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Optimizing Energy Storage Participation in Emerging Power Markets (2015)

The growing amount of intermittent renewables in power generation creates challenges for real-time matching of supply and demand in the power grid. Emerging ancillary power markets provide new incentives to consumers (e.g., electrical vehicles, data centers, and others) to perform demand response to help stabilize the electricity grid. A promising class of potential demand response providers includes energy storage systems (ESSs). This paper evaluates the benefits of using various types of novel ESS technologies for a variety of emerging smart grid demand response programs, such as regulation services reserves (RSRs), contingency reserves, and peak shaving. We model, formulate and solve optimization problems to maximize the net profit of ESSs in providing each demand response. Our solution selects the optimal power and energy capacities of the ESS, determines the optimal reserve value to provide as well as the ESS real-time operational policy for program participation. Our results highlight that applying ultra-capacitors and flywheels in RSR has the potential to be up to 30 times more profitable than using common battery technologies such as LI and LA batteries for peak shaving.
Accelerometer-based user interfaces for the control of a physically simulated character (2008)

In late 2006, Nintendo released a new game controller, the Wiimote, which included a three-axis accelerometer. Since then, a large variety of novel applications for these controllers have been developed by both independent and commercial developers. We add to this growing library with three performance interfaces that allow the user to control the motion of a dynamically simulated, animated character through the motion of his or her arms, wrists, or legs. For comparison, we also implement a traditional joystick/button interface. We assess these interfaces by having users test them on a set of tracks containing turns and pits. Two of the interfaces (legs and wrists) were judged to be more immersive and were better liked than the joystick/button interface by our subjects. All three of the Wiimote interfaces provided better control than the joystick interface based on an analysis of the failures seen during the user study.
III−V Nanowire Growth Mechanism:  V/III Ratio and Temperature Effects (2007)

We have studied the dependence of Au-assisted InAs nanowire (NW) growth on InAs(111)B substrates as a function of substrate temperature and input V/III precursor ratio using organometallic vapor-phase epitaxy. Temperature-dependent growth was observed within certain temperature windows that are highly dependent on input V/III ratios. This dependence was found to be a direct consequence of the drop in NW nucleation and growth rate with increasing V/III ratio at a constant growth temperature due to depletion of indium at the NW growth sites. The growth rate was found to be determined by the local V/III ratio, which is dependent on the input precursor flow rates, growth temperature, and substrate decomposition. These studies advance understanding of the key processes involved in III-V NW growth, support the general validity of the vapor-liquid-solid growth mechanism for III-V NWs, and improve rational control over their growth morphology.
Share-to-Run IoT Services in Edge Cloud Computing (2021)

Recently, the exponential growth of the Internet-of-Things (IoT) services with heterogeneous requirements becomes a burden to the traditional cloud/data center platform. Edge computing is an emerging solution to gain business value of IoT services where real-time demands become satisfied by moving computing resources close to data sources. Nevertheless, edge resources are still limited to be able to fulfill all demands at the same time. Among new approaches, resource sharing between edge/cloud service providers has been considered as a promising mechanism to address resource scarcity and pursue cost reduction. In this article, we propose an allocation and sharing model in the edge cloud network where providers team up to efficiently utilize resources, named the share-to-run IoT services (SRIS). In particular, we formulate a resource allocation and sharing optimization model to implement IoT services of multiple edge/cloud providers that can maximize the providers’ utility while satisfying service constraints. We relax SRIS into a tractable form that can be solved efficiently using well-known distributed convex frameworks, such as the dual decomposition and alternating direction method of multipliers. Finally, we evaluate our methods by providing several simulation cases, in which our proposed mechanisms show outstanding outcomes by obtaining a faster convergence, increasing by 6.9% of utilization, and 16% of acceptance rate compared to the nonoptimal approach.
Ray‐based and Wavefront‐based 3D Representations for Holographic Displays (2014)

