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An Improved Electric Model with Online Parameters Correction for Large Li-Ion Battery Packs

Lithium-ion battery packs based battery energy storage system (BESS) has proved its high potential in energy storage. In studying the BESS, A precise battery model is critical for implementing the system simulation, estimating the SOC, SOH of the battery, as well as optimizing the design. An electric model which can reflect the hysteresis effect and dynamic characteristic is adopted in this paper, and based on that, we proposed a novel method for battery model identification and on-line correction of model parameters by extended Kalman filter (EKF). Thus the parameters of battery model can be regulated in the progress of battery charge and discharge. The method is proved to be efficient and accurate by comparing the simulation result with the experiment data. receive. However, the parameter identification algorithm is also more complicated, resulted in complex calculation. With the aging of the battery and the changing of temperature, the battery performance will change constantly, so do the model parameters. The model parameters got in a certain test, which are consistent with the actual characteristics of the battery, but may not work well in other conditions. Therefore, a battery model which could be able to change over test environment is needed. The battery model that proposed in this paper is improved on the basis of the Thevenin circuit, in order to capture the nonlinear characteristics and dynamic characteristics. We took EKF method, which is an intelligent means for estimating state value of a dynamic system, as the model parameter identification algorithm (4-6). In many research and applications, the model parameters are fixed. In fact, the circuit model cannot fully reflect performance of the battery, of which the parameters are needed to change with different battery states and ambient temperature, in order to adapt to the actual battery better. Especially, taking the Kalman filter or EKF algorithm to estimate the battery state, such as SOC, requires an accurate model. In order to get model parameters under different conditions, a large number of specific charge-discharge experiments have to be conducted, wherein the workload is quite large. Therefore, we studied an online method for parameters correction, which is able to fix the parameters of the original model when the energy storage system is running. For large-scale battery energy storage system, the method can achieve a goal that the system runs with model identification and parameters correction.
Attachment in mental health institutions: A critical review of assumptions, clinical implications, and research strategies

Attachment is relevant to institutionalized treatment and the therapeutic process in three identifiable ways: (1) patients bring their mental representations of previous and existing attachment relationships to the treatment; (2) attachment is relevant to the extent to which a therapeutic alliance is established and maintained, both in terms of the mental representations of attachment in the patient and in the therapist and how these influence interactive behaviour and expectations in each partner to the therapeutic work; (3) the outcome of the treatment may be related to attachment; for example, when institutional experiences have an enduring impact on attachment representations and the future attachment behaviour of the patient. However, this brief review of attachment concepts reveals that several theoretical, conceptual and empirical questions remain to be answered before evidence-based clinical attachment guidelines can be formulated concerning patient-staff relationships.
Analysis of the key influencing factors of haze information dissemination behavior and motivation in WeChat

With the development of mobile internet, instant messaging (IM) applications have gradually changed the way to receive information and communicate with friends. Considered as one of the important social media platforms, WeChat is the most popular IM application in China. This paper aims to examine the influence factors of haze information’s dissemination in WeChat. ,Based on the theory of information dissemination and the theory of motivation, three information dissemination elements including information source, information and information receiver were proposed in the structural equation model. The model was tested using data collected from both online and offline questionnaire survey results. The data analysis from 170 valid responses confirmed the path effects that emotional motivation, social motivation of information receiver and the credibility of information source positively influenced WeChat users’ re-transmission intention and information emotional tendency negatively influenced their re-transmission intention. ,The research model revealed these key factors that affected dissemination of haze information in WeChat. More importantly, it provided a decision-making framework to release the public emergency information in WeChat. Hence, the paper made an important contribution to practical guidance to relevant decision makers. ,This study contributes to the literature on examining factors affecting the haze information transmission in WeChat. A framework was proposed to describe the information dissemination process which comprises information source, information and information receiver.
Concentrations of polybrominated diphenyl ethers, polychlonnated biphenyls, and polychlorobiphenylols in serum from pregnant Faroese women and their children 7 years later.

The objective of this study was to assess blood concentrations of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and their polychlorobiphenylol (OH-PCB) metabolites in humans with a high seafood intake. Samples were obtained from pregnant women in the Faroe Islands in 1994-1995 and from their children at 7 years of age to examine maternal transfer of the compounds to their child, age-dependent metabolism, and temporal changes. Maternal serum was dominated by 2,2',4,4'-tetrabromodiphenyl ether (BDE-47), while 2,2',4,4',5,5'-hexabromodiphenyl ether (BDE-153) prevailed in the children's serum seven years later. DecaBDE was present in both mothers and children up to 3 and 6 ng/g lipid weight, respectively. The sigmaPCB concentration in the children averaged about 60% of the concentrations in their mothers, with median levels for both above 1 microg/g lipid weight and . with similar PCB congener patterns. sigmaOH-PCB serum concentrations from the mothers and their children showed ranges of 1.8-36 ng/g wet weight (ww) and 0.49-22 ng/g ww, respectively, with all OH-PCB congener concentrations being lower in the children, except for 2,3,3',4',5-pentachloro-4-biphenylol (4-OH-CB107). Children at 7 years of age are exposed to PCBs at levels only slightly below those of their mothers, and the increased 4-OH-CB107 concentrations in children could be due to age-related differences in PCB metabolism. The PBDE concentrations were similar in both mothers and their children. The main persistent organic pollutant concentrations in the children are most probably due to other environmental exposure than maternal transfer.
cGMP Catabolism by Phosphodiesterase 5A Regulates Cardiac Adrenergic Stimulation by NOS3-Dependent Mechanism

