N O V E M B E R / D E C E M B E R 2 0 1 4 www.insidegnss.com Efficient power transmission and distribution would benefit from synchronized near–real-time measurements of voltage and current phasors at widely dispersed locations in an electric power grid. Such measurements also could enable effective realtime system monitoring and control, which are considered to be the key to preventing wide-sc...

This paper describes the rapid fabrication of an organic/inorganic multi-layered composite film: Parylene-poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA)-calcium carbonate (CaCO3) composite film. CaCO3 crystals on PVA film were sandwiched between Parylene films, and thermal bonding was carried out after folding the sandwiched crystals eight times. Using this method, a millimeterthick 48-layered organic/inorganic com...

We are concerned about the problem of transmitting constant quality video over the B-ISDN. A gain in channel utilization is achieved when several Variable Bit Rate video sources share a common ATM connection. To achieve such gain, the impact of cell losses on video quality degradation should be considered. Multi-layered video coding has proved to tolerate more cell losses than non-layered video...

A multi-layered neural network based on multi-valued neurons is considered in the paper. It is shown that using a traditional architecture of multi-layered feedforward neural network (MLF) and the high functionality of the multi-valued neuron, it is possible to obtain a new powerful neural network. Its training does not require a derivative of the activation function and its functionality is hi...