Harmonic Current Injection based Powerline Communication Method for Grid Connected Single Phase Inverters in Domestic Microgrids

The following paper presents a Powerline Communication (PLC) Method for Single Phase interfaced inverters in domestic microgrids. The PLC method is based on the injection of a repeating sequence of a specific harmonic, which is then modulated on the fundamental component of the grid current supplied by the inverters to the microgrid. The power flow and information exchange are simultaneously accomplished by the grid interacting inverters based on current programmed vector control, hence there is no need for dedicated hardware. Simulation results have been shown for inter-inverter communication under different operating conditions to propose the viability. These simulations have been experimentally validated and the corresponding results have also been presented in the paper.

Various algorithms for optimization and learning in adaptive systems

This thesis discusses various methods for learning and optimization in adaptive systems. Overall, it emphasizes the relationship between optimization, learning, and adaptive systems; and it illustrates the influence of underlying hardware upon the construction of efficient algorithms for learning and optimization. Chapter 1 provides a summary and an overview.

Chapter 2 discusses a method for using feed-forward neural networks to filter the noise out of noise-corrupted signals. The networks use back-propagation learning, but they use it in a way that qualifies as unsupervised learning. The networks adapt based only on the raw input data-there are no external teachers providing information on correct operation during training. The chapter contains an analysis of the learning and develops a simple expression that, based only on the geometry of the network, predicts performance.

Chapter 3 explains a simple model of the piriform cortex, an area in the brain involved in the processing of olfactory information. The model was used to explore the possible effect of acetylcholine on learning and on odor classification. According to the model, the piriform cortex can classify odors better when acetylcholine is present during learning but not present during recall. This is interesting since it suggests that learning and recall might be separate neurochemical modes (corresponding to whether or not acetylcholine is present). When acetylcholine is turned off at all times, even during learning, the model exhibits behavior somewhat similar to Alzheimer's disease, a disease associated with the degeneration of cells that distribute acetylcholine.

Chapters 4, 5, and 6 discuss algorithms appropriate for adaptive systems implemented entirely in analog hardware. The algorithms inject noise into the systems and correlate the noise with the outputs of the systems. This allows them to estimate gradients and to implement noisy versions of gradient descent, without having to calculate gradients explicitly. The methods require only noise generators, adders, multipliers, integrators, and differentiators; and the number of devices needed scales linearly with the number of adjustable parameters in the adaptive systems. With the exception of one global signal, the algorithms require only local information exchange.

From molecules to organs : Microscopy and multi-scale nature of development

Morphogenesis is a phenomenon of intricate balance and dynamic interplay between processes occurring at a wide range of scales (spatial, temporal and energetic). During development, a variety of physical mechanisms are employed by tissues to simultaneously pattern, move, and differentiate based on information exchange between constituent cells, perhaps more than at any other time during an organism's life. To fully understand such events, a combined theoretical and experimental framework is required to assist in deciphering the correlations at both structural and functional levels at scales that include the intracellular and tissue levels as well as organs and organ systems. Microscopy, especially diffraction-limited light microscopy, has emerged as a central tool to capture the spatio-temporal context of life processes. Imaging has the unique advantage of watching biological events as they unfold over time at single-cell resolution in the intact animal. In this work I present a range of problems in morphogenesis, each unique in its requirements for novel quantitative imaging both in terms of the technique and analysis. Understanding the molecular basis for a developmental process involves investigating how genes and their products- mRNA and proteins-function in the context of a cell. Structural information holds the key to insights into mechanisms and imaging fixed specimens paves the first step towards deciphering gene function. The work presented in this thesis starts with the demonstration that the fluorescent signal from the challenging environment of whole-mount imaging, obtained by in situ hybridization chain reaction (HCR), scales linearly with the number of copies of target mRNA to provide quantitative sub-cellular mapping of mRNA expression within intact vertebrate embryos. The work then progresses to address aspects of imaging live embryonic development in a number of species. While processes such as avian cartilage growth require high spatial resolution and lower time resolution, dynamic events during zebrafish somitogenesis require higher time resolution to capture the protein localization as the somites mature. The requirements on imaging are even more stringent in case of the embryonic zebrafish heart that beats with a frequency of ~ 2-2.5 Hz, thereby requiring very fast imaging techniques based on two-photon light sheet microscope to capture its dynamics. In each of the hitherto-mentioned cases, ranging from the level of molecules to organs, an imaging framework is developed, both in terms of technique and analysis to allow quantitative assessment of the process in vivo. Overall the work presented in this thesis combines new quantitative tools with novel microscopy for the precise understanding of processes in embryonic development.

