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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"ECMS"”.
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An ECMS-Based Controller for the Electrical System of a Passenger Vehicle
… Equivalent Consumption Minimization Strategy (ECMS), a well known energy management approach often used to control the powertrain of hybrid electric vehicles. This strategy works by determining the optimal alternator current to minimize the instantaneous fuel consumption while complying with …
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Monolayer terpyridyl metal complexes for high-efficiency electrochromic materials
Electrochromic materials (ECMs) can change their color with changes of applied electrochemical potential. Currently, the use of ECMs in the industry is limited to mainly inorganic metal oxides, conjugated conducting polymers, and liquid crystal-based materials. Hybrid metal-organic materials belong …
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Engineering polymer biomaterial interfaces for promoting cellular morphogenesis
… characterized natural extracellular matrices (ECMs) for growth and development. These models are notably limited by the lack of vasculature, a key functional component of most human tissues, enabling oxygen and nutrient exchange, as well as facilitating paracrine signaling with surrounding …
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Novel electrode materials and advanced electrochemical diagnostics for electrochromic devices
Electrochromic materials (ECMs) are a class of “smart” materials used in a variety of applications due to the ability to alter their optical properties with the application of a potential. For these applications, ECMs are fashioned into electrochromic devices (ECDs). However, commercialization of …
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Integrated Analysis of Molecular and Clinical Features in Melanoma Patients with Brain Metastases
… (LDH), the presence of extracranial metastases (ECMs), and uncontrolled (versus controlled) ECMs as clinical predictors of shorter survival. Multivariate analyses were performed with significant clinical factors and immune features with no correlated variables in the model. After backward …
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Enhancing Well-Being and Resilience Through Emotion Regulation Strategies: DBT Skills Training for Early-Career Midwives
… particularly among Early Career Midwives (ECMs). Despite extensive literature on sustainability challenges in the profession, research on emotion regulation (ER) abilities and targeted interventions remains limited. This pilot study evaluated the feasibility and preliminary efficacy of a …
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Rapid formation of cell-mediated microvascular networks in collagen, fibrin, and puramatrix provisional matrices
… formed at 50 vessels/mm^2 in collagen and fibrin ECMs, 100 vessels/mm^2 in Matrigel, and 150 vessels/mm^2 in PuraMatrix. When their viscoelastic properties were evaluated, we found strikingly divergent levels of gel compliance: collagen and fibrin gels which supported vascularization had storage …
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Decision process for energy efficient building retrofits : the owner's perspective
… process for building retrofits that include ECMs. The integrated process is as follows: 1) Building Energy Data, 2) ECM Identification and analysis, 3) Assessment, 4) Design and Plan, and 6) Approval. The process must be conducted in an integrated manner. The building energy data stage must …
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THE INFLUENCE OF THE MICROENVIRONMENT OF HEALTHY AND TUMORAL CELLS
… proteins, such as fibronectin and laminin; ECMs from various tissues can have strong differences in their composition and biophysical properties. The study of reciprocal interactions between cells and their microenvironment pertains to the fields of mechanobiology and mechanotransduction. …
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Modelling and comparing OECD countries' consumer behaviour
… Using the Johansen procedure we build structural ECMs based upon consumption, income and inflation allowing for heterogeneous dynamics across countries and considering whether an intercept should be included in, or excluded from, the cointegrating vector. Models embodying asymmetric nonlinear …
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Indicators for Minimizing Energy Consumption and GHG Emissions at Wastewater Treatment Facilities
… adopting several energy conservation measures (ECMs). This study also involves the quantification of GHG emissions based on the energy consumption. The benefits of the study include minimizing energy and GHG emission.</p>
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The role of the tumour microenvironment components in cancer cell behaviour and drug response
… to chemotherapeutic drugs, 3D cell-derived ECMs was used as a model. The analysis of ECM proteins using qRT-PCR in oesophageal cancer biopsies showed that collagens, fibronectin, and laminins were overexpressed in tumour tissue compared with adjacent normal tissues. The culture of cancer …
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Identification and Characterization of Determinants of Head and Neck Tumor Cell Invasion
… membrane and other extracellular matrixes (ECMs), and cell migration. These three steps are linked and interdependent. For example, cell adhesion to the ECM triggers a series of signal transduction pathways that involve calcium mobilization, focal adhesion kinase (FAK) activation, and …
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Uncovering the role of notch signaling in development of hypothalamic nuclei in vivo and using in vitro microenvironments
… of varying extracellular matrix protein (ECMs) contexts in the presence of absence of Notch signaling. We report that chemical inhibition of Notch on specific ECMs reduced cellular proliferation and progenitor-quality and that neurospheres preferred growing on laminin- or fibronectin-based …
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Analysis and Design of Stable and Optimal Energy Management Strategies for Hybrid Electric Vehicles
… of equivalent consumption minimization strategy (ECMS) based on Pontryagin’s minimum principle. The OCL strategy is further modified to develop a realizable strategy (called real-time OCL) and its performance is compared with an adaptive version of ECMS using a forward vehicle simulator. …
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Characterisation and prediction of state of health of rechargeable batteries
… This has resulted in equivalent circuit models (ECMs) that are over-complicated, and suboptimal battery management systems. It is logical to measure batteries at frequencies reflecting their daily or weekly charge-discharge cycles, i.e., of the order of microhertz. This is generally not done, …
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Effects of Stack Pressure on High Performance Lithium-Ion Batteries
… battery models. Equivalent circuit models (ECMs) are a well-documented and frequently used battery modelling approach for lithium-ion cells due to their minimal parameterisation requirement, low computational complexity and flexibility compared to physics-based counter- parts. This thesis …
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Electrical Demand Analysis Software Tool Suite and Automatic Report Generation for Energy Audits
… unknown variables helpful in diagnosing ECMs, size systems design to optimize electrical usage, create a simple, user friendly interface and increase ECM implementation. While the conclusions and results for the following work and tools will not be known for some time, preliminary efforts …
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Triggerable ligand presentation using caged-RGD
… natural cell adhesive interactions with ECMs exhibit spatiotemporal patterns of binding and activation. Therefore, a key to future research in controlling cell-material interactions will be the development of materials that can respond to external stimuli. The objective of this project is …
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Engineering Matrix Properties for Stem Cell Culture and Gene Delivery
… hydrogel-based synthetic extracellular matrices (ECMs). First, a synthetic stem cell niche with controlled stiffness and density of cell adhesion peptides was developed for spermatogonial stem cell (SSC) culture (Chapter 2). The synthetic stem cell niche allowed for the growth of SSCs in both …
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