A new resonant switch and a new family of zerocurrent and zero-voltage mixed-mode switching quasi-resonant converters (QRC’s) called single-cycle resonant converters (SCRC’s) are proposed to improve the performance of the conventional QRC’s. The proposed SCRC’s, which include two active switches operated with zero-current switching (ZCS) and zero-voltage switching (ZVS), respectively, show very...

Miniaturized thermal flow sensors have opened the doors for a large variety of new applications due to their small size, high sensitivity and low power consumption. Theoretically, very small detection limits of air velocity of some micrometers per second are achievable. However, the superimposed free convection is the main obstacle which prevents reaching these expected limits. Furthermore, exp...

We report the results of first-principles electronic-structure calculations for su-perconducting Ba 6 C 60. Unlike the A 3 C 60 superconductors, this new compound shows strong Ba–C hybridization in the valence and conduction regions, mixed co-valent/ionic bonding character, partial charge transfer, and insulating zero-gap band structure.

In this paper, a new iterative adaptive dynamic programming (ADP)method is proposed to solve a class of continuous-time nonlinear two-person zero-sum differential games. The idea is to use the ADP technique to obtain the optimal control pair iteratively which makes the performance index function reach the saddle point of the zero-sum differential games. If the saddle point does not exist, the m...

In a Poisson regression model, where observations are either clustered or represented by repeated measurements of counts, the number of observed zero counts is sometimes greater than the expected frequency by the Poisson distribution and the non-zero part of count data may be overdispersed. The zero-inflated negative binomial (ZINB) mixed regression model is suggested to analyze such data. Prev...