Power system adequacy and cost/worth assessment incorporating virtual power plants by Bagchi, Arijit

“…In the available literature pertaining to the reliability evaluation of power systems incorporating VPPs, the system studies are all carried out at the distribution network level, meaning that they fail to quantify the average energy that the VPP can export to the transmission grid after meeting local distribution network demands and constraints. …”
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Control and operation of DC microgrids by Adhikari, Sujan

“…The bipolar configuration of converters in a DC microgrid can be formed by utilizing a converter to boost the input voltage and adopting a three-wire system by the means of voltage balancing circuit. Although many control schemes have been proposed for bipolar-type DC microgrids, they mainly focus on coupled microgrids with a centralized voltage balancer. …”
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Robust and efficient deep learning methods for vision-based action recognition by Xu, Yuecong

“…While the more recent non-local block inspired by the non-local means could extract long-range dependencies without affecting the networks' optimization, it significantly increases the parameter size and computational cost of the inserted networks. …”
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Graph representation learning by Zhang, Xinyi

“…Generating a high-quality graph representation should preserve much information such as node position, subgraph direction and node connection, however, encoding this information in the form of scalar means activating elements in a vector one-by-one which is exponentially less efficient than encoding them with distributed representations, so routing mechanism is applied to generate graph-level representations in the form of capsules which can encode graph information more efficiently. …”
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PostIndependentzia by Calzada, I

“…Firstly, international territorial issues should be addressed by systemically merging them with internal territorial issues; and secondly, TransLoKal entrepreneurs - meaning enterprising indivuals, social activits and progressive small organizations - should be given a leading role, without, that is, having to depend on the blind and burdensome dominance of traditional institutions and their management structures. …”