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Bacteriophage-derived endolysins have gained increasing attention as potent antimicrobial agents and numerous publications document the in vivo efficacy of these enzymes in various rodent models. However, little has been documented about their safety...

Chiral organic and organometallic luminophores that possess circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) properties in the near-ultraviolet to near-infrared region have several useful applications. However, the CPL properties are subject to inherent facto...

Chiral molecules are integral to various biological and artificial systems, influencing processes from chemical production to optical activities. In this study, we explore the potential of chiral vinyl[2.2]paracyclophane (vinyl-PCP) as a monomer for...

This paper provides a comprehensive review of the major concepts associated with the μgrid, such as constant power load (CPL), incremental negative resistance or impedance (INR/I) and its dynamic behaviours on the μgrid, and power system distribution...

To mitigate the microgrid instability despite the presence of dense Constant Power Load (CPL) loads in the system, a number of compensation techniques have already been gone through extensive research, proposed, and implemented around the world. In t...

Microgrids have emerged as a crucial solution for addressing environmental concerns, such as reducing greenhouse gas emissions and enhancing energy sustainability. By incorporating renewable energy sources like solar and wind, microgrids improve ener...

The DC microgrid system is composed by converters that operate like feeders and loads. Among these loads, we highlight the constant power loads (CPLs) that may cause instability in the microgrid, observed in the form of undesired oscillations due to...

This paper presents an adaptive control to stabilize the output voltage of a DC–DC boost converter that feeds an unknown constant power load (CPL). The proposed controller employs passivity-based control (PBC), which assigns a desired system en...

The substituent effect has a significant influence on the optical properties of spectral shape, width, and wavelength, and the intensities of the maximum peaks of emission (EMI) and circularly polarized luminescence (CPL). In this work, we conducted...

Malware is a significant threat to the field of cyber security. There is a wide variety of malware, which can be programmed to threaten computer security by exploiting various networks, operating systems, software and physical security vulnerabilitie...

Microgrids are versatile systems for integration of renewable energy sources and non-conventional storage devices. Sliding Mode techniques grant excellent features of robustness controlling power conditioning systems, making them highly suitable for...

Circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) has attracted significant attention in the fields of chiral photonic science and optoelectronic materials science. In a CPL-emitting system, a chiral luminophore derived from chiral molecules is usually essenti...

Microgrids have arisen as an alternate solution to the problem of power generation in distributed energy. Compared to ac microgrids, dc microgrids (DC MGs) are superior in terms of system efficiency, power quality, affordability, and ease of control....

This paper presents two control design strategies for voltage regulation in a single inductor dual-output DC-DC buck converter system. Based on a nominal multiple input multiple output plant model and performance requirements, both a Linear Quadratic...

Circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) materials have been widely used in the fields of bioimaging, optoelectronic devices, and optical communications. The supramolecular interaction, involving harnessing non-covalent interactions between host and g...

Light that rotates in a circular spiral when viewed from the front is known as circularly polarized luminescence (CPL), and can be divided into two types, namely, left- and right-rotating light. To emit both left- and right-rotating CPLs, two types o...

In DC microgrid (DC-MG), the loads connected with converters under strict control are considered as CPLs (constant power loads). When the voltage of CPLs decreases, the current increases and the negative impedance characteristic of CPLs cause instabi...

Different lipase assays have variable reported diagnostic accuracies for acute pancreatitis (AP) in dogs. The aims of this retrospective study were to evaluate optimal cutoffs for 1,2-o-dilauryl-rac-glycero-3-glutaric acid-(6′-methylresorufin)...

The instability of DC microgrids is the most prominent problem that limits the expansion of their use, and one of the most important causes of instability is constant power load CPLs. In this paper, a robust RST digital feedback controller is propose...

As an important interface converter, the three-phase voltage-source rectifier (VSR) connects the grid to DC-input converters. The constant power load (CPL) characteristic of the converter-load often causes large-signal stability problems. In order to...

To address the issue of negative damping instability easily induced by DC/DC converters under constant power load (CPL) in DC microgrids and to enhance the control robustness of the system under uncertainties such as parameter perturbations, this pap...

Regardless of the unprecedented progress in malignant melanoma treatment strategies and clinical outcomes of patients during the last twelve years, this skin cancer remains the most lethal one. We have previously documented that vitamin D and its low...

In islanded AC microgrids, negative impedance characteristics of AC constant power loads (AC CPLs) easily introduce large signal instability to the system, while energy storage systems sometimes compensate for the dynamic characteristics of AC CPLs,...

Islanded DC microgrids composed of distributed generators (DGs), constant power loads (CPLs), parallel converters, batteries and supercapacitors (SCs) are typical nonlinear systems, and guaranteeing large-signal stability is a key issue. In this pape...

Direct current (DC) distribution is one of the most important enabling technologies for the future development of microgrids, due to the ease of interfacing DC components (e.g., batteries, photovoltaic systems, and native DC loads) to the grid. In th...

We report the synthesis and characterization of the two enantiomeric forms of a thienyl-substituted diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP) derivative bearing chiral alkyl chains. Thin films were prepared either by spin-coating and drop-casting and analyzed by UV...

