This paper will outline the features required for a multifunction protective relay or intelligent electrical device (IED) that meets the special requirements of the distributed generation environment.

The paper examines studies based on the theory of expansive learning, formulated in 1987. In recent years the theory has been used in a wide variety of studies and interventions. The theory builds on foundational ideas put forward by Vygotsky, Leont’ev, Il’enkov, and Davydov, key figures in the Russian school of cultural–historical activity theory. Studies based on the theory are reviewed in si...

In this paper, we obtain an explicit formula for the interior of the domain of a maximal monotone multifunction in terms of its Fitzpatrick function.

Threshold logic gates, up to now, generally have been presumed to provide a single function of the input variables. The threshold gates that have been integrated [I1]-4] were naturally double-sided and provided complementary outputs or, more specifically, complemented dual outputs. This paper shows that the inphase and out-of-phase outputs can, in fact, be designed to provide grossly different ...

The classification of the grade of shrink and expansion for the expansive soils is very important work for constructions in expansive soil area. Accurate evaluation of the estate of expansive soil may provide scientific data and basis for the prevention of engineering design and construction. This paper brings forward the classification method for expansive soil based on fractal interpolation t...

Novel very large-scale integration architectures and a design methodology for adder-based residue number system (RNS) processors are presented in this paper. The new architectures compute residues for more than one modulus either serially or in parallel, while their use can increase the resource utilization in a processor. Complexity is reduced by sharing common intermediate results among the v...