Detection of squirrel cage induction motor (SCIM) broken bars has long been an important but difficult job in the detection area of motor faults. Early detection of this abnormality in the motor would help to avoid costly breakdowns. A new detection method based on particle swarm optimization (PSO) is presented in this paper. Stator current in an induction motor will be measured and characteris...

OBJECTIVE To describe in detail the health-related physical fitness of adolescents and young adults with cerebral palsy, compared with able-bodied references, and to assess differences related to Gross Motor Functioning Classification System (GMFCS) level and distribution of cerebral palsy. DESIGN Cross-sectional. SUBJECTS Fifty ambulatory persons with spastic cerebral palsy, GMFCS level I ...

BACKGROUND In Korea, hypertension has become more prevalent with the Westernization of Korean diets and lack of exercise. This study aimed at investigating the associations between physical fitness variables and hypertension status in Korean women. METHODS The subjects were 9,216 women aged >20 years who visited a public health promotion center for physical fitness tests. Cardiovascular respi...

This research presents two mathematical –based optimal control systems for induction motor drives leading to stator current optimization and energy saving. The first is a classical optimal control system, which uses information on torque of the motor to generate the appropriate voltage amplitude that minimizes the induction motor stator current. The second is a genetic algorithm-based optimal c...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to examine the association between physical fitness and depressive symptoms in women with fibromyalgia (FM). We also assessed whether different fitness components present independent relationships with depressive symptoms. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING University facilities and FM associations. SUBJECTS Four hundred and forty-four patients with ...

Background and objectives: Aging is a natural phenomenon associated with a decrease in physical fitness factors and increase in chronic pain. The present study aimed to investigate the effect of High Interval Intensity Training (HIIT) and Moderate Intensity Continued Training (MICT) with Citrus Aurantium (CA) consumption on pain threshold and motor balance in elderly rats. Material and Method...

Recent studies suggest that cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) mitigates the brain's atrophy typically associated with aging, via a variety of beneficial mechanisms. One could argue that if CRF is generally counteracting the negative effects of aging, the same regions that display the greatest age-related volumetric loss should also show the largest beneficial effects of fitness. To test this hypo...

BACKGROUND Aerobic exercise training (AET) has been shown to provide general health benefits, and to improve motor behaviours in particular, in individuals with Parkinson's disease (PD). However, the influence of AET on their motor learning capacities, as well as the change in neural substrates mediating this effect remains to be explored. OBJECTIVE In the current study, we employed functiona...