This paper reviews the reliability impacts occurring from the implementation of the demand response initiatives offered in New York’s Emergency Demand Response Program (EDRP) and New England’s Load Response Program (LRP) for the summer of 2001. The New York Independent System Operator, Inc. (NYISO), the New England Power Pool (NEPOOL) and the Independent System Operator of New England Inc. (ISO...

The primary aim of this study is twofold. First, the authors seek to identify the factors that influence members of the general public to conduct Internet searches for health information. Their second intent is to explore the influence such Internet use has on three types of personal empowerment. In the summer of 2007 the authors conducted a household sample survey of a population of Canadian a...

We give an overview of the K framework, following the lecture notes presented by the author at the Marktoberdorf Summer School in year 2016.

effects of summer savory (satureja hortensis l.) dry powder (ssdp) and essential oil (sseo) on performance, ruminal fermentation and blood metabolites were assessed using 20west azerbaijan native kids (16±1.94 kg initial live weight) in a random block design with 5 treatments (4 replicates per treatment) over a 13-week period. treatments were: i) basal diet without additive (control), ii): basa...

Summer bridge programs are designed to improve retention and academic success among at-risk populations in postsecondary education by focusing on successful skills, behaviors, and high impact practices that promote academic performance. Recent research on these programs has focused primarily on how students’ incoming demographics and prior academic performance predict academic performance at th...

One of the hardest but also most exciting experiences ever for a capacity planner and performance specialist is having the possibility of working in the middle of a financial crisis. In the summer of 2002 I was in charge of the capacity planning and performance office of a major American bank in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and I was in the eye of the storm during the entire crisis. This session is...

We outline and summarize the work completed in Cundiff Group during the summer of 2011 in the process of developing an aparatus to test the symmetry properties of the cuprate family of high temperature superconductors. We describe the theory this experiment is based in, purposed experimental setup, and progress toward its completion as well as future work on the project.