Optimization of PV and battery capacity for domestic purposes

The usage of PV batteries nowadays became more and more widely spread. Due to the fact that the efficiency of modern PV is rising every year the prevalence of this source of energy is increasing. As the source of the energy is sunlight, these batteries need to be complimented by storage capacitors which will store energy for future use. Nevertheless the less the calculation of demanded amount of energy according the load and capacity of a storage battery that will keep the end consumer in work during certain time still is not overviewed. In this thesis the overall system will be considered and there will be made economic calculations for configurations of such system that will depend from the load. Also the behavior of the system in different geographical and climate conditions that influence of the amount of energy produced will be overviewed.

Rooibosteetä ja biltongia – botswanalaiset elementit Alexander McCall Smithin teoksen The No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency suomennoksessa

Tutkimuksessa käsitellään kulttuurisidonnaisten elementtien eli reaalioiden kääntämistä Alexander McCall Smithin teoksen The No 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency suomennoksessa. Keskeisenä tavoitteena oli selvittää reaalioiden kääntämisessä käytettyjä käännösstrategioita Ritva Leppihalmeen käännösstrategiajaottelun mukaisesti. Tutkimusaineistona ovat Alexander McCall Smithin teos The No 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency (1998) sekä sen Jaakko Kankaanpään tekemä suomennos Naisten etsivätoimisto no 1 (2003). Tutkimuksessa tarkastellaan reaalian käsitettä, tutkimusaineistona olevan kirjan sisältöä, Alexander McCall Smithin tuotantoa, kirjasarjan kääntäjiä sekä suomennoksessa käytettyjä käännösstrategioita. Tutkimuksen analyysiosassa tarkastellaan aineistoa Sider Florinin ja Sergei Vlahovin reaalijaottelun mukaan sekä käännösstrategioita Ritva Leppihalmeen mukaan. Florinin ja Vlahovin reaalijaottelussa reaaliat on jaettu maantieteellisin reaalioihin, etnografisiin reaalioihin ja yhteiskunnallisiin reaalioihin. Käännösstrategiat Leppihalmeen jaottelussa ovat suora siirto, käännöslaina, kulttuurinen adaptaatio, yläkäsitteen käyttö, eksplisiittistäminen eli selventäminen, lisäys ja poisjättö. Tulokset osoittavat, että teoksessa oli reaalioiden kääntämisessä käytetty eniten suoraa siirtoa, jolloin reaaliat oli tuotu käännökseen sellaisenaan. Tämä strategia säilyttää käännöksessä paikallisvärin, mutta saattaa myös vieraannuttaa lukijaa. Käännösstrategioista myös käännöslainaa ja selventämistä oli käytetty. Lisäksi käännöksessä oli käytetty termivastineita.

O ritmo na queda da desigualdade no Brasil é aceitável?

The rhythm in the fall of inequality in Brazil is acceptable? Evidences of the historical and international context. The following study uses two approaches to answer the question of whether inequality in Brazil is falling fast enough. The first is to compare the variation of the Gini coefficient in Brazil with what was observed in several countries that today belong to the OCDE (United Kingdom, United States, Netherlands, Sweden, France, Norway, and Spain) while these same countries built their social welfare systems during the last century. The second approach is to calculate for how much Brazil must keep up the fall in the Gini coefficient to attain the same levels of inequality of three OCDE countries that can be used as a reference: Mexico, the United States, and Canada. The data indicate that the Gini coefficient in Brazil is falling 0.7 point per year and that this is superior to the rhythm of all the OCDE countries analyzed while they built their welfare systems but Spain, whose Gini fell 0.9 point per year during the 1950s. The time needed to attain various benchmarks in inequality are: 6 years to Mexico, 12 to the United States and 24 to Canadian inequality levels. The general conclusion is that the speed with which inequality is falling is adequate, but the challenge will be to keep inequality falling at the same rate for another two or three decades.

Relay protection in active distribution networks

Increasingly growing share of distributed generation in the whole electrical power system’s generating system is currently a worldwide tendency, driven by several factors, encircling mainly difficulties in refinement of megalopolises’ distribution networks and its maintenance; widening environmental concerns adding to both energy efficiency approaches and installation of renewable sources based generation, inherently distributed; increased power quality and reliability needs; progress in IT field, making implementable harmonization of needs and interests of different-energy-type generators and consumers. At this stage, the volume, formed by system-interconnected distributed generation facilities, have reached the level of causing broad impact toward system operation under emergency and post-emergency conditions in several EU countries, thus previously implementable approach of their preliminary tripping in case of a fault, preventing generating equipment damage and disoperation of relay protection and automation, is not applicable any more. Adding to the preceding, withstand capability and transient electromechanical stability of generating technologies, interconnecting in proximity of load nodes, enhanced significantly since the moment Low Voltage Ride-Through regulations, followed by techniques, were introduced in Grid Codes. Both aspects leads to relay protection and auto-reclosing operation in presence of distributed generation generally connected after grid planning and construction phases. This paper proposes solutions to the emerging need to ensure correct operation of the equipment in question with least possible grid refinements, distinctively for every type of distributed generation technology achieved its technical maturity to date and network’s protection. New generating technologies are equivalented from the perspective of representation in calculation of initial steady-state short-circuit current used to dimension current-sensing relay protection, and widely adopted short-circuit calculation practices, as IEC 60909 and VDE 0102. The phenomenon of unintentional islanding, influencing auto-reclosing, is addressed, and protection schemes used to eliminate an sustained island are listed and characterized by reliability and implementation related factors, whereas also forming a crucial aspect of realization of the proposed protection operation relieving measures.