A three-dimensional (3D) holography display is capable of reproducing extremely high-quality 3D images by wavefront reconstruction, and its advantage against ray-based 3D display is the capability to reproduce deep 3D scenes at high resolution. One of the important issue in holographic display is the calculation of holograms from 3D data, because it requires wavefront-based rendering that is much more complicated than conventional ray-based computer graphics. Although ray-based rendering techniques have been applied to hologram computation, they cause reduction of resolution as in the case of ray-based displays. This chapter addresses a technology that converts 3D data represented by light-rays into wavefront data and vice versa at ray-sampling (RS) planes defined near the objects to be displayed, and a new method is proposed for the computation of hologram using a RS plane. The proposed method enables to employ the advanced rendering techniques for occlusion processing, surface shading, specular or glossy surfaces, and translucent objects in the computation of holograms, without loss of the advantage of holographic displays. A scanning vertical camera array system is presented for capturing high-density light-field information, which are applied to computational holography and holographic prints. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed ray-wavefront conversion technique allows the realistic display of deep 3D images at high resolution.
Isolation and Structure of Neriucoumaric and Isoneriucoumaric Acids from the Leaves ofNerium oleander (1987)

Two new coumaryloxy triterpenoids, neriucoumaric and isoneriucoumaric acids, have been isolated from fresh, undried and uncrushed leaves of NERIUM OLEANDER and their structures established as 3beta-hydroxy-2alpha-cis- P-coumaryloxy-urs-12-en-28-oic acid and 3beta-hydroxy-2alpha- TRANS- P-coumaryloxy-urs-12-en-28-oic acid respectively, through chemical and spectroscopic methods.
Evaluation of docking programs for predicting binding of Golgi α‐mannosidase II inhibitors: A comparison with crystallography (2007)

Golgi alpha-mannosidase II (GMII), a zinc-dependent glycosyl hydrolase, is a promising target for drug development in anti-tumor therapies. Using X-ray crystallography, we have determined the structure of Drosophila melanogaster GMII (dGMII) complexed with three different inhibitors exhibiting IC50's ranging from 80 to 1000 microM. These structures, along with those of seven other available dGMII/inhibitor complexes, were then used as a basis for the evaluation of seven docking programs (GOLD, Glide, FlexX, AutoDock, eHiTS, LigandFit, and FITTED). We found that small inhibitors could be accurately docked by most of the software, while docking of larger compounds (i.e., those with extended aromatic cycles or long aliphatic chains) was more problematic. Overall, Glide provided the best docking results, with the most accurately predicted binding around the active site zinc atom. Further evaluation of Glide's performance revealed its ability to extract active compounds from a benchmark library of decoys.
Iterative Precoding Scheme for Downlink OFDMA System with Carrier-Frequency Offset (2007)

In orthogonal frequency-division multiplex access (OFDMA) downlink systems, the carrier-frequency offset (CFO) between the multiple transceivers introduces inter-carrier interference (ICI). In this letter, we propose an iterative precoding scheme to suppress the ICI due to CFO. This scheme is applied at the transmitter, and can jointly cancel the ICI for all the receivers. Moreover, by the studies of the convergence behavior of the iterations, a sufficient condition for the convergence is presented. The theoretical analysis and simulation results both show that this iterative scheme is equivalent to the zero-forcing (ZF) scheme in function, but with much lower complexity.
Orphanin FQ acts as an anxiolytic to attenuate behavioral responses to stress (1997)

