The Risk of Using the Q Heterogeneity Estimator for Software Engineering Experiments

All meta-analyses should include a heterogeneity analysis. Even so, it is not easy to decide whether a set of studies are homogeneous or heterogeneous because of the low statistical power of the statistics used (usually the Q test). Objective: Determine a set of rules enabling SE researchers to find out, based on the characteristics of the experiments to be aggregated, whether or not it is feasible to accurately detect heterogeneity. Method: Evaluate the statistical power of heterogeneity detection methods using a Monte Carlo simulation process. Results: The Q test is not powerful when the meta-analysis contains up to a total of about 200 experimental subjects and the effect size difference is less than 1. Conclusions: The Q test cannot be used as a decision-making criterion for meta-analysis in small sample settings like SE. Random effects models should be used instead of fixed effects models. Caution should be exercised when applying Q test-mediated decomposition into subgroups.

Estudio de los robledales de Q. pedunculata Ehrh., Q. sessiliflora Salisb., zona de Asturias

El presente proyecto comprende el estudio de los montes siguientes: -" Monte de Pomar y San Félix de las Montañas" -" Monte de Fuentes de l a s Montañas" -“Monte de Monasterio de Goto" -" Monte de Vega de Orreo" -" Monte de Combo" -“Monte de Valde buoyes" -" Monte' de M u ñ i d l o s" -" Monte del Pueblo de Rengos" -“Montes de Larony La Viliella " -" Montes de Degaña y Cerredo" -" Monte de Monasterio de Hermo" de los cuales los diez primeros están poblados por roble y el ultimo por haya.

Estudio de los robledales (Q. Pedunculata y Q. Sessiliflora) de la zona montañosa del N. W. de España parte E. y S. E. de Galicia

Comoo proyecto de fin de carrera nos ha sido encomendado el ESTUDIO LOS ROBLEDAIES ( Q. pedunculata Ehrh. y Q. sessiliflora salisb . ) DE ZONA MONTAÑOSA DEL N.W. DE ESPAÑA, PARTE E. Y SE. DE GALICIA. Desde de haber recibido instrucciones del Sr. Ingeniero jefe regional del Centro del Patrimonio Forestal del Estado, D. Antonio González Martín, León, por indicación de éste y del Distrito de León nos dirigimos a Ponferrada, Villafranca del Bierzo y Lugo con el fin de ampliar los datos recibidos en León.

Estudio de los robledales de Q. pedunculata Ehrh., Q. sessiliflora Salisb., provincia de León

Este pequeño trabajo tiene como fin primordial realizar un ligero estudio de las zonas de roble que se encuentran al N.W. de la Provincia de León, y están enclavadas en los términos de Burbia, Villar de Acero, Balouta y Suarbol, lugares que constantemente mencionamos en el transcurso de esta memoria.

Rural tourism quality in Spain. The "Q" mark.

The Spanish tourism stakchoiders (State Tourism Administration, public tourism agencies, hospitality sector, recreational sector, travel operators, other touristic business, etc.) have developed a very powerful and practical quality certification system for all the actors in the tourism sector, including all those actors and activities in the rural tourism sector, which traditionally do not have a proper tourism system. In this framework the Institute for Spanish Tourism Quality (ICTE) administers, manages and monitors the "Spanish Tourism Quality" "Q" Mark, as an exclusive brand that announces the quality of the activity and service provided by the certified tourist business.

Low Voltage Ride-through in DFIG Wind Generators by Controlling the Rotor Current without Crowbars

Among all the different types of electric wind generators, those that are based on doubly fed induction generators, or DFIG technology, are the most vulnerable to grid faults such as voltage sags. This paper proposes a new control strategy for this type of wind generator, that allows these devices to withstand the effects of a voltage sag while following the new requirements imposed by grid operators. This new control strategy makes the use of complementary devices such as crowbars unnecessary, as it greatly reduces the value of currents originated by the fault. This ensures less costly designs for the rotor systems as well as a more economic sizing of the necessary power electronics. The strategy described here uses an electric generator model based on space-phasor theory that provides a direct control over the position of the rotor magnetic flux. Controlling the rotor magnetic flux has a direct influence on the rest of the electrical variables enabling the machine to evolve to a desired work point during the transient imposed by the grid disturbance. Simulation studies have been carried out, as well as test bench trials, in order to prove the viability and functionality of the proposed control strategy.

