130,396 research outputs found
Inversor trifásico de dois estágios modificado aplicado no processamento da energia solar fotovoltaica em sistemas conectados à rede elétrica
No full textTese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro Tecnológico, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia Elétrica, Florianópolis, 2009.Este trabalho apresenta um sistema fotovoltaico trifásico conectado à rede elétrica comercial. O processamento eletrônico da energia proveniente de um arranjo fotovoltaico foi realizado por um inversor de dois estágios com isolamento galvânico em alta frequência. O conversor CC-CC trifásico série ressonante compõe um desses estágios graças à técnica aqui denominada de Behavior Matching. Essa técnica permite que o conversor opere com razão cíclica e frequência constantes, sem malha de controle. O estágio CC-CA foi ocupado pelo inversor trifásico PWM alimentado em tensão, responsável pelo controle da corrente injetada na rede e pelo MPPT. Empregou-se a modulação vetorial e a Transformação de Park, de onde resulta a corrente de eixo direto. Essa corrente foi usada de forma inovadora na execução do algoritmo P&O. Montou-se um protótipo com o qual se validou todo o equacionamento proposto. Os doze transistores do protótipo foram comandados pelo DSP TMS320F2812. Apenas três sensores foram usados na implementação, que contou ainda com proteção contra falta de rede. Essa proteção se baseou na detecção da passagem por zero de uma das tensões de linha. Para eliminar problemas com o ruído proveniente do chaveamento, foi usado um PLL na geração dos pulsos de sincronismo. Não foram usados filtros no condicionamento de sinais devido à grande robustez do controlador sintetizado no espaço de estados.This work presents a grid-connected three-phase PV system. The electronic processing of the photovoltaic array energy was managed by a dual-stage inverter through high-frequency galvanic isolation. The DC-DC three-phase Series Resonant Converter form one stage due the Behavior Matching technique, here developed. This technique allows the converter operation with constant frequency and duty-cycle, without control loop. The DC-AC stage consists of the three-phase PWM voltage source inverter, responsible by the grid current control and the MPPT. Space vector modulation and Park Transformation were applied, which leads to the direct axis current. This current was used in an innovative form to the P&O algorithm accomplishment. A prototype was built to validate the mathematical theory. The twelve prototype#s transistors were controlled by the TMS320F2812 DSP. Only three sensors were used to the implementation, which has still anti-islanding protection. This protection was based on zero detection of one line voltage. To reject switching noise, a PLL was used on the synchronism pulses generation. Antialiasing filters were not employed to signals conditioning due the robustness state-space controller
MeSH term explosion and author rank improve expert recommendations
No full textInformation overload is an often-cited phenomenon that reduces the productivity, efficiency and efficacy of scientists. One challenge for scientists is to find appropriate collaborators in their research. The literature describes various solutions to the problem of expertise location, but most current approaches do not appear to be very suitable for expert recommendations in biomedical research. In this study, we present the development and initial evaluation of a vector space model-based algorithm to calculate researcher similarity using four inputs: 1) MeSH terms of publications; 2) MeSH terms and author rank; 3) exploded MeSH terms; and 4) exploded MeSH terms and author rank. We developed and evaluated the algorithm using a data set of 17,525 authors and their 22,542 papers. On average, our algorithms correctly predicted 2.5 of the top 5/10 coauthors of individual scientists. Exploded MeSH and author rank outperformed all other algorithms in accuracy, followed closely by MeSH and author rank. Our results show that the accuracy of MeSH term-based matching can be enhanced with other metadata such as author rank
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
"Closing the R&D Gap, Evaluating the Sources of R&D Spending"
No full textBoth spending and tax policies have been implemented in the United States with the goal of stimulating private sector research and development (R&D). Karier questions whether current R&D policy, especially the research and experimentation tax credit, can contribute to closing the gap between nondefense expenditures on R&D in the United States and such expenditures in other countries, such as Japan and Germany. He also explores possible changes to our current R&D policy to make it more effective.
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Scholarly Communication and Publishing Lunch and Learn Talk #11: The ULS Open Access Author Fee Fund
No full textAt the May 2014 talk, you will learn about the ULS Open Access Author Fee Fund--what it is, why we do it, how it works, and how the program is going so far
The R&D Tax Incentives
No full textThis article sets out some background information and reflections of the author on the R&D tax incentive schemes included in the Common Corporate Tax Base (CCTB) Proposal. In particular the author analyzes the stimulus to private R&D through ad hoc tax incentives included in the CCTB Proposal and dives into the actual provisions included in the Proposal highlighting the most relevant issues connected with their design and interpretation. Moreover, the author explores the interaction between the CCTB Proposal and the granting by Member States of domestic R&D tax incentives
LOH of Chromosome 6q compared with LOH of 17q and 18q in ovarian cancers: relationship to p53 expression and clinicopahological findings
No full textIn 41 ovarian epithelial tumors (7 borderline and 34 invasive), loss of heterozygosity (LOH) of chromosomes 6q, 17q, and 18q was examined using 4 microsatellite markers: ER (6q 25-1), BRCA1 (17q21), DCC (18q21), and D18S58 (18q23). The LOH was compared with clinicopathological findings, including p53 and ER expression. In borderline tumors, LOH and p53 expression were never found, while in invasive carcinomas LOH and p53 were found in 71% and 59% of cases, respectively. In particular, in invasive carcinomas 6q LOH represented a marker distinguishing two groups of tumors; those with 6q LOH were only of serous histotype and at advanced stages (III/IV). No significant difference was found for any of genes in 5-year survival of the patients. No correlation was found between ER expression and ER LOH, as well as between biological aggressiveness and 17q and/or 18q LOH. We conclude that p53 and LOH of the investigated loci distinguish borderline from invasive ovarian carcinomas; moreover, the..
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