During the past decade psychological stress has been associated with an increased risk for periodontal disease (Kurer et al, 1995; Linden et al, 1996; Croucher et al, 1997; Deinzer et al, 1998; Genco et al, 1999; Hugosson et al, 2002; Pistorius et al, 2002; Vettore et al, 2003). While the mechanism for a possible association is poorly understood and has not yet been securely established, severa...

Electric power restructuring offers a major change to the vertically integrated monopoly. The change manifests the main part of engineers’ efforts to reshape the three components of today’s vertically integrated monopoly: generation, distribution and transmission. In a restructured environment, the main tasks of these three components will remain the same as before, however, to comply with ...

Modeling of Utility Distribution Feeder in OpenDSS and Steady State Impact analysis of Distributed Generation Vaidyanath Ramachandran, Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, West Virginia University Dr. Sarika Khushalani Solanki, Ph.D., Chair With the deregulation of the electric power industry and the advancement of new technologies, the attention of the utilities has been drawn towards ...

this paper represents a complete survey on generation companies’ (gencos’) optimal bidding strategy problem in restructured power markets. in this regard after an introduction to competitive electricity markets, concept of optimal bidding strategy is presented. considering large amount of works accomplished in this area a novel classification is implemented in order to categorize the existing d...

Virtual Power Plant (VPP) is defined as a cluster of energy conversion/storage units which are centrally operated in order to improve the technical and economic performance. This paper addresses the optimal operation of a VPP considering the risk factors affecting its daily operation profits. The optimal operation is modelled in both day ahead and balancing markets as a two-stage stochastic mix...

In this paper, a new security-constrained self-scheduling framework incorporating the transmission flow limits in both steady state conditions and post-contingent states is presented to produce efficient bidding strategy for generation companies (GENCOs) in day-ahead electricity markets. Moreover, the proposed framework takes into account the uncertainty of the predicted market prices and model...

In this argumentative paper, the web-based brainstorm application Mindpool is introduced as a complement to traditional corporate suggestion systems. Though being inspired by, and greatly related to, general electronic brainstorming (EBS) applications, Mindpool differs in several important aspects. By combining features traditionally found in EBS with the benefits of nominal groups Mindpool out...

273. 36. Wu T, Trevisan M, Genco RJ, Falkner KL, Dorn JP, Sempos CT. Examination of the relation between periodontal health status and cardiovascular risk factors: serum total and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, C-reactive protein, and plasma fibrinogen. Am J Epidemiol. 2000;151:273-282. (REPRINTED) ARCH INTERN MED/ VOL 160, OCT 9, 2000 WWW.ARCHINTERNMED.COM

In the past, the selection of resources to execute various warehouse operation services was done solely by experts. In this paper, a RFIDbased Resource Management System (RFID-RMS) is designed to help users to select the most suitable resource usage packages for handling warehouse operation orders by retrieving and analysing useful knowledge from a case-based data warehouse for solutions in bot...

Successful privatization in other sectors leads to a restructuring the power sector. The same practice has been adopted electrical industry with deregulated electricity market (EM). This enables competition among generating companies (Genco’s) for maximizing their profit and it plays central role. With this aim, each Genco gives higher bid that may result risk of losing opportunity get selected...