Over the recent years there has been an immense growth in load consumption due to which, Load Management (LM) has become more significant. Energy providers around the world apply different load management concepts and techniques to improve the load p...
In this paper, a two-stage stochastic unit commitment (UC) model considering flexible scheduling of demand response (DR) is proposed. In the proposed UC model, the DR resources can be scheduled: (1) in the first stage, as resources on a day-ahead bas...
16 September 2021
This study explores the relationship between inpatient unit design and patient experience and how spatial features and visibility impact patients’ perception of staff responsiveness. The first part of this study is a retrospective pre–post and cross-...
The effective delineation of fire station response zones is critical for urban public safety planning, yet traditional methods often fail to account for dynamic traffic conditions, leading to suboptimal resource allocation. This study proposes a nove...
With the increasing penetration of wind power and demand response integrated into the grid, the combined uncertainties from wind power and demand response have been a challenging concern for system operators. It is necessary to develop an approach to...
To address the issue of accommodating large-scale wind power integration into the grid, a unit commitment model for power systems based on an improved binary particle swarm optimization algorithm is proposed, considering frequency constraints and dem...
As a result of extensive penetration of wind farms into electricity grids, power systems face enormous challenges in daily operation because of the intermittent characteristics of wind energy. In particular, the load peak-valley gap has been dramatic...
In the context of the increasing penetration of intermittent renewable energy resources (RES), one of the significant challenges facing traditional bulk power systems and microgrids is the scheduling generation units problem. Many studies have focuse...
The water cycle in the key agricultural and pastoral zones (KAPZs) is an important factor for maintaining the stability of the ecosystem. Groundwater collection and lateral seepage are indispensable parts of the water cycle, and it is difficult to mo...
Disruption of nocturnal sleep in an intensive care unit may remarkably affect production of melatonin, which is also known to have anti-inflammatory properties. In the present study, we aimed to investigate the effect of sleep quality on melatonin le...
Modern power systems have experienced large increases in intermittent and non-dispatchable sources and a progressive reduction in the size of hydro reservoirs for inflow regularization. One method to mitigate the high uncertainty and intermittency of...
This paper addresses the optimal design of a multi-layer security system for protecting borders or sensitive areas against intruders who may deploy decoys. The system comprises successive layers of imperfect sensors and a limited number of mobile res...
The authors review the efforts made in the last five years to implement Demand Response (DR) programs, considering and studying several models and countries. As motivation, climate change has been a topic widely discussed in the last decades, namely...
First responders are tasked to intervene in small-scale emergencies and major natural or human-made disasters under unknown environments. They are required to operate around the clock, in situations that are life-threatening and potentially hazardous...
In this paper, a new methodology for delineating Hydrological Response Units (HRUs), based on the Curve Number (CN) concept, is presented. Initially, a semi-automatic procedure in a GIS environment is used to produce basin maps of distributed CN valu...
Although complex hydrological models with detailed physics are becoming more common, lumped and semi-distributed models are still used for many applications and offer some advantages, such as reduced computational cost. Most of these semi-distributed...
Knowledge concerning the complicated changes of mass and heat transfer is desired to improve the performance and durability of unitized regenerative fuel cells (URFCs). In this study, a transient, non-isothermal, single-phase, and multi-physics mathe...
This paper studies a mechanical metamaterial with tetrachiral topology by mathematical modeling. Chirality is the property of an object that makes the object distinguishable from its mirror image; chirality can be left- or right-handed. The mechanica...
Many rivers are intensely managed due to anthropogenic influences such as dams, channelization, and water provision for municipalities, agriculture, and industry. With this growing pressure on fluvial systems comes a greater need to evaluate the stat...
Representative volume elements (RVEs) are commonly used to compute the effective elastic properties of solid media having repeating microstructure, such as fiber reinforced composites. However, for softening materials, an RVE could be problematic due...
Air transport is the fastest way to reach areas with no direct land routes for ambulances. This paper presents the development of a quadcopter-based rapid response unit in an efficient aerial aid system to eliminate the delay time for first aid suppl...
With the depletion of fossil energy and increasingly serious environmental problems, demand-side resources play an increasingly prominent role in peak shaving and valley filling, energy conservation, and emission reduction. Under the background of fu...
23 April 2021
The purposes of this study were to investigate the muscle-tendon unit stiffness response and to compare the stiffness with those of other indirect markers induced by two bouts of unaccustomed eccentric exercise. Eleven untrained men performed two bou...
Acoustic metamaterials and phononic crystals are progressively consolidating as an important technology that is expected to significantly impact the science and industry of acoustics in the coming years. In this work, the impact of unit cell multipli...
Introduction: Music is an intriguing but relatively under-researched intervention with many potential benefits for mechanically ventilated patients. The review aimed to assess the impact of listening to music as a non-pharmacological intervention on...
