In electric arc furnace steelmaking units, the essential parameters are reducing price, increasing production and decreasing environmental pollution. Electric arc furnaces are the largest users of electric energy in industry. The most important techniques that can be used to reduce the electric energy consumption in electric arc furnaces are scrap preheating, stirring, use of burners and hot ch...

roadmap is a strategic plan that describes the steps an organization needs to take to achieve stated outcomes and goals in different layers and these layers are closely related to each other. lower layer are more important in planning processes. acquisition layer is one of the most crucial layers in road mapping process. today there are some international organizations that do policy making and...

differential steering of in-wheel electric vehicle provides the functions of both active steering and power assisted steering with the coupling control of force and displacement transfer characteristic of system. a collaborative optimization model of the differential power-assisted steering system of in-wheel electric vehicle is built, with steering economy as the main system optimization goal,...

Uncertainty surrounding the nature and timing of future carbon regulations poses a fundamental and far-reaching financial risk for electric utilities and their ratepayers. Long-term resource planning provides a potential framework within which utilities can assess carbon regulatory risk and evaluate options for mitigating exposure to this risk through investments in energy efficiency and other ...

We propose a novel numerical method for the semiclassical limit of the Schrödinger equation. When using deterministic particle methods, point values of the computed solutions have to be recovered from their singular particle approximations by using some smoothing procedure. The choice of the smoothing procedure is rather flexible. Moreover, there is always a parameter associated with the smooth...

The enactment of the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 (CAFA) is a congressional pronouncement implying that the Erie Doctrine is seriously erroneous. In broad terms, CAFA allows class actions that have been filed in state courts and that are based on state substantive law to be removed to federal court if they involve out-of-state defendants and more than five million dollars in claimed damage...

a modified pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (pfge) protocol was developed and applied to clinical isolates of mycobacterium tuberculosis complex to reduce the cost of using lyticase. this protocol reduces the expense of pfge typing of mycobacterium tuberculosis complex as it removes the use of lyticase during the spheroplast formation from these bacteria.