This article proposes a nonlinear control strategy to address the voltage instability issue caused by the boost converter with an uncertain constant power load (CPL). This strategy combines a passivity-based controller (PBC) with a virtual DC motor c...

Au nanocluster (AuNCs)-based luminescent functional materials have attracted the interest of researchers owing to their small size, tractable surface modification, phosphorescence lifetime and biocompatibility. However, the poor luminescence quantum...

Bulk, solventless anionic ring-opening polymerization (AROP) of ε-caprolactam (CPL) with high yields, without side products and with short reaction times, initiated by caprolactamate-carbamoylcaprolactam initiating systems belong to green pol...

Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) have significant anti-inflammatory properties and are beneficial in rodent models of pancreatitis. The safety and efficacy of MSCs is unknown in dogs with acute pancreatitis (AP). Dogs with AP who were treated with MSCs...

To elucidate the robustness of the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) data measured by the dark energy spectroscopic instrument (DESI) in capturing the dynamical behavior of dark energy, we assess the model dependence of the evidence for dynamical dar...

Islanded hybrid AC/DC microgrids lack support for a large grid, and the negative incremental impedance of constant power loads (CPLs) aggravates the poor anti-disturbance capability of the system. When a single-phase ground fault (SPGF) occurs, the a...

Hybrid energy storage systems (HESSs), with superior transient response characteristics compared to conventional battery (BAT) systems, have emerged as an effective solution for power balance. However, the high penetration of constant power loads (CP...

Large disturbances frequently happen in isolated AC/DC Hybrid Microgrids. Unfortunately, constant power loads (CPLs) with negative impedance characteristics are equivalent to positive feedback, resulting in an increase in large disturbances. The syst...

Atherothrombosis exposes vascular components to blood. Currently, new antithrombotic therapies are emerging. Herein we investigated thrombogenesis of human arteries with/without atherosclerosis, and the interaction of coagulation and vascular compone...

Recently, the stability of DC microgrids has attracted increasing attention. The traditional stability analysis method cannot not meet the requirements for the complexity and bidirectional energy flow of the system. In this paper, a passivity-based s...

The CAPRICE (CPC)-like MYB gene family encodes R3-type MYB transcription factors in Arabidopsis. There are six additional CPC-like MYB sequences in the Arabidopsis genome, including TRYPTICHON (TRY), ENHANCER OF TRY AND CPC1 and 2 (ETC1 and ETC2), EN...

Phosphoinositide 3-kinase δ (PI3Kδ), a member of the class I PI3K family, is an essential signaling biomolecule that regulates the differentiation, proliferation, migration, and survival of immune cells. The overactivity of this protein c...

The CAPRICE (CPC)-like (CPL) genes belong to a single-repeat R3 MYB family, whose roles in physic nut (Jatropha curcas L.), an important energy plant, remain unclear. In this study, we identified a total of six CPL genes (JcCPL1–6) in physic nu...

The cascaded connection of power converters in a DC microgrid may cause instabilities. Indeed, power converters operating as external loads exhibit constant power load (CPL) behaviors. In this study, the design of the feedback controller of a multi–c...

Renewable energy is usually connected to the DC micro-grid by a large number of power electronic devices, which have the advantages of a fast system response, but the disadvantage to reduce the inertia of the system, which makes the stability of the...

The pursuit of targeted therapies for cytokine-dependent diseases has led to the discovery of Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitors, a promising class of drugs. Among them, CPL409116, a selective dual JAK and rho-associated protein kinase inhibitor (ROCK), h...

As a member of the class I PI3K family, phosphoinositide 3-kinase δ (PI3Kδ) is an important signaling biomolecule that controls immune cell differentiation, proliferation, migration, and survival. It also represents a potential and promis...

Phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) is the family of lipid kinases participating in vital cellular processes such as cell proliferation, growth, migration, or cytokines production. Due to the high expression of these proteins in many human cells and the...

We present a detailed and pedagogical analysis of recent cosmological data, including CMB, BAO, SnIa and the recent local measurement of $H_0$. We thus obtain constraints on the parameters of these standard dark energy parameterizations, including $\Lambda CDM$,...

Dual-stage cascaded dc systems are some of the most widely applied power interfaces in dc distributed power systems. However, in some practical situations, these systems might be unstable, especially if they incorporate tightly regulated load convert...

DC microgrid applications include electric vehicle systems, shipboard power systems, and More Electric Aircraft (MEA), which produce power at a low voltage level. Rapid developments in hydrogen fuel cell (FC) energy have extended the applications of...

The introduction of biuret hydrogen-bonding sites onto chiral binaphthalene-based chromophores was investigated as a route to sub-micron-sized, vesicle-like aggregates endowed with chiroptical properties. The synthesis was conducted from the correspo...

This article introduces a novel approach to voltage regulation in a DC/DC boost converter. The approach leverages two advanced control techniques, including learning-based nonlinear control. By combining the backstepping (BSC) algorithm with artifici...

The purpose of this work was to demonstrate the use of the AQbD with the DOE approach to the methodical step-by-step development of a UHPLC method for the quantitative determination of the impurity profile of new CPL409116 substance (JAK/ROCK inhibit...