The Mexican maquila industry and the environment: an overview of the issues

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Accountability and revenue metering in smart micro-grids

Smart micro-grids offer a new challenging domain for power theories and metering techniques, because they include a variety of intermittent power sources which positively impact on power flow and distribution losses, but may cause voltage asymmetry and frequency variation. Due to the limited power capability of smart micro-grids, the voltage distortion can also get worse (in case of supplying non-linear loads), affecting measurement accuracy and possibly causing tripping of protections. In such a context, a reconsideration of power theories is required, since they form the basis for supply and load characterization. A revision of revenue metering techniques is also needed, to ensure a correct penalization of the loads for their responsibility in generating reactive power, voltage unbalance and distortion. This paper shows that the Conservative Power Theory (CPT) provides a suitable background to cope with smart grids characterization and metering needs. Experimental results validate the proposed approach. © 2010 IEEE.

Changes in the distribution of income and the New Economic Model in Jamaica

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Employment, growth and reforms in Jamaica

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Identification and feature selection of non-technical losses for industrial consumers using the software WEKA

This work has as objectives the implementation of a intelligent computational tool to identify the non-technical losses and to select its most relevant features, considering information from the database with industrial consumers profiles of a power company. The solution to this problem is not trivial and not of regional character, the minimization of non-technical loss represents the guarantee of investments in product quality and maintenance of power systems, introduced by a competitive environment after the period of privatization in the national scene. This work presents using the WEKA software to the proposed objective, comparing various classification techniques and optimization through intelligent algorithms, this way, can be possible to automate applications on Smart Grids. © 2012 IEEE.

National private groups in Mexico, 1987-1993

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Recent economic trends in China and their implications for trade with Latin America and the Caribbean

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The United Nations and ECLAC at the half-century mark of the Organization

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The strategies pursued by Mexican firms in their efforts to become global players

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The small economies of Latin America and the Caribbean

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Sectoral regimes, productivity and international competitiveness

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Trade, resources and inequality in Latin America

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Population, ageing and development

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International migration, human rights and development in Latin America and the Caribbean: summary and conclusions

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Structural change and productivity growth 20 years later: old problems, new opportunities. Summary

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