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An interface protection system based on an embedded metrology system platform
2021
Abstract The aim of this work is to present an interface protection system (IPS) for Distributed Generators (DG) and Energy Storage Systems (ESS). The new prototype of IPS guarantees standard protection requirements, in terms of both voltage and frequency measurement accuracies and trip times. Moreover, it has the additional functionalities of implementing a communication link between the Distribution System Operator (DSO) and the DG and ESS Inverter. The new IPS is based on a smart meter platform with an integrated power line communication modem. Moreover, it has also an integrated metrology section. Experimental tests will show how this last feature allows a significant reduction of the m…
A distributed-memory MPI parallelization scheme for multi-domain incompressible SPH
2022
A parallel scheme for a multi-domain truly incompressible smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) approach is presented. The proposed method is developed for distributed-memory architectures through the Message Passing Interface (MPI) paradigm as communication between partitions. The proposal aims to overcome one of the main drawbacks of the SPH method, which is the high computational cost with respect to mesh-based methods, by coupling a multi-resolution approach with parallel computing techniques. The multi-domain approach aims to employ different resolutions by subdividing the computational domain into non-overlapping blocks separated by block interfaces. The particles belonging to differe…
An exponential spline interpolation for unequally spaced data points
1982
Splitting the data cache: a survey
2000
Recent cache-memory research has focused on approaches that split the first-level data cache into two independent subcaches. The authors introduce a methodology for helping cache designers devise splitting schemes and survey a representative set of the published cache schemes.
Commercio globale e diritto del lavoro: l'accordo di libero scambio UE-Giappone
2019
Il presente lavoro analizza da una prospettiva giuslavoristica il recente accordo di libero scambio concluso tra Unione Europea e Giappone (EU-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement): dopo una breve comparazione tra i due sistemi lavoristici, il saggio analizza il capitolo dell’accordo in materia di sviluppo sostenibile, evidenziandone la debolezza in ragione dei meccanismi unicamente di soft law; nell’ultima parte viene affrontato l’unico aspetto ancora oggetto di negoziazione, ovvero i meccanismi arbitrali di risoluzione delle controversie in materia di investimenti (Investor-State dispute settlement) ed i connessi problemi di compatibilità col diritto dell’Unione Europea. The present work …
2020
Abstract Challenge is a key motivation for videogame play. But what kind of challenge types videogames include, and which of them players prefer? This article helps to answer the above questions by developing and validating Videogame Challenge Inventory (CHA), a psychometrically sound measurement for investigating players’ challenge preferences in videogames. Based on a review of literature, we developed a 38-item version of CHA that was included in a social media user survey (N = 813). An exploratory factor analysis (EFA) revealed a latent structure of five challenge types: Physical, Analytical, Socioemotional, Insight, and Foresight. CHA was amended in another EFA with USA-based survey da…
On Some “family resemblances” of Fuzzy Set Theory and Human Sciences
2011
The aim of this paper is to underline the importance of detecting similarities or at least, ‘family resemblances’ among different fields of investigation. As a matter of fact, the attention will be focused mainly on fuzzy sets and a few features of human sciences; however, I hope that the arguments provided and the general context outlined will show that the problem of picking up (dis)similarities among different disciplines is of a more general interest. Usually strong dichotomies guide out attempts at understanding the paths along which scientific research proceed; i.e., soft versus hard sciences, humanities versus the sciences of nature, Naturwissenschaften versus Geisteswissenschaften, …
Evolution of the Defense Integration in Europe
2020
The notion of a defense Union has been played with since the beginning of the European integration. Despite hardships in deepening the integration further from that of the economy, the European Union has taken some significant steps regarding foreign and security policy from the early 1990’s to this day. Especially the last months’ implications concerning Permanent Structured Cooperation have brought the Union ever so closer to an effective defense union with a common military. However, all of the decision making concerning European Union foreign and security policy is based on the principles of intergovernmental-ism and consequently, the effectiveness of a potential European Defense Union …
Implementation of JPEG2000 arithmetic decoder using dynamic reconfiguration of FPGA
2005
This paper describes implementation of a part of JPEG2000 algorithm (MQ-Decoder and arithmetic decoder) on a FPGA board using dynamic reconfiguration. Comparison between static and dynamic reconfiguration is presented and new analysis criteria (time performance, logic cost, spatio-temporal efficiency) are defined. MQ-decoder and arithmetic decoder can be classified in the most attractive case for dynamic reconfiguration implementation: applications without parallelism by functions. This implementation is done on an architecture designed to study dynamic reconfiguration of FPGAs: the ARDOISE architecture. The implementation obtained, based on four partial configurations of arithmetic decoder…
Cost comparison of image rotation implantations on static and dynamic Reconfigurable FPGAs
2002
FPGA components are widely used today to perform various algorithms (digital filtering) in real time. The emergence of Dynamically Reconfigurable (DR) FPGAs made it possible to reduce the number of necessary resources to carry out an image processing application (tasks chain). We present in this article an image processing application (image rotation) that exploits the FPGA 's dynamic reconfiguration feature. A comparison is undertaken between the dynamic and static reconfiguration by using two criteria, cost and performance criteria. For the sake of testing the validity of our approach in terms of Algorithm and Architecture Adequacy, we realized an AT40K40 based board ARDOISE.