BACKGROUND Accumulating evidence suggests glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) exerts cardioprotective effects in animal models of myocardial infarction (MI). We hypothesized that chronic treatment with GLP-1 or the exenatide analog AC3174 would improve cardiac function, cardiac remodeling, insulin sensitivity, and exercise capacity (EC) in rats with MI-induced chronic heart failure (CHF) caused by ...

Although commercial and household wastes are compositionally similar, common UK practice is for separate collections. This paper uses vehicle routeing and scheduling software to predict the benefits of allowing household and commercial waste to be collected together by a common vehicle fleet. This was compared in a case study where collections were made from over 25,000 households on an alterna...

With respect to the planning problems of electric vehicle charging stations in the urban area, the paper presents a planning model which considers the road network structure, vehicle flow information, distribution system structure and capacity constraints, etc. Under the relative constraints of distribution network, the model selects the station sites and plug-in locations with the objective of...

Researches using existing statistics and data collected from the area of study help officials at decision-making, to improve the region's problems, like the problem of the high rate of accidents in the region, despite the low volume of daily service. The uses of roundabouts in many parts of the world have many advantages over intersections, amongst them are increased safety and capacity and red...

In this paper, a transit assignment model has been developed on stochastic networks, with considering vehicle capacity and scheduled timetable. The stochastic network based transit assignment model is appropriate to apply for bus and metro networks altogether since it can distinguish between uncertain and reliable travel times characteristics by imposing stochastic parameters on links or lines....

increased serum uric acid is known to be a major risk related to the development of several oxidative stress diseases. the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of parsley, quercetin and kaempferol on serum uric acid levels, liver xanthine oxidoreductase activity and two non-invasive biomarkers of oxidative stress (total antioxidant capacity and malondialdehyde concentration) in norma...

We consider a special case of the symmetric capacitated vehicle routing problem, in which a fleet of K identical vehicles must serve n customers, each with a given demand consisting in a set of rectangular two-dimensional weighted items. The vehicles have a two-dimensional loading surface and a maximum weight capacity. The aim is to find a partition of the customers into routes of minimum total...

Real-time prediction of state-of-charge (SOC), state-ofhealth (SOH) and state-of-life (SOL) plays an essential role in many battery energy storage applications, such as electric vehicle (EV), hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) and smart power grid. However, among these three quantities, only the SOC has been thoroughly studies while there is still lack of rigorous research efforts on the other two q...

This report develops a probabilistic model for analyzing longitudinal collision/safety between an abruptly decelerating vehicle and its immediate follower on an Automated Highway System. The input parameters are the distance between the two vehicles, their common speed prior to the failure, the reaction delay of the following vehicle and a bivariate distribution for the two deceleration rates. ...

We present research in progress to develop an “Aware” vehicle concept to improve operator performance, mobility and safety. The Aware Vehicle project, in part, seeks to develop systems that communicate with the infrastructure, monitor the operating environment and detect operator state. A further component of this system is informational feedback to the driver that will inform the driver of the...