This paper presents an all-digital real-time co-simulation platform of refined Wind Energy Conversion System (WECS) model. The proposed platform is based on the Real-time Digital Simulator (RTDS) and FAST developed by National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). The detailed generator and...

Wireless Sensor Network Service Applications (WSAs) are playing an important role in Wireless Sensor Network (WSN), which bridge the gap between WSN and existing widely deployed Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) technologies. Function properties of WSN services are important, which assure...

Public-private partnerships (PPPs) are increasingly used in the United Kingdom's public facilities and services provision through the Private Finance Initiative (PFI). Despite some casualties, PPP/PFI projects have been undertaken successfully, but the reasons for success are not entirely clear....

In the last few years, vegetable industry developed rapidly in Hebei province, intensive raising seedling as its main component, also entered a period of rapid development. The background and characteristics, the current situation and existed questions of intensive seedling cultivation were...

In many applications the graph structure in a network arises from two sources: intrinsic connections and connections due to external effects. We introduce a sparse estimation procedure for graphical models that is capable of isolating the intrinsic connections by removing the external effects....

We introduce a nonparametric method for estimating non-Gaussian graphical models based on a new statistical relation called additive conditional independence, which is a three-way relation among random vectors that resembles the logical structure of conditional independence. Additive conditional...

type="main" xml:id="ecot12053-abs-0001" xml:lang="en" <title type="main">Abstract</title> <p>This paper examines the causal effect that trade openness has on government size in small developing countries (SDCs). We use the construction of the trade cost variables based on Baltic Dry Index in primary goods as instruments of...</p>