Exercise and adipose tissue macrophages: New Frontiers in obesity research?

10.3389/fendo.2016.00065Frontiers in Endocrinology76

Intelligent meters for improved system operation and customer relationship management

Since the time. that electric power meters were introduced in the 1870s, the basic function of the meters has remained more or less unchanged. Many developed countries are still using the same technology that has existed for more than a century. In particular, meter readings for residential services are normally taken manually once a month or every two months. While automatic meter reading (AMR) has gradually been introduced in many places, the cost involves in retrofitting the existing systems may not be justified if they are used merely for meter reading. This paper proposes two approaches to enhance the functions of the meters intelligently thereby improving the operation of the electrical supply system and customer relationship management. Data mining (DM) techniques are first discussed for information extraction and an intelligent agent (IA) technique is also proposed for front-end customer services

Enhancement of the mechanical properties of poly(styrene-co-acrylonitrile) with poly(methyl methacrylate)-grafted multiwalled carbon nanotubes

10.1016/j.polymer.2005.10.007Polymer462511510-11516POLM

Enhancement of interfacial adhesion and dynamic mechanical properties of poly(methyl methacrylate)/multiwalled carbon nanotube composites with amine-terminated poly(ethylene oxide)

10.1016/j.carbon.2005.10.001Carbon444613-617CRBN

Reinforcing and toughening of poly(vinyl chloride) with double-C 60-end-capped poly(n-butyl methacrylate)

10.1021/ma0604901Macromolecules39144932-4934MAMO

Mechanical behavior of pseudo-semi-interpenetrating polymer networks based on double-C60-end-capped poly(ethylene oxide) and poly(methyl methacrylate)

10.1021/cm049653vChemistry of Materials16183452-3456CMAT

Crystallization and dynamic mechanical behavior of double-C 60-end-capped poly(ethylene oxide)/multi-walled carbon nanotube composites

10.1016/j.cplett.2003.08.018Chemical Physics Letters3793-4236-241CHPL

Dynamic mechanical behavior of in situ functionalized multi-walled carbon nanotube/phenoxy resin composite

10.1016/S0009-2614(03)00621-3Chemical Physics Letters3733-4277-283CHPL