Cannabinoid-1 (CB(1)) receptor antagonists exhibit pharmacological properties favorable to treatment of obesity, caused by both centrally mediated effects on appetite and peripherally mediated effects on energy metabolism. However, the relative contribution of these effects to the weight loss produced by CB(1) receptor antagonists remains unclear. Here, we compare food intake-related and indepe...

Wireless Weigh-In-Motion: using road vibrations to estimate truck weights by Ravneet Singh Bajwa Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of California, Berkeley Professor Pravin Varaiya, Chair Vehicle count and weight data plays an important role in traffic planning, weight enforcement, and pavement condition assessment. This data is primarily obtained thr...

OBJECTIVE To determine the associations between household motor vehicle ownership and weight status among Colombian adults. METHODS Secondary analysis of data from the 2005 Demographic and HealthSurvey of Colombia. Height, weight and waist circumference were objectively measured in 49,079 adults, ages 18 to 64 that resided in urban settings. Abdominal obesity was defined as a waist circumfere...

In this work the effect of weight reduction using advanced lightweight materials on the mass, energy use, and cost of conventional and battery electric passenger vehicles is compared. Analytic vehicle simulation is coupled with cost assessment to find the optimal degree of weight reduction minimizing manufacturing and total costs. The results show a strong secondary weight and cost saving poten...

We performed to evaluate the effect of POLYCAN (β-glucan) on cisplatin-(CDDP-)induced acute renal failure (ARF) in rats. POLYCAN was administered orally once a day for 32 days. Each of 8 rats per group was selected based on the body weight (BW) after acclimatization and they were sacrificed at 5 days after CDDP injection. There was significant (P < 0.05) increase of BW after CDDP dosing in all ...

This paper illustrates the use of a vehicle in several industries and is capable of reducing extra strenuous and/or time consuming activities of humans. The main concentration of this work was on vehicle navigation, tracking, obstacle detection, weight overload, battery power measuring and also be able to locate the respective service station goods. Vehicle navigation employs RFID technology. T...

This paper presents a morphological neural network approach to extract vehicle targets from high resolution panchromatic satellite imagery. In the approach, the morphological shared-weight neural network (MSNN) is used to classify image pixels on roads into vehicle targets and non-vehicle targets, and a morphology based preprocessing algorithm is developed to identify candidate vehicle pixels. ...

The electro-mechanical actuators are used in aerospace vehicle is used for attitude control of vehicle. Actuators used in aerospace vehicle require very accurate positioning accuracy, high dynamic requirements. Hence the actuator design in aerospace vehicle is very critical and plays very important role in total performance of the vehicle. The actuators are to be designed very compactly with hi...

Recently, obstacles detection and identification task in ADAS is a well-established research field. Histogram of oriented gradients (HOG) is one of the most effective obstacle feature extraction approaches to the study. In this paper, an optimization detection system based on a customized HOG descriptor is presented and investigated to achieve an accurate vehicle recognition system. The key con...

This paper presents an intelligent vehicle fault diagnostics system, SeaProSel(Search-Prompt-Select). SeaProSel takes a casual description of vehicle problems as input and searches for a diagnostic code that accurately matches the problem description. SeaProSel was developed using automatic text classification and machine learning techniques combined with a prompt-and-select technique based on ...