Antiplatelet drugs as exemplified by aspirin are used frequently to prevent stroke. Aspirin inhibits the formation of both the potent platelet aggregator, thromboxane A2 and the potent anti-aggregator, prostacyclin. Another approach to the inhibition of platelet aggregation might involve selective suppression of thromboxane formation. We report our experience in swine with UK-38,485, a drug whi...

In mission critical cyber-physical systems, dependability is an important requirement at all layers of the system architecture. In this paper, we propose protocols that increase the dependability of wireless sensor networks, which are potentially useful building blocks in cyberphysical systems. More specifically, we propose two private aggregator node election protocols, a private data aggregat...

The benefits of integrating aggregated Electric Vehicles (EV) within the Virtual Power Plant (VPP) concept, are addressed. Two types of EV aggregators are identified: i) Electric Vehicle Residential Aggregator (EVRA), which is responsible for the management of dispersed and clustered EVs in a residential area and ii) Electric Vehicle Commercial Aggregator (EVCA), which is responsible for the ma...

This paper examines existence, continuity and characterization of optimal paths under “recursive” preferences. Current utility is a fixed (aggregator) function of current consumption and future utility. For suitable aggregators, a useful refinement of the Contraction Mapping Theorem generates the utility function, as in Lucas and Stokey. A broader class of aggregators is handled via a limiting ...

Under the determined impulse of the European Union to limit the environmental impact of energy-related services, the electricity sector will face several challenges in coming years. Integrating renewable energy sources in the distribution networks is certainly one of the most urging issues to be tackled with. The current grid and production structure cannot absorb the high penetration shares an...

We consider a smart grid with an independent system operator (ISO), and distributed aggregators who have energy storage and purchase energy from the ISO to serve its customers. All the entities in the system are foresighted: each aggregator seeks to minimize its own long-term payments for energy purchase and operational costs of energy storage by deciding how much energy to buy from the ISO, an...

The proliferation of the Open Archive Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) has resulted in the creation of a large number of service providers, all harvesting from either data providers or aggregators. If data were available regarding the similarity of metadata records, service providers could track redundant records across harvests from multiple sources as well as provide addi...

In the next decades, Electric Vehicles (EVs) are expected to gain increasing popularity and huge penetration in the automotive market, thanks to their potentialities for close interaction with the Smart Grid ecosystem. Firstly, recharging EV’s batteries with energy produced by renewables will allow for a consistent reduction of pollution due to the carbon emissions of traditional gasoline combu...