OBJECTIVE   To present evidence-based recommendations that promote optimized fluid-maintenance practices for physically active individuals. BACKGROUND   Both a lack of adequate fluid replacement (hypohydration) and excessive intake (hyperhydration) can compromise athletic performance and increase health risks. Athletes need access to water to prevent hypohydration during physical activity but...

In the upcoming years, challenge of exponential growth in tree planting activities matching climate crisis, which requires use targeted and adapted plant material, calls for creating an updated framework Italian forest nursery sector, both basic materials (BM) reproductive (FRM). The present paper aims at highlighting pros cons public system and, same time, characterizing current organization p...

Energy storage (ES) can help the renewable energy sources to smooth their output and enhance profits, which promotes installation of ES. However, it is inappropriate for small-scale communities (REC) invest costly ES, requests a new business model explore possibility rent ES more returns. This paper proposes an rental strategy REC participate in frequency regulation market (FRM). Firstly, FRM m...

We provide an extension of the notion of chain-valued frame introduced by Pultr and Rodabaugh in [Category theoretic aspects of chain-valued frames: parts I and II, Fuzzy Sets and Systems 159 (2008) 501–528 and 529–558] by relaxing the assumption that L be a complete chain. As a result of this investigation we formulate the category L-Frm of L-frames under the weaker assumption that L is a comp...

This paper introduces FIR filter structures for interpolation and decimation by integer factors. They are based on the frequency-response masking (FRM) approach in which the overall filter makes use of periodic model filters and nonperiodic masking filters. By using FRM techniques it is possible to obtain FIR filters requiring few arithmetic operations even when the transition band is narrow. F...

in this paper, a finite element model is developed for the fully hydro-mechanical analysis of hydraulic fracturing in partially saturated porous media. the model is derived from the framework of generalized biot theory. the fracture propagation is governed by a cohesive fracture model. the flow within the fracture zone is modeled by the lubrication equation. the displacement of solid phase, and...

In this article, field-reconstruction method (FRM) is proposed for predicting the performance of different types rotational resolvers, including wound-rotor (WR) and variable reluctance (VR) ones. The main features developed are comparable accuracy with that finite element (FEM) as well much less computational burden. deviation model in prediction position error WR VR resolvers than 3%. However...

A new cosine-modulated filter bank (CMFB) structure is proposed based on the frequency-response masking (FRM) approach using masking filter decomposition. The resulting structure, the so-called FRM2-CMFB, presents reasonable computational complexity (number of arithmetic operations per output sample) and allows one to design filter banks with extremely large number of bands. The examples includ...

The paper, in its first part, outlines the place of the fast neutron therapy (FNT) in the concert of radiation therapies by listing the active facilities, comparing technical and statistical data, and summarizing distinct biological properties of fast neutrons. The gross situation of Boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT) is mentioned as well. As well as the number of patients is decreasing, FNT ...

The conventional frequency response masking (FRM) approach is one of the most well-known techniques for the design of sharp transition band finite impulse response (FIR) digital filters. The resulting FRM digital filters permit efficient hardware implementations due to an inherently large number of zero-valued multiplier coefficients. The hardware complexity of these digital filters can further...