Deregulating Ontario’s energy market required designing a rate structure for transmission costs that previously had been bundled with other electricity services. The Ontario Hydro Networks Company (now called Hydro One Networks, or ‘‘Hydro One’’) owns and operates the transmission lines. It sought input from a full spectrum of stakeholders in preparing a proposed rate structure for submission t...

OBJECTIVE Oxidative stress plays an important role in the development of diabetic complications including metabolic abnormality-induced diabetic micro-vascular and macro-vascular complications. Urtica dioica L. (U. dioica) has been traditionally used in Iranian medicine as an herbal remedy for hypoglycemic or due to its anti-inflammatory properties. The aim of the present study was to evaluate ...

Chronic wounds not only induce individual distress but also cause enormous and rapidly growing costs for our health care systems and society in general. The fastest growing groups of chronic wounds are Diabetic Foot Ulcers (DFU), due to the fact that the number of diabetics is growing worldwide. The pathophysiology of DFU is complex and necessitates interventions at multiple levels. Several of ...

Power system is a combination of a number of sources and loads properly linked by a transmission system. The source is a generating system fueled by renewable or non renewable system where bio mass fuel is used to generate electric power. Due to low levels of bio fuel availability, the gas turbine system is considered as a weak system when compared to thermal and hydro systems. However, stable ...

OBJECTIVE Previously, analgesic, hypnotic, and anticonvulsant effects have been suggested for Rosa damascena (R. damascena). In the present study, possible anti-seizure and neuro-protective effects of hydro-alcoholic extract of R. damascena has been investigated after inducing seizures in rats by pentylenetetrazole (PTZ). MATERIALS AND METHODS The rats were divided to five groups: (1) CONTROL...

The crystal structures of three cyclo-penta-[c]furans with various substituents at the 4-, 5- and 6-positions of the ring system are reported, namely, (±)-(3aR,4S,5S,6aS)-4-methyl-5-phenyl-hexa-hydro-1H-cyclo-penta-[c]furan-4,5-diol, C14H18O3, (I), (±)-(3aR,4S,5S,6aS)-4-benz-yloxy-4-methyl-5-phenyl-hexa-hydro-1H-cyclo-penta-[c]furan-5-ol, C21H24O3, (II), and (±)-(1aR,1bS,4aR,5S,5aR)-5-benz-ylox...

The power system restructuring has introduced competitiveness among different market players in electricity market and as a result transmission lines have to operate near to their thermal limits. System operators have a challenge to ensure reliable and secure transmission of power under these conditions. In this paper a rescheduling based congestion management solution is proposed for hybrid el...

Bacillus sp. OxB-1 has been characterized as a strain that produces a new enzyme, aldoxime dehydratase, which catalyzes the dehydration of aldoxime to form nitrile. Here, its complete genome sequence (3,594,618 bp, with a GC content of 47.85%), comprising a circular chromosome, is announced.