In this paper, a stochastic approach is proposed for reliability assessment of bidirectional DC-DC converters, including the fault-tolerant ones. This type of converters can be used in a smart DC grid, feeding DC loads such as home appliances and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs). The reliability of bidirectional DC-DC converters is of such an importance, due to the key role of the expec...

Background: Breast cancer is one of the most important malignancies in both developed and developing countries. Objectives: To reduce the burden of this disease, the prediction of individuals at risk and implementation of efficient preventive interventions can be effective. The present study was aimed at investigating five-year and lifetime risks of the breast cancer in a rural community in Za...

Differential light-biased dynamic measurements of charge carrier recombination properties in semiconductors have long been known to yield only differential rather than actual recombination properties. Therefore, the determination of injection-dependent recombination properties from such measurements was previously found to require integration over the entire injection range. Recent investigatio...

A wireless sensor network (WSN) consists of hundreds or thousands of sensor nodes organized in an ad hoc manner to achieve a predefined goal. Although WSNs have limitations in terms of memory and processors, the main constraint that makes WSNs different from traditional networks is the battery problemwhich limits the lifetime of a network. Different approaches are proposed in the literature for...

following the changes in the paradigm of urban studies in recent years, sustainability has become an increasingly important issue in the neighborhood’s planning and designing. however, this concept has originally been developed for american and european neighborhoods’ planning, it could also be customized for other neighborhoods’. additionally, in the neighborhood scale, the quality parameter f...

The paper presents the application of multi-layer perceptron regressor model for predicting parameters positron annihilation lifetime spectra using example alkanes in solid phase. Good agreement calculation results was found when approach is compared with commonly used methods, e.g., LT. presented method can be as an alternative quick and accurate tool decomposition spectroscopy (PALS) general....

To ensure the safe and stable operation of lithium-ion batteries in battery energy storage systems (BESS), power/current is de-rated to prevent from going outside operating range. Most derating strategies use static limits for current, voltage, temperature state-of-charge, do not account complexity degradation. Progress has been made with models lithium plating fast charging. However, this a pa...