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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"MCU"”.
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Microcontroller (MCU) Based Simplified Optimal Trajectory Control (SOTC) for High-Frequency LLC Resonant Converters
… controllers, cost-effective microcontrollers (MCU) are preferred for industrial applications. Because of the advantages of the state-trajectory control and the industrial preference in the cost-effective digital controllers, it would be of great benefit to apply state-trajectory control to …
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Modelling and Control of Magnetic Fusion Plants Based on ARM CPU and STM32 MCU Platforms
… both as CPU (Central Processing Unit) and MCU (Micro Controller Unit). Purpose of the porting is to bring the standardisation, modularity and reusability offered by the MARTe2 framework on devices able to directly work with the field, which would otherwise require ad-hoc firmware solutions …
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The Effects of S-glutathionylation on the Structure and Function of the Mitochondrial Calcium Uniporter (MCU)
… by the mitochondrial calcium uniporter (MCU). The amino (N)-terminal domain (NTD) of MCU is a regulatory component of the channel. S-Glutathionylation of Cys97 on the MCU-NTD leads to robust MCU activation and increased matrix Ca2+. Here, I characterized the biophysical and structural …
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Low-power Power Management Circuit Design for Small Scale Energy Harvesting Using Piezoelectric Cantilevers
… the clock frequency of a microcontroller unit (MCU). The DCM flyback converter behaves as a lossless resistor to match the source impedance for maximum power point tracking (MPPT). The constant on-time modulation lowers the clock frequency of the MCU by more than an order of magnitude, which …
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Vergleich von Miktionscystourethrographie und niedrig dosierter, kontrastverstärkter Miktionsurosonographie mittels Harmonic Imaging zur Diagnostik des vesicoureteralen Refluxes bei Kindern
… mit der Miktionszystourethrographie (MCU) zu vergleichen. Material und Methodik: 55 Patienten (17 Jungen, 38 Mädchen; Durchschnittsalter 4 Jahre), die zur Refuxuntersuchung kamen, wurden für die Vergleichsstudie rekrutiert. Im Anschluß an einen Standard-Ultraschall des Harntraktes mit …
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Learning From the Lived Experience of Online Faculty at Midwest Catholic University During Disruption and Organizational Change
… provides insights from the lived experience of MCU faculty who taught online courses through disruptions of many kinds between 2020 and 2024. This qualitative phenomenological study used semi-structured interviews to explore what helped eleven faculty effectively teach online despite disruptions …
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Molecular Determinant of Mitochondrial Shape Change
… channel, the Mitochondrial Calcium Uniporter (MCU). Mitochondrial Ca2+ (mCa2+) is utilized by the matrix dehydrogenases for maintaining cellular bioenergetics. The TCA cycle-derived NADH and FADH2 are mCa2+ dependent thus, feed into the electron transport chain (ETC) to generate ATP. Either …
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Genetic characterisation of the Drosophila Mitochondrial Calcium Uniporter in physiological and neurodegenerative contexts
… been described. The uniporter is comprised of MCU, the pore-forming component; EMRE, which coordinates the complex architecture and is required for in vivo calcium uptake; and MICU1-3, which regulate the flow of ions. Animal models have emerged for some uniporter genes, but variable effects …
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Applications of AI on Resource-ConstrainedHardware with a focus on Anomaly Detection
… models on resource-constrained microcontrollers (MCUs). As the complexity of modern models continues to grow and the demand for smaller mobile devices increases, optimizing model latency, memory usage, and accuracy on tiny devices remains a persistent problem. This thesis makes contributions to …
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Nutlin-3 sensitizes cancer cells to bortezomib via induction of paraptosis-associated cell death
… We found that the combined treatment yielded in MCU channeled calcium increase. This is supported with inhibition of MCU by Ru360 or knockdown of MCU significantly attenuated the cell death by the combined treatment. We also found that nutlin-3 co-treatment remarkably potentiated the …
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"How Desperate Are You, That You Call on Such Lost Creatures to Defend You?": Exploring how the MCU Establishes and Challenges the Cinematic Archetypes of Masculinity of Earth's Mightiest Heroes.
… central to many of the Phase One and Phase Two MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe) films and aims to explore how these were used through an in-depth exploration of said cinematic archetypes in the form of detailed textual analysis and character study. Focusing predominantly on the characters of Tony …
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Calcium-dependent mechanisms in the chicken retina
… that inhibiting mitochondrial calcium uptake (MCU) caused a reversible reduction in the Ca2+ current amplitude. Replacing external Ca2+ with Ba2+ minimized the effects of blocking MCU indicating that the Ca2+ influx is the primary source of the inhibition. With …
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Identification and functional characterisation of different inner mitochondrial membrane supercomplexes
… and the mitochondrial calcium uniporter complex (MCUC), responsible for mitochondrial calcium uptake and homeostasis. Our data, indeed, showed a specific physical interaction between this ETC enzyme and various subunits of MCUC in first and second dimension blue native PAGE, SILAC …
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The development of an on-chip-metering solution
… conducted by the onboard Microcontroller Unit (MCU), a term known as On-Chip-Metering (OCM). It is envisioned that this would quickly translate in an increase in revenue. However, a major concern regarding this has been the increase in the required processor overhead. The CASHPOWER 2000 embedded …
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Managing resources on a multi-modal sensing device for energy-aware state estimation
… an ultra-low power MSP430 Micro Controller Unit (MCU), a high-performance ARM-based MCU, a passive infrared motion sensor, and a camera. This platform is capable of 100× energy scalability between sensing modalities. Appropriate POMDP model parameters are extracted from real data traces, and these …
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Investigating the role of mitochondrial Ca2+ in in vivo models of neurodegenerative diseases
… influx through the mitochondrial Ca2+ uniporter (MCU) complex and efflux through the Na+/Ca2+ transporter (NCLX). This balance is further influenced by Ca2+ transfer from the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) to mitochondria. Mitochondrial Ca2+ is a master regulator of essential cellular functions, …
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IOT-based solution towards real-time monitoring system for high jump spot
… then being processed by microcontroller units (MCUs) with an embedded Wi-Fi module on the same chip that has been programmed and the results obtained are displayed on the mobile application (app). Other than that, there is a vibrator motor placed near the GPS sensor which acts as an actuator …
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Development of an Oxygen Saturation Monitoring System by Embedded Electronics
… using the MSP430FG437 microcontroller (MCU). The probe uses infrared lights to measure and should be in physical contact with any peripheral points in our body. The percentage of oxygen in the body is worked by measuring the intensity from each frequency of light after it transmits …
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Mitochondrial Calcium Uptake: LETM1 and MICU1 Are Mitochondrial Proteins That Regulate Mitochondrial Calcium Homeostasis and Cellular Bioenergetics
… distinct from the mitochondrial Ca2+ uniporter (MCU) pathway (Jiang et. al., 2009). However, a controversy exists regarding the function of LETM1 (Nowikovsky et. al., 2004). Therefore, I asked if LETM1 played a role in mitochondrial Ca2+ uptake and if LETM1 regulated cellular bioenergetics and …
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CHARACTERIZATION OF TRANSMEMBRANE PROTEIN 35 EXPRESSION: CONSIDERATIONS OF SEX AND OVARIAN HORMONES
… dorsal medial amygdala (MAd), medial caudate (MCU), medial preoptic nucleus (MPN), nucleus accumbens core (NAcc), nucleus accumbens shell (NAcsh), suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN), and ventromedial hypothalamus (VMH). Of these brain areas, ovarian hormones induced TMEM35 expression in the AH, CA1 …
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