MODULARIZED MULTILEVEL AND Z-SOURCE POWER CONVERTER AS RENEWABLE ENERGY INTERFACE FOR VEHICLE AND GRID-CONNECTED APPLICATIONS By Dong Cao Due the energy crisis and increased oil price, renewable energy sources such as photovoltaic panel, wind turbine, or thermoelectric generation module, are used more and more widely for vehicle and grid-connected applications. However, the output of these rene...

The recent Zika virus (ZIKV) outbreak has been declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) by the World Health Organization in February 2016. It started in Brazil in 2015, rapidly spread through South and Central America, and is expected to reach the continental US in the summer of 2016. The appearance of ZIKV has been connected with an increase in cases of microcephaly ...

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has long been used for patients with psoriasis. This study aimed to investigate TCM usage in patients with psoriasis. We analyzed a cohort of one million individuals representing the 23 million enrollees randomly selected from the National Health Insurance Research Database in Taiwan. We identified 28,510 patients newly diagnosed with psoriasis between 2000 an...

We define quantum exterior product ∧h and quantum exterior differential dh on Poisson manifolds, of which symplectic manifolds are an important class of examples. Quantum de Rham cohomology is defined as the cohomology of dh. We also define quantum Dolbeault cohomology. Quantum hard Lefschetz theorem is proved. We also define a version of quantum integral, and prove the quantum Stokes theorem. ...

Molecular dynamics simulations have been used to study the structure, equation of state (EOS), self-diffusion, and shear viscosity of molten Mg2SiO4 for pressures and temperatures in the range 2.5–110 GPa and 2100–5060 K, respectively. The transferable pair-potential parameters of Matsui (1998) for the system Na2O-CaO-MgO-Al2O-SiO2 have been used accounting for Coulomb, Born, and van der Waals ...

Ancient Chinese literature on strategic theory goes back to ideas proposed almost 3000 years ago, but which were first written down during the late Spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period (around 500 BC). The most famous work is the Art of War from Sun Tzu. While Sun Tzu extensively recommends to prepare before going to war and to study and exploit the strengths and weaknesses of...

A RATE-BASED CONGESTION CONTROL OVERLAY SYSTEM Lianjie Cao, M.S. George Mason University, 2011 Thesis Director: Dr. Brian L. Mark Traditional TCP/IP networks provide a best effort delivery service which places the complexity of congestion control in the end hosts, leaving the network relatively simple. It is well-known that the performance of the TCP congestion control scheme degrades severely ...

Calculation of chemical equilibria involving a liquid requires a full knowledge of chemical potentials (or activities) of all the oxide components present in the liquid phase. This is a rigorous requirement compared to that for solid compounds, where only total free energies need to be known in order to calculate their stabilities relative to other compounds; obviously the difference stems from...

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