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  • Review
  • Open Access
36 Citations
16,451 Views
15 Pages

13 April 2023

Gamification has emerged as a promising approach for foreign language learning (FLL), which refers to the use of game design elements to engage learners or improve academic performance. However, the features of gamification studies in FLL and their e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,093 Views
18 Pages

The SOGI-FLL (Second-Order Generalized Integrator–Frequency-Locked Loop) is a well-known and simple adaptive filter that allows for estimating the parameters of grid voltage with a small computational burden. However, the SOGI-FLL has been show...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,862 Views
12 Pages

SOGI-FLL Grid Frequency Monitoring with an Error-Based Algorithm for a Better Response in Face of Voltage Sag and Swell Faults

  • Sajad Abdali Nejad,
  • José Matas,
  • Jordi Elmariachet,
  • Helena Martín and
  • Jordi de la Hoz

The SOGI-FLL (second-order generalized-integrator frequency-locked-loop) is a well-known and simple adaptive filter that allows estimation of the parameters of the grid voltage with a small computational burden. However, this structure has shown to b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
521 Views
21 Pages

4 December 2025

The increasing demand for reliable DC fast-charging stations in electric vehicle (EV) infrastructure necessitates efficient fault detection mechanisms to ensure operational stability and user safety. This paper will present the development of a diagn...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,973 Views
21 Pages

17 November 2022

This work develops the analysis of power quality by the H-bridge Static Distribution Compensator (DSTATCOM) as well as its control techniques in different industry-based loading conditions. The function of DSTATCOM is to diminish power quality proble...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,209 Views
18 Pages

The wireless power transfer (WPT) system has attracted attention for energy transmission without physical contact. However, a WPT system has low coupling condition because of a big air gap between transmitter and receiver coils. The low coupling cond...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,518 Views
15 Pages

4 September 2019

The increasing use of multi-parallel grid-connected inverters introduces both high-quality and high-capacity power, while it tends to cause a resonance instability problem. A resonance damper can virtualize a resistor at resonant frequency to suppres...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
7,554 Views
25 Pages

16 August 2018

This paper studies a second order generalized integrator-frequency locked loop (SOGI-FLL) control scheme applicable for 3-phase alternating current/direct current (AC/DC) pulse width modulation (PWM) converters used in DC distribution systems. The 3-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,000 Views
19 Pages

27 June 2018

The droop control strategy is widely used in islanded microgrids to control power flows according to the load condition, with the absence of a critical communication line, interfacing distributed energy sources to provide for the active and reactive...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
890 Views
27 Pages

25 April 2025

This paper presents Enhanced Voltage Sensorless Control for PWM converter with DSOGI-FLL under grid disturbances. Even without grid voltage sensors, the proposed method accurately estimates the grid angle and voltage, which are necessary for power tr...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,261 Views
15 Pages

Microchip Health Monitoring System Using the FLL Circuit

  • Emmanuel Bender and
  • Joseph B. Bernstein

24 March 2021

Here a solution for a Microchip Health Monitoring (MHM) system using MTOL (Multi-Temperature Operational Life) reliability testing assessment data is proposed. The module monitors frequency degradation over time compared to lab tested data. Since tre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,809 Views
16 Pages

21 August 2024

To address the issue of mechanical resonance frequency detection in dual-inertia servo systems, this paper proposes an online identification method for mechanical resonance frequency using a low-pass filter and cascaded second-order generalized integ...

  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,965 Views
22 Pages

Review on Pediatric Malignant Focal Liver Lesions with Imaging Evaluation: Part I

  • Yi Dong,
  • Andrius Cekuolis,
  • Dagmar Schreiber-Dietrich,
  • Rasa Augustiniene,
  • Simone Schwarz,
  • Kathleen Möller,
  • Nasenien Nourkami-Tutdibi,
  • Sheng Chen,
  • Jia-Ying Cao and
  • Christoph F. Dietrich
  • + 4 authors

29 November 2023

Malignant focal liver lesions (FLLs) are commonly reported in adults but rarely seen in the pediatric population. Due to the rarity, the understanding of these diseases is still very limited. In children, most malignant FLLs are congenital. It is ver...

