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Focuses on the reliability and power quality at Champion International Corp. paper mill in Deferiet, New York. Numerous process interruptions experienced by Champion; Voltage sags emanating from the Niagara Mohawk Power Corp. transmission system; Causes and location of faults; Mitigation techniques.

This Special Issue of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits highlights some of the best papers presented at the 32nd Symposium on VLSI Circuits, held on June 18–22, 2018, at the Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, HI, USA. Industry and university engineers from all over the world reported innovative new techniques and state-of-the-art results. Papers presented covered a broad range of topics important to VLSI circuit and system designers, including topics that are also important to integrated circuit technology developers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The 2013 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI National Radio Science Meeting will be held jointly July 7-13, 2013, at the Hilton Orlando Lake Buena Vista in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, USA. The symposium and meeting are cosponsored by the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) and the U.S. National Committee of the International Union of Radio Science (USNC-URSI) Commissions A, B, C, D, E, F, G, and K. The joint meeting is intended to provide an international forum for the exchange of information on state-of-the-art research in antennas, propagation, electromagnetic engineering, and radio science. Technical sessions will be held over a five-day period from July 8 through July 12, and workshops and short courses will occur on July 7 and July 13. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Focuses on the technical program presented at the 2001 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Microwave Theory and Techniques Society International Microwave Symposium in Phoenix, Arizona. Coverage of the technical program; Record on the number of paper submission; Citations on the topics in the symposium.

This issue of the IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science (TNS) is devoted to the 21st IEEE-NPSS Real Time Conference (RT2018) on Computing Applications in Nuclear and Plasma Sciences held in Williamsburg, VA, USA, in June 2018. A total of 98 papers presented at the conference have been submitted for possible publication in TNS. The conference accepted 54 papers as oral and 149 as poster presentations in 13 tracks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article explains the requirements for authors who will be submitting contributions for review and consideration for presentation at the symposium on topics of interest to the U.S. Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) and the International Union of Radio Science (URSI). The general submission information is presented along with the instructions for URSI authors. The criteria of eligibility for entries in the AP-S student paper competition are given as well.

Introduces the winning papers of the 2004 IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology Outstanding Paper Award in the U.S.

The IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science (ICOPS) is held annually, sponsored by the Plasma Science and Applications Committee (PSAC) of the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Science Society (NPSS). The 45th IEEE NPSS ICOPS was held on June 24–28, 2018, in Denver, CO, USA. The conference's technical program included a wide range of topics, which ranged from basic and fundamental research to traditional and emerging technology applications. Over 530 accepted abstracts, representing scientists from over 30 countries. The program also included a minicourse on “New Directions in Plasma Diagnostics for High Energy Density and Burning Plasmas.” This year, the ICOPS sessions were enhanced by several exceptional plenary talks and two IEEE Birdsall award talks. John Cary from the University of Colorado (the 2016 Birdsall Award Winner) gave a talk entitled “The Evolution of Computational Physics,” and Alex Friedman from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (the 2017 Birdsall Award Winner) spoke on “Computer Simulations of Plasmas and Beams: A View From Multiple Angles.” Other plenary talks covered areas that included: particle accelerator technology; challenges of high-energy density physics and inertial fusion; the physics, chemistry, and interactions of plasma with liquids; radiation belt remediation; and electron beams, plasmas, and EM fields and waves. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses about the special section on cross-layer design for mobile ad hoc networks and wireless sensor networks published within the May 01, 2006 issue in the U.S. The first section, which consist of seven papers, focuses on the capacity analysis/enhancement and quality-of-service support. The following papers, from eight to twelve, address the routing issues. In addition, four paper after the 12th explores the idea of cross-layer design.

Reports on the National Electrical Manufacturers Association's release of ANSI/NEMA FI 3-2004, Calendered Aramid Papers Used for Electrical Insulation, in the United States. Application of the FI 3-2004 to qualification and testing of calendered aramid papers; Estimated number of members of the association; Web site where FI 3-2004 can be viewed or purchased.