Regards de Sergueï Eisenstein sur l'oeuvre d'Honoré Daumier : une réception méconnue

Cette thèse a été effectuée en cotutelle entre l'Université Paris-Ouest-Nanterre-La Défense et l'Université de Montréal. Elle a été réalisée avec le logiciel LateX.

Incidencia de la evolución de los intereses estratégicos de Rusia y de Kazajstán en las dinámicas de cooperación bilateral. Periodo 1991 – 2004

El trabajo desarrolla la forma en la que evolucionaron las relaciones bilaterales entre Rusia y Kazajstán desde el periodo inmediatamente posterior a la caída de la URSS donde no existía una relación cercana, hasta el año 2001 donde se empieza a hablar de una cooperación entre los dos actores que llevó a una estrecha relación bilateral.

Análisis de la injerencia de la política de la lucha contra el terrorismo en la construccion de política exterior.caso de estudio Pakistan y Ucrania

Este trabajo, contiene una aproximación al fenómeno de la guerra contra el terrorismo, bajo el concepto de Estado Esquizofrénico, que supone el condicionamiento de algunas acciones de los Estados en su interacción en el sistema internacional.

Análisis de la política exterior rusa frente a Abjasia en el período 2000-2008

El objetivo de la presente monografía de grado es analizar la relación entre la identidad dentro de Rusia y la política exterior de dicho Estado hacia la región de Abjasia. Se analiza y explica la manera en que los referentes identitarios dentro de Rusia en el periodo 2000-2008 influyen en las decisiones de política exterior que Rusia tomó hacia Abjasia en el campo militar y político. Se efectúa una revisión de textos (transcripciones de intervenciones y textos escritos) del Presidente y Primer Ministro de la Federación Rusa entre 2000 y 2008 para encontrar los referentes identitarios que determinan el comportamiento de Rusia hacia otros Estados y la forma en que influenciaron sus acciones con respecto a Abjasia.

Análisis de la Política Exterior rusa enmarcada en el concepto de “Espacio Post-soviético”, a la luz de la teoría de Realismo Clásico de Hans Morgenthau durante los dos periodos de Vladimir Putin, 2000 A 2008

La Política Exterior rusa ha tenido un giro sustancial con la llegada de Vladimir Putin en el año 2000. En consecuencia, esto se ve reflejado en las acciones tomadas por el Kremlin con las revoluciones de Ucrania (Revolución Naranja) y Georgia (Revolución de las Rosas). La apuesta de los dos mandatos de Putin era claramente influenciar su zona geográficamente más cercana, es decir el "Espacio Post-soviético".

Two complementary molecular energy decomposition schemes: the Mayer and Ziegler-Rauk methods in comparison

In the present paper we discuss and compare two different energy decomposition schemes: Mayer's Hartree-Fock energy decomposition into diatomic and monoatomic contributions [Chem. Phys. Lett. 382, 265 (2003)], and the Ziegler-Rauk dissociation energy decomposition [Inorg. Chem. 18, 1558 (1979)]. The Ziegler-Rauk scheme is based on a separation of a molecule into fragments, while Mayer's scheme can be used in the cases where a fragmentation of the system in clearly separable parts is not possible. In the Mayer scheme, the density of a free atom is deformed to give the one-atom Mulliken density that subsequently interacts to give rise to the diatomic interaction energy. We give a detailed analysis of the diatomic energy contributions in the Mayer scheme and a close look onto the one-atom Mulliken densities. The Mulliken density ρA has a single large maximum around the nuclear position of the atom A, but exhibits slightly negative values in the vicinity of neighboring atoms. The main connecting point between both analysis schemes is the electrostatic energy. Both decomposition schemes utilize the same electrostatic energy expression, but differ in how fragment densities are defined. In the Mayer scheme, the electrostatic component originates from the interaction of the Mulliken densities, while in the Ziegler-Rauk scheme, the undisturbed fragment densities interact. The values of the electrostatic energy resulting from the two schemes differ significantly but typically have the same order of magnitude. Both methods are useful and complementary since Mayer's decomposition focuses on the energy of the finally formed molecule, whereas the Ziegler-Rauk scheme describes the bond formation starting from undeformed fragment densities

