Market clearing in restructured power systems is mostly implemented through an offer-based setting with the goal of maximizing social welfare. This approach leads to sound results from an economic viewpoint when generation offers reflect true production costs. However, offers may significantly differ from actual costs in practice, thus yielding undesired distortion. Under a marginal pricing sch...

Optical clearing, in combination with recently developed optical imaging techniques, enables visualization and acquisition of high-resolution, three-dimensional images of biological structures deep within the tissue. Many different approaches can be used to reduce light absorption and scattering within the tissue, but there is a paucity of research on the quantification of clearing efficacy. Wi...

In [1] the use of VCG in matching markets is motivated by saying that in order to compute market clearing prices in a matching market, the auctioneer needs to know the true valuations of the bidders. Hence VCG and corresponding personalized prices are proposed as an incentive compatible mechanism. The same line of argument pops up in several lecture sheets and other documents related to courses...

1. In rats in a variety of nutritional states, the adipose tissue clearing factor lipase activity is strongly, positively correlated with fat-cell triglyceride fatty acid uptake. 2. In the same animals, muscle clearing factor lipase activity is inversely correlated with the activity of the enzyme in adipose tissue and with the plasma insulin concentration. 3. In starved animals that are given g...

Optical emission computed tomography (optical-ECT) is a technique for imaging the three-dimensional (3D) distribution of fluorescent probes in biological tissue specimens with high contrast and spatial resolution. In optical-ECT, functional information can be imaged by (i) systemic application of functional labels (e.g. fluorophore labelled proteins) and/or (ii) endogenous expression of fluores...

Background. In morphometric and allometric analysis, the degree of variation attributable to non-biological causes is ignored. The effects this on subsequent statistical analyzes are unknown. It unclear whether sample conservation induces substantial in shape such affects inference interpretation. Therefore, fish skeletal studies, routinely prepared for osteological studies using a common proce...

In this paper, we evaluate the Analysis of Competing Hypotheses (ACH) method using a normative Bayesian probabilistic framework. We describe the ACH method and present an example of how to use it to structure an analytic problem. We then show how to represent the same analytic problem using Bayesian networks and compare the result with that using the ACH method. We discuss how Bayesian networks...

A four-year project to build capacity in developing and transition countries to participate effectively in the Biosafety Clearing-House (BCH) has resulted in a well-trained and effective team of BCH Regional Advisors, an extensive and continually improving body of training materials, and a growing number of participating countries. Throughout the project, the training and the materials have inc...

Tissue clearing methods promise to provide exquisite three-dimensional imaging information; however, there is a need for simplified methods for lower resource settings and for non-fluorescence based phenotyping to enable light microscopic imaging modalities. Here we describe the simplified CLARITY method (SCM) for tissue clearing that preserves epitopes of interest. We imaged the resulting tiss...