The objective of this study was to evaluate the use of voluntary counseling and testing (VCT) services for HIV by high school students in the Tiko health district (THD), Cameroon. A cross sectional descriptive, analytical study was conducted using a pre-established questionnaire among high school students in the Tiko health district where a multi stage sampling method was used. A total of 474 s...

Conventional hysteresis current controllers have the disadvantage of a variable switching frequency. This paper proposes a fuzzy hysteresis band technique for the current control for shunt active power filter (SAPF). An active harmonic filter is used to eliminate current harmonics caused by nonlinear loads. The current control strategy utilizes using a selective Filter STF method to improve pow...

Power supply units (PSUs) with an equally shared load current are widely employed for data processing equipment like servers due to their advantages such as easy extension of power processing capability and simple thermal management. This paper presents a method to improve light-load efficiency by reducing load-independent losses such as capacitive turn-on and core losses and reduce the THD of ...

This paper presents Simultaneous variation and control of the output voltage and frequency, reduction in the harmonic components in load currents. These inherent features have to be employed in many industrial applications such as variable speed drives, uninterruptible power supplies and other power conversion systems. However, the reduction of the harmonic components in output currents and vol...

A new ripple feedback filter is presented for Analog/Digital mixed-mode amplifier (MMA) among audio applications. MMA is composed of two amplifiers: one is analog amplifier responsible for high fidelity and the other is digital switching amplifer in charge of high efficiency. To improve both total harmonic distortion (THD) and efficiency, passive RLC filter is needed at the output side of the d...

Space vector modulation (SVM) has received wide acceptance due to many benefits over other techniques such as higher output voltages, lower total harmonic distortion (THD), high-efficiency and flexible to be implemented in vector control systems. In digital implementation, the SVM equations can be optimally computed by eliminate the use of complex forms. In this paper, the simple SVM based on t...

In this paper we consider the problem of balancing a three-phase load and how to optimize the TCR operation. For an unbalanced load change a VAT technique is developed by the authors to determine the three compensating susceptance values and then the unsymmetrical firing angles of TCR, which are necessary for a balanced load operation. An objective function (THD) is determined to measure the di...

This paper presents a transformer less ac/dc converter which can be used in voltages between 90230 Vrms. Instead of a transformer, this topology consists of a buck dc/dc converter and a buck boost dc/dc converter. By the absence of transformer, reduce the complexity of converter and it is cost effective. Buck dc/dc converter keeps o/p voltage below the line voltage; limit the leakage current. B...

In a world where climate changes and power management are becoming increasingly important, research work focuses on renewable energy based smart grid to meet adequate demands of energy. The is modernized autonomous network that can transmit electricity effectively, conserve resources costs, increase the local grid's stability. As result, connected multilevel inverter presented in this work. con...