Lab report 2

Architecture & Allied Art

DESC9115 2012 DIGITAL AUDIO SYSTEMS ASSIGNMENT 1: INITIAL TECHNOLOGY REVIEW

Architecture & Allied Art

Lab report 2

Architecture & Allied Art

Lab report 2

Architecture & Allied Art

Asteroseismology of Vibration Powered Neutron Stars

Chapter from the book "Astrophysics", p.287-308. Edited by Ibrahim Kucuk, ISBN 978-953-51-0473-5, InTech, March 3, 2012.Comment: http://cdn.intechopen.com/pdfs/34269/InTech-Asteroseismology_of_vibration_powered_neutron_stars.pd

A NOVEL TYPE OF FLEXIBLE SOFT ANALYTIC NETWORK PROCESS TO SOLVE THE MULTIPLE-ATTRIBUTE DECISION-MAKING PROBLEM

  Research and development of scientific and technological products have been changing with each passing day in this new millennium. Decisions related to the production of technical products are the key to affecting the sustainable development and market share of enterprises. However, the decision-making related to the production of technology products contains many different evaluation criteria as well as qualitative and quantitative evaluation attributes. Moreover, the correlation between criteria must be considered so it can be treated as a complex multiple-attribute decision-making (MADM) problem. Moreover, performing a multi-attribute decision evaluation often encounters incomplete or missing information provided by experts, which will lead to difficulties in the solution process. In view of the incomplete or missing information of the assessment data, the traditional analytic network process (ANP) method and decision-making trial and evaluation laboratory ANP (DANP) method will delete the incomplete information during the process of assessment and decision-making, and this will bring about non-objective assessment results. In order to solve the above problems, this study proposes a novel type of flexible soft ANP (SANP) method to solve the MADM problems and uses a practical example of smartphone text entry to prove the effectiveness and suitability of the proposed SANP method

BIOMECHANICAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN TAI-CHI PRACTICING AND ACTIVE ELDERLY DURING THE STAIR-TO-FLOOR TRANSITION

Long-term Tai-Chi practitioners tend to have similar movement to healthy adults and exhibit movement strategies that reduce fall risk during stair-to-floor transition. We aimed to assess the differences during stair descent to ground in Tai-Chi elderly practitioners and active elderly. Fourteen regular Tai-Chi practitioners and fourteen active elderly participated. Whole-body kinematics and ground reaction forces (GRFs) were recorded synchronously by using motion analysis and a force platform. A t-test was used to test the differences between the groups. Both descent and forward walking step length and center of mass (COM) velocity, both horizontal braking and propulsive force and impulse, ankle range of motion (ROM) and total work in the sagittal plane, and maximum hip moment in the frontal plane had significant differences. Our results appear to support the benefits of long-term Tai-Chi training during the stair-to-floor transition