Orphanin FQ (OFQ, Nociceptin) is a recently discovered 17-amino acid neuropeptide that is structurally related to the opioid peptides but does not bind opioid receptors. OFQ has been proposed to act as an anti-opioid peptide, but its widespread sites of action in the brain suggest that it may have more general functions. Here we show that OFQ plays an important role in higher brain functions because it can act as an anxiolytic to attenuate the behavioral inhibition of animals acutely exposed to stressful/anxiogenic environmental conditions. OFQ anxiolytic-like effects were consistent across several behavioral paradigms generating different types of anxiety states in animals (light-dark preference, elevated plus-maze, exploratory behavior of an unfamiliar environment, pharmacological anxiogenesis, operant conflict) and were observed at low nonsedating doses (0.1-3 nmol, intracerebroventricular). Like conventional anxiolytics, OFQ interfered with regular sensorimotor function at high doses (>3 nmol). Our results show that an important role of OFQ is to act as an endogenous regulator of acute anxiety responses. OFQ, probably in concert with other major neuropeptides, exerts a modulatory role on the central integration of stressful stimuli and, thereby, may modulate anxiety states generated by acute stress.
Do Body Shape/Proportions predict injury? Novel insights from a 3D body scan imaging. (2018)

Background Posture, obesity, and body shape are well‐established predictors of injury and athletic performance. However, due to the manual burden in collecting numerous anthropometric measures, to date, no large database and systematic data analysis determining body shape effects on performance and injury have gone beyond using standard measurements like BMI, waist circumference and hip circumference. Objective To use machine learning based Artificial Neural Network (ANN) and decision tree analysis on a large nationally representative database of automatically captured body anthropometrics to predict basic training‐related injury. Methods Over N=20,896soldiers (28% female) recruited for US Army basic training at Fort Jackson, SC were scanned for uniform fitting using the Human Solutions Kinect based 3D imaging technology. Each subject image consisted of 161 body shape measurements. After removing subjects with missing measurements, the remaining subjects were split into injured (91 recruits) and non‐injured (13,296 recruits) groups. 75% of each group was placed into a training group and the other 25% into a testing group. An ANN and Decision Tree model evaluated using the area under the curve(AUC) was developed to predict severe physical injury occurrence during 10 weeks of US Army basic training. Body length measurement was compared against height to evaluate whether certain body proportions were more at risk for injury. Results The AUC for the ANN was 0.79 and the AUC for the Decision Tree model was 0.70. It was determined that body proportions of shorter legs and longer torso more than doubled the risk of injury during US Army basic training Conclusions Machine learning models that leverage data sources like those from the newly emerging 3D body image scanners may be used to predict severe injury during vigorous physical activity. These results can be used to develop personalized prevention strategies reducing injury and retaining individuals within their activity protocols. Support or Funding Information None This abstract is from the Experimental Biology 2018 Meeting. There is no full text article associated with this abstract published in The FASEB Journal .
Editorial on emerging neuroimaging tools for studying normal and abnormal human brain development (2015)

EDITORIAL article Front. Hum. Neurosci., 11 March 2015Sec. Brain Imaging and Stimulation https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2015.00127
Floaters in Surgical Pathology Tissues Genetic Identity Testing Potential and Pitfalls (2003)

Human genetic identity testing is a highly useful means to discriminate between individuals in forensic, paternity, and medical testing. The application of the polymerase chain reaction to genetic identity testing has facilitated the spread of this type of analysis into the realms of quality control and quality assurance of human tissues being assessed for pathologic processes. Polymerase chain reaction-based identity testing now provides a tool to address the vexing issues of specimen mislabeling, misidentification, and tissue contamination. Here we discuss the use of genetic identity testing as applied to human tissue analysis, specifically in the analysis of formalin-fixed/paraffin-embedded tissues for quality control and quality assurance purposes. We briefly discuss the history of identity testing in anatomic pathology applications and follow the maturation of the technologies used in identity testing to the current state of the art. We examine the current status of clinical laboratory medicine identity testing as it applies to surgical pathology, including reviewing the techniques and approaches used, and provide a discussion of clinically relevant pitfalls related to identity testing of anatomic pathology samples using case examples.
N-GAL: Diagnosing AKI as soon as possible (2007)

