Abstrac t Electroporation or electropermeabilization is a phenomenon observed when lipid bilayers, generally cell membranes, are exposed to high electric field pulses becoming transiently permeable to molecules that under regular conditions are not able to penetrate through them. This change in molecular permeability is believed to be produced by transient aqueous pores created in the lipidic s...

Dictyostelium discoideum cells respond to periodic signals of extracellular cAMP by collective changes of cell-cell and cell-substrate contacts. This was confirmed by dielectric analysis employing electric cell-substrate impedance sensing (ECIS) and impedance measurements involving cell-filled micro channels in conjunction with optical microscopy providing a comprehensive picture of chemotaxis ...

A quantitative theory of the middle-ear acoustics i developed and expressed interms of an electric analog. The analog network is based on the functional anatomy of the middle ear. The numerical values of its elements are derived from impedance measurements on normal and pathological ears and from anatomical data. It is shown that the input impedance of the analog agrees within the experimental ...

This paper presents the impact of the Static Synchronous Compensator (STATCOM) on the performance of distance protection of EHV transmission lines. A 400kV transmission system having midpoint connected STATCOM with its control circuit is modeled using MATLAB/SIMULINK software. The impact of STATCOM on distance relay for different fault conditions and different fault locations is analyzed. Simul...

System modeling and stability analysis is one of the most important issues of inverter-dominated microgrids. It is useful to determine the system stability and optimize the control parameters. The complete small signal models for the inverterdominated microgrids have been developed which are very accurate and could be found in literature. However, the modeling procedure will become very complex...

Abstract A new power sharing method of a virtual sychronous generator control based inverters is introduced in this paper. Since virtual synchronous generator has virtual inertia and damping properties, it significantly enhances the grid stability. However, its output power considerably affects by the line impedance. Thus, in this paper, the relation between the droop control and the line imped...

This paper discusses the effect of load change on the Thevenin equivalent impedance of power systems. In this paper, the Thevenin equivalent impedance influenced by the derivative of active load with respect to reactive load (dP/dQ) is analyzed. The Thevenin equivalent impedance forms a closed curve in a complex plane and shrinks to one point when voltage collapses. The magnitude of the Theveni...

Impedance cardiography continues to be investigated for various applications. Instruments for its use are available commercially. Almost all of the recent presentations and articles along with commercial advertisements have assumed that aortic volume pulsation is the source of the signal. A review of the literature will reveal that there is no clear evidence for this assumption. Starting with t...

The microstrip antenna finds applications in varied and upcoming technologies because it offers low profile, narrow bandwidth, high gain, and compact antenna element. The microstrip antenna have biggest disadvantage of narrow bandwidth and poor impedance matching. To make microstrip antenna compatible with commercial applications, the bandwidth enhancement and impedance matching of such antenna...

The electrochemical impedance of an iron electrode often shows the capacitive and inductive loops on the complex plane. The capacitive loop originates from the time constant of the charge transfer resistance and the electric double layer capacitance. The inductive loop is explained by Faradaic processes involving the reaction intermediate. In some cases, these loops deviate from a true semicirc...