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  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
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23 Pages

A Novel A-ECMS Energy Management Strategy Based on Dragonfly Algorithm for Plug-in FCEVs

  • Shibo Li,
  • Liang Chu,
  • Jincheng Hu,
  • Shilin Pu,
  • Jihao Li,
  • Zhuoran Hou and
  • Wen Sun

20 January 2023

The mechanical coupling of multiple powertrain components makes the energy management of 4-wheel-drive (4WD) plug-in fuel cell electric vehicles (PFCEVs) relatively complex. Optimizing energy management strategies (EMSs) for this complex system is es...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,454 Views
15 Pages

Fostering the Implementation of Nature Conservation Measures in Agricultural Landscapes: The NatApp

  • Frauke Geppert,
  • Sonoko D. Bellingrath-Kimura and
  • Ioanna Mouratiadou

7 February 2023

Large-scale, high-input, and intensified agriculture poses threats to sustainable agroecosystems and their inherent biodiversity. The EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) covers a great number of nature conservation programs (Agri-Environment and Clim...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,406 Views
18 Pages

12 December 2022

An equivalent consumption minimization strategy (ECMS) is one of the most powerful and practical ways to improve the fuel efficiency of hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs). In an ECMS, it is important to determine the optimal equivalent factor to reach a...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
976 Views
27 Pages

Adaptive Equivalent Consumption Minimization Strategies for Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles: A Review

  • Massimo Sicilia,
  • Davide Cervone,
  • Pierpaolo Polverino and
  • Cesare Pianese

17 October 2025

Adaptive Equivalent Consumption Minimization Strategies (A-ECMSs) are one of the best methodologies to optimize fuel consumption of plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEVs) coupled with low computational requirements. In this paper, a review of A-ECMSs is pro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,050 Views
14 Pages

A Study on Synthesis and Upscaling of 2′-O-AECM-5-methyl Pyrimidine Phosphoramidites for Oligonucleotide Synthesis

  • Kristina Karalė,
  • Martin Bollmark,
  • Rouven Stulz,
  • Dmytro Honcharenko,
  • Ulf Tedebark and
  • Roger Strömberg

17 November 2021

2′-O-(N-(Aminoethyl)carbamoyl)methyl-modified 5-methyluridine (AECM-MeU) and 5-methylcytidine (AECM-MeC) phosphoramidites are reported for the first time and prepared in multigram quantities. The syntheses of AECM-MeU and AECM-MeC nucleosides a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
71 Citations
5,013 Views
22 Pages

1 January 2020

A hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) is a product that can greatly alleviate problems related to the energy crisis and environmental pollution. However, replacing such a battery will increase the cost of usage before the end of the life of a HEV. Thus, re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,841 Views
20 Pages

1 November 2021

Principal component analysis (PCA) is one of the most popular tools in multivariate exploratory data analysis. Its probabilistic version (PPCA) based on the maximum likelihood procedure provides a probabilistic manner to implement dimension reduction...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,018 Views
17 Pages

28 February 2023

There is growing interest in research and policy to provide alternatives for developing and supporting sustainable business models in the agricultural sector. Agri-environment–climate measures (AECMs) were devised with the intention of compensa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,269 Views
24 Pages

This paper analyzes a hybrid power system containing a fuel cell (FC) and proposes an improved scheme involving the replacement of a single energy storage system with a hybrid energy storage system. In order to achieve a reasonable power distribution...

  • Review
  • Open Access
34 Citations
9,662 Views
26 Pages

C. elegans Apical Extracellular Matrices Shape Epithelia

  • Jennifer D. Cohen and
  • Meera V. Sundaram

6 October 2020

Apical extracellular matrices (aECMs) coat exposed surfaces of epithelia to shape developing tissues and protect them from environmental insults. Despite their widespread importance for human health, aECMs are poorly understood compared to basal and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
322 Views
33 Pages

28 December 2025

Fuel cell commercial vehicles are widely used in commercial transport for their high efficiency and long range. However, in mixed operating scenarios, their energy economy and fuel cell operational stability cannot be fully balanced. Traditional stra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,291 Views
17 Pages

Artificial Extracellular Matrices Containing Bioactive Glass Nanoparticles Promote Osteogenic Differentiation in Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells

  • Lysann M. Kroschwald,
  • Felix Allerdt,
  • Anne Bernhardt,
  • Sandra Rother,
  • Kai Zheng,
  • Iram Maqsood,
  • Norbert Halfter,
  • Christiane Heinemann,
  • Stephanie Möller and
  • Vera Hintze
  • + 4 authors

26 November 2021

The present study analyzes the capacity of collagen (coll)/sulfated glycosaminoglycan (sGAG)-based surface coatings containing bioactive glass nanoparticles (BGN) in promoting the osteogenic differentiation of human mesenchymal stroma cells (hMSC). P...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,878 Views
18 Pages

Transaction Costs in Agri-Environment-Climate Measures: A Review of the Literature

  • Salomon Espinosa Diaz,
  • Francesco Riccioli,
  • Francesco Di Iacovo and
  • Roberta Moruzzo

Agri-environment-climate measures (AECMs) represent a transaction of ecological capital between the government as the buyer of the agri-environmental goods and services produced in the farmland and the farmer as the seller. As such, they involve tran...