β-Adrenergic agonists stimulate cardiac contractility and simultaneously blunt this response by coactivating NO synthase (NOS3) to enhance cGMP synthesis and activate protein kinase G (PKG-1). cGMP is also catabolically regulated by phosphodiesterase 5A (PDE5A). PDE5A inhibition by sildenafil (Viagra) increases cGMP and is used widely to treat erectile dysfunction; however, its role in the heart and its interaction with β-adrenergic and NOS3/cGMP stimulation is largely unknown. In nontransgenic (control) murine in vivo hearts and isolated myocytes, PDE5A inhibition (sildenafil) minimally altered rest function. However, when the hearts or isolated myocytes were stimulated with isoproterenol, PDE5A inhibition was associated with a suppression of contractility that was coupled to elevated cGMP and increased PKG-1 activity. In contrast, NOS3-null hearts or controls with NOS inhibited by NG-nitro-l-arginine methyl ester, or soluble guanylate cyclase (sGC) inhibited by 1H-[1,2,4]oxadiazolo[4,3-a]quinoxaline-1-one, showed no effect of PDE5A inhibition on β-stimulated contractility or PKG-1 activation. This lack of response was not attributable to altered PDE5A gene or protein expression or in vitro PDE5A activity, but rather to an absence of sGC-generated cGMP specifically targeted to PDE5A catabolism and to a loss of PDE5A localization to z-bands. Re-expression of active NOS3 in NOS3-null hearts by adenoviral gene transfer restored PDE5A z-band localization and the antiadrenergic efficacy of PDE5A inhibition. These data support a novel regulatory role of PDE5A in hearts under adrenergic stimulation and highlight specific coupling of PDE5A catabolic regulation with NOS3-derived cGMP attributable to protein subcellular localization and targeted synthetic/catabolic coupling.
Bmc Complementary and Alternative Medicine Effect of Three Different Cultivars of Lepidium Meyenii (maca) on Learning and Depression in Ovariectomized Mice

Background: Lepidium meyenii Walp. (Brassicaceae), known as Maca, is a Peruvian hypocotyl growing exclusively between 4000 and 4500 m altitude in the central Peruvian Andes, particularly in Junin plateau and is used traditionally to enhance fertility. Maca is a cultivated plant and different cultivars are described according to the color of the hypocotyls.
Anti-Idiotypic Antibodies and “Tumor-Only” Antigens: An Update

The use of anti-idiotypic antibodies for cancer treatment continues to be a major field of investigation. One ma- jor challenge for tumor immunotherapy is the identification of antigens associated only or preferably with malignant cells. We summarize here some of the most recent preclinical and clinical advances using two targets that can be considered tumor-specific antigens: N-glycolyl (NeuGc)-gangliosides and the idiotype of B cell lymphomas. Recent developments with tumor-associated protein antigens and the role of anti-idiotypic antibodies in autoimmune diseases are also discussed.
Two distinct etiologies of gastric cardia adenocarcinoma: interactions among pH, Helicobacter pylori, and bile acids

Gastric cancer can be classified as cardia and non-cardia subtypes according to the anatomic site. Although the gastric cancer incidence has decreased steadily in several countries over the past 50 years, the incidence of cardia cancers and esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC) continue to increase. The etiological factors involved in the development of both cardia cancers and EACs are associated with high animal fat intake, which causes severe obesity. Central obesity plays roles in cardiac-type mucosa lengthening and partial hiatus hernia development. There are two distinct etiologies of cardia cancer subtypes: one associated with gastroesophageal reflux (GER), which predominantly occurs in patients without Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection and resembles EAC, and the other associated with H. pylori atrophic gastritis, which resembles non-cardia cancer. The former can be developed in the environment of high volume duodenal content reflux, including bile acids and a higher acid production in H. pylori–negative patients. N-nitroso compounds, which are generated from the refluxate that includes a large volume of bile acids and are stabilized in the stomach (which has high levels of gastric acid), play a pivotal role in this carcinogenesis. The latter can be associated with the changing colonization of H. pylori from the distal to the proximal stomach with atrophic gastritis because a high concentration of soluble bile acids in an environment of low acid production is likely to act as a bactericide or chemorepellent for H. pylori in the distal stomach. The manuscript introduces new insights in causative factors of adenocarcinoma of the cardia about the role of bile acids in gastro-esophageal refluxate based upon robust evidences supporting interactions among pH, H. pylori, and bile acids.
A novel study on beaconing for VANET-based vehicle to vehicle communication: Probability of beacon delivery in realistic large-scale urban area using 802.11p

