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WiFi (IEEE 802.11 standard) networks are widely used to support real-time (RT) applications, from home environment systems to complex networked control systems (NCS). Nevertheless, the Quality of Service (QoS) extensions incorporated into the standard are still unable to guarantee some relevant RT communications requirements. This paper presents an experimental validation of the RT-WiFi architecture that was recently proposed to deal with RT communication requirements and analysed through simulation. The experimental results demonstrate the feasibility of implementing the RT-WiFi architecture and improving the QoS level of communications through a comparative analysis with the EDCA (Enhanced Distributed Channel Access) mechanism, which is a mechanism incorporated in the IEEE 802.11 standard to provide different levels of transmission priority of different types of traffic.

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Constant search for efficiency and productivity has led to innovation on the factory shop floor, representing an evolution of the current production systems combined with new technologies of industrial automation and information technology. This work presents an experimental demo of a smartbox for Industry 4.0 scenarios, allowing sensing, monitoring and data acquisition. We have tested two different approaches, depending on the communication protocol used for real time applications: OPC UA or MQTT. Raspberry Pi's platform act as an OPC UA server or MQTT broker, respectively. From the measurements, data stored in a cloud server can be accessed remotely with improved security and visualized from a computer dashboard. One of the conclusions that can be drawn is that both protocols allow data from the smartbox to be stored and easily monitored from a smartphone application or a computer web interface. MQTT is a good option in communications requiring very low bandwidth. However, there is a lack of suitable libraries to program alarm features for OPC UA Servers. © 2019 IEEE.

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This study assesses in vivo and noninvasive human lower limb dynamic stiffness at different muscle stretch-shortening cycle (SSC) on maximum vertical jump (MVJ) with long, short and without countermovement. A small sample of n=6 healthy young adult male students of sports and physical education degree without past injuries, specific training or sports record were assessed after informed consent according to the world medical association declaration of Helsinki. Subjects were weighted (76.7 +/- 9.3) kg and their height measured (178.9 +/- 6.3) cm performing each three trials of MVJ namely squat jump (SJ), countermovement jump (CMJ) and drop jump (DJ) from a step with 40 cm height. Ground reaction forces (GRF) were acquired during impulse phase with AMTI force plate BP2416-4000 CE and Mini Amp MAS-6 amplifier at 1000 Hz. Vertical acceleration (a(z)) of whole body center of gravity (BCG) obtained from resultant vertical ground reaction force (RFz) was time integrated twice for calculation of vertical displacement (Delta z) of BCG and dynamic stiffness obtained from slopes at different segmented subphases of RFz mass normalized RFz/m vs Delta z plot during impulse phase. Results of vertical dynamic stiffness during impulse phase point for inter-subject similarities at each type of MVJ and statistical significative differences (p<0.05) between SJ, CMJ and DJ with impact on MVJ optimization.

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The National School Feeding Program - NSFP is the public health policy that guarantees the minimum supply of healthy food and offers space for the construction of healthy eating habits in Brazilian schools. The objective of the present study was to evaluate the presence of Food and Nutrition Education (FNE) actions within the framework of the NSFP to verify its adequacy toward the program's legislation and to investigate which parameters are predictors of running school gardens. This was a cross-sectional observational study using secondary data obtained from the database of the Efficient School Lunch Management Award for the year 2010, with a sample of 749 municipalities in Brazil. A binary logistic regression was performed, considering the running of school gardens as a dependent variable, and the FNE indicators and the demographic variables as independent. The model containing the presence of FNE in the school curriculum was significant (p<0.001). The presence of FNE in school curricula OR=2.406;95%CI=[1.725, 3.357] was the most significant predictor of running school gardens, followed by the use of food from family farms OR=2.049;95%CI=[1.477, 2.842] and the carrying out of culinary workshops OR=2.032;95%CI=[1.442; 2.863], considering p<0.05. The presence of FNE in the school curriculum was positively associated with growing vegetable gardens, showing that complex actions that require more resources can be stimulated from simpler measures, and the NSFP as a public health policy is an important tool to promote actions throughout the national territory.