Currently, feeder cells are γ-irradiated immediately before use for the ex vivo expansion of natural killer (NK) cells from human peripheral blood. Storing irradiated feeder cells by cryopreserving them in multiple vials would be more convenient than irradiating cells each time they are needed. We compared NK cell expansion using cryopreserved-irradiated feeder cells (cryopreserved group) and f...

Abstract: This paper aims to develop a mathematical model to analyze the passenger waiting time in an intermodal station in which intercity transit system served with feeder buses. Passengers are categorized into two groups, named scheduled and random, respectively. The analytic model is developed for quantifying the relationships of passenger waiting time to reliability of feeder bus services ...

Built upon real-world SCADA and other measurements of a featured utility-scale testbed, this paper addresses the participation of customer side battery energy storage in providing peak load shaving at a 12.47 kV distribution feeder. A stochastic optimization-based battery operation framework is developed that enables feeder load peak shaving under offline (day-ahead) as well as online (close-to...

Optimisation can play a major role in improving the throughput of surface mount placement machines. Most previous work has reported on improving only the assembly cycle time. The movement of the feeder carrier and PCB table are not always factors which are minimised. In this paper we introduce a triple objective function with a Chebychev dynamic pick-and-place approach to optimise the sequentia...

Some factors that significantly contribute to the overall assembly efficiency of the placement machines are robot motion control, sequence of placement points and feeder setup. Many techniques have been developed to improve the sequence of placement points and/or the feeder setup for the PCB assembly process. However, a limited number of works have reported on improving the robot motion control...

Purpose To describe management of residual branch vascular network (BVN) in polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy (PCV) by thermal laser photocoagulation of feeder vessel. Observations Case report of sixty-four year old female with polypoidal choroidal vaculopathy (PCV) with moderate response to seven doses of intravitreal ranibizumab, six doses of intravitreal bevacizumab and one session of phot...

A growing concern for public transit is its inability to shift passenger's mode from private to public transport. In order to overcome this problem, a more developed feeder bus network and matched schedules will play important roles. The present paper aims to review some of the studies performed on Feeder Bus Network Design and Scheduling Problem (FNDSP) based on three distinctive parts of the ...

The main strength of the approach is that it combines extensive community participation together with a prioritisation index where social and economic benefits are estimated from predicted changes in accessibility and road roughness. Engineering costs form part of the prioritisation index. A specific procedure was developed for quickly estimating change in road condition and the associated engi...

Optimisation can play a major role in improving the throughput of surface mount placement machines. Most previous work has reported on improving only the assembly cycle time. The movement of the feeder carrier and PCB table are not always factors which are minimised. In this paper we introduce a triple objective function with a Chebychev dynamic pick-and-place approach to optimise the sequentia...

Blender and feeder are very important devices in a polymer processing plant. The accuracy in delivering the polymer to the plastification unit is a fundamental property for the quality of the final product. To maximize accuracy and precision gravimetric feeder are the best available solution, which measure the weight of the hopper and the feeder. In these devices, it is possible to estimate the...