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Simulation of real world circuits: Extending conventional analysis methods to circuits described by heterogeneous languages
Get PDFCircuit simulation is seen by some people as a well established discipline, where there remains little or no space for improvement. Yet, no steady state and stability analysis methods are available for circuits described by a combination of analog, digital and behavioral parts. Recently, the theory necessary for development of such simulators was proposed and a circuit simulator incorporating these theoretical developments has been presented. It manages analog, digital and behavioral components, while retaining all the classical "spice-like" features. This was possible by importing some mathematical concepts from the hybrid dynamical systems realm. Such tools represent the interface between the conventional analog world and the more contemporary digital/behavioral one. The reviewed simulation framework is appealing not only for people interested in circuit analysis and design, but for all researches and engineers working in the wider field of system simulation where the analog mixed signal concept is absolutely pervasive
Dangerous Bifurcations Revisited
No full textA dangerous border collision bifurcation has been defined as the dynamical instability that occurs when the basins of attraction of stable fixed points shrink to a set of zero measure as the parameter approaches the bifurcation value from either side. This results in almost all trajectories diverging off to infinity at the bifurcation point, despite the eigenvalues of the fixed points before and after the bifurcation being within the unit circle. In this paper, we show that similar bifurcation phenomena also occur when the stable orbit in question is of a higher periodicity or is chaotic. Accordingly, we propose a generalized definition of dangerous bifurcation suitable for any kind of attracting sets. We report two types of dangerous border collision bifurcations and show that, in addition to the originally reported mechanism typically involving singleton saddle cycles, there exists one more situation where the basin boundary is formed by a repelling closed invariant curve
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
New undergraduate experiments on Induction generators
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New undergraduate experiments on Induction generators
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