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1 Renewable Energy: Solar, Wind, and Others |
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2 Solar Concentrators: State of the Art |
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2.1 Trough Solar Concentrators |
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15 | (2) |
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2.1.1 Fresnel-Type Concentrators |
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2.2 Tower Solar Concentrator Systems |
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2.2.1 Heliostat Field Concentrators |
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2.3 Parabolic Dish Solar Concentrators |
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18 | (3) |
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3 Solar Concentrators with Flat Mirrors |
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3.1 History of the Development of Flat Mirror Solar Concentrator |
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3.2 Architecture of Solar Concentrator with Flat Mirrors |
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3.3 Structure of Parabolic Dish Concentrator |
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3.3.1 Components of the Support Frame of Solar Concentrators |
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3.3.2 Steps of Assembly of the Support Frame |
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3.3.3 First Developed Prototype of Solar Concentrator |
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3.3.4 Second Developed Prototype of the Solar Concentrator |
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3.4 Supporting Device Manufacture and Assembly |
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3.5 Parabolic Gauge for Adjustment of Parabolic Surface of Solar Concentrator |
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3.6 Prototypes of Solar Concentrators with Flat Mirrors |
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4 Solar Thermal Power Station for Green Building Energy Supply |
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4.1 Residential Power Plant |
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4.1.1 New Prototype of Flat Mirror Solar Concentrator |
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4.1.2 Cost Evaluation of the New Solar Concentrator |
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4.1.3 Thermal Energy Storage and Cost Evaluation |
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4.1.4 Approximate Evaluation of a Residential Solar Power Plant |
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4.2 Solar Air Dehumidification Systems |
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4.2.1 Flat Facet Solar Concentrator for Dehumidification Systems |
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4.2.2 Thermal Energy Storage for Dehumidification Systems |
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4.2.3 District Dehumidification Systems |
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4.3 Solar Chillers for Air Conditioning Systems |
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57 | (5) |
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4.3.1 Flat Facet Solar Concentrator for Air Conditioning Systems |
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4.3.2 District Solar Cooling System |
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4.4 Thermal Energy Storage |
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4.4.1 Large-Scale Thermal Energy Storage |
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4.4.2 Pyramid Thermal Energy Storage |
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4.4.3 Hot Pyramid Example |
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4.5 Open Pit Mining Technologies |
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4.5.1 Strip Mining Using Draglines |
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4.5.2 Track and Shovels-Based Technology |
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4.5.3 Pit Crushing and Conveying Technology |
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4.6 Seasonal Thermal Energy Storage |
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4.6.1 Hot and Cold Water STES |
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4.6.2 Calculations of Hot and Cold Water STES Parameters |
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5.3 Heat Engines with Ericsson Cycle |
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5.4 Micro-Channel Recuperators for Heat Engines |
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5.5 Recuperator Parameters Evaluation |
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5.6 Quasi-isothermal Heat Engine for Concentrating Solar Power System |
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5.6.2 Rolling Piston Expanders and Compressors |
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5.6.3 One-Valve Quasi-isothermal Heat Engine |
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5.6.4 Valve-Less Rolling Piston Heat Engine |
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5.6.5 Relative Efficiency |
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6 Travelling Energy Collectors |
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6.1 Power Plant Based on Travelling Energy Collectors |
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6.2 Scheme of Travelling Energy Collectors |
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6.3.3 Transport and Discharge Modes |
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7 Automatization of Solar Concentrator Manufacture and Assembly |
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7.1 Automatic System for Adjusting the Parabolic Surface |
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7.2 Texture Recognition for Mirror Position Recognition |
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7.2.1 Random Subspace Classifier |
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7.2.2 Software for RSC Simulation |
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7.3 Small Flat-Facet Solar Concentrators |
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7.3.1 System of Automatic Assembly |
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7.4 Low-Cost Solar Concentrators |
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149 | (8) |
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150 | (2) |
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7.4.2 Lightweight and Rigid Materials |
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7.4.3 New Method for Manufacturing Solar Concentrators |
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154 | (3) |
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8 Computer Intelligent Systems for Manufacture and Control |
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8.1 Microcomponent Measurement with Neural Networks |
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162 | (15) |
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8.1.1 Artificial Intelligence Methods |
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8.1.2 Micro Pistons Image Database |
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8.1.3 Extraction of Contours |
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8.1.4 LIRA Neural Classifier |
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8.1.5 Preliminary Results |
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8.1.6 Measurements of Micro Pistons |
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8.2 FPGA Realization of the LIRA Neural Classifier |
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8.2.1 Implementation of FPGA |
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8.2.2 LIRA Processes Simulation |
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8.2.4 LIRA Neural Classifier Implementation for Two Classes |
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8.3 Ensemble Neural Networks |
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8.3.1 Neural Ensemble Formation |
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8.3.2 Ensemble Neural Network Structure |
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8.3.3 Storage Capacity Investigation |
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8.3.4 Examples of Manipulator Maneuvers |
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8.4 Hebbian Ensemble Neural Network for Robot Movement Control |
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8.4.1 Hebbian Ensemble Network Description |
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8.4.2 Ensemble Presentation of Robot Movements |
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8.4.3 Examples of Robot Maneuvers |
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9 Examples of Computer Vision Systems Applications Based on Neural Networks |
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9.1.2 FRAV3D Face Database Descriptions |
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9.1.4 Method of Error Calculation |
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9.1.6 Rotation Distortions |
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9.1.7 Skewing Procedure for Image Distortions |
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9.2 Recognition on FEI Image Database |
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252 | (9) |
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9.2.2 FEI Image Database and Distortions |
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258 | (2) |
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9.2.3 Results of FEI Image Recognition Experiments |
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260 | (1) |
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9.3 Facial Recognition on the Basis of Facial Fragments |
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261 | (8) |
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9.3.1 PCNC for Facial Fragments Recognition |
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264 | (1) |
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9.3.3 Experiments and Results |
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267 | (2) |
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9.4 Recognition of Pests on Crops with a Random Subspace Classifier |
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9.4.1 Description of Colorado Potato Beetle Image Dataset |
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270 | (3) |
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9.4.3 RSC Structure and Algorithm |
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