  • Article
  • Open Access
259 Views
15 Pages

The Potential of Vegetation for Assessing the Benefits and Risks of Protective Measures for the Northern Lapwing (Vanellus vanellus L.) on Arable Land

  • Jan Winkler,
  • Václav Zámečník,
  • Amir Mugutdinov,
  • Petra Martínez Barroso and
  • Magdalena Daria Vaverková

Generally, all European countries have reported a decreasing number of field birds. The cause of this trend is the intensification of agriculture, including inconsiderate landscape and drainage measures. Northern Lapwings (Vanellus vanellus L.) can b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,765 Views
27 Pages

20 October 2022

Range-extended Electric Vehicles (REVs) have become popular due to their lack of emissions while driving in urban areas, and the elimination of range anxiety when traveling long distances with a combustion engine as the power source. The fuel consump...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,821 Views
20 Pages

5 March 2022

Advanced energy management strategies (EMS) are used to control the power flow through a vehicle’s powertrain. However, the cost of high-power computational hardware and lack of a priori knowledge of future road conditions poses difficult chall...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,988 Views
17 Pages

Power Split Supercharging: A Mild Hybrid Approach to Boost Fuel Economy

  • Shima Nazari,
  • Jason Siegel,
  • Robert Middleton and
  • Anna Stefanopoulou

14 December 2020

This work investigates an innovative low-voltage (<60 V) hybrid device that enables engine boosting and downsizing in addition to mild hybrid functionalities such as regenerative braking, start-stop, and torque assist. A planetary gear set and a b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
5,402 Views
18 Pages

Extracellular matrix (ECM) hydrogel can create a favorable regenerative microenvironment and act as a promising dressing for accelerating the healing of diabetic wound. In this study, a simple and effective decellularization technique was developed a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,142 Views
16 Pages

27 February 2025

The equivalent factor (EF) of adaptive equivalent consumption minimization strategy (A-ECMS) has a direct impact on the performance of hybrid electric trucks (HETs). Although EF on the state of charge (SoC) can effectively achieve fuel economy and So...

  • Article
  • Open Access
743 Views
20 Pages

Bioenergy Potential of Anaerobic Co-Digestion of Aquaponics Effluent and Cattle Manure

  • Alexia de Sousa Gomes,
  • Juliana Lobo Paes,
  • Daiane Cecchin,
  • Regina Menino,
  • Igor Ferreira Oliva,
  • João Paulo Barreto Cunha and
  • Flavia Lucila Tonani

Mathematical modeling is a key tool for describing and predicting the dynamic behavior of anaerobic digestion. Studies combining the co-digestion of aquaponics effluent (AE) and cattle manure (CM) with kinetic modeling remain scarce, particularly reg...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,771 Views
22 Pages

Numerical Assessment of Auto-Adaptive Energy Management Strategies Based on SOC Feedback, Driving Pattern Recognition and Prediction Techniques

  • Alessandro Zanelli,
  • Emanuele Servetto,
  • Philippe De Araujo,
  • Sujeet Nagaraj Vankayala and
  • Adam Vondrak

25 May 2022

The Equivalent Consumption Minimization Strategy (ECMS) is a well-known control strategy for the definition of optimal power-split in hybrid-electric vehicles, because of its effectiveness and reduced calibration effort. In this kind of Energy Manage...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,072 Views
19 Pages

The Agri-Environment-Climate Measure as an Element of the Bioeconomy in Poland—A Spatial Study

  • Aleksandra Jezierska-Thöle,
  • Roman Rudnicki,
  • Łukasz Wiśniewski,
  • Marta Gwiaździńska-Goraj and
  • Mirosław Biczkowski

The Polish agricultural economy has a chance to dynamically develop and influence the innovation policy in the EU model of bioeconomy. The research aims to assess the spatial diversification of the level and structure of spending funds for two Rural...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,881 Views
17 Pages

Adaptive Equivalent Consumption Minimization Strategy for Fuel Cell Buses Based on Driving Style Recognition

  • Kun He,
  • Dongchen Qin,
  • Jiangyi Chen,
  • Tingting Wang,
  • Hongxia Wu and
  • Peizhuo Wang

9 May 2023

Driving style has a significant effect on the operating economy of fuel cell buses (FCBs). To reduce hydrogen consumption and prolong the fuel cell life of FCBs, this paper proposes an online adaptive equivalent consumption minimum strategy (A-ECMS)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
3,830 Views
26 Pages

10 July 2018

Energy management strategies based on instantaneous optimization have been widely used in hybrid/plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (HEV/PHEV) in order to improve fuel economy while guaranteeing vehicle performance. In this study, an adaptive-equivalen...

