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"Multilevel current-source inverters have proved to be a high-performance option for industrial applications due to reliability, fault-tolerant capabilities, quasi soft switching, and the use of lower filter capacitor va...

Brain stroke is a devastating medical condition, that affects world population and is the main cause of disabilities worldwide. Disabilities related to stroke can affect motor pathways, and may lead to several motor func...

The Hydrophilic-Lipophilic Balance (HLB)was formally presented by William C. Griffin sixty years ago at a meeting in Chicago for the first time and later on in an article published in the first volume of the Journal of t...

In order to find an upper theoretical limit for the efficiency of p-n junction solar energy converters, a limiting efficiency, called the detailed balance limit of efficiency, has been calculated for an ideal case in whi...

Recent empirical and theoretical literature on the impact of real exchange rate devaluations on economic performance questions the traditional expansionary effect generated within standard Mundell-Fleming models. Contrac...

In contrast to previous empirical work on electoral cycles, which implicitly assumes the executive has full discretion over fiscal policy, this paper contends that under separation of powers an unaligned legislature may ...

In this paper a thermodynamic approach is presented to the problem of convergence of evolutionary algorithms. The case of the Simulated Annealing algorithm for optimisation is considered as a simple evolution strategy wi...

Abstract The authors propose a new climatic drought index: the standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index (SPEI). The SPEI is based on precipitation and temperature data, and it has the advantage of combining mu...

This study evaluated a modified, timed version of the "Get-Up and Go" Test (Mathias et al, 1986) in 60 patients referred to a Geriatric Day Hospital (mean age 79.5 years). The patient is observed and timed while he rises...

El propósito del presente trabajo fue el estudio del comportamiento de un grupo de indicadores redox en pacientes diabéticos con complicaciones macroangiopáticas y su comparación con los valores de sujetos sanos. Se ...

This paper discusses dollarization from the perspective of the relation between country and devaluation risk. In the absence of balance sheet effects, we find that a full dollarization of an economy increases its country...