In this paper, we consider the development of algorithms for the automatic detection of buried threats using ground penetrating radar (GPR) measurements. GPR is one of the most studied and successful modalities for automatic buried threat detection (BTD), and a large variety of BTD algorithms have been proposed for it. Despite this, large-scale comparisons of GPR-based BTD algorithms are rare in the literature. In this paper, we report the results of a multi-institutional effort to develop advanced BTD algorithms for a real-world GPR BTD system. The effort involved five institutions with substantial experience with the development of GPR-based BTD algorithms. In this paper, we report the technical details of the advanced algorithms submitted by each institution, representing their latest technical advances, and many state-of-the-art GPR-based BTD algorithms. We also report the results of evaluating the algorithms from each institution on the large experimental data set used for development. The experimental data set comprised 120 000 m2 of GPR data using surface area, from 13 different lanes across two U.S. test sites. The data were collected using a vehicle-mounted GPR system, the variants of which have supplied data for numerous publications. Using these results, we identify the most successful and common processing strategies among the submitted algorithms, and make recommendations for GPR-based BTD algorithm design. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This open scientific meeting is sponsored by the U.S. National Committee (USNC) of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI). The USNC-URSI is appointed by the National Research Council of The National Academies and represents U.S. radio scientists in URSI. The meeting is held in cooperation with the following IEEE organizations: Antennas and Propagation Society, Circuits and Systems Society, Communications Society, Electromagnetic Compatibility Society, Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society, Information Theory Society, Instrumentation and Measurement Society, Microwave Theory and Techniques Society, and Nuclear Science Society. Papers on any topic in the interest area of a Commission are welcome. Contact the Commission Chairperson or visit the website for further information. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Information about several papers discussed at the annual meeting and symposium by the Antenna Measurements Techniques Association (AMTA) is presented. A total of five hundred thirty six delegates attended the event. The event discussed several issues related to antenna and electronics industry in the United States.

These instructions give guidelines for preparing papers for this publication. Presents information for authors publishing in this journal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a sensitivity analysis of similar days (SD) parameters to increase the accuracy of artificial neural network (ANN) and SD-based short-term price forecasting. Work presented in this paper is an extended version of previous works done by the authors to integrate ANN and SD method for predicting electricity price. The focus here is on sensitivity analysis of SD parameters while keeping the parameters same for ANN to forecast hourly electricity prices in the Pennsylvania--New Jersey--Maryland (PJM) (regional transmission organization in northeast America) electricity market. Several cases are simulated by choosing (a) two, (b) three, (c) four, and (d) five SD parameters to calculate the norm. In addition, sensitivity analysis has been carried out by changing the time framework of SD (d = 15,30, 45, 60) and the number of selected similar price days (N = 5, 10). From sensitivity analysis, it is identified that the optimized mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) is obtained using case-c with d = 30 and N = 10. MAPE of reasonably small value, along with forecast mean square error and mean absolute error of around 2$/MWh and 1$/MWh, is obtained for the PJM data, which has correlation coefficient of determination (R²) of 0.7758 between load and electricity price. Numerical results show that forecasts generated by the developed ANN model based on the optimized case are accurate and efficient. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

For the past decade, the discussion of occupational electrical safety in the U.S. has largely focused on compliance with NFPA70E, Standard for Electrical Safety in the Workplace. Without taking away from the importance of the requirements in the standard, this paper describes a more comprehensive solution, based on proven concepts derived from systems safety engineering. This paper provides an overview of systems safety engineering and includes a 20 $+$ year case history of a global Fortune 500 company's effort to change the electrical safety culture in its operations to demonstrate results of applying systems safety techniques to electrical safety. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Focuses on the use of computer simulation when training soldiers in the United States. Issues that the US Department of Defense is facing concerning computer simulation; Programs of the Institute for Creative Technologies.

This paper deals with the challenges of railgun electromagnetic compatibility. After some general remarks on integration issues, the current regulations, norms, and standards of a high-power railgun are discussed. Different standards for ordnance or staff are considered. Also, preliminary results from the French-German Research Institute of Saint-Louis are presented. Since these laboratory data are not yet representative for future weapon systems, scaling calculations were carried out concerning energy levels, electrical sources, and cabling architecture. The obtained signal profiles are compared to the values defined by U.S., EU, or NATO standards. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]