Cartola-grafia: causa do Centro Cultural Cartola

Resultante de um convênio estabelecido entre as instituições Centro Cultural Cartola e Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, a presente dissertação teve início a partir da demanda dificuldade com a equipe administrativa, formulada por Nilcemar Nogueira neta de Cartola, vice-presidente do Centro, cujo objetivo é trabalhar em prol do desenvolvimento sociocultural de jovens da comunidade da Mangueira. Em resposta, a pesquisa Cartola-Grafia: Causa do Centro Cultural Cartola buscou investigar qual o impacto da promoção e da preservação do legado de Cartola na vida dos jovens atendidos pelo Centro Cultural Cartola e da equipe que trabalha nos bastidores para que os projetos sociais se tornem uma realidade. No desenvolvimento da pesquisa, procurou-se fazer uma escuta analítica de cada sujeito para, assim, conhecer as causas que levam os trabalhadores/gestores culturais a desempenharem várias atividades (gerenciamento, administração, captação de recursos financeiros, entre outras) relacionadas ao funcionamento da instituição. Na realização dessa empreitada, foi sendo instituída, passo a passo, uma metodologia própria que se adequou aos contornos demarcados pela fronteira do campo, com troca de informações entre autores oriundos de diferentes campos de saber: Sociologia, Institucionalismo, Psicopatologia do Trabalho, Ergologia, Clínica da Atividade e Psicanálise.

Mídia e Consumo: a afirmação do consumo de cursos MBA nas páginas do Boa Chance

O campo de estudos da Comunicação é conhecido pela sua interdisciplinaridade, o que permite analisar objetos relacionados a outras áreas do conhecimento por meio da perspectiva em que os diferentes tipos de mídia lhes apresentam. Utilizando palavras, imagens e sons os meios de comunicação colaboram para a produção dos significados de uso e apropriação de diferentes produtos e serviços disponíveis para o consumo. Por meio de um intercâmbio com o campo de estudos de consumo e tratando de um produto oriundo do campo da Educação, os cursos de MBA, este trabalho analisa as mensagens produzidas pelo Boa Chance, suplemento publicado pelo jornal O Globo. Para compor o referencial foram considerados teóricos do campo da Comunicação, Consumo, Educação e Representação Social. Além de oferecerem subsídios para refletir sobre o consumo desse tipo de produto, as idéias e conceitos apresentados também colaboram para compor as categorias elaboradas para a análise das matérias publicadas. Para aprofundar um pouco mais sobre os cursos de MBA foi traçado um histórico desse tipo de ensino, desde o seu surgimento nos Estados Unidos, passando pela sua ascensão a partir da década de 1940 até a sua chegada ao Brasil. A forma como os cursos adentraram a pauta dos cadernos de emprego, em especial, do Boa Chance, também é abordada. Entrevistas com repórteres e editores que trabalharam ou que ainda estão no caderno permitiram identificar o contexto em que as pautas relacionadas a esse tema se tornaram mais frequentes. A partir disso, foi possível compreender que o assunto começou a ganhar mais espaço na mesma medida que cresce a oferta de vagas pelas instituições, no começo dos anos 2000. Para entender de que maneira os meios de comunicação abordam para esse tipo de consumo e também quais são as representações que ele produz sobre os MBAs, foram analisadas 26 edições do caderno recolhidas entre 2009 e 2010.

Desenvolvimento de material instrucional com enfoque construtivista para cursos de bioestatística aplicada à análise epidemiológica usando R

