The U.S. electric utility industry is facing a number of challenges today. In response, utilities are investing in smart grid technologies to mitigate them. Yet, smart grid adoption presents significant knowledge barriers to utilities. This study aims to advance the understanding of IT knowledge challenges in smart grid adoption by focusing on three research questions: 1) what knowledge require...

Industrialization has agreat impact on our lives. Philosophers have been warning us about the danger of industrialization .We realize the price paid for progress only when a nightmarish incident like Bhopal Gas Tragedy involving loss of numerous lives and many after effects occurs .In the present paper we will discuss the incident ,its impact on the health of the victims even today when two and...

Let G be SLn, Sp2n or SOn. We consider the moduli space M of semistable principal G-bundles over a curve X . Our main result is that if U is a Zariski open subset of M then there is no universal bundle on U × X .

2. Resilience is not achieved by picking off and solving individual problems but results from the inter-play of all the multiple inter-related components and factors that form the whole electricity system. The lessons that can be learnt from the last period when electricity resilience was an issue, the 3 day week in the 1970s, are of limited value in the current context because both the underly...