Compressed biomethane gas (CBG) is an interesting alternative fuel that can be used to solve fossil crisis problems. Nevertheless, it concerned about engine performance and exhaust emission. In additions, CBG produced from agricultural harvesting residues the food industry a good opportunity for utilizing biogas as vehicle fuel. The aims of this research are comparative analysis emission on com...

Olfactory neurons transduce the binding of odorants into membrane depolarization. Two intracellular messengers, cyclic AMP (cAMP) and inositol trisphosphate (IP3), are thought to mediate this process, with cAMP generating responses to some odorants and IP3 mediating responses to others. cAMP causes membrane depolarization by activating a cation-selective cyclic nucleotide-gated (CNG) channel. W...

This document describes a machine-learning solution to the spam-filtering problem. Spam-filtering is treated as a text-classification problem in very high dimension space. Two new text-classification algorithms, Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) and Contextual Network Graphs (CNG) are compared to existing Bayesian techniques by monitoring their ability to process and correctly classify a series of...

Abstract– This paper proposes an intelligent control technique for fuel injection control of Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) engines. Recurrent Neuro-Fuzzy Networks are used to estimate and control air to fuel ratio (AFR) of CNG engines. To reasonably handle such a complicated control problem, a precise experimental test has been done on a real CNG fuelled vehicle and the process input output data...

Cyclic nucleotide-gated (CNG) channels are critical components in the visual and olfactory signal transduction pathways, and they primarily gate in response to changes in the cytoplasmic concentration of cyclic nucleotides. We previously found that the ability of the native rod CNG channel to be opened by cGMP was markedly inhibited by analogues of diacylglycerol (DAG) without a phosphorylation...

Ca2+/calmodulin-mediated negative feedback is a prototypical regulatory mechanism for Ca2+-permeable ion channels. In olfactory sensory neurons (OSNs), such regulation on the cyclic nucleotide-gated (CNG) channel is considered a major mechanism of OSN adaptation. To determine the role of Ca2+/calmodulin desensitization of the olfactory CNG channel, we introduced a mutation in the channel subuni...

In cyclic nucleotide-gated channels (CNG), direct binding of cyclic nucleotides in the carboxy-terminal region is allosterically coupled to opening of the pore. A CNG1 channel pore was probed using site-directed cysteine substitution to elucidate conformational changes associated with channel opening. The effects of cysteine modification on permeation suggest a structural homology between CNG a...

Motivated by climate, health and economic considerations, alternatively-fueled bus fleets have emerged worldwide. Two popular alternatives are compressed natural gas (CNG) and electric vehicles. The latter provides the opportunity to generate revenue through vehicle-to-grid (V2G) services if properly equipped. This analysis conducts a robust accounting of the costs of diesel, CNG and battery-el...