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TL;DR: The proposed method presents a new sigmoid function capable of promoting a control in the rate of change of the particles and improving the convergence of the results, which aims to reduce power losses in distribution networks.

TL;DR: In this article, a general review on the properties of these materials comparing some performance between Si and SiC devices for typical power electronics applications is provided, based on studied information, line of progress and current state of developing, SiC seems to be the most viable substitute in high power and high temperature applications in the mid-term of Si, due to the fact that the GaN is still used in a reduced number of applications.

TL;DR: A new method for distribution network reconfiguration that uses the features of the Open Source Distribution System Simulator (OpenDSS) and improved binary particle swarm optimization (IBPSO), a new activation function is introduced into binary particle Swarm optimization (BPSO) to propose the IBPSO.

TL;DR: Numerical results applied to the 5-bus and IEEE 30-bus systems are presented, discussed and compared with the other methods to demonstrate the applicability of the proposed method.

TL;DR: Methods for representing high-frequency switches were studied, which are based on representations of switching states such as inductors and RC-series branches, which allowed the admittance matrix that represents the system remained constant throughout the simulation, resulting in the reduction of computational effort and consequently on the use of small steps of calculation.