BACKGROUND The combat role of the twenty-first century infantry soldier has changed and accordingly their boots should evolve to meet these new needs and maximize soldier performance. OBJECTIVE To evaluate injuries and durability of the hot weather infantry boots (HWIB) in elite infantry training and assess the initial performance of newly designed Israeli infantry boots (NDIB). METHODS In ...

Visual features of fixated but irrelevant items contribute to both how long overt attention dwells at a location and to decisions regarding the location of subsequent attention shifts (Boot & Brockmole, 2010; Brockmole & Boot, 2009). Fixated but irrelevant search items that share the color of the search target delay the deployment of attention. Furthermore, eye movements are biased to distracto...

Linux is in widespread use in embedded devices, but these devices typically lack critical security features found in higher-end Linux systems. They typically do not have any way to validate their firmware, they do not have hardware roots of trust for trusted or secure boot, they do not have provisions for physical presence, to protect firmware from remote modification, and they do not have secu...

— The objective of this mini-course is to take a look at a standard semilinear partial differential equation −∆u = λf(u) on which we show the use of some basic tools in the study of elliptic equation. We will mention the maximum principle, barrier method, blow-up analysis, regularity and boot-strap argument, stability, localization and quantification of singularities, Pohozaev identities, movin...

This review article reports the recent advances in the study, design and production of ski-boots for alpine skiing. An overview of the different designs and the materials used in ski-boot construction is provided giving particular emphasis to the effect of these parameters on the final performances and on the prevention of injuries. The use of specific materials for ski-boots dedicated to diffe...

Many BigData customers use on-demand platforms in the cloud, where they can get a dedicated virtual cluster in a couple of minutes and pay only for the time they use. Increasingly, there is a demand for bare-metal bigdata solutions for applications that cannot tolerate the unpredictability and performance degradation of virtualized systems. Existing bare-metal solutions can introduce delays of ...