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Tarea Tema 2 - Recursos para Filtrar Documentación Científica

  Dear professors and colleagues,     My research area is Electrical Engineering, especially focused on power electronics for LED drivers.     Besides ResearchGate and Google Scholar, a very useful tool that I often use is a free website called Connected Papers. This website enales to known the "references of the references", which helps to filter the most important references in a given research field. It is important to mention that this research tool becomes possible to know "the origin of a research area" through its "family tree", thus showing the research fields that were developed based on the first one and also the gaps in the literature. The Connected Papers helps me to speed up my research and not loose time with less important references and repeated papers.     Additionally, I use daily the IEEExplore , which is the most important international website in the electrical engineering area, created by the Institute of Electrical and Electronic...
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Tarea Tema 3 - Google Drive

  Why is Google Drive important for the scientific activity?      Social software refers to digital platforms and applications designed to facilitate communication, collaboration, information sharing, and the creation of online communities. These tools enable users to interact with one another through various forms of content, including text, images, videos, and shared documents.      Google Apps can be highly beneficial for research-related activities due to their accessibility, versatility, and integration capabilities. Tools such as Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Slides, Google Forms, and Google Meet provide researchers with a comprehensive digital environment for managing various stages of a research project.      Google Drive is specifically designed to support collaborative work. Its infrastructure enables multiple users to access, edit, comment on, and review documents simultaneously in real time.      Therefore...
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Tarea Tema 4 - Mi PLE Investigador

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    It is possible to use several social networks in the scientific/academic environment, in order to achieve the highest achievable quality for the research developed.      Some of the most famous and recognized research social networks are: ORCID, Google Scholar, About.me, ResearchGate.     In my perspective, these tools and scientific social networks enable to find a wider range of publications, in different editors (IEE, Widley, Elselvier, etc) and to establish contact with many relevant scientists of our field worldwide.     The features provided by these networks are excellent tools for the Researcher 2.0, once they are well used. It is important to always respect the limits of ethics and make proper use of the AI together with these tools.     The network ResearchGate, for example, is a tool that enables a different connection between the researchers in the world. Some of the possibilities provided by the  ResearchGate ...
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Tarea Tema 1 - ¿Por qué necesitamos drivers para LEDs?

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     Unfortunately, we can't just insert an LED in the power outlet to generate light, because it would easily explode! We need a circuit to ensure the energy quality to the electric grid and the LED light quality for our needs.      The short 1st video of this blog explain what is an LED and how it works.      This 2nd video describes why drivers are essential in LED luminaires. It  published in the YouTube channel of  the Prof. Dr. José Marcos Alonso, who is a Full Professor at the University of Oviedo (UniOvi), in the city of Gijón, Astúrias.     The author of this blog, Igor Bertoncello Barboza, is a PhD student and researcher in this field. A brief biography of the author is inserted in another post in this blog, in which more details are given. Furthermore, the main links to his academic curriculum are available through his ORCID , Google Scholar and About.me .
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Who is the author behind?

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    He is  Igor Bertoncello Barboza, born in Santa Maria, RS, Brazil, in October 10th, 1997. He received his degree in Electrical Engineering by the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM), Brazil, in January of 2020. He did his final mandatory internship at the Fraunhofer Institute in Dresden, Germany, between August 2019 and January 2020. Since July of 2015, he is a member of the research group GEDRE, Inteligence in Lighting, of the UFSM where he has beeng working with topologies of AC/DC converters, DC-DC converters, LED drivers, converters integration and magnetics integration.     GEDRE Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/gedre.ufsm/     Between March of 2020 and August of 2022, he pursued his Master's degree by Post-Graduate Program of Electrical Engineering (PPGEE) of UFSM. His Master thesis, entitled "Evaluation of the Use of  Gallium Nitride Semiconductors in the Power Control Stage of an LED Luminaire for Public Lighting", was de...
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