the purpose of this study is to recognize and categorize the barriers for implementing human resources strategy in “khorasan regional electric company”. q-methodology has been applied as a mixed method in this study. 30 managers and experts of “khorasan regional electric company” have taken part in filling up the questionnaire in this study. developing concourse, evaluating and summarizing the ...

Natural disasters can have a devastating effect on critical infrastructures, especially in case of cascading effects among multiple infrastructures such as the electric power grid, the communication network, and the road network. While there exist detailed models for individual types of infrastructures such as electric power grids, these do not encompass the various interconnections and interde...

The present context of the electric industry, characterized by competitive markets, privatization, and regulatory of technical requirements forces the power utilities to optimize their asset management practices and develop the requisite decision plans techno-economically. Practically approaching, this paper devises a new support tool based on a multiattribute decision making (MADM) framework i...

This paper reviews and improves a recently proposed model of road network dynamics. The model is also adapted and generalised to represent the patterns of battery consumption of electric vehicles traveling in the road network. Simulations from the mobility simulator SUMO are given to support and to illustrate the efficacy of the proposed approach. Applications relevant in the field of electric ...

Motivated by the observation that applied electric !elds modulate hippocampal seizures, and that seizures may be asynchronous, we modeled synaptically coupled two-compartment hippocampal pyramidal neurons embedded within an electrically resistive lattice in order to examine network synchronization properties under the in4uence of externally applied electric !elds. Excitatory electric !elds were...

This paper presents details of an electric vehicle impact assessment trial currently being undertaken in Dublin, Ireland. The trial involves three stages, each of which are described in this paper. The first stage investigated the potential impact from electric vehicle charging on the operating conditions of existing residential network. During the trial, electric vehicles were driven and charg...

regarding the nature of non-linear discrete placement, and in order to determine the optimal capacity of the substation, the goal in the present study will be a number of local optimum points. in this research, the problem of optimal placement posts to reduce power losses by considering distributed generation (dg). in formulating the objective function, geographical distribution density in the ...

In the context of smart cities, direct current overhead contact lines, usually adopted to power urban transportation systems such as trolleybuses, tramways, metros, and railways, can serve a backbone connect different modern emerging technologies. Among these, in-motion charging (IMC) trolleybuses with on-board batteries are expected be very impactful on DC network’s flow may require specific v...