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Design of Proportional-Resonant Control for Current Harmonic Compliance in Electric Railway Power Systems
This paper presents the process of designing proportional-resonant controller for a four-quadrant rectifier in electric railway traction system. In the context of ever-stricter power quality and electromagnetic compatibility standards in electric railway power systems, developers of electric locomotives need to adapt with new ways to comply. This paper develops on the process of designing a four-quadrant rectifier proportional-resonant control for mitigation of low frequency current harmonic distortion, a novel method in the field of railway EMC. The control parameters are determined through analytical modeling of the rectifier through transfer functions. For the purpose of studying the harmonic distortion mitigation effects, only the current control loop was modeled and designed. The modeling starts with simplification of the model via large-signal modeling of the power converter. The parameters of the circuit then were used to develop the transfer functions, and select the appropriate parameter values of the current loop plant. The control loop and parameters were evaluated on test locomotive to validate the control, with results confirming the improved impact on the electromagnetic compatibility and conformity to regulation
Analysis of Common Mode Currents and Harmonic Pollution at Supplying Induction Motors from Static Converters with Variable Modulation Frequency
The problems of Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) in three-phase systems are less studied than single-phase or direct current, due to the smaller ratio of emissions relative to the rated power of such systems. This paper is focused on the problem of emissions in three-phase variable frequency drive systems in the low-frequency EMC range, specifically on the common mode current through the connected ground wire between the static converter and power grid. The common mode current is determined to be variable depending on switching frequency. For a deeper understanding Fast Fourier Transform was used to decompose the signal. Main parameter to understand the magnitude of common mode current was the RMS of the current. The decomposition showed a significant DC component which cannot be picked up by the used RF probe, thus presenting a noise offset necessary to be considered when calculating the total effective value of common mode current. The analysis was made on the time-domain representation and the frequency behavior of the converter. The paper suggests that the standard measurement in the low-frequency range and the picked-up signal are investigated enough, as there is a disparity in the impact of emissions in the low-frequency range compared to what off-the-shelf devices have to offer, which are standard compliant, but still present considerable emissions
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
The 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
“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
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
We provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
We 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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
We have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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