  • Review
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,366 Views
15 Pages

27 June 2020

Artificial extracellular matrices (aECMs) are an extension of biomaterials that were developed as in-vitro model environments for tissue cells that mimic the native in vivo target tissues’ structure. This bibliometric analysis evaluated the res...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,270 Views
19 Pages

A Novel Adaptive Equivalence Fuel Consumption Minimisation Strategy for a Hybrid Electric Two-Wheeler

  • Naga Kavitha Kommuri,
  • Andrew McGordon,
  • Antony Allen and
  • Dinh Quang Truong

27 April 2022

One of the major challenges in implementing the equivalent fuel consumption minimisation strategy in hybrid electric vehicles is the adaptation of the equivalence factor to real-world driving. In this paper, a novel adaptive equivalent fuel consumpti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,461 Views
26 Pages

6 September 2024

The energy management strategy plays an essential role in improving the fuel economy and extending the energy source lifetime for fuel cell hybrid electric vehicles (FCHEVs). However, the traditional energy management strategy ignores the lifetime of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,193 Views
22 Pages

With the rapid development and widespread application of drones across various fields, drone recognition and classification at medium and long distances have become increasingly important yet challenging tasks. This paper proposes a novel network arc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,653 Views
16 Pages

Circularity Between Aquaponics and Anaerobic Digestion for Energy Generation

  • Juliana Lobo Paes,
  • Cirlene Gomes Guimarães,
  • Alexia de Sousa Gomes,
  • Romulo Cardoso Valadão,
  • Daiane Cecchin and
  • Regina Menino

Aquaponics integrates aquaculture and hydroponics, promoting circularity through the recirculation of water and nutrients. However, waste management remains a challenge. This study aimed to evaluate the anaerobic digestion (AD) of aquaponic effluent...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,643 Views
30 Pages

7 March 2024

Energy management strategies (EMSs) are one of the key technologies for the development of plug-in hybrid electric buses (PHEBs). This paper addresses the issue of optimal energy distribution for PHEBs under significant variations in passenger load a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
977 Views
24 Pages

11 July 2025

As public concern over environmental pollution and the urgent need for sustainable development grow, the popularity of new-energy vehicles has increased. Hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) represent a significant segment of this movement, undergoing rob...

  • Article
  • Open Access
703 Views
14 Pages

28 March 2025

Hydrogen has attracted widespread attention due to its zero emissions and high energy density, and hydrogen-fueled power systems are gradually emerging. This paper combines the advantages of the high conversion efficiency of fuel cells and strong eng...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,538 Views
14 Pages

11 December 2024

In order to investigate the mechanism of mechanical performance enhancement and the curing mechanisms of acrylate emulsion (AE) in cement and magnesium slag (MS) composite-stabilized soil (AE-C-M), this study has conducted a comprehensive analysis of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
7,010 Views
19 Pages

This paper employs an asymmetric error-correction model (AECM), and uses monthly data on wholesale prices of gasoline and diesel products in China and international crude oil prices from February 2006 to October 2013 to examine whether China’s gasoli...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,757 Views
15 Pages

Bioinks Enriched with ECM Components Obtained by Supercritical Extraction

  • Daniel P. Reis,
  • Beatriz Domingues,
  • Cátia Fidalgo,
  • Rui L. Reis,
  • Luca Gasperini and
  • Alexandra P. Marques

2 March 2022

Extracellular matrix (ECM)-based bioinks have been steadily gaining interest in the field of bioprinting to develop biologically relevant and functional tissue constructs. Herein, we propose the use of supercritical carbon dioxide (scCO2) technology...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,599 Views
26 Pages

7 May 2023

This paper presents an equivalent consumption minimization strategy (ECMS) based on model predictive control for series hybrid electric mine trucks (SHE-MTs), the objective of which is to minimize fuel consumption. Two critical works are presented to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
54 Citations
6,849 Views
24 Pages