Density functional energy decomposition into one- and two-atom contributions

The present work provides a generalization of Mayer's energy decomposition for the density-functional theory (DFT) case. It is shown that one- and two-atom Hartree-Fock energy components in Mayer's approach can be represented as an action of a one-atom potential VA on a one-atom density ρ A or ρ B. To treat the exchange-correlation term in the DFT energy expression in a similar way, the exchange-correlation energy density per electron is expanded into a linear combination of basis functions. Calculations carried out for a number of density functionals demonstrate that the DFT and Hartree-Fock two-atom energies agree to a reasonable extent with each other. The two-atom energies for strong covalent bonds are within the range of typical bond dissociation energies and are therefore a convenient computational tool for assessment of individual bond strength in polyatomic molecules. For nonspecific nonbonding interactions, the two-atom energies are low. They can be either repulsive or slightly attractive, but the DFT results more frequently yield small attractive values compared to the Hartree-Fock case. The hydrogen bond in the water dimer is calculated to be between the strong covalent and nonbonding interactions on the energy scale

La construcción social de lo visual: estudio de caso en la visión de la virgen de Piendamó en 1971 y su concreción estética en el santuario

Este trabajo responde a la iniciativa de referir el conocimiento académico adquirido al lugar de origen, de éste modo llevo a cabo un análisis enfocado hacia el papel de la construcción social de lo visual a partir de un elemento identitario relevante para el pueblo colombiano del cual provengo: La visión que tuvo una niña mestiza de once años, de la virgen en Piendamó, Cauca, Colombia en 1971. La reflexión parte del supuesto de que la aparición de la virgen responde a una construcción social, cuyo repositorio visual es la aparición de la virgen y luego su concreción estética en el santuario; busco explorar la aparición como respuesta a una serie de fenómenos que mantenían en tensión el campo social, los cuales se relacionan directamente con: 1. El origen del pueblo que le otorga la condición de bárbaro en relación a su Otro civilizado fundado en el marco de la encomienda española 2. La aparición de la virgen como mecanismo de tensión cultural 3. Producciones o disputas en torno a la aparición y su importancia para la comunidad. Esta propuesta se torna relevante en tanto hay un desplazamiento del análisis de lo visual como objeto, hacia las ideas de las cuales es repositorio, esto es hacia la forma en que lo visual es construido a la vez que construye el campo social de las relaciones. La aparición de la virgen es un dispositivo que permite leer mediante los estudios visuales la naturalización de los fenómenos culturales y los significados que perpetua, orientando el análisis hacia los significados reprimidos en ese proceso naturalizador. El marco de fuentes que componen ésta propuesta consisten en: Entrevistas realizadas en campo, observación y análisis del santuario, revisión, análisis y selección de producción mediática, artística y académica, todo ello a la luz de José Luís Brea, Mieka Bal, Homi Bhabha, Bolívar Echeverría, Alberto Flores Galindo, Michel Foucault, Judith Buttler, Sergei Gruzinski, Enrique Dussel entre otros.

Infrared actuation in aligned polymer-nanotube composites

Rubber composites containing multiwalled carbon nanotubes have been irradiated with near-infrared light to study their reversible photomechanical actuation response. We demonstrate that the actuation is reproducible across differing polymer systems. The response is directly related to the degree of uniaxial alignment of the nanotubes in the matrix, contracting the samples along the alignment axis. The actuation stroke depends on the specific polymer being tested; however, the general response is universal for all composites tested. We conduct a detailed study of tube alignment induced by stress and propose a model for the reversible actuation behavior based on the orientational averaging of the local response. The single phenomenological parameter of this model describes the response of an individual tube to adsorption of low-energy photons; its experimentally determined value may suggest some ideas about such a response.

Dynamic shear modulus of isotropic elastomers

We have investigated the dynamic mechanical behavior of two cross-linked polymer networks with very different topologies: one made of backbones randomly linked along their length; the other with fixed-length strands uniformly cross-linked at their ends. The samples were analyzed using oscillatory shear, at very small strains corresponding to the linear regime. This was carried out at a range of frequencies, and at temperatures ranging from the glass plateau, through the glass transition, and well into the rubbery region. Through the glass transition, the data obeyed the time-temperature superposition principle, and could be analyzed using WLF treatment. At higher temperatures, in the rubbery region, the storage modulus was found to deviate from this, taking a value that is independent of frequency. This value increased linearly with temperature, as expected for the entropic rubber elasticity, but with a substantial negative offset inconsistent with straightforward enthalpic effects. Conversely, the loss modulus continued to follow time-temperature superposition, decreasing with increasing temperature, and showing a power-law dependence on frequency.