Grid-Connected PV System for 324 kW with Improved Maximum PowerPoint Tracking by Abbas Hussein Khariy, Ahmed Rashid Ajel, Sadik Kamel Gharghan, Noaman Mohammad Noaman

“…A DC/DC modified boost converter is used to get to most power out of the photovoltaic array along with increasing output voltage. The duty cycle is changed in an incremental conductance maximum power point tracking (MPPT) technique to reach the maximum power point (MMP). …”
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A Single Switch High Step-Up DC-DC Converter Based on Tri-Winding Coupled Inductor for Renewable Energy Applications by Mana Hosseinzadehlish, Seyed Majid Hashemzadeh, Saeed Pourjafar, Ebrahim Babaei

“…Highefficiency, operating with low duty cycle, low peak voltage over semiconductor elements, low turns ratio, the number of the coupled inductor, and high voltage conversion ratio are the significant benefits of the recommended DC-DC converter. …”
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Fault Detection and Diagnosis for Gas Turbines Based on a Kernelized Information Entropy Model by Weiying Wang, Zhiqiang Xu, Rui Tang, Shuying Li, Wei Wu

“…However, they are monitored without man on duty in the most cases. It is highly desirable to develop techniques and systems to remotely monitor their conditions and analyze their faults. …”
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Prime-number-assisted block-based neighbor discovery protocol in wireless sensor networks by Woosik Lee, Jong-Hoon Youn, Teukseob Song

“…For example, for two sensors whose duty cycles are different, if the lengths of their discovery schedules are relatively prime, the prime-number-assisted block-based neighbor discovery protocol simply uses the balanced incomplete block design–based neighbor discovery protocol without adding any additional active slots; otherwise, it changes the original balanced incomplete block design–based schedule using a prime number. …”
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The USSR Victory in World War II and the Emergence of the Independent Republic of Indonesia by L. M. Efimova

“…Fulfilling its allied duty the Soviet Union entered the war in the Far East on 9 August, 1945 and defeated the Japanese army in Manchuria. …”
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Language Ideologies in Irish Secondary Schools: A raciolinguistic approach by Stephen Lucek

“…On the other hand, they have a duty of care to their students’ well-being. Exploring the language ideologies of educators has proven to be insightful in understanding how raciolinguistic ideologies are prevalent in education. …”
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High Step-Up DC–DC Converter With Low Switch Voltage Stress, Continuous Input Current, and ZVS Operation by Maryam Hajilou, Hosein Farzanehfard, Hani Vahedi

“…The proposed converter benefits from several advanced features including high voltage gain at low duty cycle, low switch voltage stress, low sum of diodes voltage stress, switching at ZVS condition for switches, low ripple continuous input current, and common ground between the input and load. …”
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Maximizing network throughput by cooperative reinforcement learning in clustered solar-powered wireless sensor networks by Yujia Ge, Yurong Nan, Xianhai Guo

“…The node takes action accordingly to adjust its operating duty cycle. Experiments show that cooperative reinforcement learning methods can achieve the overall goal of maximizing network throughput and cooperative approaches outperform tuned static and non-cooperative approaches in clustered wireless sensor network applications. …”
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Concept and classification of powers of the Cyberpolice Department of the National Police of Ukraine by V. V. Bereza

“…Special attention has been focused on the fact that, revealing the essence of the powers of the Cyberpolice Department as a subject of counteraction to cybercrime, such concepts as “right” and “duty” can not be evaded. The author has made the conclusion about the interdependence of the terms of “powers” and “task”. …”
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Distributed sensing units deploying on group unmanned vehicles by Bao Rong Chang, Hsiu-Fen Tsai, Jyong-Lin Lyu, Chien-Feng Huang

“…During the experiment of unmanned aerial vehicle, unmanned aerial vehicle will plan the flight path and record the movement trajectory with global positioning system when it is on duty. As a result, the accuracy of the planned flight path achieved 86.89% on average.…”
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Physical Activity among Veterans and Nonveterans with Diabetes by Erin D. Bouldin, Gayle E. Reiber

“…Respondents who reported ever serving on active military duty were classified as veterans. Based on self-report, we calculated the average minutes per week of moderate, vigorous, and total activity. …”
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A Nonisolated Single-Switch Coupled Inductor-Based DC-DC Converter with High Voltage Gain for Renewable Power Generation Systems by Hafez Nouhi, Vahid Talavat, Mohammad Farhadi-Kangarlu

“…The combination of coupled inductor and VMC technique leads to a high voltage gain with low duty cycle, and therefore the conduction loss of power switch is reduced. …”
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Place of Executive Authorities in the Realization of the Right to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly by M. A. Sambor

“…Since the realization of the right to freedom of peaceful assembly implies that the subject of realizing this right has a duty to notify, the purpose of this article is to determine the place of executive authorities while notifying the intention to the realization of the right to freedom of peaceful assembly. …”
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Photovoltaic Energy Conversion System Constructed by High Step-Up Converter with Hybrid Maximum Power Point Tracking by K. I. Hwu, W. C. Tu, C. R. Wang

“…After this, such a converter operating with a suitable initial duty cycle of the pulsewidth-modulated (PWM) control signal, together with the proposed HMPPT algorithm combining the fractional open-circuit voltage method and the incremental conductance method, is applied to the photovoltaic energy conversion system. …”
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What if writing rock history was also writing with “ifs”? Or how Lester Bangs liked playing a trick on his reader’s perception of time by Maud Berthomier

“…Even if he played a trick on his reader, he still made him believe in rock, and in that way as a critic carried out his mission, never failing to do his duty.…”
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Active Suspension of Truck Seat by Masaaki Kawana, Taro Shimogo

“…The driver’s seat of a heavy duty truck is usually mounted on a spring–damper assembly anchored to the cab floor. …”
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Data analysis-based framework for the design and assessment of chemical process plants: a case study in amine gas-treating systems by Rahul Gupta, Gladys Navas, Daniela Galatro

“…Considerable errors are obtained when estimating design duty (1.4%–8.7%) and power requirements (11.1%–33.5%) of the main equipment. …”
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Stretched at Both Ends: Pressure on Student Services and the Impact on Academic Staff at UK Universities by Gareth Hughes, Michael Priestley, Leigh Spanner

“…Thus, precisely as sectoral debate around UK universities’ legal duty of care intensifies, the role and responsibility of university services and academic staff in relation to other institutional and external stakeholders is becoming increasingly indeterminate. …”
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Performance Evaluation of Various Z-Source Inverter Topologies for PV Applications Using AI-Based MPPT Techniques by N. Kalaiarasi, A. Sivapriya, Pradeep Vishnuram, Mukesh Pushkarna, Mohit Bajaj, Hossam Kotb, Sadam Alphonse

“…Based on the maximum power, the shoot-through duty ratio has been adjusted.…”
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Simulation, Optimization and Thermodynamic, Economic and Environmental Analysis of Cryogenic Cycle, Dew Point Regulation in an Existing Refinery by Ehsanolah Assareh, Mojtaba Nedaei, Sajjad Keykhah

“…Also, the analysis of the sensitivity of the turbo-expander outlet pressure on the total exergy efficiency, duty reboiler of gas-liquid distillation towers and the intensity of NGL product production in the current and optimal state has been performed. …”
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