  • Conference Report
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,998 Views
23 Pages

31 August 2015

In this paper, the efficiency of the gyroscopic mounting method is studied for a highly dynamic GNSS receiver’s reference oscillator for reducing signal loss. Analyses are performed separately in two phases, atmospheric and upper atmospheric flights....

  • Review
  • Open Access
70 Citations
12,474 Views
17 Pages

Fructus Ligustri Lucidi in Osteoporosis: A Review of its Pharmacology, Phytochemistry, Pharmacokinetics and Safety

  • Beibei Chen,
  • Lili Wang,
  • Lin Li,
  • Ruyuan Zhu,
  • Haixia Liu,
  • Chenyue Liu,
  • Rufeng Ma,
  • Qiangqiang Jia,
  • Dandan Zhao and
  • Dongwei Zhang
  • + 3 authors

5 September 2017

Background: Fructus Ligustri Lucidi (FLL) has now attracted increasing attention as an alternative medicine in the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis. This study aimed to provide a general review of traditional interpretation of the actions of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,635 Views
23 Pages

In this paper, an improved speed sensorless control method including the maximum power point tracking (MPPT) algorithm for grid-connected squirrel-cage induction generator (SCIG) wind turbine systems using modified reduced-order generalized integrato...

  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,984 Views
20 Pages

Review on Pediatric Malignant Focal Liver Lesions with Imaging Evaluation: Part II

  • Yi Dong,
  • Andrius Cekuolis,
  • Dagmar Schreiber-Dietrich,
  • Rasa Augustiniene,
  • Simone Schwarz,
  • Kathleen Möller,
  • Nasenien Nourkami-Tutdibi,
  • Sheng Chen,
  • Jia-Ying Cao and
  • Christoph F. Dietrich
  • + 4 authors

14 December 2023

Malignant focal liver lesions (FLLs) represent various kinds of epithelial and mesenchymal tumors. In pediatric patients, the understanding of pediatric liver diseases and associated imaging manifestations is essential for making accurate diagnosis a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
9,481 Views
15 Pages

This study concerns aspects of positive psychology connected to foreign language learning (FLL) in an older healthy generation. The positive psychology perspective stresses the positive aspects of improved wellbeing in participants who engage in vari...

  • Article
  • Open Access
413 Views
15 Pages

27 November 2025

Accurate classification of focal liver lesions (FLLs) is crucial for reliable clinical decision-making. Inspired by contrastive vision-language models such as CLIP and MedCLIP, we propose Liver-VLM for FLLs classification, trained on a dedicated mult...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,730 Views
20 Pages

23 March 2018

This paper addresses the unbalanced voltage, subharmonic/dc-offset voltage, and low-frequency (LF)/high-frequency (HF) harmonics of a grid voltage tracking method based on second-order generalized integrators (SOGIs) in high voltage/frequency swing o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,122 Views
24 Pages

The inductance model used in traditional sensorless control methods for switched reluctance machines (SRMs) exhibits high-order harmonics. The precision of the motor may be impacted by the buildup of rotor estimate errors caused by these harmonics. T...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,526 Views
18 Pages

The extensive use of renewable energy systems with grid-connected inverters (GCIs) causes harmonic injection. Similarly, the imbalance in energy demand and supply causes frequency fluctuations. As a result of the increased harmonics and frequency flu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,574 Views
19 Pages

A Single-Phase Globally Stable Frequency-Locked Loop Based on the Second-Order Harmonic Oscillator Model

  • Gerardo Escobar,
  • Jonathan Carlos Mayo-Maldonado,
  • Dunstano del Puerto-Flores,
  • Jesus E. Valdez-Resendiz and
  • Osvaldo M. Micheloud

24 February 2021

This paper presents a novel frequency-locked-loop (FLL) scheme that provides estimates of the in-phase and square-phase fundamental components of a distorted single-phase reference signal and an estimate of its fundamental angular frequency. The main...