Effective heat dissipation challenges transient high-power electronic devices in hypersonic vehicle cabins. This study introduces a Phase Change Heat Exchange Unit with Layered Porous Media (PCHEU–LPM) employing pulsed heat flow at the top and...
Different spatial configurations (or scenarios) of multiple best management practices (BMPs) at the watershed scale may have significantly different environmental effectiveness, economic efficiency, and practicality for integrated watershed managemen...
In gas turbine fire-resistant oil systems, valve actuations induce transient pressure fluctuations and the water hammer effect, causing pressure oscillations and structural vibrations. This study uses a coupled CFD and transient structural simulation...
A multi-unit nuclear accident is an accident that damages the nuclear core and occurs in multiple units simultaneously in a nuclear power plant. Its massive consequences have triggered extensive studies on accident prevention and mitigation. In this...
A methodology named the step response separation (SRS) method for deriving S-curves solely from the data for basin runoff and the associated instantaneous unit hydrograph (IUH) is presented. The SRS method extends the root selection (RS) method to ge...
We aimed to evaluate the effects of unit cell design and the volume fraction of 3D-printed lattice structures with relative densities of 30% or 45% on compressive response and orthopedics screw pullout strength. All 3D lattice models were created usi...
We present a filtering technique that allows estimating the time derivative of slowly changing temperature measured via quantized sensor output in real time. Due to quantization, the output may appear constant for several minutes in a row with the te...
Patients undergoing liver transplantation have a high risk of perioperative clinical deterioration. The Rapid Response System is an intensive care unit-based approach for the early recognition and management of hospitalized patients identified as hig...
This study investigates the operational response of a two-sensor electronic heat cost allocator (HCA) installed on a high-inertia cast-iron radiator in a multi-family building. Over 164 days, reference temperatures recorded at 2-s intervals and aggre...
The 3-in-1 electric drive unit (EDU) has the advantage of increasing the motor size for a larger output, and the reducer can be a compact layout designed to incorporate three key components—the drive motor, inverter, and reducer—into a si...
Influenced by the clearance flow between stator and rotor, the operational performance and hydraulic performance of full cross-flow pump units are often worse than that of semi-cross-flow pumps. In order to explore the influence mechanism of clearanc...
This study introduces and characterizes a family of quilling-inspired S-shaped unit-cell architectures intended as building blocks for mechanical metamaterials. In contrast to conventional lattice designs based mainly on straight struts, the proposed...
With the development of the smart grid in China, new opportunities for responsive industrial loads to participate in the provision of ancillary services (AS) will become accessible. This paper summarizes AS in China and analyzes the necessary charact...
The demand response and accommodation of different renewable energy resources are essential factors in a modern smart microgrid. This paper investigates the energy management related to the short-term (24 h) unit commitment and demand response in a f...
To address the lack of direct experimental characterization of multi-kernel group threshing during maize ear threshing, an experimental study on maize ear group threshing was conducted based on kernel arrangement unit characteristics. By constructing...
The appropriate antibiotic treatment of patients with bacterial sepsis in the intensive care unit (ICU) remains a challenge. Considering that current international guidelines recommend 7 days of antibiotic therapy as sufficient for most severe infect...
Severe traumatic brain injury includes neurovascular unit (NVU) damage that is linked to the later development of neurodegenerative diseases. Cell-type-specific contributions and crosstalk between cells of the neurovascular unit following brain injur...
To reduce the influence of wind power output uncertainty on power system stability, demand response (DRPs) and energy storage systems (ESSs) are introduced while solving scheduling optimization problems. To simulate wind power scenarios, this paper u...
The performance of haul trucks in open-pit mining is strongly affected by haul-road geometry, surface condition, rolling resistance, and operational traffic regimes. However, existing studies often consider road-surface mapping, vehicle dynamic respo...
To implement steel bridge maintenance, especially that related to fatigue damage, it is important to monitor bridge deformations under traffic conditions. Bridges deform and rotate differently under traffic load conditions because their structures di...
Prognostic uncertainty and missed diagnoses of sepsis remain frequent after cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) surgery, where systemic inflammatory response (SIRS) arises from surgical trauma, blood activation in the extracorporeal circuit, ischemia/reperf...
Increasing participation in demand response within the industrial sector may be crucial to growing the levels of available flexible capacity required to reliably control national electricity grids as renewable generation increases to satisfy emission...
After decades of isolation, Myanmar opened up its economy to international trade in 2012. This opening led to a rapid influx of international investment, exposure to the international corporate social responsibility (CSR) community and presumed press...
Gastric acid secretion is closely associated with the development and treatment of chronic gastritis, gastric ulcers, and reflux esophagitis. However, gastric acid secretion is affected by complex physiological and pathological factors, and real-time...
The feasibility of universal newborn hearing screening (UNHS) using automated auditory brainstem response (AABR) devices in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) is already well demonstrated. The aim of this study was to find out whether the postco...
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