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This work presents a simulation framework to investigate the rigorous transient behavior of integrated systems comprising natural gas and power transmission networks, and a chemical plant whose feedstock is natural gas. This framework entails dynamic models for the gas transmission network and the SynGas plant, and a continuous-time AC-power flow formulation with dispatchable loads. It addresses the following key challenges: (i) analyzing energy and chemical system interdependencies, and their impacts on each other's supply reliability and security; (ii) providing an environment conducive to settling a critical question of how to prioritize the natural gas consumption as fuels of power... 

Deterministic lateral displacement (DLD) is a promising method showing great potential in achieving high-resolution separation of suspended particles based on their size, through the use of micropillars arranged in a periodic manner. In the traditional approach to DLD, the migration mode of a particle with a specific size is determined by the critical diameter (Dc), which is predetermined by the device's geometry. In contrast to conventional DLD chips that alter the direction of the pillar array to create an angle with the fluid streamlines, this paper proposes a novel approach by changing the direction of the streamlines. The proposed method enables the fabrication of a tunable DLD chip... 

The vision of future space exploration includes missions to deep space that require communication among ground stations on ground and another planets such as mars, moons, satellites in different orbiters, asteroids, robotic spacecrafts, and specially for crewed vehicles for delivering information. These communications requires high bit rate for autonomous operations and also have several different limitations. These type of communications set as a network that is called Interplanetary Network (IPN). There are difference challenges in space communication that TCP and UDP are not able to address them such as Long propagation delay, asymmetric bandwidth, etc. In this work, a congestion method... 

Capacity approximation of multi-hop unicast and multi-hop multicast channels is one of unsolved problems in information theory. Recently some researches investigate Degrees of Freedom (DoF) characterization and Interference Alignment schemes for these channels. However most of them assumed perfect instantaneous Channel State Information (CSI) at the relays and the transmitters. Due to practical limitations, like the delay and the rate limitation in the feedback links and the fading channels, it is difficult to provide perfect instantaneous CSI at the transmitters and even the relays. Achievable DoF by the IA schemes collapses greatly with imperfect CSI. It has been shown that the delayed CSI... 

Interference Alignment (IA) is a rather new technique to achieve higher Degrees-of-Freedom (DoF) compared to traditional orthogonal naive methods, like, Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA). In many IA schemes, Instantaneous Channel State Information at Transmitter (CSIT) is mandatory. However, this requirement becomes an obstacle to implement those methods in practice. In some practical scenarios, it is not possible to provide instantaneous or even delayed CSIT. Recently, Blind Interference Alignment (BIA) has been introduced as a solution to align interference without CSIT. In spit of major advances in single-hop Interference Channels (ICs), few researches focused on multi-hop ICs. In this... 

Electrospinning is a process that produces nanofiber through the action of an external electric field imposed on a polymer solution or melt. This paper introduces a new system capable of producing continuous uniaxially aligned PAN nanofiber yarn by manipulating the electric field. The manipulation was carried out by employing a negative charged bar in the electric field of conventional electrospinning system, leading to the formation of an electrostatic multipolar field. As a result, the main stream was redirected towards a rotating take up unit, collecting the twisted yarn consisting of uniaxially aligned nanofibers. The yarns were then treated in boiling water under tension and their... 

Accurate online state of health (SOH) estimation is crucial for the efficient and safe operation of lithium-ion battery packs in electric vehicles and grid-connected energy storage units. This paper proposes a novel data-driven SOH estimation model for lithium-ion batteries based on a new health indicator, namely referenced-based charging time. The proposed model utilizes the referenced-based charging time of partial charging cycles to predict the SOH using a machine learning approach. A deep feed-forward neural network, characterized via testing 90 different shallow and deep architectures, is implemented, trained, and tested on 17 batteries, which are cycled differently. The results show... 

This study aims to develop the Consistent Fish-Bone (CFB) simplified model for efficient estimation of Engineering Demand Parameters (EDPs) in irregular steel Moment Resisting Frames (steel-MRFs). To achieve this goal, some modifications based on the energy consistent approach have been applied to the Improved Fish-Bone (IFB) simplified model previously presented for reinforced concrete MRFs. These modifications include: 1) adding truss elements to the IFB model to consider the effect of flexural deformations and determining their areas by balancing the overturning moment and the strain energy due to the axial deformation of columns in the original steel-MRF with the overturning moment and... 

Background: Newcastle disease virus (NDV) has shown noticeable oncolytic properties, especially against cervical cancer. However, in order to improve the spread rate and oncotoxicity of the virus, employment of other therapeutic reagents would be helpful. It has been shown that some viral fusogenic membrane glycoproteins (FMGs) could facilitate viral propagation and increase the infection rate of tumor cells by oncolytic viruses. Additionally, immune checkpoint blockade has widely been investigated for its anti-tumor effects against several types of cancers. Here, we investigated for the first time whether the incorporation of influenza hemagglutinin-2 (HA2) FMG could improve the oncolytic... 

Fabrication and characterization of different surface charged cellulose electrospun scaffolds including cellulose acetate (CA), cellulose, carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) and quaternary ammonium cationic cellulose (QACC) for biomedical applications have been reported in this research. Several instrumental techniques were employed to characterize the nanofibers. MTT assay and cell attachment studies were also carried out to determine the cytocompatibility, viability and proliferation of the scaffolds. Fabricated CA, cellulose, CMC and QACC nanofibers had 100–600 nm diameter, −9, −1.75, −12.8, + 22 mV surface potential, 2.5, 4.2, 7.2, 7 MPa tensile strength, 122, 320, 515, 482 MPa Young modules,...