The wave of electricity market restructuring both within the United States and worldwide has brought the issue of horizontal market power to the forefront. Traditionally, estimation and prediction of market power has relied heavily on concentration measures. In this paper, we discuss the weaknesses of concentration measures as a viable measure of market power in the electricity industry, and we...

Abstract Background Mechanical circulatory support has garnered significant popularity as both a bridge to transplant well destination therapy for patients with end-stage heart failure. Right failure (RHF) is devastating complication after LVAD placement and very unpredictable. Assisted circulation of the left ventricle (LV) an device could unmask underlying RHF. However, otherwise healthy righ...

All graphs considered in this paper are finite, loopless, and without multiple edges. The notation and terminology used but undefined in this paper can be found in [2]. Let G be a graph with the vertex set V (G) and the edge set E(G). For a vertex x ∈ V (G), we use dG(x) and NG(x) to denote the degree and the neighborhood of x in G, respectively. Let δ(G) denote the minimum degree of G. For any...

With Enalapril To the Editor: I am writing regarding the report by Spaulding et al that appeared in Circulation.1 These authors investigated the acute systemic and pulmonary hemodynamic response to 10 mg of enalapril in 20 patients with congestive heart failure; the patients were randomly assigned to receive either aspirin or ticlopidine. Enalapril, given after 1 week of such treatment, caused ...

An easy method to prepare hydrophilic PES membranes with anti-fouling properties was developed by UV-polymerization of poly vinyl pirrolidone (PVP) on membrane surfaces. The modified surfaces were analyzed ATR-FTIR, and the new nature determined contact angle measurements. novel prepared using Rhodiasolv® Polarclean as a green solvent compared control membrane, without exposure at hydrophilizat...

Soil-atmosphere interaction has been attracting increasing interest as the seasonal variation of pore water pressures (pwp) linked to a variety geotechnical problems (e.g. slope stability and serviceability, foundation subsidence or swelling, desiccation cracking etc.) identified part solution in sustainable urban drainage systems). Prediction how pwp will change within soils low permeability u...

In this paper, we compute two anisotropic static spherical solutions for compact stellar candidates in the background of f(G,T) gravity using minimal geometric decoupling technique. The internal structure becomes when an additional sector is added to isotropic system. With method, radial component distorted establish sets field equations that represent perfect and sources. We use Karmarkar cond...

We studied the hemodynamic behavior of the pulmonary circulation at rest and during exercise in six patients with MTB. As a group, in contrast to advanced fibrocaseous tuberculosis, these patients exhibited normal pulmonary hemodynamics at rest and during exercise. Only minor abnormalities in pulmonary vascular resistance at exercise (increased PAd-PWP gradient) were noted in two of the patient...