The MIT Faculty has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters. Abstract This paper investigates whether language and music share cognitive resources for structural processing. We report an experiment which used sung materials and manipulated linguistic complexity (subject-extracted relative clauses, object-extracted relative clauses) and m...

This paper proposes a novel three-phase topology with reduced component count for low- and medium-voltage systems. It requires three bidirectional switches twelve unidirectional producing four-level voltages without using flying capacitors or clamping diodes, reducing the size, cost, losses. Removing diodes allows it to simplify control algorithms increase reliability, efficiency, lifetime. A m...

In recent years, thermal actuated flying height control has been implemented in Hard Disk Drives (HDD) to reduce the effect of flying height variations due to manufacturing tolerances or write current introduced pole tip protrusion (Fig. 1). A stable low flying height is necessary to achieve low bit error rates (BER) [1]. Thermal flying height control is used in a “static manner” in current dis...

This paper has developed a novel multiobjective function for optimal sizing and sitting ofDistributed Generation (DG) units and capacitor banks in simultaneous mode to improve reliabilityand reduce energy losses. The proposed function consists of four objectives: Cost of Energy NotSupplied (CENS), System Average Interruption Duration Index (SAIDI), costs of energy loss andinvestment. A novel st...

This paper shows that a highly deformable capacitor made of a soft dielectric and two conformal electrodes can switch between two states discontinuously, by a first-order transition, as the total charge varies gradually. When the total charge is small, it spreads evenly over the area of the capacitor, and the capacitor deforms homogeneously. When the total charge is large, it localizes in a sma...

The problem of capacitor allocation for loss reduction in electric distribution systems has been extensively researched over the past several decades. This paper describes the evolution of the research and provides an evaluation of the practicality and accuracy of the capacitor placement algorithms in the literature. The intent of this paper is not to provide a complete survey of all the litera...

<span lang="EN-US">Multilevel power converters are becoming increasingly used in several sectors: energy, grid-tie renewable energy systems, High voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission, and a multitude of industrial applications. However, the multilevel consist drives high number switches, which leads to considerable cost an increased size device. Thus, novel topology bidirectional in...

A method to eliminate the effect of capacitor mismatch for a switched-capacitor DAC is described. The method consists of two elements. The first element is the use of a compensating switching algorithm, which can eliminate the effect of capacitor mismatch only for some digital input values. The second element is that each digital word is written as the sum of two other words for which the capac...

BACKGROUND Phase-2 voltage and maximum pulse width are dependent on phase-1 pulse characteristics in a single-capacitor biphasic waveform. The use of 2 separate output capacitors avoids these limitations and may allow waveforms with lower defibrillation thresholds. A previous report also suggested that the optimal tilt may be >70%. This study was designed to determine an optimal biphasic wavefo...