Recently, problems associated with variations of the static demand economic-dispatch problem for an electrical power grid [10] have been considered by several authors, e.g., [5], [7]. However, demand elasticity for electricity may grow with the onset of enormous amounts of electric vehicle charging, see e.g., [1], [4] and the references therein. We consider a noncooperative game played by the g...

Recently, the development of environmentally friendly refrigerants has emerged as a major issue in industry. Owing to high cost developing new refrigerants, falling-film evaporators are attracting increasing interest, given their reduced refrigerant usage compared with flooded evaporators. In falling–film evaporators, distributor at top evaporator uniformly delivers through multiple holes over ...

Media content personalisation is a major challenge involving viewers as well as media content producer and distributor businesses. The goal is to provide viewers with media items aligned with their interests. Producers and distributors engage in item negotiations to establish the corresponding service level agreements (SLA). In order to address automated partner lookup and item SLA negotiation,...

Thyroid hormones (THs) are vital for normal postnatal development. Extracellular TH distributor proteins create an intravascular reservoir of THs. Transthyretin (TTR) is a TH distributor protein in the circulatory system and is the only TH distributor protein synthesized in the central nervous system. We investigated the phenotype of TTR null mice during development. Total and free 3',5',3,5-te...

In the virtual and widely distributed network, the process of handover sensitive data from the distributor to the trusted third parties always occurs regularly in this modern world. It needs to safeguard the security and durability of service based on the demand of usersA data distributor has given sensitive data to a set of supposedly trusted agents (third parties). Some of the data are leaked...

By viewing cooperation and different types of conflicts as “co-opetition” factors in a manufacturer– distributor supply chain, this paper provides a conceptual model for examining the effects of cooperation and conflicts on a manufacturer’s knowledge acquisition process and for exploring the moderating effects of a distributor’s entrepreneurial orientation on the relationships between co-opetit...

Particles distributions along a conical fluidized bed were predicted by an alternative arrangement of the minimum fluidization velocity equation. The proposed approach introduces two new equations which present the particle diameter in the bed as function of: height in the bed (Z), angle of inclination of the fluidized bed wall (θ), input flow rate (Qo), and gas distributor diameter (Do, 2ro). ...

Industry practitioners who advocate retail competition and Demand-side Participation now look for approaches to link both initiatives through distributor pricing. As distributors incrementally convert more traditional assets into Smart Grid assets, they also need to consider different pricing approaches to recover the investment costs and meet the regulatory business requirements. Small electri...