In this paper some novel types of microwave bandpass filters using defected ground structures are investigated. In the microstrip technology the use of defected ground structures (DGS) allows designs of filters with tight couplings, without the necessity of using very narrow coupling gaps. In multilayer filters DGS can be used as coupling elements between resonators, allowing very compact filte...

The increasing penetration of inverter-based distributed generations (DGs) significantly affects the fault characteristics of distribution networks. Fault analysis is a keystone for suitable protection scheme design. This paper presents the modelling methodology for distribution networks with inverter-based DGs and performs fault simulation based on the model. Firstly, a single inverter-based D...

The reflection-mode Digital Gradient Sensing (r-DGS) method is extended to visualize and quantify dynamic deformations in solids due to stress wave propagation and for damage/disbond detection in layered materials due to impact loading. The r-DGS technique employs digital image correlation principles to quantify two orthogonal surface slopes simultaneously in specularly reflective solids. Here,...

Dwarf galaxies (DGs) are more numerous than large galaxies. Most dwarfs in clusters are dEs, but in the field they belong mostly to late types. The importance of late-type DGs in the context of the intergalactic medium (IGM) lies in the fact that (at least some) are probably " young " galaxies forming stars for the first time. Many DGs have significant amounts of interstellar gas, they may form...

The patients with DiGeorge syndrome (DGS), caused by deletion containing dozens of genes in chromosome 22, often carry cardiovascular problem and hearing loss associated with chronic otitis media. Inside the deletion region, a transcription factor TBX1 was highly suspected. Furthermore, similar DGS phenotypes were found in the Tbx1 heterozygous knockout mice. Using ENU-induced mutagenesis and G...

In this paper, a very newly swarm optimization technique namely a dragonfly optimization algorithm (DFOA) is used to allocate and size the distributed generators (DGs) along distribution networks. The multi-objective function is adapted to reduce the total system power loss, decrease the cost of DGs and improve the voltage profile with the resolve of improving the operating performance. In addi...

The paper presents an improved equivalent circuit parameters extraction method for the dumbbell-shaped defected ground structure (DGS). The new extraction parameters equations are obtained in closed-form expressions, which contain S11 and S21. The DGS unit with center frequency of 5 GHz is designed and fabricated on a TLX substrate with thickness of 1 mm and dielectric constant of 2.55. The cir...

Molecular domestications of transposable elements have occurred repeatedly during the evolution of eukaryotes. Vertebrates, especially mammals, possess numerous single copy domesticated genes (DGs) that have originated from the intronless multicopy transposable elements. However, the origin and evolution of the retroelement-derived DGs (RDDGs) that originated from Metaviridae has been only part...

Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine (DGS, JACL, JMM, GG, RGW, GFT, KCW), 12 Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD Duke Clinical Research Institute (DGS, GSW), Durham, NC, 14 Department of Clinical Physiology (DGS, HA), Lund University Hospital, Sweden Memorial Hospital Research Center (RHS), Long Beach, CA 16 Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute (EM), Los Angeles, CA. 18 Address ...

This paper proposes a new type of double flower shaped DGS structure which when etched on the metallic ground plane of a simple microstrip line gives low-pass filter characteristics. This is due to the metamaterial behaviour of the DGS. The frequency characteristics of the DGS are investigated by simulating the structure in Mom based IE3D simulator. The effective parameters of the metamaterial ...