BACKGROUND Angiogenesis is a very essential process in tumor biology. Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), angiopoietin and its receptor (TIE-2) are very important mediators for angiogenesis. In this trial, we aimed to analyze the role of these mediators on chemotherapy response and survival. PATIENTS AND METHODS Forty four cancer patients and 22 healthy controls were included in the st...

In areas with rapidly changing loads of large magnitude, utility companies often experience large deviations in frequency and area control error. Inadvertent tie-line power flow also occurs. The purpose of this research is to examine the effects a large scale energy storage device has on the system response to a rapidly changing load. Two control areas connected by a tie-line are modelled and s...

Compositions with tie lines between the and ( ; ) phases in a ternary Re-Cr-Ni system were investigated by heat treating various ternary Re-Cr-Ni alloys at 1573K in vacuum for up to 2000 h. The microstructures of the Re-containing alloys that had been water quenched after various heat treatment for times were observed and their concentration profiles for Re, Cr, and Ni were measured using an el...

The objectives of load frequency control (LFC) are to minimize the transient deviations in these variables (area frequency and tie-line power interchange) and to ensure their steady state errors to be zeros. Since the tieline interfaces give rise to weakly coupled terms between areas, the large-scale power system can be decentralized into small subsystems through treating tie-line signals as di...

Chunyu Chen 1, Kaifeng Zhang 1,*, Kun Yuan 1 and Xianliang Teng 2 1 Key Laboratory of Measurement and Control of Complex Systems of Engineering, Ministry of Education, School of Automation, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China; [email protected] (C.C.); [email protected] (K.Y.) 2 State Key Laboratory of Smart Grid Protection and Control, NARI Group Corporation, State Grid Electric Powe...

Organizations increasingly rely on group-based organizational structures to manage uncertain environments. However, at the group level there is still a limited understanding of how boundary-spanning activities should be managed to increase group performance. In this paper, we propose “out-grouptie centralization” as a concept that refers to the variation in the group members’ network ties to ot...

This paper aims at investigating the problem of Load Frequency Control (LFC) in interconnected power systems in order to obtain robustness against uncertainties. A design method for a robust controller, based on Quantitative Feedback Theory (QFT), has been presented in this paper. For a two-area power system, the simulation results show that the system response with the proposed QFT controller ...

Abstract: In the present work, we focus on the study of dynamic behavior of an interconnected two-area power system and a scheme for improvement of response for the same. Here, two-area system with one non-reheat thermal units & one reheat thermal units is considered. The frequency and tie-line power deviation of two units are studied using MATLAB-SIMULINK in continuous time domain and also in ...