VLF/AC Withstand Testing at NEETRAC

Presented at IEEE PES Insulated Conductors Committee, Spring 2008 Meeting , St. Petersburg, Florida, March 9-12, 2008. Copyright GTRC 2008.This material is based upon work supported by the Department of Energy under Award No DE-FC02-04CH1237

A Survey of Housing Equity Withdrawal and Injection in Australia

Over the past decade or so, aggregate data suggest a trend increase in housing equity withdrawal in Australia, potentially stimulating household spending. However, there has been little disaggregated information on how equity is being withdrawn and injected, the characteristics of households altering housing equity, and how funds from withdrawn equity are being used. This paper uses a survey of 4 500 households commissioned by the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) to address these questions. The results suggest that, during 2004, the most common method of withdrawing equity was for a household to increase the level of debt secured against a property they already owned. In contrast, most of the value of equity withdrawn was associated with property transactions, with the typical property transaction resulting in a net equity withdrawal. Turnover in the property market is therefore likely to be an important driver of cycles in aggregate housing equity withdrawal. Bivariate and logit analysis suggests a significant life-cycle influence, with the bulk of equity withdrawal being undertaken by older households, while younger households typically inject, primarily through mortgage repayments or deposits for property purchase. Finally, the results suggest that the bulk of the value of withdrawn equity was used to increase non-housing assets, although a significant proportion of households used the funds for consumption expenditure.housing equity withdrawal; housing turnover; household debt

The Role of Degassing in XLPE Power Cable Manufacture

This paper appears in: Electrical Insulation Magazine, IEEE. ©2006 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to reprint/republish this material for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or to reuse any copyrighted component of this work in other works must be obtained from the IEEE.This article focuses on a range of elements critical to this process; form the fundamental chemistry, through computational and measurement techniques to the solutions that are in use today. Degassing contributes greatly to the quality of power cables by improving the certainty in electrical testing and improving the dielectric properties. To ensure that the degassing process delivers the expected benefits, it is important to measure and model the process by which the crosslinking byproducts are desorbed from the cable polymers. Weight loss and HPLC have shown themselves to be the most effective and practical measurement techniques

Energy Superhub Oxford: final report

Energy Superhub Oxford (ESO) is a £41m demonstration project delivering innovation in smart local energy systems. As countries around the world embark on energy transitions to decarbonise their economies, decentralised and digitised solutions are increasingly important in delivering power, heat and mobility to users. Exploring options for smart local energy systems is a key UK priority. ESO is one of three large demonstrator projects part-funded by the UK government under its “Prospering from the Energy Revolution” (PFER) programme. Work began in April 2019 and ran until March 2023. ESO’s main focus has been on investment in infrastructure for energy storage, electric vehicle charging, low carbon home heating and developing innovative, smart ways of generating benefits from these for users, investors and society at large. This report has been produced by the University of Oxford team and draws on their research findings spanning each of the major work packages: transport (including private wire and Superhub construction), decarbonising heat, and the transmission grid connected battery, its operation and carbon impact. It also includes a chapter on consortium working practices and concludes with overall learnings from the project

The Grizzly, December 7, 1999

Student Crimes On College Campuses • Biology Major Woes: Schedule Changes Leave Students Frustrated • Rich Barrett Scores his 1,000th Career Point • Talent Show Displays Ursinus Students\u27 Skills • AIDS Quilt Displayed in Helfferich Gym • Democratic Candidate for U.S. Senate Will Speak at Ursinus • Omwake: The House of Ill Repute • Final Exam Schedule • Lovin\u27 it at Louie\u27s • Letter to the Editors • Singing Group Edges out Magician • Ursinus College Choir Presents Messiah • Women\u27s Volleyball; The Year in Review and their Run to the ECAC\u27s • Wrestling Struggles in Tourney • Men\u27s Hoopsters Net First Win • Ursinus Swimming Falls to Red Devils of Dickinson • Seniors Remembered: Teammates Reflect on Departing Upperclassmenhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1454/thumbnail.jp

