Driven by the desire to reduce environmental impacts and achieve energy independence, electric vehicles (EVs) are poised to receive mass acceptance from the general public. However, simultaneously connecting to electric distribution grid and charging with large number of EVs bring the necessity of optimizing the charging and discharging behaviors of EVs, due to the security and economy issue of...

Scanning tunneling spectroscopy STS experiments were performed on the 001 and 111 surfaces of single crystalline magnetite. Room temperature spectra exhibit a 0.2 eV gap around Ef. The importance of perfect surface order to the existence of this gap is illustrated. STS is also carried out on the 111 surface, at 140 and 95 K, just above and below the Verwey transition temperature TV 120 K , resp...

Accurate concentration determination of subpopulations of extracellular vesicles (EVs), such as exosomes, is of importance both in the context of understanding their fundamental biological role and of potentially using them as disease biomarkers. In principle, this can be achieved by measuring the rate of diffusion-limited mass uptake to a sensor surface modified with a receptor designed to onl...

Decision-making competence reflects individual differences in the susceptibility to committing decision-making errors, measured using tasks common from behavioral decision research (e.g., framing effects, under/overconfidence, following decision rules). Prior research demonstrates that those with higher decision-making competence report lower incidence of health-risking and antisocial behaviors...

This paper provides an overview of the architectural design and use cases underlying advanced smart charging techniques to be implemented in Distribuzione’s EV charging infrastructure, which Italy, is currently deployed under the regulated business model described in [4]. The aim of this development is to demonstrate the operational interfaces between EVSE Operator back-end systems and DSO lega...

We present the results of a search for small-scale anisotropy in the distribution of arrival directions of cosmic rays above 10 19 eV measured in stereo by the High Resolution Fly's Eye (HiRes) experiment. Performing an autocorrelation scan in energy and angular separation, we find that the strongest correlation signal in the HiRes stereo data set recorded between December 1999 and January 2004...

Enterovirus 94 (EV-94) is an enterovirus serotype described recently which, together with EV-68 and EV-70, forms human enterovirus D species. This study investigates the seroprevalences of these three serotypes and their abilities to infect, replicate, and damage cell types considered to be essential for enterovirus-induced diseases. The cell types studied included human leukocyte cell lines, p...