Enhancing performance of Parallel Hybrid Electric Vehicles using Powell's Artificial Bee Colony method.

Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEVs) demonstrate superior fuel efficiency and reduced emissions in comparison to conventional vehicles. To further enhance the HEV performance, Powell's based Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) heuristic approach is used. Powell's ABC focuses on the improved local search ability and increased speed of convergence.

Hidden realities of electrical injuries.

The clinical spectrum of electrical injury ranges from the absence of any external physical signs to severe and life-threatening trauma. This article discusses the fundamental concepts and misunderstandings surrounding electrical injuries and the best practices for evaluation and treatment.

Nanopore occlusion: A biophysical mechanism for bipolar cancellation in cell membranes.

Extraordinarily large but short electric field pulses are reported by many experiments to cause bipolar cancellation (BPC). This unusual cell response occurs if a first pulse is followed by a second pulse with opposite polarity. Possibly universal, BPC presently lacks a mechanistic explanation.

Modeling a Conventional Electroporation Pulse Train: Decreased Pore Number, Cumulative Calcium Transport and an Example of Electrosensitization.

Pulse trains are widely used in electroporation (EP) for both general biomedical research and clinical applications such as nonthermal tumor ablation. Here we use a computational method based on a meshed transport network to investigate a cell system model's response to a train of identical, evenly spaced electric field pulses. We obtain an unexpected result: the number of membrane pores decreases during the application of twenty 1.