eographic markets are currently defined by market analysts at each of the twelve Federal Reserve Banks, with oversight by the Federal Reserve Board and even the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1963, in U.S. v. Bank of Philadelphia, the Court ruled that the market for bank deposits is local. That 1963 ruling still unifies market analysis at each of the twelve Reserve Banks. The flavor of analysis differs...

deregulation policy has caused some changes in the concepts of power systems reliability assessment and enhancement. in this paper, generation reliability is considered, and a method for its assessment using intelligent systems is proposed. also, because of power market and generators’ forced outages stochastic behavior, monte carlo simulation is used for reliability evaluation. generation r...

metal spinning as a kind of manufacturing process has capability to shape hollow components. in present work shear spinning process is used to formplates into conical shapes. moreover, the aim of this research is to demonstrate the impact of the process parameters (i.e. feeding rate and spindle speed) on wall thickness. this approachwas done by experimental and finite elements method. the resul...

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