A digital controller using multirate sampling for gain control

Digital controller using multirate sampling for gain contro

Hotspot Zuidplaspolder: Climate adaptation in the Zuidplaspolder

Building at the lowest point in the Netherlands, in the Zuidplaspolder, is viewed as a challenge and not something that is impossible. The Xplorelab approach in the Hotspot Zuidplaspolder project is a combination of research, implementation of ideas into inspiring examples and evaluation

Relationships Between Lower Body Muscular Strength and Power After Downhill Running

The purpose of this investigation was to assess relationships between maximal isometric lower body strength and three different measurements of maximal lower body neuromuscular power after a bout of eccentric lower body exercise. Forty-eight recreationally active males performed 20 minutes of downhill running (7.5 mph, -10% grade). Isometric knee extensor strength (KE), maximal cycling power (PMAX), vertical jump height (VJ), and 10-meter sprint time (10m) were assessed immediately prior to exercise (baseline) and repeated 2, 24, 48, 72, and 96 h after exercise. Data are reported as mean±SEM. There was a significant effect of time on all measurements throughout the 96 h period after exercise. Isometric KE strength was 129.0±3.3, 113.2±3.3, 115.8±3.3, 119.0±3.2 118.1±3.3 and 119.7±3.4 kg at baseline, 2, 24, 48, 72, and 96 h post-exercise, respectively. PMAX was 1086±31, 1014±28, 1024±32, 1042±31, 1042±30, and 1044±31 watts at baseline, 2, 24, 48, 72, and 96-hours post-exercise, respectively. VJ was 50.2±1.2, 48.7±1.2, 49.1±1.3, 49.7±1.3, 50.6±1.3, and 50.5±1.3 cm at baseline, 2, 24, 48, 72, and 96-hours post-exercise, respectively. 10m sprint time was 1.76±0.02, 1.80±0.03, 1.80±0.02, 1.79±0.02, 1.77±0.02, and 1.77±0.02 sec at baseline, 2, 24, 48, 72, and 96-hours post-exercise, respectively. There were significant relationships between isometric KE strength and both PMAX (R2=0.31, p\u3c0.05) and VJ height (R2=0.11, p\u3c0.05). Additionally, there was a significant relationship between isometric KE strength and Pmax at each time point (R2=0.23-0.34, p\u3c0.05). This was not true for VJ height or 10m sprint time. No relationship was present between isometric KE strength and 10m sprint time (R2=0.01). The primary finding of this study was a significant relationship between isometric KE strength and PMAX and that this relationship was maintained at each time point after eccentric exercise. Therefore, we conclude that PMAX is a reliable method to assess decrements in neuromuscular power and athletic performance after a bout of muscle damaging eccentric exercise

Hydrogeologic settings of A/M Area: Framework for groundwater transport. Book 2, Hydrogeological Plates

This document provides hydrogeologic plates providing the hydrogeologic setting of the A/M Area for the Groundwater Transport Framework Study

Hydrogeologic settings of A/M Area: Framework for groundwater transport: Book 6, Appendix B, Time/concentration graphs A/M Area monitoring wells

This document presents the time/concentration graphs for the Savannah River A/M monitoring wells. This Appendix B is part of the determination of the hydrogeologic setting of the A/M Area as a part of ground water transport studies

Sustainable Land Use: Methodology and Application

The chapters in this volume are edited versions of papers presented at the NATO Ad- vanced Research Workshop on Environmental Change Adaptation and Security held in Budapest, Hungary, from October 16 - 18, 1997. As is evident in this volume, the papers ranged from descriptions of environmental and health issues in Russia and Eastern Europe to models of sustainable land use. This diversity of perspectives on environ- ment and security is indicative of both the breadth of this new area of research as well as the varied background of the researchers involved. The discussions at the NATO workshop were remarkably animated and exciting, not surprising given the interest in the topic. I think this vitality is reflected in the papers in this volume as well. The main purpose of the NATO ARW is to foster research links among researchers from NATO countries and Central and Eastern European States, Russia, and the Newly Independent States. In editing this volume, a decision was made to keep to the spirit of this purpose and-if at all possible-include all papers prepared for the workshop. This required extensive editing and rewriting of some of the papers (and consequent delays in production). A determination was made early in the process by the workshop steering committee that the value of publishing the entire collection of articles out- weighed the advantages of accepting only a limited number

Dust emission from crusted surfaces: Insights from field measurements and modelling

Crusted surfaces can be major sources of mineral dust emission. Quantitative understanding of dust emission from crusted surfaces is limited, because (1) theories on dust emission are not well tested for such surfaces; and (2) modelling is hampered by a lack of input data sufficient to describe the surface conditions. Combining detailed field measurements with physics-based numerical modelling, we present new insights into dust emission from crusted surfaces. Our measurements confirm that crust erodibility and dust-emission intensity can increase or decrease after previous erosion events. To support interpretation of the measurements and to test the applicability of a state-of-the-art parameterisation to simulate dust emission from crusted surfaces, we apply the dust emission scheme of Shao (2004). Saltation flux, which is input to the scheme, is approximated using the parameterisation of Kawamura (1964) and a scaling factor obtained from observations. Limitations of this approach are discussed. Our results show that the dust emission scheme is suitable to estimate dust emission from crusted surfaces if accurate input data and parameters describing the soil-surface condition are provided. The parameters were optimized for each dust event to achieve a best estimate. The variation of the resulting parameter values confirms the observed variability of dust-emission efficiency between the events and provides further evidence that it was caused by variations in crust erodibility. Our study demonstrates that available physics-based dust-emission parameterisations are able to simulate dust emissions under complicated conditions, but also that refined information on the soil-surface conditions are needed as input to the schemes.This study was funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG) grant KL 2932/1-1 awarded as a postdoctoral research fellowship to MK. TEG and RSVP acknowledge support from NASA grant NNX16AH13G. 15 NPW acknowledges support through funding from the Department of Interior, Bureau of Land Management. We thank Ralph Lorenz for providing pressure loggers and the Davis anemometer used on Site F. We also thank Sharalyn Peterson, Justin Van Zee, and Bradley Cooper for field and lab assistance. LPI point data were recorded using DIMA (https://jornada.nmsu.edu/monit-assess/dima). Any use of trade, product, or firm names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government. The USDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer. We thank two anonymous reviewers for their positive and helpful comments.Peer ReviewedPostprint (author's final draft

Searching for plasticity in dissociated cortical cultures on multi-electrode arrays

We attempted to induce functional plasticity in dense cultures of cortical cells using stimulation through extracellular electrodes embedded in the culture dish substrate (multi-electrode arrays, or MEAs). We looked for plasticity expressed in changes in spontaneous burst patterns, and in array-wide response patterns to electrical stimuli, following several induction protocols related to those used in the literature, as well as some novel ones. Experiments were performed with spontaneous culture-wide bursting suppressed by either distributed electrical stimulation or by elevated extracellular magnesium concentrations as well as with spontaneous bursting untreated. Changes concomitant with induction were no larger in magnitude than changes that occurred spontaneously, except in one novel protocol in which spontaneous bursts were quieted using distributed electrical stimulation