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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Reserve capacity"”.
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Reserve Capacity Model and Metabolic Syndrome in Black and White Seventh-day Adventists
… to SES-related gradients in cardiac health. The Reserve Capacity Model (RCM; Gallo & Matthews, 2003) is a framework for examining psychosocial pathways in cardiac health disparities on the SES gradient. The model posits that a lower SES experience leads to more environmental stressors and fewer …
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Fatalism, Religious Attendance, Health-Related Quality of Life, and Engagement in Health Behaviors Among Hispanic Americans low in Acculturation and Income: Testing the Reserve Capacity Model
… status on health, as postulated in the Reserve Capacity Model. Fatalism is one such cultural value, and previous results have been mixed regarding its relationship with health outcomes in Hispanics. In White populations, studies tend to find a negative association between fatalism and …
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Discrimination and health: how being Hispanic can make you sick
… that can lead to a reduction in an individual's reserve capacity and an increase in negative emotions, among other deleterious effects. I tested the Reserve Capacity Model as it relates to measures of physical and mental-health related quality of life. A sample of 236 Hispanic Americans completed …
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Inelastic behavior and seismic collapse prevention performance of low-ductility steel braced frames
… defined or considered in the design process. Reserve capacity, or additional lateral force resisting capacity following incipience of inelastic and often brittle behavior within the SFRS, has been shown through post-earthquake reconnaissance to be the probable mechanism by which low-ductility …
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Hypertension in Older African Americans: Testing Psychosocial Mediators
… American adults. Past studies have used the Reserve Capacity Model (RCM; Gallo & Matthews, 2003; 2005) to understand these relationships. The RCM asserts that stress can be mitigated by psychosocial resources (mastery, optimism, self-esteem) which lead to healthy lifestyle behaviors …
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The moderating role of racial identity In Black college student experiences of institutional race-related stress and anxious arousal
… chronic stress and mental health decline is the Reserve Capacity Model. In line with this framework, this study investigated whether racial identity dimensions (racial centrality, public racial regard, private racial regard, and sense of belonging to the racial group) contribute to this …
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Improving the use of commercial building HVAC systems for electric grid ancillary services
… the system's performance while providing reserve and regulation ancillary services. It is found that reserves are provided most effectively when airflow is reduced through the terminal units, while regulation is provided most effectively when power-consuming equipment is directly …
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Financial characteristics of takeover targets in the gaming industry
… liquidity, leverage, capital expenditure, cash reserve capacity, operational efficiency and returns on invested capital. The takeover likelihood in the gaming industry is found to be positively related with the size, operational efficiency and liquidity of a firm, and negatively related with the …
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Simulating Blast Effects In Steel Skeletal Structures
… encapsulates the effects of an explosion on the capacity of a single steel wide-flange member, and (3) testing of the blast beam-column element approach, as implemented in a nonlinear explicit dynamic finite element code, through various validation and application examples. Regarding the first …
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Mitochondrial function in atherosclerosis and vascular smooth muscle cells
… respiration was investigated. The respiratory reserve capacity (RRC) of the shoulder region was similar to the media. However, the cap RRC was significantly reduced compared to healthy media. In contrast, the extracellular acidification rates (ECAR) of the media, shoulder, cap and core regions …
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Monotonic and cyclic short-term performance of nailed and bolted timber connections
… load history from cyclic loading on connection reserve capacity and ductility. The single shear nail and bolt connection types tested represent common connection geometries used in wood construction in the United States. The results of two methods of fully reversing cyclic loading of connections …
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Mitochondrial Dynamics Imbalance as a Potential Driver of Neuronal Decline in the Aging Nervous System of Lymnaea stagnalis
… in oxygen consumption or restore mitochondrial reserve capacity in aged neurons. This suggests that increased mitochondrial connectivity and network complexity may not necessarily enhance mitochondrial respiratory efficiency during aging. Furthermore, neuronal respiration in intact CNS exhibited …
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The application of clinical metagenomics to central nervous system infections in a resource-limited setting
… regions presents an opportunity to redirect reserve capacity from decreased SARS-CoV-2-related demand to other applications. We evaluated the performance of a cerebrospinal fluid CMS assay and total cost of conventional investigations for central nervous system (CNS) infections in a referral …
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Advanced Assessment of Inverter-based Resources-Storage Technologies on Modern Electric Grids in terms of Power Profiling, Ancillary Services, and Transient Stability
… including reduced dispatchability, limited reserve capacity, impaired ancillary service performance, and compromised transient stability. These complexities also hinder the applicability of conventional operational reliability indices. This dissertation addresses these challenges by …
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Analysis and characterization of ancillary service demand response strategies for variable air volume HVAC systems
… resources increase the requirement of grid-scale reserve capacity and add strain to existing firm generators used for reserves and other ancillary services. Residential and commercial buildings account for a large portion of the electricity consumed in the U.S. and can play a significant role in …
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Pulling a job shop into supply chain management
… into two separate approaches: (1) managing the capacity of the job shop to meet the increased demand from supply chain consolidation; and (2) developing a control system for component and raw material inventories. The analysis of the capacity of the grip assembly job shop uses optimization …
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Mitochondria and Fatty Acid Homeostasis in the Aging Nervous System
… is important for the maintenance of metabolic reserve capacity and excess lipid management. In aging neurons, this is compromised as β-oxidation capacity declines. 2) Mitochondria are often considered the “seat of senescence”; however, plasma membrane lipid peroxidation and associated …
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Cerebrovascular and Ventilatory Function in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
… than controls, reducing the cerebrovascular reserve capacity. Lastly, forearm blood flow in COPD patients during exercise was similar to controls, and was not affected by vitamin C. Overall, this series of experiments provides a better understanding of the complex systemic consequences of …
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Adaptive Hierarchical Control in V2G Integrated Micro-grids
… micro-grid by utilizing the fast response and reserve capacity of EV batteries, while also minimizing the power transfer to/from the main grid. A comparison between self-tuning and PI based inverter controllers at the primary level is done to re-emphasize the superiority of adaptive controllers …
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Power shifts : a techno-economic analysis of multinational electricity market development in the Middle East
… grids in 2011, with the aim of sharing reserve capacity, thus enhancing system reliability. The GCC has sought to further utilize this interconnection by developing a regional market in order to exchange power real-time across borders and reap the economic efficiencies of regional trade. …
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