Phasor Measurement Unit Placement aims to decrease the cost this phasor equipment while maintaining observability of electrical distribution systems. This placement can be modeled as a set covering problem. Synchronized data provides systems’ information with higher quality and frequency than Remote Terminal Units. These enable implementation faster real-time state estimators. Thus, supervisory...

PURPOSE Options for leveraging available telemedicine technologies, ranging from simple webcams and telephones to smartphone apps and medical-grade wearable sensors, are evolving faster than the culture of clinical research. Until recently, most clinical trials relied on paper-based processes and technology. This cost- and labor-intensive system, while slowly changing, remains an obstacle to ne...

In this paper, an application of an adaptive differential evolution (DE) algorithm for training higher order neural networks (HONNs), especially the Pi-Sigma Network (PSN) has been introduced. The proposed algorithm is a variant of DE/rand/2/bin and possesses two modifications to avoid the shortcomings of DE/rand/2/bin. The base vector for perturbation is the best vector out of the three random...

Fine-scale behavior of crocodilians has rarely been recorded in the field despite the important ecological roles these reptiles play in wetland systems around the world. In this study, we attached multi-sensor data loggers to freeranging American alligators Alligator mississip piensis in the northern Banana River Lagoon, Florida, to record their diving and swimming behavior, diel activity patte...

The N gene product of coliphage lambda acts with host factors (Nus) through sites (nut) to render subsequent downstream transcription resistant to a variety of termination signals. These sites, nutR and nutL, are downstream, respectively, from the early promoters PR and PL. Thus a complicated set of molecular interactions are likely to occur at the nut sites. We have selected mutations in the n...

The early 1980s constituted a watershed in science, mainly concerning the extent and nature of globalization and commercialization of scientific research, and its impact upon the university. Considerable debate has arisen about the sources of this transition, but aside from a few lone voices, the scholarly literature has neglected the concurrent rise of the contract research organization (CRO) ...