  • Article
  • Open Access
985 Views
23 Pages

Images Versus Videos in Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound for Computer-Aided Diagnosis

  • Marina Adriana Mercioni,
  • Cătălin Daniel Căleanu and
  • Mihai-Eronim-Octavian Ursan

9 October 2025

The background of the article refers to the diagnosis of focal liver lesions (FLLs) through contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) based on the integration of spatial and temporal information. Traditional computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) systems predomina...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,708 Views
26 Pages

18 February 2019

As roll angle measurement is essential for two-dimensional course correction fuze (2-D CCF) technology, a real-time estimation of roll angle of spinning projectile by single-axis magnetometer is studied. Based on the measurement model, a second-order...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,613 Views
13 Pages

A Design of Small Area, 0.95 mW, 612–1152 MHz Open Loop Injection-Locked Frequency Multiplier for IoT Sensor Applications

  • SungJin Kim,
  • Dong-Gyu Kim,
  • Chanho Kim,
  • Dong Soo Lee,
  • Behnam Samadpoor Rikan,
  • YoungGun Pu,
  • Sang-Sun Yoo,
  • Minjae Lee,
  • KeumCheol Hwang and
  • Kang-Yoon Lee
  • + 1 author

1 June 2018

This paper presents a 612–1152 MHz Injection-Locked Frequency Multiplier (ILFM). The proposed ILFM is used to send an input signal to a receiver in only the I/Q mismatch calibration mode. Adopting a Phase-Locked Loop (PLL) to calibrate the rece...

  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
5,222 Views
19 Pages

16 June 2021

Computer vision, biomedical image processing and deep learning are related fields with a tremendous impact on the interpretation of medical images today. Among biomedical image sensing modalities, ultrasound (US) is one of the most widely used in pra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,635 Views
20 Pages

A THD-Based Fault Protection Method Using MSOGI-FLL Grid Voltage Estimator

  • Wael Al Hanaineh,
  • Jose Matas,
  • Jorge El Mariachet,
  • Peilin Xie,
  • Mostafa Bakkar and
  • Josep. M. Guerrero

14 January 2023

The rapid growth of the distributed generators (DGs) integration into the distribution systems (DSs) creates new technical issues; conventional relay settings need to be updated depending on the network topology and operational mode as fault protecti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,234 Views
17 Pages

Background and Aims: To investigate the frequency of different benign and malignant focal liver lesions (FLLs) in relation to clinical and sonographic features among patients with liver cirrhosis (LC) and newly detected FLLs. Methods: This study was...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,255 Views
16 Pages

17 September 2021

Fructus Ligustri Lucidi (FLL) is the fruit of Ligustrum lucidum Ait and is a component of many kidney-tonifying traditional Chinese medicine formulae for treating osteoporosis. Accumulating evidence has linked oxidative stress with the progression of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,405 Views
12 Pages

The Influence of Separate and Combined Exercise and Foreign Language Acquisition on Learning and Cognition

  • Yijun Qian,
  • Anna Schwartz,
  • Ara Jung,
  • Yichi Zhang,
  • Uri Seitz,
  • Gabrielle Wilds,
  • Miso Kim,
  • Arthur F. Kramer and
  • Leanne Chukoskie

Aging contributes significantly to cognitive decline. Aerobic exercise (AE) has been shown to induce substantial neuroplasticity changes, enhancing cognitive and brain health. Likewise, recent research underscores the cognitive benefits of foreign la...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,197 Views
17 Pages

19 November 2022

Oleanolic acid (OA) is an active ingredient of the traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) Fructus ligustri lucidi (FLL). Its clinical use is restricted because it is water-insoluble and has limited dosage forms of administration at present. Hence, the FF...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,286 Views
9 Pages

Self-Cross-Linked Hyaluronic Acid Gel for Adhesion Prophylaxis in Laparoscopic Deep Endometriosis Removal: Safety Report of a Prospective Pilot Study