Vehicle to Vehicle (V2V) and Vehicle to Infrastructure (V2I) communication are playing an important role in improving the road safety and comfort. Communication between cars often referred to vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANET) has many advantages such as reducing cars accidents, minimizing the traffic jam, reducing fuel consumption and emissions, etc. VANET architecture has been standardized in the IEEE 802.11p specification. VANETs beaconing is one of the most important communication modes, which is used to broadcast the information of a car to the neighbour cars. This paper deals with simulation of car to car communication in realistic large-scale urban area (real traffic and map) based on IEEE 802.11p standard and investigates the successful beacon delivery probability. This study calculates the Probability of Beacon Delivery (PBD) in realistic simulation and compares that with the mathematical model. PBD for cars in different situations are calculated (for example PBD for one particular car in the city, one group of cars in the street, cars in the crossroad, PBD in a large area with different traffic density, etc.). Studying the PBD of 802.11p is necessary to find out whether this technology is effective before implementing in the real world. This study is the first study performed on the PBD of 802.11p in realistic large urban area. The results show that the PBD of 802.11p in a large area with huge density of cars is quite low. In addition, in this study different VANET simulators are investigated. As a result SUMO for traffic simulation, OMNeT++ for Network Simulation and Veins framework for integration of OMNeT++ and SUMO are selected in this study.
Method to Estimate the Basin of Attraction and Speed Switch Control for the Underactuated Biped Robot

The biped robots have higher mobility than conventional wheeled robots, especially when moving on rough terrains, up and down slopes and in environments with obstacles. The geometry of the biped robot is similar to the human beings, so it is easy to adapt to the human life environment and can help the human beings to finish the complex work. With the development of the society, the needs for robots to assist human beings with activities in daily environments are growing rapidly. Therefore, a large number of researches have been done on the bipedal walking. The dynamic system of the biped robot is a nonlinear hybrid dynamic system, which consists of continuous differential equations and discrete events dynamic maps. Therefore, this system is a complex nonlinear system. The most effective way of analyzing the global properties of the nonlinear system is probably the straightforward numerical evaluation to compute the motions and then to infer some global properties from the numerical results. It has been reported that the passive biped robot has weak tolerance for large disturbances. The basin of attraction is widely used as a measure for the disturbance rejection for the biped robots, and it is a total set of state variables from which the walker can walk successfully (Ning, L. et. al., 2007). The larger the size of the basin of attraction is, the stronger the stability is. Therefore, more and more researchers have studied the methods to compute the basin of attraction for the biped robot. The cell mapping method was proposed to compute the basin of attraction for the simplest walking model with point feet and the planar model with round feet (Schwab, A.L. & Wisse, M., 2001); (Ning, L. et. al., 2007). The results of experiments show that this method is effective; however, it is time-consuming for multidimensional state space (Zhang, P., et. al., 2008). Based on the bionics study, most humanoid robot control methods are in terms of the basic principles and characteristics of hominine gait. A robotic simulacrum potentially can be very useful. The passive biped robot can walk down along the slope only by inertial and gravitational force. But this passive walking has weak robust and stability. The basin of attraction of the simplest walker can only tolerate a deviation of 2% from the fixed point (Schwab, A.L. & Wisse, M., 2001). In 14
GPU implementation of spiking neural networks for color image segmentation

Spiking neural networks (SNN) are powerful computational model inspired by the human neural system for engineers and neuroscientists to simulate intelligent computation of the brain. Inspired by the visual system, various spiking neural network models have been used to process visual images. However, it is time-consuming to simulate a large scale of spiking neurons in the networks using CPU programming. Spiking neural networks inherit intrinsically parallel mechanism from biological system. A massively parallel implementation technology is required to simulate them. To address this issue, modern Graphic Processing Units (GPUs), which have parallel array of streaming multiprocessors, allow many thousands of lightweight threads to be run, is proposed and proved as a pertinent solution. This paper presents an approach for implementation of an SNN model which performs color image segmentation on GPU. This approach is then compared with an equivalent implementation on an Intel Xeon CPU. The results show that the GPU approach was found to provide a 31 times faster than the CPU implementation.
Pattern Recognition of Bearing Faults using Smoother Statistical Features

