suspension system as one of the most important key elements of vehicle has always been considered by research centres and auto makers over the world and this issue is more important on sport cars which have special sensitive working conditions and even the smallest defect can strongly affect their performances. in this study, optimization of effective handling parameters of a sport car with thr...

Jane Jenkins laughed when she related that childʼs remark to me. As a history professor, she is now in her element in the classroom. But as a college student herself, she had been equally at home behind the wheel of a Datsun 240Z, hurling the car through a twisty slalom course. In 1986 she was the Saskatoon Sports Car Clubʼs Rookie of the Year in auto slalom racing. Professor Jenkins was not th...

INTRODUCTION In 1978, Professor Watkins was appointed as Surgical Consultant to the Formula One Constructors Association, the body representing Grand Prix racing in the World Championship Formula One races of the Federation du Sport de L’automobile (FIA), the World Governing body for International Motor Sport. His presence was required at all Grand Prix events from June 1978 until November 2004...

Objectives: This study investigated the psychological as well as neuroendocrine stress response across one week before an important sport competition, introducing the cortisol awakening response (CAR) to sport psychological research. Methods: On three days in the week before the German Nationals, martial artists (N 1⁄4 17) reported their competitive state anxiety and collected five samples of s...

In this paper, a Korean large vocabulary speech recognizer for an embedded car navigation device is introduced. The proposed speech recognizer identifies 450k point-of-interests within a resource-limited device without serious performance degradation under severe car-noise environments. Before launching the speech recognition application on the Korean retail market, a series of speech recogniti...

Formula One motor racing is a rich sport that spends millions on research and development of highly optimized cars. Here we describe the use of a genetic algorithm to optimize 66 setup parameters for a simulation of a Formula One car and demonstrate performance improvements (faster lap times) better than all other methods tested.

Abstract. The player of squash has a choice between two options when his/her opponent changes the score from 8:7 to 8:8. The player to receive has to decide whether to play until 9th or until 10th point. We observe in this paper that the score of the squash game can be modelled as a Markov chain. Thus using standard techniques of Markov processes, we can derive the optimal strategy for the squa...

OBJECTIVE To determine factors associated with adult squash players' protective eyewear behaviours. METHODS A survey of 303 players (aged >or =18 years) was conducted at three squash venues in Melbourne, Australia over a three week period in June 2000 to obtain information about protective eyewear use. RESULTS Of 303 participants the response rate was 98.1%; 66.1% were males, with a mean ag...