-In this paper, an attempt has been made to establish a market mechanism for primary and secondary frequency regulation services in the restructured power system environment. The concept of elasticity of offer price and elasticity of offer quantity has been proposed. Such a design of offer structure helps the providers to respond to the system requirements based on the market price variations i...

BACKGROUND Human skin properties have been used as an important diagnostic component in traditional medicine as they change with health conditions. Sasang constitutional medicine (SCM) puts emphasis on the recognition of the constitution-specific skin features prior to the diagnostic decision of health. In this work, in search of skin-characteristics effectively reflecting SCM features, we comp...

Originating from the field of physics and economics, the term elasticity is nowadays heavily used in the context of cloud computing. In this context, elasticity is commonly understood as the ability of a system to automatically provision and deprovision computing resources on demand as workloads change. However, elasticity still lacks a precise definition as well as representative metrics coupl...

In this talk I assert that the usual interpretation of what one means by “elasticity” is much too insular and illustrate my thesis by introducing implicit constitutive theories that can describe the nondissipative response of solids. I show that response which was hitherto untenable within the context of Cauchy or Green Elasticity are not only possible, they can explain phenomena that have thus...

in this paper, using kakwani-son method, price elasticity of poverty is calculated for taxed edible goods in the year 2004. this elasticity shows the total effect of price changes on poverty. the total effect is the sum of redistribution and income effects of price change. in fact, the redistribution effect tells us whether an increase in the price of a commodity hurts the poor more than the ri...

A new mode of imaging with ultrasonography (US) is under development in several laboratories around the world. This technique allows estimation of some measure of the viscoelastic properties of tissue. The information displayed in the images is a surrogate for that obtained with manual palpation. Fundamental concepts in elasticity imaging include stress, strain, and the elastic modulus; strain ...

When vital rates depend on population structure (e.g., relative frequencies of males or females), an important question is how the long-term population growth rate λ responds to changes in rates. For instance, availability of mates may depend on the sex ratio of the population and hence reproductive rates could be frequency-dependent. In such cases change in any vital rate alters the structure,...

in this paper, the numerical technique based on hybrid bernoulli and block-pulse functions has been developed to approximate the solution of system of linear volterra integral equations. system of volterra integral equations arose in many physical problems such as elastodynamic, quasi-static visco-elasticity and magneto-electro-elastic dynamic problems. these functions are formed by the hybridi...

images are superimposed on B-mode images with a translucent color scale. In the clinical measurement, elasticity images for breast and prostate cancer were obtained from more than 50 subjects, respectively. Some results showed the high availability of the elasticity image, that is, visualization of the expansion area of a tumor and detection of a small size (<5mm) of non-invasive ductal carcino...

Next generation Cloud applications present elastic features and rapidly scale their comprised resources. Consequently, managing and monitoring Cloud applications is becoming a challenge. This paper showcases the functionality and novel features of: (i) c-Eclipse, a framework for describing Cloud applications along with their elasticity requirements and deploying them on any IaaS provider; and (...