Os recentes avanços tecnológicos fizeram aumentar o nível de qualificação do pesquisador em epidemiologia. A importância do papel estratégico da educação não pode ser ignorada. Todavia, a Associação Brasileira de Pós-graduação em Saúde Coletiva (ABRASCO), no seu último plano diretor (2005-2009), aponta uma pequena valorização na produção de material didático-pedagógico e, ainda, a falta de uma política de desenvolvimento e utilização de software livre no ensino da epidemiologia. É oportuno, portanto, investir em uma perspectiva relacional, na linha do que a corrente construtivista propõe, uma vez que esta teoria tem sido reconhecida como a mais adequada no desenvolvimento de materiais didáticos informatizados. Neste sentido, promover cursos interativos e, no bojo destes, desenvolver material didático conexo é oportuno e profícuo. No âmbito da questão política de desenvolvimento e utilização de software livre no ensino da epidemiologia, particularmente em estatística aplicada, o R tem se mostrado um software de interesse emergente. Ademais, não só porque evita possíveis penalizações por utilização de software comercial sem licença, mas também porque o franco acesso aos códigos e programação o torna uma ferramenta excelente para a elaboração de material didático em forma de hiperdocumentos, importantes alicerces para uma tão desejada interação docentediscente em sala de aula. O principal objetivo é desenvolver material didático em R para os cursos de bioestatística aplicada à análise epidemiológica. Devido a não implementação de certas funções estatísticas no R, também foi incluída a programação de funções adicionais. Os cursos empregados no desenvolvimento desse material fundamentaram-se nas disciplinas Uma introdução à Plataforma R para Modelagem Estatística de Dados e Instrumento de Aferição em Epidemiologia I: Teoria Clássica de Medidas (Análise) vinculadas ao departamento de Epidemiologia, Instituto de Medicina Social (IMS) da Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ). A base teórico-pedagógica foi definida a partir dos princípios construtivistas, na qual o indivíduo é agente ativo e crítico de seu próprio conhecimento, construindo significados a partir de experiências próprias. E, à ótica construtivista, seguiu-se a metodologia de ensino da problematização, abrangendo problemas oriundos de situações reais e sistematizados por escrito. Já os métodos computacionais foram baseados nas Novas Tecnologias da Informação e Comunicação (NTIC). As NTICs exploram a busca pela consolidação de currículos mais flexíveis, adaptados às características diferenciadas de aprendizagem dos alunos. A implementação das NTICs foi feita através de hipertexto, que é uma estrutura de textos interligados por nós ou vínculos (links), formando uma rede de informações relacionadas. Durante a concepção do material didático, foram realizadas mudanças na interface básica do sistema de ajuda do R para garantir a interatividade aluno-material. O próprio instrutivo é composto por blocos, que incentivam a discussão e a troca de informações entre professor e alunos.

工业无线网络WIA标准体系与关键技术

工业无线技术是一种本世纪初新兴的、面向设备间信息交互的无线网络技术,适合在恶劣的工业现场环境下使用,具有强抗扰、低功耗、实时通信等技术特征,是对现有无线技术在工业应用方向上的功能扩展和技术创新,并将最终转化为新的无线技术标准。本文介绍我国在工业无线技术方面的研究进展,重点介绍具有自主知识产权的工业无线网络核心技术以及相关国家标准体系的建设情况。

一个用于化工企业的计算机集成基础结构

简介了国家“八五”攻关项目中大型过程工业综合自动化系统集成基础结构（集成器）的结构，各分系统的信息交换，以及集成器中的各服务器，该计算机集成基础结构在永新—沈阳化工股份有限公司运行。

基于中间件的MES与ERP系统信息集成技术研究

现在企业系统与控制系统的主流的集成技术为基于中间件的系统集成,即通过中间件的桥梁作用把各种ERP和MES系统连接起来,实现信息在两者之间的交互与共享。因此本文提出“信息集成内容遵循S95标准,消息封装格式应用XML技术,企业应用集成平台采用BizTalkserver来实现”的中间件集成方法,最后应用此中间件引擎给出了一个在MES与ERP系统之间实现信息集成的示例。

团队有效性：协作行为与作业特征作用机制研究

Organizations are increasingly turning to team-based structures to contend with the pressure of the increasing global competition, consolidation, innovation and need for diverse skills, expertise, and experiences. This ongoing transformation in the basic organization of work has captured the attention of researcher. And group and team research has become increasingly centered in the fields of organizational psychology and organizational behavior since the 1990s. A great deal empirical studies were conducted; a number of variables contributing to team effectiveness and several IPO models were summarized. But teamwork behaviors, the dynamic and adaptive interactions among team members during the task completion, were still very vague. So were the team task characteristics, an important input variable of the IPO models. The effects of team task characteristics and teamwork behaviors on team effectiveness were explored according to IPO model on the basis of the reviews on previous studies, the Hierarchical Conceptual Structure of Teamwork Behaviors (Rousseau et al.,2006), and the task characteristic theory(Hackman & Oldman, 1975). The questionnaire data from 479 team members and 110 team managers of 22 organizations were analyzed. The results indicate: A. Teamwork behaviors consist of 13 behavioral dimensions: team mission analysis, goal specification, planning, coordination, cooperation, information exchange, performance monitoring, backing-up behaviors, intra-team coaching, collaborative problem solving, team practice innovation, psychological support and integrative conflict management. The hierarchical conceptual structure was partly supported with five variable identified, i.e., preparation of work accomplishment, task-related collaborative behaviors, work assessment behaviors, team adjustment behaviors and the management of team maintenance. The formal four variables are in a sequential way. B. The task characteristic theory at individual level is applicable to the team level. This means that the team task characteristics consist of task variety, identity, significance, feedback, autonomy, interdependence. C. The correlations among task characteristics, teamwork behaviors and outcomes support the IPO model. The regulation of team performance mediated the effects of task meaningfulness and interdependence on team outcomes, with the direct effects of task meaningfulness on the preparation behaviors and the direct effects of interdependence on the task-related collaborative behaviors. The management of team maintenance mediated the effects of autonomy on team cohesion and satisfaction. The regulation of team performance has a direct effect on the team performance and the management of team maintenance. And the management of team maintenance has a direct effect on the team attitude and the regulation of team performance.