Early diagnosis of acute kidney injury (AKI) is often problematic, due to the lack of suitable early biomarkers of renal damage and kidney function. Neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL) as an early marker of AKI partially overcomes such limitations and seems to demonstrate that diagnosing AKI in its early stages is possible and useful. Using genomic and protein microarray technology, a series of molecules have been identified as potential markers for AKI; among them NGAL has been demonstrated to rise significantly in patients with AKI but not in the corresponding controls. Furthermore, this rise in NGAL occurs in various studies at 24 to 48 hours before the rise in creatinine is observed. NGAL both in urine and plasma is an excellent early marker of AKI with an area under the receiver operator characteristic curve (AUC) in the range of 0.9. The study of Zappitelli et al. in critically ill children combines for the first time the new RIFLE classification (Risk, Injury, Failure, Loss, End-stage renal disease) of AKI with the validation of NGAL as an early marker of kidney injury. This innovative approach brings a new hope for a timely diagnosis of AKI and thus a timely institution of measures for prevention and protection.
Immunoreagents based on polymer dispersions for immunochemical assays (1998)

Immunoreagents based on polymer dispersions consisting of unimodal polyacrolein (PAL) microspheres with diameters in the range 0.3-2.0 microns have been prepared and evaluated by various immunoassay techniques such as immunoradiometric assay of ferritin and microtitre particle agglutination and immunofiltration dot assay of group-specific polysaccharide of S. pyogenes (A-PS) in comparison with conventional carriers and methods. The antibodies were covalently or indirectly bound to the PAL. The coupled antibodies to ferritin retained a high average affinity (Ka = 4.5 x 10(9) M-1). In comparison with microcrystalline cellulose-based immunosorbent, more than an order-of-magnitude lower amount of PAL-IgG was necessary for the analysis of ferritin. Use of PAL-IgG gave a higher sensitivity of assay with a detection limit of 0.7 x 10(-13) M l-1 and a wider concentration range of antigen detection (about four orders of magnitude) without manifestation of the high-dose hook effect. Particle agglutination assay of A-PS in microtitre plate was shown to be a simple, demonstrative and highly sensitive one-step analytical method with a detection limit of 0.05 ng A-PS/ml or 10(4) cells/ml. The sensitivity of immunofiltration assay using both enzyme and latex markers was shown to be approximately the same (50 ng A-PS/ml) and the duration of the assay was 3-5 min. No cross-reaction of latex conjugates with non-A Streptococcus cell lysates were observed.
Control of permanent magnet AC servo motors via fuzzy reasoning (2003)

A control method which drives the permanent magnet AC servomotor without the detection of the rotor position by an absolute position transducer such as an absolute encoder or a resolver is described. An incremental encoder is only coupled to the motor shaft in order to obtain the information for electrical commutation, motor speed, and motor position. A fuzzy algorithm based on the min-max compositional rule of inference is developed for the estimation of the absolute rotor position which is essential to electrical commutation. The proposed control algorithm was implemented on a microprocessor control system. Experimental results show that the proposed control system can be effectively used to control the permanent magnet AC servo motor with high dynamic performance.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">&gt;</ETX>
Interbody Fusion in Low Grade Lumbar Spondylolsithesis: Clinical Outcome Does Not Correalte with Slip Reduction and Neural Foraminal Dimension (2016)

Neural decompression and interbody fusion can significantly improve pain and disability but the clinical outcome does not correlate with radiological improvement in the neural foraminal dimension.
Evaluation of Jatrophane Esters from Euphorbia spp. as Modulators of Candida albicans Multidrug Transporters (2017)

Twenty-nine jatrophane esters (1-10, 12-30) and one lathyrane (11) diterpenoid ester isolated from Euphorbia species were evaluated for their capacity to inhibit drug-efflux activities of the primary ABC transporter CaCdr1p and the secondary MFS transporter CaMdr1p of Candida albicans, in yeast strains overexpressing the corresponding transporter. These diterpenoid esters were obtained from Euphorbia semiperfoliata (1-10), E. insularis (11), and E. dendroides (12-30) and included five new compounds, euphodendroidins P-T (26-30). The jatrophane esters 12 and 23 were found to inhibit the efflux of Nile Red (NR) mediated by the two multidrug transporters, at 85-64% for CaCdr1p and 79-65% for CaMdr1p. In contrast, compound 21 was selective for CaCdr1p and induced a strong inhibition (92%), whereas compound 8 was selective for CaMdr1p, with a 74% inhibition. It was demonstrated further that potency and selectivity are sensitive to the substitution pattern on the jatrophane skeleton. However, these compounds were not transported and showed no synergism with fluconazole cytotoxicity.
Catheter Malplacement During Central Venous Cannulation Through Arm Veins in Pediatric Patients (2003)