17 June 2018

When searching for the optimal solution, Equivalent Consumption Minimum Strategy (ECMS) has to calculate and compare the total equivalent fuel rate of huge candidates covered all over the control domain for each time instant. Therefore, this strategy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,911 Views
22 Pages

Analysis of Energy Saving Effect and Cost Efficiency of ECMs to Upgrade the Building Energy Code

  • Hye Gi Kim,
  • Hyun Jun Kim,
  • Chae Hwan Jeon,
  • Myeong Won Chae,
  • Young Hum Cho and
  • Sun Sook Kim

21 September 2020

Building energy codes are key policy tools for improving building energy efficiency by defining the minimum requirement for the energy performance of new buildings. In Korea, the building energy code was focused on prescriptive criteria for a long ti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,497 Views
25 Pages

6 December 2023

A necessary condition for agriculture to provide environmental public goods at the level desired by the society is the existence and compliance with appropriate “rules of the game” (institutions). Undoubtedly, institutions are of fundamen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,386 Views
13 Pages

To increase the efficiency of electrified vehicles, many energy management strategies (driving strategies) have been proposed. These include both offline optimization techniques to identify a system’s theoretical optimum and online optimization...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
4,642 Views
17 Pages

12 July 2021

Collagen and proteoglycans work in unison in the ECM to bear loads, store elastic energy and then dissipate excess energy to avoid tissue fatigue and premature mechanical failure. While collagen fibers store elastic energy by stretching the flexible...

  • Article
  • Open Access
600 Views
14 Pages

19 November 2025

This study discusses the role of the equivalence factor and penalty function in improving the performance of energy consumption minimization strategies in Range Extended Electric Vehicles (REEVs). In conventional ECMS, equivalence factors are typical...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,323 Views
21 Pages

13 August 2023

Conventional energy management strategies (EMSs) of hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) only utilize in-vehicle information, such as an acceleration pedal, velocity, acceleration, engine RPM, state of charge (SOC), and radar. This paper presents a new EM...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,876 Views
23 Pages

MPC-ECMS Energy Management of Extended-Range Vehicles Based on LSTM Multi-Signal Speed Prediction

  • Laiwei Lu,
  • Hong Zhao,
  • Xiaotong Liu,
  • Chuanlong Sun,
  • Xinyang Zhang and
  • Haixu Yang

Rule-based energy management strategies not only make little use of the efficient area of engines and generators but also need to perform better planning in the time domain. This paper proposed a multi-signal vehicle speed prediction model based on t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,780 Views
17 Pages

24 November 2020

Neural networks are widely used in the learning of offline global optimization rules to reduce the fuel consumption and real-time performance of hybrid electric vehicles. Considering that the torque and transmission ratio are direct control variables...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,162 Views
20 Pages

Energy Assessment of Pastoral Dairy Goat Husbandry from an Agroecological Economics Perspective. A Case Study in Andalusia (Spain)

  • David Pérez-Neira,
  • Marta Soler-Montiel,
  • Rosario Gutiérrez-Peña and
  • Yolanda Mena-Guerrero

9 August 2018

This paper presents a methodological proposal of new energy sustainability indicators according to a novel accounting that follows agroecological and ecological economics criteria. Energy output is reformulated to include manure and thus consider the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,008 Views
17 Pages

26 September 2021

In the research on energy management methods of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, it is expected that a future trend will be to optimize energy management using the information provided by the global positioning system (GPS) and intelligent transport...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,732 Views
19 Pages

15 October 2021

The European Union (EU), through its implementation of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), is increasingly emphasising the development of environmentally friendly forms of agriculture. This is confirmed by, for example, the new European Green Deal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,241 Views
20 Pages

Comparative Study and Optimization of Energy Management Strategies for Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles

  • Junjie Guo,
  • Yun Wang,
  • Dapai Shi,
  • Fulin Chu,
  • Jiaheng Wang and
  • Zhilong Lv

Fuel cell hybrid systems, due to their combination of the high energy density of fuel cells and the rapid response capability of power batteries, have become an important category of new energy vehicles. This paper discusses energy management strateg...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,304 Views
21 Pages

Exploring a Nitric Oxide-Releasing Celecoxib Derivative as a Potential Modulator of Bone Healing: Insights from Ex Vivo and In Vivo Imaging Experiments

  • Christin Neuber,
  • Luisa Niedenzu,
  • Sabine Schulze,
  • Markus Laube,
  • Frank Hofheinz,
  • Stefan Rammelt and
  • Jens Pietzsch

The inducible enzyme cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) and the subsequent synthesis of eicosanoids initiated by this enzyme are important molecular players in bone healing. In this pilot study, the suitability of a novel selective COX-2 inhibitor bearing a ni...

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