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Research Reports (1997)

In this report, a Cooperative Intelligent Cruise Control (CICC) System is proposed to increase highway capacity and provide safety and comfort to drivers. The method requires an automatic throttle and brake control and simple infrastructure-vehicle communication. The system is designed to let a vehicle operate under a conventional cruise control system as well as a distancing control system. The performance of the CICC is evaluated through simulations with a non-linear vehicle model.

    Cover page: Integrated Maneuvering Control Design And Experiments: Report For Phase III
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    UC Irvine Previously Published Works (2015)

    Background and aim

    Mitochondrial dysfunction contributes to the pathophysiology of diabetic cardiomyopathy. The aim of this study was to investigate the acute changes in the mitochondrial proteome in response to insulin stimulation.

    Methods and results

    Cardiac mitochondria from C57BL/6 mice after insulin stimulation were analyzed using two-dimensional fluorescence difference gel electrophoresis. MALDI-TOF MS/MS was utilized to identify differences. Two enzymes involved in metabolism and four structural proteins were identified. Succinyl-CoA ligase [ADP forming] subunit beta was identified as one of the differentially regulated proteins. Upon insulin stimulation, a relatively more acidic isoform of this protein was increased by 53% and its functional activity was decreased by ∼32%.

    Conclusions

    This proteomic remodeling in response to insulin stimulation may play an important role in the normal and diabetic heart.
      Cover page: Novel remodeling of the mouse heart mitochondrial proteome in response to acute insulin stimulation.
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      UC Santa Barbara Previously Published Works (2003)

      Electron relaxation and transport dynamics in low-temperature-grown GaAs under 1 eV optical excitation was investigated by femtosecond transient transmission measurement and electro-optical sampling measurement in bulk samples and fabricated devices. An increase in the electron lifetime can be observed when the electron density is higher than 3x10(17) cm(-3). This effect is attributed to prolonged electron relaxation due to intervalley scattering of highly excited electrons and associated hot phonon effects. Our conclusion is further supported by bias-dependent studies where intervalley scattering was achieved using high electric fields. (C) 2003 American Institute of Physics.

        Cover page: Electron relaxation and transport dynamics in low-temperature-grown GaAs under 1 eV optical excitation
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        UC Davis Previously Published Works (2018)
        Efforts to estimate the physical and economic impacts of future climate change face substantial challenges. To enrich the currently popular approaches to impact analysis-which involve evaluation of a damage function or multi-model comparisons based on a limited number of standardized scenarios-we propose integrating a geospatially resolved physical representation of impacts into a coupled human-Earth system modeling framework. Large internationally coordinated exercises cannot easily respond to new policy targets and the implementation of standard scenarios across models, institutions and research communities can yield inconsistent estimates. Here, we argue for a shift toward the use of a self-consistent integrated modeling framework to assess climate impacts, and discuss ways the integrated assessment modeling community can move in this direction. We then demonstrate the capabilities of such a modeling framework by conducting a multi-sectoral assessment of climate impacts under a range of consistent and integrated economic and climate scenarios that are responsive to new policies and business expectations.
          Cover page: Toward a consistent modeling framework to assess multi-sectoral climate impacts.
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          UC Davis Previously Published Works (2018)
          Efforts to estimate the physical and economic impacts of future climate change face substantial challenges. To enrich the currently popular approaches to impact analysis-which involve evaluation of a damage function or multi-model comparisons based on a limited number of standardized scenarios-we propose integrating a geospatially resolved physical representation of impacts into a coupled human-Earth system modeling framework. Large internationally coordinated exercises cannot easily respond to new policy targets and the implementation of standard scenarios across models, institutions and research communities can yield inconsistent estimates. Here, we argue for a shift toward the use of a self-consistent integrated modeling framework to assess climate impacts, and discuss ways the integrated assessment modeling community can move in this direction. We then demonstrate the capabilities of such a modeling framework by conducting a multi-sectoral assessment of climate impacts under a range of consistent and integrated economic and climate scenarios that are responsive to new policies and business expectations.
            Cover page: Toward a consistent modeling framework to assess multi-sectoral climate impactsCreative Commons 'BY' version 4.0 license
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            Faculty Publications (2005)

