In developing countries, where the utilities already facing the problem of high power losses and poor voltage profiles because of high loads, DG can be the key answer to solve these questions while expansion and reinforcement of these systems to meet the increasing load demand are faced by economical and environmental difficulties. An evaluation of some technical benefits of integration of DG i...

As a service to the bridge design profession, Bethlehem Steel has conducted hundreds of studies of steel plate girder bridges using its Preliminary Bridge Girder Optimization Program. The program is unique because it optimizes plate girder designs on the basis of least cost, not least weight. An evaluation of many study results leads to a number of guidelines which are offered in this paper. Wh...

This thesis proposes architectures and algorithms for digital acquisition of parametric signals. It furthermore provides bounds for the performance of these systems in the presence of noise. Our simple acquisition circuitry and low sampling rate enable accurate parameter estimation to be achieved economically. In present practice, sampling and estimation are not integrated: the sampling device ...

The world is rich in sensory information, and the challenge for any neural sensory system is to piece together the diverse messages from large arrays of feature detectors. In vision and auditory research, there has been speculation about the rules governing combination of signals from different neural channels: e.g. linear (city-block) addition, Euclidian (energy) summation, or a maximum rule. ...

The growth of Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) as the emerging choice for provisioning and managing core networks has placed significant emphasis on MPLS based recovery mechanisms. The present global protection frameworks require extensive involvement of Label Switching Routers (LSRs) in the protection framework. The LSRs are involved in failure propagation and maintenance of information r...

Knowledge graph-based data integration is a practical methodology for heterogeneous legacy database-integrated service construction. However, it neither efficient nor economical to build new cross-domain knowledge graph on top of the schemas each database specific application rather than reusing existing high-quality graphs. Consequently, question arises as whether compatible with queries and h...

We describe the linguistic analyzer of a prototype for Information Extraction from texts. Such analyzer uses information derived from a shallow processor to limit the computational cost of the analysis. At the same time, shallow techniques are used to collapse parse fragments when a complete parse is not possible. The linguistic analyzer has been built using GePpeTto, an environment that allows...