Manual Therapy is a rehabilitative approach based on the use of therapeutic procedures that includes several techniques, but this paper focuses on what is known as Positional Release (PR), a therapeutic model that inc...Manual Therapy is a rehabilitative approach based on the use of therapeutic procedures that includes several techniques, but this paper focuses on what is known as Positional Release (PR), a therapeutic model that includes a series of manoeuvres that are mainly used for the treatment of soft tissue. A deeper understanding of this type of therapeutic approach, especially its well known and widespread variant, Strain-Counterstrain, could, through controlled trials and systematic reviews, confirm its effectiveness, definitively explain the neurophysiological mechanism, and therefore make Positional Release another indispensable option in the professional expertise of the physiotherapist.展开更多
A finite-element model of the thermosetting epoxy asphalt mixture（EAM） microstructure is developed to simulate the indirect tension test（IDT）.Image techniques are used to capture the EAM microstructure which is di...A finite-element model of the thermosetting epoxy asphalt mixture（EAM） microstructure is developed to simulate the indirect tension test（IDT）.Image techniques are used to capture the EAM microstructure which is divided into two phases：aggregates and mastic.A viscoelastic constitutive relationship,which is obtained from the results of a creep test,is used to represent the mastic phase at intermittent temperatures.Model simulation results of the stiffness modulus in IDT compare favorably with experimental data.Different loading directions and velocities are employed in order to account for their influence on the modulus and the localized stress of the microstructure model.It is pointed out that the modulus is not consistent when the loading direction changes since the heterogeneous distribution of the mixture internal structure,and the loading velocity affects the localized stress as a result of the viscoelasticity of the mastic.The study results can provide a theoretical basis for the finite-element method,which can be extended to the numerical simulations of asphalt mixture micromechanical behavior.展开更多
This paper presents a low sampling rate digital pre-distortion technique based on an improved Chebyshev polynomial for the non-linear distortion problem of amplifiers in 5G broadband communication systems.An improved ...This paper presents a low sampling rate digital pre-distortion technique based on an improved Chebyshev polynomial for the non-linear distortion problem of amplifiers in 5G broadband communication systems.An improved Chebyshev polynomial is used to construct the behavioural model of the broadband amplifier,and an undersampling technique is used to sample the output signal of the amplifier,reduce the sampling rate,and extract the pre-distortion parameters from the sampled signal through an indirect learning structure to finally correct the non-linearity of the amplifier system.This technique is able to improve the linearity and efficiency of the power amplifier and provides better flexibility.Experimental results show that by constructing the behavioural model of the amplifier using memory polynomials(MP),generalised polynomials(GMP)and modified Chebyshev polynomials respectively,the adjacent channel power ratio of the obtained system can be improved by more than 13.87d B,17.6dB and 19.98dB respectively compared to the output signal of the amplifier without digital pre-distortion.The Chebyshev polynomial improves the neighbourhood channel power ratio by 6.11dB and 2.38dB compared to the memory polynomial and generalised polynomial respectively,while the normalised mean square error is effectively improved and enhanced.This shows that the improved Chebyshev pre-distortion can guarantee the performance of the system and improve the non-linearity better.展开更多
文摘Manual Therapy is a rehabilitative approach based on the use of therapeutic procedures that includes several techniques, but this paper focuses on what is known as Positional Release (PR), a therapeutic model that includes a series of manoeuvres that are mainly used for the treatment of soft tissue. A deeper understanding of this type of therapeutic approach, especially its well known and widespread variant, Strain-Counterstrain, could, through controlled trials and systematic reviews, confirm its effectiveness, definitively explain the neurophysiological mechanism, and therefore make Positional Release another indispensable option in the professional expertise of the physiotherapist.
基金Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University(No. NCET-08-0118)Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education (No. 20090092110049)
文摘A finite-element model of the thermosetting epoxy asphalt mixture（EAM） microstructure is developed to simulate the indirect tension test（IDT）.Image techniques are used to capture the EAM microstructure which is divided into two phases：aggregates and mastic.A viscoelastic constitutive relationship,which is obtained from the results of a creep test,is used to represent the mastic phase at intermittent temperatures.Model simulation results of the stiffness modulus in IDT compare favorably with experimental data.Different loading directions and velocities are employed in order to account for their influence on the modulus and the localized stress of the microstructure model.It is pointed out that the modulus is not consistent when the loading direction changes since the heterogeneous distribution of the mixture internal structure,and the loading velocity affects the localized stress as a result of the viscoelasticity of the mastic.The study results can provide a theoretical basis for the finite-element method,which can be extended to the numerical simulations of asphalt mixture micromechanical behavior.
文摘This paper presents a low sampling rate digital pre-distortion technique based on an improved Chebyshev polynomial for the non-linear distortion problem of amplifiers in 5G broadband communication systems.An improved Chebyshev polynomial is used to construct the behavioural model of the broadband amplifier,and an undersampling technique is used to sample the output signal of the amplifier,reduce the sampling rate,and extract the pre-distortion parameters from the sampled signal through an indirect learning structure to finally correct the non-linearity of the amplifier system.This technique is able to improve the linearity and efficiency of the power amplifier and provides better flexibility.Experimental results show that by constructing the behavioural model of the amplifier using memory polynomials(MP),generalised polynomials(GMP)and modified Chebyshev polynomials respectively,the adjacent channel power ratio of the obtained system can be improved by more than 13.87d B,17.6dB and 19.98dB respectively compared to the output signal of the amplifier without digital pre-distortion.The Chebyshev polynomial improves the neighbourhood channel power ratio by 6.11dB and 2.38dB compared to the memory polynomial and generalised polynomial respectively,while the normalised mean square error is effectively improved and enhanced.This shows that the improved Chebyshev pre-distortion can guarantee the performance of the system and improve the non-linearity better.