  • Maya Sophie de Wilde,
  • Rajesh Devassy,
  • Harald Krentel,
  • Rudy Leon De Wilde and
  • Luz Angela Torres-de la Roche

21 October 2024

Background/Objectives: Surgical removal of deep endometriosis lesions is an established method of reducing patient symptoms, but it often results in iatrogenic adhesions that lead to further problems. This pilot study presents the safety evaluation o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,749 Views
12 Pages

Influence of Connection Type and Platform Diameter on Titanium Dental Implants Fatigue: Non-Axial Loading Cyclic Test Analysis

  • Ana I. Nicolas-Silvente,
  • Eugenio Velasco-Ortega,
  • Ivan Ortiz-Garcia,
  • Alvaro Jimenez-Guerra,
  • Loreto Monsalve-Guil,
  • Raul Ayuso-Montero,
  • Javier Gil and
  • Jose Lopez-Lopez

Two-pieces dental implants must provide stability of the implant-abutment-interface. The connection type and platform diameter could influence the biomechanical resistance and stress distribution. This study aims to evaluate the fatigue for different...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,968 Views
14 Pages

Contribution of Litter Layer to Greenhouse Gas Fluxes between Atmosphere and Soil Varies with Forest Succession

  • Jun Jiang,
  • Ying-Ping Wang,
  • Hao Zhang,
  • Mengxiao Yu,
  • Fengcai Liu,
  • Shiting Xia and
  • Junhua Yan

31 March 2022

Surface litter layer strongly influences CO2, N2O, and CH4 fluxes (FCO2, FN2O, and FCH4) between the atmosphere and forest floor through litter decomposition (litter-internal, fL-L) or interactions between litter and mineral soil (litter-induced, fL-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
9,238 Views
14 Pages

A Comparative Analysis of Perceived Advantages and Disadvantages of Online Learning

  • Marcel Pikhart,
  • Blanka Klimova,
  • Anna Cierniak-Emerych and
  • Szymon Dziuba

16 March 2023

The use of electronic media has increased dramatically in the past decade due to the general increase in digitization of global societies. This trend has been recently enhanced by the COVID-19 occurrence and following forced implementation of various...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,539 Views
26 Pages

18 May 2023

The integration of Distributed Generators (DGs) into distribution systems (DSs) leads to more reliable and efficient power delivery for customers. However, the possibility of bi-directional power flow creates new technical problems for protection sch...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,070 Views
19 Pages

Finding context, examples, and ample hands-on experimentation is fundamental for understanding complex ideas in subjects such as science and math. Recent popularity of competitive robotics has become a catalyst in the development of DIY and hobby kit...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,053 Views
18 Pages

15 March 2019

To quickly and accurately estimate the parameters of the fundamental positive- and negative-sequence under the unbalanced and distorted grid voltage, a synchronization method is presented in this paper. The proposed method is based on both a harmonic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
4,878 Views
18 Pages

On Small Signal Frequency Stability under Virtual Inertia and the Role of PLLs

  • Sohail Khan,
  • Benoit Bletterie,
  • Adolfo Anta and
  • Wolfgang Gawlik

8 September 2018

This paper presents a methodology that aims at identifying virtual inertia (VI) gain limitations from virtual synchronous generators (VSGs) while maintaining the frequency stability considering the delay associated with the frequency measurement proc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,996 Views
35 Pages

6 February 2024

Earlier protection methods mainly focused on using communication channels to transmit trip signals between the protective devices (PDs), with no solutions provided in the case of communication failure. Therefore, this paper introduces a dual-layer pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,869 Views
17 Pages

17 October 2022

The lotus (Nelumbo nucifera Gaertn.) leaf is a typical homologous ingredient of medicine and food with lipid-lowering and weight-loss effects. In the present study, lotus leaves were fermented by two probiotics, Enterococcus faecium WEFA23 and Entero...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,132 Views
14 Pages

