Low temperature sinter technology Die attachment for automotive power electronic applications
Low temperature sinter technology Die attachment for automotive power electronic applications ~ New fields of high power inverter systems such like hybrid cars, hybrid trucks, and off road vehicles require new ways of power electronics integration and packaging. The stringent requirements in size and weight, reliability, durability, ambient temperature, and environment are driving the operation [...]
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How Hybrid Cars Work
How Hybrid Cars Work ~ Gasoline-electric Hybrid Structure Gasoline-electric hybrid cars contain the following parts: Gasoline engine – The hybrid car has a gasoline engine much like the one you will find on most cars. However, the engine on a hybrid is smaller and uses advanced technologies to reduce emissions and increase efficiency. Fuel tank [...]
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Analysis of the fuel economy benefit of drivetrain hybridization
Analysis of the fuel economy benefit of drivetrain hybridization ~ Parallel- and series-configured hybrid vehicles likely feasible in next decade are defined and evaluated using NREL’s flexible ADvanced VehIcle SimulatOR, ADVISOR. Fuel economies of these two diesel-powered hybrid vehicles are compared to a comparable-technology diesel-powered internal-combustion-engine vehicle. Sensitivities of these fuel economies to various vehicle [...]
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Reduction of heavy-duty diesel engine emission and fuel economy with multi-objective genetic algorithm and phenomenological model
Reduction of heavy-duty diesel engine emission and fuel economy with multi-objective genetic algorithm and phenomenological model ~ Recently, it has become essential to use design methodologies including computer simulations for diesel engines that have small amounts of NOx and SOOT while maintaining reason- able fuel economy. For this purpose, multi-objective optimization techniques should be used. [...]
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Predicting Attitudes toward Homosexuality: Insights from Personality Psychology
Predicting Attitudes toward Homosexuality: Insights from Personality Psychology ~ ABSTRACT – Relative standings on personality dimensions predict many important attitudes. The current research tests the hypothesis that people who score higher on the personality dimension of Openness to Experience report more favorable attitudes toward homosexuality. Using data secured by the General Social Survey of respondents [...]
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Structures and processes in personality psychology
Structures and processes in personality psychology ~ The key question of psychology is: what causes people to behave the way they do? The stakes were high, therefore, when protagonists of the ‘person- situation debate’argued about whether behaviour is mainly determined by the characteristic personality of the individual, or his or her immediate situation (Mischel 1968; [...]
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The Psychological Structure of Pride: A Tale of Two Facets
The Psychological Structure of Pride: A Tale of Two Facets ~ This paradox can be resolved if we tease apart the prosocial, achievement-oriented form of the emotion from the self- aggrandizing, hubristic form and postulate two distinct facets of pride (M. Lewis, 2000). A large body of research indicates that shame and guilt are distinct, [...]
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PERSONALITY ARCHITECTURE: Within-Person Structures and Processes
PERSONALITY ARCHITECTURE: Within-Person Structures and Processes ~ The Two Meanings of Personality “Structure” Anyone seeking to understand the scientific literature in personality psychology, including the import of recent advances, faces an obstacle: Writers refer to two different phenomena with the same term. One phenomenon is the within-person content and organization of personality systems. Psychologists from [...]
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Vitamins A, and C and folate statusin Mexican children under 12 years and women12-49 years: A probabilistic national survey
Vitamins A, and C and folate statusin Mexican children under 12 years and women12-49 years: A probabilistic national survey ~ AbstractObjective. To describe the epidemiology of Vitamin A andC and folic acid deficiencies and their association with sociodemographic and dietary factors in a national probabilistic sample of Mexican women and children. Material andMethods. This is [...]
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Committee on Food Nutrition
Committee on Food Nutrition ~ Simultaneous Determination of Vitamins.—Klejduset al. (1) described a simultaneous determination of 10 water and 10 fat soluble vitamins in pharmaceutical preparations byliquid chromatography diodearray detection (LC-DAD). Acombined isocratic and linear gradient allowed separation ofvitamins in 3 distinct groups: polar, low polar, and nonpolar.The method was applied to pharmaceutical preparations,fortified powdered [...]
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Antioxidant Vitamins and the Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease
Antioxidant Vitamins and the Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease ~ Clinical use of antioxidant vitamin supplementation may help to prevent coronaryheart disease (CHD). Epidemiologic studies find lower CHD morbidity andmortality in persons who consume larger quantities of antioxidants in foods orsupplements. Clinical trials indicate that supplementation with certain nutrients isbeneficial in reducing the incidence of [...]
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Depressive Mood and Craving During Alcohol Withdrawal:Association and Interaction
Depressive Mood and Craving During Alcohol Withdrawal:Association and Interaction ~ Introduction, Depressive symptoms during alcohol withdrawal arecommon and have been reported repeatedly (Butterworth, 1971; Dackis et al, 1986; Kiefer &Barocka, 1999; Laine et al, 1999; Schuckit et al, 1997). Secondary depressive symptoms caused by alcohol abuse last upto six weeks after detoxification (Kiefer & Barocka, [...]
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