One of the most promising applications of the family of electronic devices called Flexible AC Transmission System (FACTS) devices is to better regulate power flow in transmission grids. In particular, the Unified Power Flow Controller (UPFC) is the best choice for complete control of power flow control. By selecting proper installation locations and control techniques, UPFCs may be able to prev...

Observations (1978–1991) of distributions of pelagic juvenile Northeast Arctic cod (Gadus morhua L.) show that up to 1/3 of the year class are dispersed off the continental shelf and into the deep Norwegian Sea while on the way from the spring-spawning areas along the Norwegian coast to the autumn-settlement areas in the Barents Sea. The fate of this variable fraction of pelagic juveniles off-s...

Large-scale communications blackouts, such as those carried out by Egypt and Libya in 2011 and Syria in 2012 and 2013, have motivated a series of projects that aim to enable citizens to communicate even in the face of such heavy-handed censorship efforts. A common theme across these proposals has been the use of wireless mesh networks. We argue that such networks are poorly equipped to serve as...

A hidden failure embedded DC model of power transmission systems has been developed to study the power law distributions observed in North American blackout data. We investigate the impacts of several model parameters on the global dynamics and evaluate possible mitigation measures. The main parameters include system loading level, hidden failure probability, spinning reserve capacity and contr...

The aim of the New Zealand Southern ALPs EXperiment (SALPEX) was to study chiefly, but not exclusively, how the Southern Alps promote precipitation on the upwind side of the mountain chain in pre-frontal northwesterly airstreams. The third and most extensive field phase of the experiment ran for three weeks during October 1996, and documented two events in considerable detail. The present paper...

Northeast Asia and the Trends of the 21 st Century An Essay on the Northeast Asian Economic Community Jung-Dong Park In corresponding to present trends, it is necessary to organize an EU-like community in Asia, especially in the Northeast Asia. The Northeast Asian countries, including Korea, China, Japan, Taiwan and so on, have similar history, culture, and ethnic background, and therefore, it ...

BACKGROUND Due to the rising standard of living environment and advances in public health and medical care in China, it has been a tendency in recent years that health-related quality of life (HRQoL) has been increasingly acknowledged in community health management. However, large-scale population-based study on evaluating HQRoL in northeast of China was not conducted. This article aims to inve...

1 College of Civil and Architecture Engineering, Northeast Petroleum University, Heilongjiang Key Laboratory of Disaster Prevention, Mitigation and Protection Engineering, Daqing, 163318 China 2 College of Civil and Architecture Engineering, Northeast Petroleum University, Daqing, 163318 China [email protected], [email protected], [email protected],[email protected], [email protected], [email protected]

1 Key Laboratory of Molecular Epigenetics of the Ministry of Education, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China, 2 Northeast Normal University Natural History Museum, Changchun, China, 3 Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Biodiversity Science and Ecological Engineering, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, 4 Department of Botany, National Museum of Natural His...

Impact of mire reclamation on export potential and characteristics of dissolved carbons in the Sanjiang Plain, Northeast China Y. D. Guo, C. C. Song, Y. Z. Lu, Y. Y. Song, and Z. M. Wan Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Environment, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130012, China College of Earth Science, Jilin University, Changchun 130...