The dynamic strength index (DSI) is a useful tool to assess an athlete's capacity effectively use maximum during tasks. Although DSI traditionally calculated based on peak forces, the ability express force over time (i.e., impulse) better predictor of performance. purpose this study was investigate association between (fDSI) and impulse (iDSI). Nineteen female collegiate lacrosse players perfor...

The Boltzmann–Gibbs and Tsallis entropies are essential concepts in statistical physics, which have found multiple applications in many engineering and science areas. In particular, we focus our interest on their applications to image processing through information theory. We present in this article a novel numeric method to calculate the Tsallis entropic index q characteristic to a given image...

This paper presents a new Solid State Mass Memory (SSMM) suitable for space applications. The memory reliability is increased by using two different approaches. Firstly, memory mass fault-tolerance, with respect to hard failures, is obtained by using a fine-granularity hierarchical structure with a certain level of redundancy. A second strategy used for facing soji errors is based on Error Corr...

In this paper, we construct a new indexmeasuring the strength of intellectual property (IP) protection for plant varieties in 69 countries over the period 1961–2011. We examine the statistical properties of the index and compare it with other indicators of IP protection. We conclude that the index provides a reasonable synthetic assessment of the relative strength of IP protection in plant vari...

The cortex transform provides a meaningful representation of images in terms of the responses of cortical cells. It is based on experimental results from human vision research. The multiple orientations obtained in the expansion are of interest for image analysis applications. In image coders, quantization can exploit to a large extent psychovisual properties. This transform belongs to a group ...