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Financial Accountability &Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT SDG 16 emphasizes the need for accountable institutions, often based on the assumption that public officials are accountable to politicians, who in turn are accountable to citizens. However, in many developing countries, neopatrimonial governance can weaken this accountability chain, as politicians themselves may act as “unprincipled ...
Edidiong Bassey, Emer Mulligan
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Investigation of multimodule buck–boost inverter-based HVDC transmission system
The Journal of Engineering, 2015 In high voltage direct current (HVDC) systems, the semiconductor devices have to be connected in series to obtain the required high-voltage ratings.
Ahmed A. Elserougi +4 more
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Coupled-Inductor-Based Buck-Boost Inverter with Leakage Current Suppression Capability [PDF]
This article presents a novel transformer-less single-stage buck-boost inverter (SSBBI) utilizing coupled inductors and its dual-mode time-sharing control method.
Wu, Weimin +5 more
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Firm Size and Momentum Returns: The Roles of Analyst Coverage and Herding Behavior
Financial Markets, Institutions &Instruments, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Momentum strategies have historically generated excess returns, but their effectiveness noticeably deteriorated in the post‐pandemic period, especially in 2022–23. In this paper, we explore how changes in investor attention during and after the COVID‐19 pandemic may have altered the performance of momentum strategies.
Yiyi Zhang, He He, Qian Guo, Jing Chen
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Modelling and Optimal Design of a Multifunctional Single-Stage Buck-Boost Differential Inverter
IEEE Open Journal of Power ElectronicsIn this paper, a single-stage buck-boost differential inverter is optimally designed for applications with varying input DC voltage (e.g., photovoltaics and fuel cell systems).
Rajesh Rajamony +2 more
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Enhancing Solar PV Performance: Advanced Converters for Efficient Green Energy Conversion and Grid Compatibility [PDF]
E3S Web of ConferencesThis paper delves into the vital role of converters in enhancing the efficiency and reliability of solar photovoltaic (PV) systems. With the escalating demand for renewable energy sources, solar PV systems emerge as a sustainable solution, necessitating ...
Vishwakarma Neelesh +6 more
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Conversor CC-CC buck+boost multinível bidirecional [PDF]
, 2013 Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro Tecnológico, Programa de Pós-graduação em Engenharia Elétrica, Florianópolis, 2013Este trabalho apresenta uma nova topologia de conversor cc-cc Buck+Boost bidirecional multinível ...
Costa, Levy Ferreira
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German Life and Letters, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Through the strategic use of humour, Ich bin dein Mensch poses implicit questions about how we police the boundaries of the human. Recounting the experiences of the protagonist, Alma, with a humanoid robot, Tom — whose humanness she is tasked with evaluating — the film documents and reflects crucial facets of the struggle with unsettled ...
Muriel Cormican
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A new single DC source five-level buck-boost inverter for single phase application [PDF]
Recent decades have seen an amazingly fast development of inverter topology, including multilevel inverters. This kind of inverter typically functions as a buck converter; a boost converter is the reverse of this kind of inverter.
Tantyono, Neru Hatta +2 more
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Connectivity and Selective Rural Migration
International Economic Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How does infrastructure shape rural development? Using household panel data from a nationally representative sample of Chinese villages, matched to high‐resolution highway maps, we find that road expansion between 2000 and 2015 operates mainly through reallocation, with less productive farmers scaling down or exiting and more productive ...
Lin Ma +3 more
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