Endometriosis is defined as the presence of endometrial mucosa (glands and stroma) abnormally implanted in locations other than the uterine cavity. Deep infiltrating endometriosis (DIE) is considered the most aggressive presentation of the disease, penetrating more than 5 mm in affected tissues, and it is reported in approximately 20% of all women with endometriosis. DIE can cause a complete di...

A shared pool of grid-scale storage resources called Cloud Energy Storage (CES) can bring substantial benefits to the economical and reliable operation MGs. However, investment cost CES may not be affordable for a single microgrid (MG). As solution, we propose an approach in which neighboring microgrids distribution network collaborate form multi-microgrid (multi-MG) install increase their prof...

The use of new energy to generate electricity in the power system and large-scale increase grid connection has led increasingly insufficient regulation, order solve this problem, peak shaving auxiliary service market came into being.This article comprehensively analyzes factors those affect clearing price services: macro include economic policies (renewable electric substitution), technological...

Demand Side Management (DSM) is a popular approach for grid-aware peak-shaving. The most commonly used DSM methods either have no look ahead feature and risk deploying flexibility too early, or they plan ahead using predictions, which are in general not very reliable. To counter this, a DSM approach is presented that does not rely on detailed power predictions, but only uses a few easy to predi...

High penetration of renewable energy poses a significant challenge in operation of power system. A potential solution for this problem is utilizing Battery Energy Storage System (BESS). The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effectiveness of BESS ability to peak shave and smooth the load curve of an actual circuit on the island of Maui in Hawaii. The distribution circuit has about 850 kW o...

There are numerous types of surface coatings available to engineers in order to improve the friction and wear resistance of components. In order to successfully use these coatings in practice, it is important to understand the different types of coatings available, and the factors that control their mechanical and tribological properties. This paper will focus on the application of diamond-like...

In this paper, a retail facility which has front room and back room operations, and crosstrained workers, is considered. In particular, it is of interest to the facility to determine optimal times for switching workers between the two rooms under stochastic customer arrival so that expected customer waiting time is minimized, but all work in the back room is performed. Three constraint programm...

Experimental manipulation of energy expenditure has long been recognized as an effective means for identifying causative effects and avoiding confounded interpretations arising from spurious correlations. This approach has been successfully applied mainly to studies on birds, particularly on reproducing adults, whereas manipulations in mammals have proved more problematic. Here, we tested the h...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW Rectal endometriosis is a very indolent disease whose treatment has been debated by a range of competing schools. Meanwhile, not all audiences in the scientific community are entirely familiar with the full aspects of the disease. Hence, the purpose of this review is to outline the basic as well as the recent literature pertaining to the disease, thus offering a broader view t...