For successful catheter placement, central venous cannulation (CVC) through internal jugular vein and subclavian vein has been recommended in both adult and pediatric patients. But it carries a risk of serious complications, such as pneumothorax, carotid, or subclavian artery puncture, which can be life-threatening, particularly in critically ill children. So a prospective study was carried out to determine the success rate of correct catheter tip placement during CVC through antecubital veins in pediatric neurosurgical patients. A total of 200 pediatric patients (age 1-15 years) of either sex were studied. Basilic or cephalic veins of either arm were selected. All the patients were cannulated in the operation room under general anesthesia. Single lumen, proper size catheters (with stillete) were used for cannulation. The catheter was inserted in supine position with the arm abducted at right angle to the body and neck turned ipsilaterally. The length of insertion was determined from cubital fossa to the right second intercostal space. The exact position of the tip of the catheter was confirmed radiologically in ICU. Correct catheter tip placement was achieved in 98 (49%) patients. Multivariate logistic regression analysis of data shows that there was no statistically significant difference among correct and incorrect catheter tip placement in relation to factors including sex, side of cannulation (left or right), and type of vein (basilic or cephalic). The analysis of correct catheter tip placement in relation to age showed that the highest success rate was achieved in children of age group 6 to 10 years (60.2%) followed by 30.6% in the 11 to 15 year group. The lowest success rate of tip placement of only 9.2% was observed in younger children of age 1 to 5 years, which is statistically significant (P = 0.001). Of 102 incorrect placements reported, 37% were in 1 to 5 year age group versus 9.2% correct tip placements. The most common unsatisfactory placements were either in the ipsilateral internal jugular vein (N = 38, 37.2%) or in the ipsilateral subclavian vein (N = 27, 26.4%). In 10 patients the catheter crossed over to the opposite subclavian vein, in 16 patients the catheter tips were found in the axillary vein, and in 10 patients each the catheter tip was observed in right atrium and right ventricle. No major complication during and following CVC was observed. To conclude, CVC using single orifice catheter through arm veins in pediatric patients is easy to perform, but the proper catheter tip placement is highly unreliable, particularly in younger children 1 to 5 years of age.
Functional properties of sour cassava (Manihot utilissima) starch: Polvilho azedo (1988)

Abstract Cassava ( Manihot utilissima Pohl) starches (‘polvilho azedo’) from four different plants from Brazil were studied in order to determine starch modifications. The chemical composition was not significantly modified by the fermentation step whereas the granular structure was similar to that resulting from short periods of mild acid hydrolysis. Experimental samples were produced by acid or enzymic hydrolysis of industrial native cassava starch on the laboratory scale. Baking tests demonstrated that hydrolysis has to be very limited, and adsorbed carbonic gas and lactic and propionic acids are able to improve the formation of expanded structures.
The joint determination of efficiency in multi-mode bus transit (2004)

In this paper the multiactivity DEA (data envelopment analysis) model is applied to determine the efficiency of individual services within different but highly homogeneous multimode transit firms which engage in their services with non-identical technologies and use shared inputs. The empirical findings indicate that the multiactivity model is more demanding than the conventional DEA model and thereby shows itself to be an especially useful instrument in performing this task.
Supplementary Data from Preclinical Characterization of Relatlimab, a Human LAG-3–Blocking Antibody, Alone or in Combination with Nivolumab (2023)

Supplementary Data from Preclinical Characterization of Relatlimab, a Human LAG-3–Blocking Antibody, Alone or in Combination with Nivolumab