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none ; 7 ; Funding text This work at UMONS was financially supported by the Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique – FNRS under the convention PDR T.0252.19. The work at SCK.CEN was performed with the financial support from the Federal Public Service of Economy of the Belgian Federal Government. The work at JET has been carried out within the framework of the EUROfusion Consortium and has received funding from the Euratom research and training programme 2014-2018 and 2019-2020 under grant agreement No 633053. The views and opinions expressed herein do not necessarily reflect those of the European Commission. ; For plasma current sensing in next-generation Tokamak thermonuclear fusion reactors like ITER and DEMO, optical fibre-based polarimetric sensors appear to be an alternative to conventional technologies (Rogowski coils, pick-up coils) thanks to a direct measurement of the plasma current (the polarization rotation is proportional to the current) and to an expected robustness against radiations. Optical fibre sensors also offer the possibility to avoid the use of a large number of electrical cables required in conventional technologies. In this paper, we propose to summarize our last results in FOCS (Fibre-Optics Current Sensor) and POTDR (Polarization Optical Time-Domain Reflectometer) sensors based on spun and low birefringence fibres, respectively. This study will be contextualized in the frame of the future ITER fusion reactor. Experimental results obtained on the JET tokamak for the FOCS approach and the TORE SUPRA tokamak for the POTDR approach will also be presented. ; none ; Wuilpart M.; Gusarov A.; Leysen W.; Batistoni P.; Moreau P.; Dandu P.; Megret P. ; Wuilpart, M.; Gusarov, A.; Leysen, W.; Batistoni, P.; Moreau, P.; Dandu, P.; Megret, P.

© 2015. American Geophysical Union. All Rights Reserved. More than 10 year of Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler observations collected at the westernmost sill (Espartel sill) of the Strait of Gibraltar by a monitoring station have been carefully processed to provide the most updated estimation of the Mediterranean outflow. A comprehensive quality control of the factors affecting the uncertainty of the measurements has been carried out and great care has been paid to infer the current at the bottom layer, where direct observations are lacking. The mean outflow in the southern channel of the sill section has been estimated as -0.82 Sv (1 Sv = 1 × 106 m3 s-1), with an average contribution of the eddy fluxes of -0.04 Sv. This figure is an overestimation, as the mooring measurements, assumed valid for the whole section, ignore the lateral friction. On the other hand, it only gives the flow through the southern channel and disregards the fraction flowing through shallower northern part. Both drawbacks have been addressed by investigating the cross-strait structure of the outflow from hindcasts produced by the MITgcm numerical model, run in a high-resolution domain covering the Gulf of Cádiz and Alboran Sea basins. An overall rectifying factor of 1.039 was found satisfactory to correct the first estimate, so that the final mean outflow computed from this data set is -0.85 Sv, complemented with an uncertainty of ±0.03 Sv based on the interannual variability of the series. The temporal analysis of the series shows an outflow seasonality of around the 8% of the mean value, with maximum outflow in early spring. ; The series of current measurements analyzed in this work has been collected during the INGRES Projects, INGRES (REN2003_01608), INGRES2 (CTM2006_02326/MAR), and INGRES3 (CTM2010_21229-C02-01/MAR), and Special Action CTM2009-05810-E/MAR, funded by the Spanish Government. The mooring line is included in the Mediterranean Sea monitoring network of the HYDROCHANGES project sponsored by CIESM. The CTD/LADCP data set has been provided by the Spanish Oceanographic Institute (IEO) who is coordinate partner of the INGRES3 project. The numerical simulations have been carried out in the framework of the SAMPA project developed in collaboration with the Spanish Port Authority. Partial support has been also provided by projects ENCIBA (CTM2013-40886-P) from the Spanish Government and MOCBASE (RNM1540) from the Junta de Andalucıa ; Peer Reviewed

This study's purpose was to examine heart rate variability (HRV) and direct current potential (DC) measures' sensitivity and correlations between changes in the acute recovery and stress scale (ARSS) and the previous day's training load. Training load, HRV, DC and ARSS data were collected from fourteen professional mixed martial arts athletes (32.6 ± 5.3 years, 174.8 ± 8.8 cm, 79.2 ± 17.5 kg) the following morning after hard, easy and rest days. Sensitivity was expressed as a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR, inter-day typical error (TE) or coefficient of variation (%CV) divided by intra-day TE or %CV). Correlations between HRV, DC and ARSS with training load were also examined. The SNRs for the various HRV and DC measures were acceptable to good (1.02–2.85). There was a 23.1% CV average increase between measures taken between different locations versus the same location. Training load changes were not correlated with HRV/DC but were correlated with ARSS stress variables. Practitioners should be aware of HRV/DC variability; however the daily training signal was greater than the test-retest error in this investigation. Upon awakening, HRV/DC measures appear superior for standardization and planning. HRV and DC measures were less sensitive to the previous day's training load than ARSS measures.

Authors proof of conference paper presented at CPEM 2020, 24-28 Aug., 2020, Denver, CO, USA ; This work has been performed with support from the Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems.

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