A pattern recognition (PR) based diagnostic scheme is presented to identify bearing faults, using time domain features. Vibration data is acquired from faulty bearings using a test rig. The features are extracted from the data, and processed prior to utilize in the PR process. The processing involves smoothing of feature distributions. This reduces the undesired impact of vibration randomness on the PR process, and thus enhances the diagnostic accuracy of the model.
The AM-Bench: An Android Multimedia Benchmark Suite

Despite the significant evolution of mobile devices and the increased use of mobile devices, not many mobile benchmarks have been studied. Even though mobile applications share similar characteristics with traditional desktop oriented applications, different programming environments and user usage patterns present different characteristics. In this paper, we introduce an open source based mobile multimedia benchmark for Android platforms (AM-Bench). The AM-Bench consists of several multimedia benchmarks running on Android platforms. We explain the characteristics of the AM-Bench and compare performance on four Android-based platforms.
MULTI-AGENT SIMULATIONS OF THE HUMAN IMPACTS AND LANDSCAPE DYNAMICS OF AGROFORESTRY ADOPTION IN THE UPLANDS OF SOUTHERN PHILIPPINES

A large and rapidly expanding portion of the Philippine upland landscape is being converted to permanent annual cropping resulting in fragmentation of upland areas. Human settlements rapidly developed and the need for food increased. Annual crops were continuously cultivated to meet the increasing food demand. However, these farming systems pose a great threat to the stability, productivity and sustainability of upland regions while agroforestry is an ecologically sound approach to managing upland landscapes. A model using the Common Pool Resources and Multi-Agent Systems (CORMAS) was developed to help understand the impacts of agroforestry adoption on landscape changes in Claveria, Misamis Oriental, southern Philippines. Farmers decide on the type of agroforestry system, the trees and crops to be planted. The model simulates changes in the landscape as farmers shifted to agroforestry from annual cropping. The model scenarios also serve as decision support for policymakers, farmers and other stakeholders towards sustainable management of resources.
Granulocyte colony-stimulating factor attenuates monocrotaline-induced pulmonary hypertension by upregulating endothelial progenitor cells via the nitric oxide system

Granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) has exhibited efficacy at preventing the progression of pulmonary hypertension (PH); however, the exact mechanism is not completely clear. The aim of the present study was to assess whether this protective effect was mediated by the upregulation of circulating endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) via the nitric oxide (NO) system. PH was induced in male Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats by the administration of a single subcutaneous injection of monocrotaline (MCT). The rats were treated with recombinant human G-CSF (rhG-CSF, 50 μg/kg/day) by subcutaneous injection from day five to day seven subsequent to the injection of MCT. Nω-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester (L-NAME, 4 mg/kg/day) was intragastrically administered in addition to rhG-CSF as a negative intervention. The changes in hemodynamics and histology, the number and function of circulating EPCs and the concentration of plasma NO were evaluated. With the occurrence of PH in the rat model, the number and function of circulating EPCs were demonstrated to be markedly downregulated. Moreover, a reduced plasma concentration of NO was observed, which was positively correlated with the number of circulating EPCs. Administration of rhG-CSF elevated the plasma level of NO, upregulated the number and function of circulating EPCs and effectively improved pulmonary hemodynamics and vascular reconstruction. Furthermore, the positive correlation between the levels of plasma NO and circulating EPCs was also observed in the rhG-CSF treatment group. However, the protective effect of rhG-CSF in PH was attenuated by L-NAME, which mediated the downregulation of NO and the EPCs. Thus, the present study suggests that G-CSF may attenuate the progression of MCT-induced PH by improving vascular injury repair mechanisms via the NO-mediated upregulation of EPCs.
Proton Pump Inhibitors Interfere With Zinc Absorption and Zinc Body Stores

Background Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) cause a sharp elevation of gastro-duodenal luminal pH which in turn has resulted in reports of reduced absorption of magnesium and certain other nutrients. Methods Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) patients on long-term PPI therapy (> 6 months) or healthy test subjects (not on any acid preventive or neutralizing medication) were administered oral doses of zinc gluconate (26.2 mg zinc, twice daily) for 14 days followed by 5 cc venous blood samples. Plasma was analyzed for total zinc content by atomic absorption spectrophotometry. Baseline plasma and red blood cell zinc levels were also measured in these two groups when not taking any zinc supplementation. Results Plasma zinc levels of healthy controls increased by 126% during the period of zinc supplementation compared to only a 37% increase for individuals on long-term PPI therapy. On their normal diet (with no zinc supplementation), PPI-users had a 28% lower plasma zinc level than healthy controls (P < 0.005). Conclusions PPI use dramatically reduces supplemental zinc uptake and can result in decreased zinc body stores. Certain individuals on long-term PPI therapy, such as infants being treated for colic, may be at risk for decreased systemic levels of trace metals needed for developmental, regenerative and immunological requirements.