The Use of Simulation for the Design and Analysis of Thermophotovoltaic Networks

Abstract

Simulation has provided valuable quantification of the fundamental behavior of thermophotovoltaic cell networks. The results of simulation studies have supported the design and fabrication of small-scale demonstration networks and are expected to guide assembly of large-scale systems. This paper describes the methodology and software simulator developed to address issues in thermophotovoltaic (TPV) networking, including failure analysis, electrical network design, and nonuniform illumination. Results from simulation studies are given illustrating their application to the design and fabrication of small-scale TPV arrays.

Association of Medicaid Reimbursement for Immediate Postpartum Long-acting Reversible Contraception With Infant Birth Outcomes

“…Even after reimbursement, important barriers to providing immediate postpartum LARC remain, such as the need to train health care professionals, stock the devices in hospital pharmacies, and alter payment software to include LARC billing. 26,27 We showed in previous work that adoption of the policy across hospitals in South Carolina was not uniform, with approximately half of hospitals offering patients immediate postpartum LARC placement after the start of Medicaid reimbursement. 28 To focus in this study on births in which immediate postpartum LARC may have been offered, we defined the exposure as having given birth after the policy (2012 to 2015) in an implementing hospital.…”