The Grizzly, October 5, 1999

Bears Clobber Swarthmore During Family Day Game • Family Day A Success • Admission Rumor Proves False • Sophomore Week Set • 811 Main Street • Forget MTV: Career Services Offering UC Seniors Opportunity to Star in Real World • Opinion: Stereotypes on Campus Affect and Hurt Everyone; Letter to the Editors • Ursinus Football Crushes Swarthmore in Centennial Conference Action, 59-0 • Volleyball wins Allentown Invit. and Family Day Tourney • Monumental Changes in UC Cheerleading • Soccer Splits for 1-1 on the Weekhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1447/thumbnail.jp

The Grizzly, November 9, 1999

Could Ursinus be a Target for Thieves? • Sexual Harassment at Ursinus College • John Street Elected New Mayor of Philadelphia • A Makeover for Ursinus Art on Campus • Egypt Air Flight 990 Disaster • BPS: True Student Living • Grizzly Greeks Rush to Greet New Members • Letter to the Editor: Disrespect of Women on the Ursinus Campus; Ursinus Students Fall Victim to False Sense of Security • Response: Racism • UC Baseball Players Receive Defensive Honors for 1999 Season • Football Stretches Streak to Six, Looks to Dickinson for 7 • Men\u27s Soccer Takes Tough Loss • F&M and Gettysburg in NCAA Tourneyhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1451/thumbnail.jp

The Grizzly, November 2, 1999

Is Safety an Issue on Campus? • Payne Stewart, Golfer, Dies in Plane Crash • A First for National French Week • Summer Business Internship Opportunities • Hobson Hall: Home Sweet Home • Opinion: The Effectiveness of College in the Preparation of Students for the World; Gun Control has to be Enacted for Everyone\u27s Safety: A Response; Paying Back the US Dues to the UN • Always Unique, Ben Folds Five Rocks Philadelphia as Part of 1999 Tour • Vecchio, Duncan Power Bears Offense as Bears Rout Mules • Soccer Splits Pair with Fords, Green Terror • Flag Football: APO Downs 2-Time Champion Delta Pi in Double-OT • Junior Vecchio Awarded CC Offensive Football Player of the Week • Tough End to Tough Hockey Season • Volleyball Finishes Best Season Ever • Bears Defense Roars to Big Winhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1450/thumbnail.jp

The Grizzly, October 19, 1999

Homecoming 1999 Hit Ursinus This Past Weekend • Handicap Accessibility On Ursinus College Campus • Adding to the Arts Program? • Reimert: A Suite Housing Experience • Baked to Perfection at Brew Moon • Opinion: Don\u27t They Have Anything Better to do?; Letters to the Editors; Guns Don\u27t Kill People, People Kill People • Modernized Version of Antigone High in Energy, Mediocre in Quality • Bears Fight off Gettysburg Bullets Gridiron • Hockey Battles with Holy Cross and Davis & Elkins; A Close Call and a Win • Two Near Misses for Men\u27s Soccer • Bishop Takes Top Honors at Moravianhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1449/thumbnail.jp

Game theory of mind

This paper introduces a model of ‘theory of mind’, namely, how we represent the intentions and goals of others to optimise our mutual interactions. We draw on ideas from optimum control and game theory to provide a ‘game theory of mind’. First, we consider the representations of goals in terms of value functions that are prescribed by utility or rewards. Critically, the joint value functions and ensuing behaviour are optimised recursively, under the assumption that I represent your value function, your representation of mine, your representation of my representation of yours, and so on ad infinitum. However, if we assume that the degree of recursion is bounded, then players need to estimate the opponent's degree of recursion (i.e., sophistication) to respond optimally. This induces a problem of inferring the opponent's sophistication, given behavioural exchanges. We show it is possible to deduce whether players make inferences about each other and quantify their sophistication on the basis of choices in sequential games. This rests on comparing generative models of choices with, and without, inference. Model comparison is demonstrated using simulated and real data from a ‘stag-hunt’. Finally, we note that exactly the same sophisticated behaviour can be achieved by optimising the utility function itself (through prosocial utility), producing unsophisticated but apparently altruistic agents. This may be relevant ethologically in hierarchal game theory and coevolution