In this paper, the impact of the DC bus voltage on the iron losses of a permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) fed by a pulse-width modulation inverter is evaluated. Under constant speed operation, the modulation index decreases when the DC bus voltage increases. This modifies the harmonic content of the PMSM input voltage and then affects the motor iron losses. The experimental measurements results show that, for the conditions considered in this paper, the total iron losses are 1.8 times larger at the lowest modulation index than at the highest one.
The distributions of the antibiotic resistance patterns in a population of Staphylococcus aureus isolates from a teaching hospital were studied over a 9-year period. The results indicate the existence of successive major epidemic methicillin-resistant strains and the emergence of a methicillin-susceptible strain with an unusual resistance pattern. Our findings suggest that this methicillin-susceptible S. aureus strain could be derived from the dominant gentamicin-susceptible methicillin-resistant S. aureus strain with the loss of a 40-kb DNA fragment.
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