Nowadays lots of applications in telecommunications require a wide bandwidth to transmit more information and improve the quality on the transmission of this information. In order to guarantee this condition low losses systems are designed; these losses can be classified in dissipation losses and mismatch losses. There are different classic methods for impedance matching, but they reach the imp...

Design of high-speed, high-performance electronic circuits require simulation of transients in networks that include multiple, coupled lossy transmission lines. Widely used circuit simulator, SPICE, does not have facilities for simulation of multi-conductor transmission lines. Recently a modification to SPICE3 to include multi-conductor lossless lines was reported [6]. In many situations line l...

We report the complex cytogenetic analysis of a novel melanoma cell line (M35/01) established from a vertical growth phase of a superficial spreading melanoma. Similarly to its parental tumor, this cell line metastasizes to the liver. Using combined molecular cytogenetic techniques, we could identify a reservoir of chromosomal alterations in M35/01. In addition, we had sufficient amount of DNA ...

Wind power generation has indicated an exponential increase during last two decades and existing transmission network infrastructure is increasingly becoming inadequate to transmit remotely generated wind power to load centres in the network. The dynamic line rating (DLR) is one of the viable solutions to improve the transmission line ampacity during high wind penetration without investing on a...

The two main functions of the NLC extraction line include: 1) transmission of the outgoing disrupted beam and secondary particles to the dump with minimal losses; and 2) beam diagnostics and control. In this report, we describe the extraction line optics, present the results of tracking studies, and discuss the extraction line instrumentation. Presented at the 1999 IEEE Particle Accelerator Con...

This paper reviews recent developments of eddy current pulsed thermography (ECPT) for material characterization and nondestructive evaluation (NDE). Due to the fact that line-coil-based ECPT, with the limitation of non-uniform heating and a restricted view, is not suitable for complex geometry structures evaluation, Helmholtz coils and ferrite-yoke-based excitation configurations of ECPT are pr...

We investigate dispersion properties of photonic crystal waveguides in a low-index material system. The modes above the light line, of a waveguide consisting of one row of missing holes (W1), exhibit high losses due to out-ofplane radiation. In contrast, the index-guided modes below the light line show moderate losses and we demonstrate both theoretically and experimentally that high dispersion...

A genetic algorithm is used to solve an economic dispatch problem. The chromosome contains only the encoding of a normalized incremental cost system. Therefore, the total number of bits of a chromosome is entirely independent of the number of units. In the first case, the transmission line losses are calculated using the Newton-Raphson method and kept constant. In the second case, the transmiss...

This article presents an application of generalized pattern search (PS) algorithm to solve economic load dispatch (ELD) problems with convex and non-convex fuel cost objective functions. Main objective of ELD is to determine the most economic generating dispatch required to satisfy the predicted load demands including line losses. Relaxing various equality and inequality constraints are conside...

Antiphospholipid antibodies represent a heterogeneous group of autoantibodies directed against anionic phospholipids (PLs) usually linked to protein cofactors. Their presence during the antiphospholipid syndrome is associated with risks of thrombosis and fetal losses. Among 5 randomly selected monoclonal antiphospholipid antibodies, all originating from a single patient suffering from this auto...