit for most electrochemical energy storage systems. Considerable efforts worldwide have been made to improve the energy density of rechargeable (secondary) batteries, as this is critical for most applications. As the penetration of batteries into ever more demanding applications has increased, power density, the allowed rate of energy transfer ...

This paper presents the simulation performance of Dual Active Bridge (DAB) DC-DC converter for high power density aerospace applications. The DAB converter topology has been chosen as it features high power density, high efficiency, bidirectional power flow capability, inherent soft switching, galvanic isolation and low number of passive components. Hence the converter is a candidate for high p...

The possibilities to increase single core performance has ended due to limited instruction level parallelism and a high penalty when increasing frequency. This prompted designers to move towards multi-core paradigms [1], largely supported by transistor scaling [2]. Scaling down transistor gate length makes it possible to switch them faster at a lower power, as they have a low capacitance. In th...

In this contribution the Minimum Statistics noise power spectral density estimator [1] is revised for the particular case of highly correlated data which is observed for example when framewise processing with considerable frame overlap is performed. For this special case the noise power estimator tends to underestimate the noise power. We identify the variance estimator in the Minimum Statistic...

In many public areas, public address systems play a central role in broadcasting important messages. Consider e.g., airports or train stations. The intelligibility of messages broadcast by such public address systems gets reduced due to environmental noise sources. Usually, these systems therefore employ a pre-processing module to modify the original message such that its intelligibility in the...

conclusions the present research demonstrated that the ultrasonic (us) process can be utilized as an effective and simple method for treatment of mg dye in an aqueous solution. moreover, the eeo is directly proportional to the mg concentration and power density and inversely proportional to temperature and mechanical agitation, which can be predicted by the obtained empirical kinetics model. co...

This paper addresses the problem of the mismatch between a silence model and background noises which often occurs in a telephone speech recognition system (SRS) application. At first, the use of parallel model combination (PMC) methods is studied with the respect to this application. Secondly, the effective adaptation of a silence model to various background noises is confirmed. Finally, an ori...