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This paper analyses reliability data of HVDC systems of Southern China Power Grid. The weak links of HVDC systems’ operational reliability are DC control and protection, valve hall and valve cooling system and transmission lines. Some improvement measures and HVDC system reliability technology are proposed in this paper.

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Surveys suggest that supply chain risk is a growing issue for executives and that supplier reliability is of particular concern. A common mitigation strategy observed in practice is for the buying firm to expend effort improving the reliability of its supply base. We explore a model in which a firm can source from multiple suppliers and/or exert effort to improve supplier reliability. For both ...

background and objectives: vaccination is the major strategy to protect nurses against infection with hepatitis b virus. however, some nurses do not produce sufficient amount of anti-hbsag antibody required for immunity against infection. chronic occupational stress has been proposed as a risk factor to humoral immunity. given that nursing staff is exposed to occupational stress risk, this stud...

in design of experiments, analysis and identifying those variables that affect the outputs are of interest. response surface methodology is a mathematical-statistical method to optimize the experiment outputs. this method tries to find the best response levels by optimizing the design variables called factors. in many engineering applications, robust design has become the most important issues....