The development of the more increasing power electronics allows the use of FACTS devices to manage and improve either the flow of power or the stability of the power system. One type of FACTS device studied is the SVC. In this study, optimization of SVC is used to determine the most appropriate location and rating in order to obtain the optimum power transfer. Optimization methods used in this ...

Trigeminal primary afferent fibers have small receptive fields and discrete submodalities, but second order trigeminal neurons often display larger receptive fields with complex, multimodal responses. Moreover, while most large caliber afferents terminate exclusively in the principal trigeminal nucleus, and pars caudalis (sVc) of the spinal trigeminal nucleus receives almost exclusively small c...

Scalable Video Coding (SVC) is the scalable extension of H.264/AVC which extends spatial, temporal and quality scalability on the H.264 video stream. In this thesis, a fast priority index (PID) assignment algorithm is first developed for the MGS (Medium Grain Scalability) packets in SVC. We formulate the index assignment problem as the quantization of the rate-distortion (R-D) slopes of MGS pac...

The emerging Scalable Video Coding (SVC) Extension of H.264/AVC standard enables partial extraction and decoding of video bitstreams, and thus allows viewing devices to adapt their video reception and playback according to devices capability and network performance. This desirable feature, however, comes with a caveat: the parts of a SVC bitstream needed for good quality playback at different d...

Superior vena cava (SVC) reconstruction is occasionally required in the treatment of benign and malignant conditions. We report a patient with symptomatic SVC obstruction secondary to mediastinal fibrosis successfully reconstructed with an aortic allograft.

Video conferencing has become a popular mode of meeting despite consuming considerable communication resources. Conventional video compression causes resolution reduction under limited bandwidth. Semantic (SVC) maintains high by transmitting some keypoints to represent the motions because background is almost static, and speakers do not change often. However, study on influence transmission err...

Four methods of detecting respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) from clinical specimens were evaluated. A total of 410 specimens consisting of nasopharyngeal washes, aspirates, and swabs were simultaneously tested for the presence of RSV by direct immunofluorescence assay (DFA), enzyme immunoassay (EIA) (Kallestad Pathfinder), shell vial centrifugation culture (SVC), and conventional culture. DFA i...

this paper focuses on designing of PSS and SVC controller based on chaos and PSO algorithms to improve the stability of power system. Single machine infinite bus (SMIB) system with SVC located at the terminal of generator has been considered to evaluate the proposed controllers where both SVC and PSS have the same controller. The coefficients of PSS and SVC controller have been optimized by cha...

This paper presents a novel approach, called validation-driven algorithm (VDA) for improving support vector clustering (SVC). The SVC algorithm is a well-known kernel-based clustering approach, but its clustering results keenly rely on the proper choice of parameters of kernel functions. Particularly, we have found that performance of SVC is very sensitive to the initial value of the kernel par...