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Electric vehicles (EVs) and distributed renewable resources (DRRs) are introduced to achieve three of the most pivotal objectives of this century: using environmentally-friendly energy resources. reliable supply of the load demand. and sustainable development of power systems. To achieve the aforementioned goals. simultaneous utilization of DRRs and EVs should be …

In this paper. a detailed analysis and design procedure of the AHB flyback converter for the universal line-voltage range is provided. The analysis of operation is illustrated by simulation waveforms obtained in Simplis. It is shown that the primaryside switches operate with zero-voltage switching (ZVS). whereas. the secondary-side rectifier operates …

Crystalline-silicon-nanocluster-embedded silicon nitride films were deposited at low temperature using a laser-assisted CVD (LACVD) system with various reactant gas flow rates and assisting laser power densities. The photoluminescence (PL) performances of the resultant films were studied. showing a systematic spectra blue shift. and the enhancement of PL intensity with the …

Smartphone security is challenging and complicated. However. there are some easy ways to improve smartphone security: • Increase security awareness. Like a desktop PC or a laptop. a smartphone can be hacked. infected. or phished. Smartphone users should be aware of potential threats and attacks when installing software19 or authorizing …

Authentication schemes relying on per-packet signature and per-signature verification introduce heavy cost for computation and communication. Due to its constraint resources. smart grid’s authentication requirement cannot be satisfied by this scheme. Most importantly. it is a must to underscore smart grid’s demand for high availability. In this paper. we present …

This volume in the Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology. Second edition. provides a comprehensive overview of how waste-to-energy power plants (WTEs) can be built within or near cities to transform the non-recycled residues of society into electricity. heat. and metals.   With nearly one thousand WTE plants worldwide. waste …

A new digital distance relaying scheme presented in this paper provides adequate protection to series-compensated double-circuit lines during a simultaneous open conductor and ground fault. The proposed scheme is based on the derivation of the compensated values of impedance using the symmetrical components theory. It measures the correct value of …

In this study. based on the slope of the wind-turbine mechanical power versus rotation speed. a novel MPPT algorithm using neural network compensator is proposed to avoid the oscillation problem and effect of uncertain parameters in wind-turbine generation systems. Naturally. the characteristics of the wind-turbine rotation speed is determined by …

In this paper. we propose TRAM. a transductive multi-label classification method by label set propagation. At first. we formulate the task as an optimization problem which is able to exploit unlabeled data to obtain an effective model for assigning appropriate multiple labels to instances. Then. we develop an efficient algorithm …

In this paper. we proposed the routing protocol EP-LEACH by introducing EP-Function. We evaluated our protocol analytically and numerically and showed that it exhibits better performance than existing protocols. As future works. we plan to apply the proposed algorithm in our practical project. In this case. the influence of the …