Challenges in Diagnosing Focal Liver Lesions Using Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound

  • Tudor Voicu Moga,
  • Raluca Lupusoru,
  • Mirela Danila,
  • Ana Maria Ghiuchici,
  • Alina Popescu,
  • Bogdan Miutescu,
  • Iulia Ratiu,
  • Calin Burciu,
  • Teofana Bizerea-Moga and
  • Roxana Sirli
  • + 2 authors

Background: Contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) has become the preferred method for many clinicians in evaluating focal liver lesions (FLLs) initially identified through standard ultrasound. However, in clinical practice, certain lesions may deviate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,750 Views
21 Pages

Coordinated Design of Type-2 Fuzzy Lead–Lag-Structured SSSCs and PSSs for Power System Stability Improvement

  • Prabodh Khampariya,
  • Sidhartha Panda,
  • Hisham Alharbi,
  • Almoataz Y. Abdelaziz and
  • Sherif S. M. Ghoneim

29 May 2022

This work suggests a type-2 fuzzy lead–lag (T2FLL) controller structure for flexible AC transmission system (FACTS)-based damping controllers and power system stabilizers (PSSs) for power system stability improvement. The values of the suggeste...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,107 Views
20 Pages

22 March 2024

In cutaneous wound healing, an overproduction of inflammatory chemokines and bacterial infections impedes the process. Hydrogels can maintain a physiologically moist microenvironment, absorb chemokines, prevent bacterial infection, inhibit bacterial...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,379 Views
11 Pages

Endoscopic Ultrasound-Guided Tissue Sampling for the Cytohistological Diagnosis of Focal Liver Lesions

  • Jose Lariño-Noia,
  • Andrea Jardi-Cuadrado,
  • Juan Enrique Dominguez-Muñoz,
  • Yessica Domínguez-Novoa,
  • Marco Galego,
  • Alberto Rama,
  • Daniel de la Iglesia-Garcia,
  • Xurxo Martinez-Seara,
  • Ihab Abdulkader-Nallib and
  • Julio Iglesias-Garcia

Background: Focal liver lesions (FLL) often require cytohistological evaluation. Endoscopic Ultrasound (EUS)-guided tissue acquisition (EUS-TA) is highly accurate in diagnosing pancreatic and gastrointestinal malignancies. The aim of our study was to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,384 Views
14 Pages

11 October 2021

This paper introduces a new strategy of frequency estimation for grid-tied and stand-alone mode AC/DC power converters. Frequency stabilization is required, especially when operating in stand-alone mode with a Droop Control strategy, or in hybrid mod...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,358 Views
9 Pages

Point Shear Wave Elastography and 2-Dimensional Shear Wave Elastography as a Non-Invasive Method in Differentiating Benign from Malignant Liver Lesions

  • Emiliya Lyubomirova Nacheva-Georgieva,
  • Daniel Ilianov Doykov,
  • Vladimir Nikolov Andonov,
  • Katya Angelova Doykova and
  • Silviya Bogdanova Tsvetkova

Non-invasive, ultrasound-based methods for visualizing and measuring tissue elasticity are becoming more and more common in routine daily practice. An accurate diagnosis of malignant and benign tumors is essential for determining the appropriate trea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,871 Views
11 Pages

Teosinte-Derived Advanced Backcross Population Harbors Genomic Regions for Grain Yield Attributing Traits in Maize

  • Pardeep Kumar,
  • Mukesh Choudhary,
  • Seema Sheoran,
  • Ningthai Longmei,
  • Bhupender Kumar,
  • Bahadur Singh Jat,
  • Manesh Chander Dagla,
  • Bharat Bhushan,
  • Sumit Kumar Aggarwal and
  • Shyam Bir Singh
  • + 2 authors

25 September 2024

Maize is a highly versatile crop holding significant importance in global food, feed and nutritional security. Grain yield is a complex trait and difficult to improve without targeting the improvement of grain yield attributing traits, which are rela...

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