This paper conducts load-flow analysis of a five-bus test system containing voltage sensitive loads. Generalized equations that are suitable for the voltage sensitive loads and applicable to the Newton-Raphson method are developed. Three load flow studies are carried out. In the first study, all loads are assumed as constant power loads. In the other two studies, all loads are assumed as constant current or constant impedance loads respectively. © 2008 IEEE.

Magnetite and Co ferrite particles were synthesized with control of particle size distribution via non-aqueous route. The XRD pattern shows the formation of single phase spinel structure with the particle size of 96 Å and 80 Å respectively for magnetite and cobalt ferrite. TEM image of the same shows the particles are nearly spherical with the size matches with that obtained from X-ray and the size distribution is less than 5%. Magnetic measurement also shows the particles of uniform size with high value of saturation magnetization at room temperature compared to that obtained by other route. SANS study confirms our results of monodispersed particles with spherical shape. © (2009) Trans Tech Publications.

Left-right symmetry including supersymmetry presents an important class of gauge models which may possess natural solutions to many issues of phenomenology. Cosmology of such models indicates a phase transition accompanied by domain walls. Such walls must be unstable in order to not conflict with standard cosmology and can further be shown to assist with open issues of cosmology such as dilution of unwanted relic densities and leptogenesis. In this paper we construct a model of gauge mediated supersymmetry breaking in which parity breaking is also signaled along with supersymmetry breaking and so as to be consistent with cosmological requirements. It is shown that addressing all the stated cosmological issues requires an extent of fine-tuning, while in the absence of fine-tuning, leptogenesis accompanying successful completion of the phase transition is still viable. © 2009 The American Physical Society.

At low temperature (below its freezing/melting temperature), liquid water under confinement is known to exhibit anomalous dynamical features. Here we study structure and dynamics of water in the grooves of a long DNA duplex using molecular dynamics simulations with TIP5P potential at low temperature. We find signatures of a dynamical transition in both translational and orientational dynamics of water molecules in both the major and the minor grooves of a DNA duplex. The transition occurs at a slightly higher temperature (TGL ≈ 255 K) than the temperature at which the bulk water is found to undergo a dynamical transition, which for the TIP5P potential is at 247 K. Groove water, however, exhibits markedly different temperature dependence of its properties from the bulk. Entropy calculations reveal that the minor groove water is ordered even at room temperature, and the transition at T≈ 255 K can be characterized as a strong-to-strong dynamical transition. Confinement of water in the grooves of DNA favors the formation of a low density four-coordinated state (as a consequence of enthalpy-entropy balance) that makes the liquid-liquid transition stronger. The low temperature water is characterized by pronounced tetrahedral order, as manifested in the sharp rise near 109° in the O-O-O angle distribution. We find that the Adams-Gibbs relation between configurational entropy and translational diffusion holds quite well when the two quantities are plotted together in a master plot for different region of aqueous DNA duplex (bulk, major, and minor grooves) at different temperatures. The activation energy for the transfer of water molecules between different regions of DNA is found to be weakly dependent on temperature. ©2009 American Chemical Society.

Tunable diode laser spectroscopy is used to classify several soft drinks brands based on absolute measurement of concentration and pressure of CO2 in the bottle headspace. Accurate FBG-based temperature sensing is also realized with a narrow linewidth tunable 1650nm laser and a fiber ring resonator.

Fair Division is a flourishing field that has garnered a lot of attention in recent times. Allocating a set of valuable resources fairly among interested agents along with guaranteeing everyone's satisfaction is a crucial task with a wide range of applications, both routine and high-stakes. This paper presents our existing and ongoing work in the following directions - a) minimizing envy when absolute envy-freeness is unachievable b) identifying the structured instances where fair and efficient allocation problems admit fast algorithms c) quantifying the trade-off between fairness (EF1/EQ1) and efficiency notions (social welfare functions) of an allocation.

Proton decay is a baryon number violating process and hence is forbidden in the Standard Model (SM). Baryon number violation is expected to be an important criteria to explain the matter anti-matter asymmetry of the universe. Any detection of the proton decay will serve as a direct evidence of physics beyond the SM. In SMEFT, proton decay is possible via baryon number violating dimension six operators. In this work, we have considered the proton decay to a positron and a photon, which is expected to be an experimentally cleaner channel because of less nuclear absorption. The gauge invariant amplitude for this process involves two form factors (FFs). We present these FFs in the framework of light cone sum rules (LCSR).