Human lung tissue, directly exposed to the environmental oxidants and toxicants, is apt to be harmed to bring about acute or chronic oxidative insults. The nuclear factor erythroid 2-related factor 2 (Nrf2) represents a central cellular defense mechanism, and is a target for developing agents against oxidative insult-induced human lung diseases. Our previous study found that the EtOH extract of...

Increasing use of variable speed drives in industry causes harmonic proliferation in industrial power distribution supply system. Harmonic currents generated by the variable speed drives interact with power system impedance to give rise to harmonic voltage distortion. Thus it is essential to analyze, evaluate and introduce appropriate mitigation techniques for harmonic reduction in the power sy...

Cascade Multilevel Inverters are very popular and have many applications in electric utility and for industrial drives. When these inverters are used for industrial drive directly, the THD contents in output voltage of inverters is very significant index as the performance of drive depends very much on the quality of voltage applied to drive. In this article, the THD contents of 7, 11 and 15 le...

Techniques for implementing micropower analog filters using digital CMOS process technology are described. PMOS devices operating in accumulation are used for the integration capacitors, and the voltage swing across them is limited by employing current-mode operation using the log domain approach. The latter is implemented using enhanced lateral bipolar transistors. A second-order low-pass filt...

The objective of this study was to evaluate the use of voluntary counseling and testing (VCT) services for HIV by high school students in the Tiko health district (THD), Cameroon. A cross sectional descriptive, analytical study was conducted using a pre-established questionnaire among high school students in the Tiko health district where a multi stage sampling method was used. A total of 474 s...

A new ripple feedback filter is presented for Analog/Digital mixed-mode amplifier (MMA) among audio applications. MMA is composed of two amplifiers: one is analog amplifier responsible for high fidelity and the other is digital switching amplifer in charge of high efficiency. To improve both total harmonic distortion (THD) and efficiency, passive RLC filter is needed at the output side of the d...

Repetitive control (RC) scheme presents an attractive solution to achieve excellent steady-state tracking error and low total harmonic distortion (THD) for periodic signals. RC can produce extremely large gains at fundamental and each harmonic frequency of reference signal to achieve all harmonics suppression. However, a DC-AC inverter always has uneven THD distribution, e.g. THD concentrates a...

Introduction H school, university, and professional sports teams often devote considerable resources (human and capital) to quantify an athlete’s sport potential and to train individuals to improve athletic performance. Athleticism is computed not simply by the points scored or tackles achieved, but also through metrics that eliminate the need to compensate for different levels of competition a...

in this paper, we investigate the parameters affecting total harmonic distortion (thd) and power supply rejection ratio (psrr) in pwm class d amplifiers (cdas) on the basis of linear models with feedback. from our mathematical analysis, we show that the thd of a pwm class d amplifier with feedback can be improved by increasing the gain of the integrator through adding another amplifier at the o...

Converters are used in the utility interface of renewable energy system to reduce harmonic contents in line current/voltage and to increase reliability. These converters suffer from high level of Total Harmonic Distortion (THD) in the utility line currents/voltages which creates a lot of problems in the power system. In this paper selective harmonics are eliminated to reduce the THD, that is, t...