            In TransCom-3 (Level 1), atmospheric CO2 measurements from 76 monitoring stations for the period 1992–1996 and 16 atmospheric transport models were used to constrain annual mean CO2 fluxes over 11 land and 11 ocean regions. The tower measurements of atmospheric CO2 from Fraserdale, a continental site in northern Ontario, Canada are now available and processed for use in the TransCom-3 inverse modelling framework. In this short study, we show that by including this set of continental CO2 data, the estimated flux for the North American boreal region becomes nearly zero, a reduction of about 0.26 Pg C yr−1 from the previous estimate. The uncertainty of the estimated flux for this region is also reduced by ∼30%. All transport models show negative changes for boreal North America, with the strongest responses (∼−0.5 Pg C yr−1) shown by NIRE, NIES, CSU and SKYHI. Furthermore, models showing a strong response in boreal North America tend to show strong sensitivity in middle- and high-latitude Asian regions.

              Cover page: Impact of Fraserdale CO 2 observations on annual flux inversion of the North American boreal regionCreative Commons 'BY' version 4.0 license
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              Faculty Publications (2002)
              This paper explores various sources of error in atmospheric CO2 synthesis inversions using global circulation models. The estimation of prior, observation, model transport, and representation errors is described, and the latter two error sources are explored in more detail. Not accounting for these errors will act as a hard constraint on the inversion and will produce incorrect solutions to the problem as is shown in some example inversions. The magnitude of these errors falls generally between about 10% and 100% in the retrieved fluxes but can be even larger. This makes it highly desirable to avoid hard constraints and apply any prior information we have about the surface fluxes as a weak constraint to the inversion problem.
                Cover page: On error estimation in atmospheric CO 2 inversionsCreative Commons 'BY' version 4.0 license
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                Faculty Publications (2006)
                Monthly CO2 fluxes are estimated across 1988–2003 for 22 emission regions using data from 78 CO2 measurement sites. The same inversion (method, priors, data) is performed with 13 different atmospheric transport models, and the spread in the results is taken as a measure of transport model error. Interannual variability (IAV) in the winds is not modeled, so any IAV in the measurements is attributed to IAV in the fluxes. When both this transport error and the random estimation errors are considered, the flux IAV obtained is statistically significant at P ≤ 0.05 when the fluxes are grouped into land and ocean components for three broad latitude bands, but is much less so when grouped into continents and basins. The transport errors have the largest impact in the extratropical northern latitudes. A third of the 22 emission regions have significant IAV, including the Tropical East Pacific (with physically plausible uptake/release across the 1997–2000 El Niño/La Niña) and Tropical Asia (with strong release in 1997/1998 coinciding with large-scale fires there). Most of the global IAV is attributed robustly to the tropical/southern land biosphere, including both the large release during the 1997/1998 El Niño and the post-Pinatubo uptake.
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                Cover page: TransCom 3 inversion intercomparison: Impact of transport model errors on the interannual variability of regional CO 2 fluxes, 1988-2003Creative Commons 'BY' version 4.0 license
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                UC Santa Cruz Previously Published Works (2020)
                A mistake was identified for the paper [1] in the treatment of the radion [2] cross-sections, which resulted in multiple changes.
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                  UC Berkeley Previously Published Works (2020)
                  The PreProcessor of the ATLAS Level-1 Calorimeter Trigger prepares the analogue trigger signals sent from the ATLAS calorimeters by digitising, synchronising, and calibrating them to reconstruct transverse energy deposits, which are then used in further processing to identify event features. During the first long shutdown of the LHC from 2013 to 2014, the central components of the PreProcessor, the Multichip Modules, were replaced by upgraded versions that feature modern ADC and FPGA technology to ensure optimal performance in the high pile-up environment of LHC Run 2. This paper describes the features of the new Multichip Modules along with the improvements to the signal processing achieved.
                    Cover page: Performance of the upgraded PreProcessor of the ATLAS Level-1 Calorimeter Trigger
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