In this article, the smart grid is modeled as a decentralized and hierarchical network, made up of three categories of agents: suppliers, generators and microgrids. To optimize their decisions concerning prices and traded power, agents need to forecast the demand of the microgrids and the fluctuating productions of the generators. The biases resulting from the decentralized learning could creat...

How humans and other animals control rhythmic behaviors, and locomotion in particular, is one of the grand challenges of neuroscience and biomechanics. And yet remarkably few studies address the fundamental control-systems modeling of locomotor control. This thesis attempts to address several pieces of this grand challenge through the development of experimental, theoretical, and computational ...

The grand potential P(z)=kT of the cluster model at fugacity z, neglecting interactions between clusters, is deened by a power series P n Q n z n , where Q n , which depends on the temperature T, is thèpartition function' of a cluster of size n. At low temperatures this series has a nite radius of convergence z s. Some theorems are proved showing that if Q n , considered as a function of n, is ...

Matthew P. Fahrenkopf, MD, Joshua J. Nelson, MD, Mitchell Eichhorn, MD, Julie Conway, MD and Adam Hassan, MD aMichigan State University College of Human Medicine, Grand Rapids; bGrand Rapids Medical Education Partners Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Residency, Grand Rapids, Mich; cHelen DeVos Children’s Hospital Pediatric Ophthalmology, Grand Rapids, Mich, and dEye Plastic & Facial Cosmetic ...

In 2012, people aged 65 or above accounted for nearly one-fifth of the population of the European Union [1] and this figure is expected to reach 30 % by 2060 [2]. In other words, we are witnessing a demographic shift: the number of seniors who need support is growing whilst there is a decline in the percentage of the working population contributing to their support. This disproportion and the r...

Abstract We consider the extent to which temporal shifts have been responsible for an increased tendency females sort into traditionally male roles over time, versus childhood factors. Drawing on three cohort studies, follow individuals born in UK 1958, 1970 and 2000, we compare shift of these cohorts compared males, combined effect a large set variables. For all cohorts, find strong evidence s...