Reviewing the evidence on nursing record systems

Urquhart, C. & Currell, R. (2005). Reviewing the evidence on nursing record systems. Health Informatics Journal, 11(1), 33-44. First appeared as a paper in iSHIMR2004, Proceedings of the Ninth International Symposium on Health Information Management Research, 15-17 June 2004, Sheffield, UK.

Specialist and primary care physicians' views on barriers to adequate preparation of patients for renal replacement therapy: a qualitative study.

BACKGROUND: Early preparation for renal replacement therapy (RRT) is recommended for patients with advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD), yet many patients initiate RRT urgently and/or are inadequately prepared. METHODS: We conducted audio-recorded, qualitative, directed telephone interviews of nephrology health care providers (n = 10, nephrologists, physician assistants, and nurses) and primary care physicians (PCPs, n = 4) to identify modifiable challenges to optimal RRT preparation to inform future interventions. We recruited providers from public safety-net hospital-based and community-based nephrology and primary care practices. We asked providers open-ended questions to assess their perceived challenges and their views on the role of PCPs and nephrologist-PCP collaboration in patients' RRT preparation. Two independent and trained abstractors coded transcribed audio-recorded interviews and identified major themes. RESULTS: Nephrology providers identified several factors contributing to patients' suboptimal RRT preparation, including health system resources (e.g., limited time for preparation, referral process delays, and poorly integrated nephrology and primary care), provider skills (e.g., their difficulty explaining CKD to patients), and patient attitudes and cultural differences (e.g., their poor understanding and acceptance of their CKD and its treatment options, their low perceived urgency for RRT preparation; their negative perceptions about RRT, lack of trust, or language differences). PCPs desired more involvement in preparation to ensure RRT transitions could be as "smooth as possible", including providing patients with emotional support, helping patients weigh RRT options, and affirming nephrologist recommendations. Both nephrology providers and PCPs desired improved collaboration, including better information exchange and delineation of roles during the RRT preparation process. CONCLUSIONS: Nephrology and primary care providers identified health system resources, provider skills, and patient attitudes and cultural differences as challenges to patients' optimal RRT preparation. Interventions to improve these factors may improve patients' preparation and initiation of optimal RRTs.

Using electronic health record data for substance use Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment among adults with type 2 diabetes: Design of a National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical Trials Network study.

BACKGROUND: The Affordable Care Act encourages healthcare systems to integrate behavioral and medical healthcare, as well as to employ electronic health records (EHRs) for health information exchange and quality improvement. Pragmatic research paradigms that employ EHRs in research are needed to produce clinical evidence in real-world medical settings for informing learning healthcare systems. Adults with comorbid diabetes and substance use disorders (SUDs) tend to use costly inpatient treatments; however, there is a lack of empirical data on implementing behavioral healthcare to reduce health risk in adults with high-risk diabetes. Given the complexity of high-risk patients' medical problems and the cost of conducting randomized trials, a feasibility project is warranted to guide practical study designs. METHODS: We describe the study design, which explores the feasibility of implementing substance use Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) among adults with high-risk type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) within a home-based primary care setting. Our study includes the development of an integrated EHR datamart to identify eligible patients and collect diabetes healthcare data, and the use of a geographic health information system to understand the social context in patients' communities. Analysis will examine recruitment, proportion of patients receiving brief intervention and/or referrals, substance use, SUD treatment use, diabetes outcomes, and retention. DISCUSSION: By capitalizing on an existing T2DM project that uses home-based primary care, our study results will provide timely clinical information to inform the designs and implementation of future SBIRT studies among adults with multiple medical conditions.

Feasibility of online collaborative voltage stability control of power systems

This paper presents the results of feasibility study of a novel concept of power system on-line collaborative voltage stability control. The proposal of the on-line collaboration between power system controllers is to enhance their overall performance and efficiency to cope with the increasing operational uncertainty of modern power systems. In the paper, the framework of proposed on-line collaborative voltage stability control is firstly presented, which is based on the deployment of multi-agent systems and real-time communication for on-line collaborative control. Then two of the most important issues in implementing the proposed on-line collaborative voltage stability control are addressed: (1) Error-tolerant communication protocol for fast information exchange among multiple intelligent agents; (2) Deployment of multi-agent systems by using graph theory to implement power system post-emergency control. In the paper, the proposed on-line collaborative voltage stability control is tested in the example 10-machine 39-node New England power system. Results of feasibility study from simulation are given considering the low-probability power system cascading faults.