Short Term Load Forecasting (STLF) is a power system operating procedures that have an important role in terms of realizing the economic electric production. This research focuses on the application of hybrid PSO-ANN algorithm in STLF. Load data grouped by the type of weekdays and holidays. Consumption of electricity load in West Java Indonesia, used as input to the learning algorithm PSO-ANN. ...

This large-scale study, consisting of 21.3 million hand hygiene opportunities from 19 distinct facilities in 10 different states, uses linear predictive models to expose factors that may affect hand hygiene compliance. We examine the use of features such as temperature, relative humidity, influenza severity, day/night shift, federal holidays and the presence of new medical residents in predicti...

Understanding human mobility is critical for decision support in areas from urban planning to infectious diseases control. Prior work has focused on tracking daily logs of outdoor mobility without considering relevant context, which contain a mixture of regular and irregular human movement for a range of purposes, and thus diverse e‚ects on the dynamics have been ignored. Œis study aims to focu...

Stability requires energy demand prediction. We train and test 24-hour German load forecasting models. ENTSO-E Transparency Platform data covered European generation, transmission, consumption. It uses instead of PJM for the eastern US, adds holidays lag features to XGB model, benchmarks with a linear model random forest. Grid search CV refines final model. National RMSE is 1740MW, which suitab...

The controversy about the ideal duration of treatment with bisphosphonates is not new. As early as in 2005, some experts suggested that treatment with alendronate for patients with postmenopausal osteoporosis could be discontinued after five years, provided no fractures had occurred during this period and bone mass had improved as compared to baseline. This recommendation was based on the lack ...

Not many years ago any proposal which involved the taking of a group of mentally defective children straight from their homes* for a holiday in the country would have been received with scepticism by reason of its practical difficulties, with incredulity as to ' 'the use of it.'' Such an experiment had never been tried; it might so easily end in disaster; the children would fret for their mothe...

The article substantiates the importance of including sports holidays in work a coach within organizing judo classes with preschool children. reveals role festival as an effective means pedagogical influence. purpose study was to develop and test program for children section. 42 young judoists at age 5-6 years first year took part study. It is revealed that spos holidays, through creation emoti...