The work is devoted to substantiation of possibility reduction failure rate thermal mode support system when operating with variable load by control reliability indicators thermoelectric cooler. A mathematical model for evaluating the effect on a single-cascade cooler at given temperature level cooling, medium temperature, geometry thermocouple branches various current modes operation considere...

We revisit the problem of real-time pricing for load frequency balancing introduced in [3]. Taking inspiration from the Vickrey-Clarke-Groves (VCG) mechanism, we derive incremental price functions that implement the optimal solution in Nash equilibrium. We then compare this pricing scheme with some recent dynamic mechanisms.

Many engineering applications require the knowledge of input forces to mechanical systems. However, in practice, it is quite difficult to measure these forces directly. In order to obtain an estimate of the input forces to structural systems, Kalman filtering based techniques have recently been introduced. These state-estimation techniques allow estimating the forces concurrent with the states ...

The vision of the Smart Grid includes demand-side peak shaving strategies, such as real-time pricing or profile’s based tariffs, to encourage consumption such that the peaks on demand are flattened. Up to date, most works along this line focused on optimising via scheduling of home appliances or micro-storage the individual user consumption. Alternatively, in this demonstration we propose to ex...

OBJECTIVE We assessed the relationship between positive affect and viral suppression among women with HIV infection. METHOD Three waves of 6-month data were analyzed from 995 women on HIV antiretroviral therapy participating in the Women's Interagency HIV Study (10/11-3/13). The predictor variable was self-reported positive affect over 2 waves of data collection, and the outcome was suppresse...

The vision of the Smart Grid includes demand-side peak shaving strategies, such as real-time pricing or profile’s based tariffs, to encourage consumption such that the peaks on demand are flattened. Up to date, most works along this line focused on optimising via scheduling of home appliances or micro-storage the individual user consumption. Alternatively, in this paper we propose to exploit th...

We investigate the following very simple load-balancing algorithm on the N-cycle (N even) which we call Odd-Even Transposition Balancing (OETB). The edges of the cycle are partitioned into two matchings canonically. A matching defines a single step, the two matchings form a single round. Processors connected by an edge of the matching perfectly balance their loads, and, if there is an excess to...

Adaptive Multi-Path routing (AMP) is a new simple algorithm for dynamic traffic engineering within autonomous systems. In this paper, we describe an AMP variant which is related to the well-known Optimized Multi-Path (OMP) routing protocol. Whereas OMP requires global knowledge about the whole network in each node, the AMP algorithm is based on a backpressure concept which restricts the distrib...

A Video-on-Demand system usually consists of a large number of independent video servers. In order to utilize network resources as efficiently as possible the overall network load should be balanced among the available servers. We consider a problem formulation based on an estimation of the expected number of requests per movie during the period of highest user interest. Apart from load balanci...

A large atrial contribution to left ventricular (LV) filling (%A) in patients with LV hypertrophy has been assumed by some to indicate abnormal LV compliance. We tested this assumption by examining the influence of short- and long-term changes in load on compliance and filling dynamics using nitroprusside to decrease load in 11 patients with severe aortic stenosis (AS) and ergonovine to increas...