Laser Shock Microforming of Thin Metal Sheets with Q-Switched ns Lasers

The increasing demands in MEMS fabrication are leading to new requirements in production technology. Especially the packaging and assembly require high accuracy in positioning and high reproducibility in combination with low production costs. Conventional assembly technology and mechanical adjustment methods are time consuming and expensive. Each component of the system has to be positioned and fixed. Also adjustment of the parts after joining requires additional mechanical devices that need to be accessible after joining.

Assessment of the influence of the elastic properties of rail vehicle suspensions on safety, ride quality and track fatigue

A sensitivity analysis has been performed to assess the influence of the elastic properties of railway vehicle suspensions on the vehicle dynamic behaviour. To do this, 144 dynamic simulations were performed modifying, one at a time, the stiffness and damping coefficients, of the primary and secondary suspensions. Three values were assigned to each parameter, corresponding to the percentiles 10, 50 and 90 of a data set stored in a database of railway vehicles.After processing the results of these simulations, the analyzed parameters were sorted by increasing influence. It was also found which of these parameters could be estimated with a lesser degree of accuracy in future simulations without appreciably affecting the simulation results. In general terms, it was concluded that the highest influences were found for the longitudinal stiffness and the lateral stiffness of the primary suspension, and the lowest influences for the vertical stiffness and the vertical damping of the primary suspension, with the parameters of the secondary suspension showing intermediate influences between them.

On the Absence of Carrier Drift in Two-Terminal Devices and the Origin of Their Lowest Resistance per Carrier RK= h/q^2

After a criticism on today’s model for electrical noise in resistors, we pass to use a Quantum-compliant model based on the discreteness of electrical charge in a complex Admittance. From this new model we show that carrier drift viewed as charged particle motion in response to an electric field is unlike to occur in bulk regions of Solid-State devices where carriers react as dipoles against this field. The absence of the shot noise that charges drifting in resistors should produce and the evolution of the Phase Noise with the active power existing in the resonators of L-C oscillators, are two effects added in proof for this conduction model without carrier drift where the resistance of any two-terminal device becomes discrete and has a minimum value per carrier that is the Quantum resistance RK/(2pi)

Experimento de propagación en banda Q con Alphasat: Técnicas para la compensación del desapuntamiento

El grupo de investigación GTIC-Radiocomunicaciones de la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) participa en uno de los experimentos de propagación de APEX (Alphasat Propagation Experiment), denominado Alphasat propagation experiment by measuring the copolar level of the Q-Band beacon at 39.4 GHz. El experimento comenzó en abril de 2014, midiendo la señal de 39,4 GHz. Durante los primeros meses hasta septiembre de 2014, se hicieron medidas con apuntamiento fijo. El satélite no es geoestacionario sino que tiene una cierta inclinación, por lo que su posición aparente no es fija, describiendo una pequeña elipse en el cielo. Como consecuencia de esto se produce una variación sistemática en el nivel de la señal recibida que hay que eliminar. El presente Trabajo fin de Grado recoge técnicas útiles para llevar a cabo la compensación del desapuntamiento producido por el apuntamiento fijo configurado en el receptor diseñado por el grupo de investigación GTIC-Radiocomunicaciones de la UPM. El conjunto de datos utilizado, ha sido preprocesado con anterioridad llevándose a cabo un proceso de marcado y sincronización de los datos obtenidos a través de la baliza a 39,4 GHz enviada desde el Alphasat. A lo largo del documento se interpretarán y compararán los resultados obtenidos mediante gráficas elaboradas tras la aplicación de las técnicas que se describen en el desarrollo del mismo.