The recruitment of participants is an important step which contributes to the success any study involving human participants, but accessing and recruiting prospective can be a challenging task. Drawing on direct experience, this article describes challenges faced strategies adopted in order gain access recruit members gated religious community as research participants. In all, it suggests that ...

This paper develops a method for nodal pricing and market clearing mechanism considering reliability of the system. The effects of components reliability on electricity price, market participants’ profit and system social welfare is considered. This paper considers reliability both for evaluation of market participant’s optimality as well as for fair pricing and market clearing mechanism. To ac...