We discuss the efficiency of a heat engine operating in a nonequilibrium steady state maintained by two heat reservoirs. Within the general framework of linear irreversible thermodynamics we derive a universal upper bound on the efficiency of the engine operating at arbitrary fixed power. Furthermore, we show that a slight decrease of the power below its maximal value can lead to a significant ...

Pentatomid bugs communicate using substrate-borne vibrational signals that are transmitted along herbaceous plant stems in the form of bending waves with a regular pattern of minimal and maximal amplitude values with distance. We tested the prediction that amplitude variation is caused by resonance, by measuring amplitude profiles of different vibrational pulses transmitted along the stem of a ...

Thus our generators are not quite canonically normalized, but are all normalized equally, and β is positive definite. This is related to the fact, which we have already seen, that the group is compact. In writing down our generators, we have chosen, arbitrarily, one direction to make diagonal. Any rotation can be, by similarity transformation with at rotation, rotated into the z direction, so a...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of loaded and unloaded plyometric training strategies on speed and power performance of elite young soccer players. Twenty-three under-17 male soccer players (age: 15.9 ± 1.2 years, height: 178.3 ± 8.1 cm, body-mass (BM): 68.1 ± 9.3 kg) from the same club took part in this study. The athletes were pair-matched in two training groups: load...

In contrast to most other primates, great apes have feet in which the heel supports body weight during standing, walking and running. One possible advantage of this plantigrade foot posture is that it may enhance fighting performance by increasing the ability to apply free moments (i.e. force couples) to the ground. We tested this possibility by measuring performance of human subjects when perf...

We prove sharp power-weighted L, weak type and restricted weak type inequalities for the heat and Poisson integral maximal operators, Riesz transform and a Littlewood-Paley type square function, emerging naturally in the harmonic analysis related to Bessel operators.

Sharp weak type (1, 1) and L p estimates in dimension one are obtained for uncentered maximal functions associated with Borel measures which do not necessarily satisfy a doubling condition. In higher dimensions uncentered maximal functions fail to satisfy such estimates. Analogous results for centered maximal functions are given in all dimensions.

BACKGROUND The physiological impairments most strongly associated with functional performance in older people are logically the most efficient therapeutic targets for exercise training interventions aimed at improving function and maintaining independence in later life. OBJECTIVES The objectives of this review were to (1) systematically review the relationship between muscle power and functio...

Maximal pseudocompact spaces (i.e. pseudocompact spaces possessing no strictly stronger pseudocompact topology) are characterized. It is shown that submaximal pseudocompact spaces whose pseudocompact subspaces are closed need not be maximal pseudocompact. Various techniques for constructing maximal pseudocompact spaces are described. Maximal pseudocompactness is compared to maximal feeble compa...

In this paper we have discussed the relations between Maximal ideal, Prime ideal and irreducible ideal in an incline R. Mathematics Subject Classification: 16D25, 16Y60