In recent years unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have become smaller, cheaper, and more efficient, enabling the use of multiple autonomous drones where previously a single, human-operated drone would been used. This likely includes crisis response search rescue missions. These systems will need method navigating unknown dynamic environments. Typically, this require an incremental heuristic algor...

The study draws on the Bourdieusian theory of capital to examine way China’s Double First-Class (hereinafter referred as “DFC”) universities capitalize values foreign language education. Based content analysis representations officially published and accessible websites 42 DFC universities, this thesis reports a qualitative inquiry multilingual ideologies education...

Distributed Feature Composition (DFC) is a new component-based architecture for telecommunication services. Its principles are similar to the well-known pipe-and-filter architecture, adapted for use in the telecommunication domain. We present an overview of this architecture and explain how it might be used as a basis for componentbased development of telecommunication software. We also describ...

Department of Pharmacology and Neuroscience, University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth, 3500 Camp Bowie Blvd., Fort Worth, TX 76107 (EBG, CBH, GHD); Department of Molecular Biology and Pharmacology, Washington University School of Medicine, 660 S. Euclid Ave, St. Louis, MO 63110 (DFC, MAC); Department of Neurology, UT-Houston Medical School, 6431 Fannin, Houston, TX 77030 (J...

The paper presents a new effective method to damp subsynchronous resonance (SSR) – shaft torsional oscillations for large synchronous generators. This is achieved by using a dynamic power filter and static compensator (DFC) scheme. The proposed scheme with a switched series capacitor compensation and a modulated Tuned-Arm-Filter can be used to damp SSR oscillation modes using a novel Tri-loop E...