Teaching English as a second or foreign language has internationally turned into a determiner of success for societies. Thus, the demand has risen for changes in English Language Teaching (ELT) curricula in different contexts. In response to the growing globalization and the dissatisfaction of many Iranian ELT stakeholders with the former program in lower and upper high-school levels, the Minis...

The wastewater released from distilleries and fermentation industries are the major source of soil and aquatic pollution due to presence of water-soluble recalcitrant colouring compounds called melanoidins. Biological decolourisation of of these compounds found more advantages compared to chemical treatments. Hence in this study, the bacterium Pseudomonas fluorescens showing higher decolorizati...

vendor managed inventory is a continuous replenishment program that is designed to provide major cost saving benefits for both vendors and retailers. previous research on this area mainly included single objective optimization models where the objective is to minimize the total supply chain costs or to maximize the total supply chain benefits. this paper presents a bi-objective mathematical mod...

BACKGROUND Voluntary medical male circumcision is an integral part of the South African government's response to the HIV and AIDS epidemic. However, there remains a limited body of economic analysis on the cost of VMMC programming, and the demand creation activities used to mobilize males, especially among adolescent boys in school. This study addresses this gap by presenting the costs of a VMM...

This study investigates a hierarchical approach for modeling the mutual impacts of distribution network (DN) decisions and microgrids in multi-microgrid system under cover two-level problem. Due to conflicting interests decision-makers an active DN, optimization problem has structure, with companies (Discos) at top attempting maximize profits bottom reduce costs. examines relationship between u...

The smart grid model is developed with some changes to help in implementing a demand response program which was initially for Pecan Street project. Correspondingly, the real-time solar and load data are collected from port city of Austin. A single day selected our analysis all four seasons year. flat rate, day-ahead pricing information ComEd. key challenge addressing business problems flexibili...

In this paper we address the problem of locating a mobile response unit when demand is distributed according to a random variable on a line. Properties are proven which reduce the problem to locating a non-mobile facility, transforming the original optimization problem into an one-dimensional convex program. In the special case of a discrete demand (a simple probability measure), an algorithm w...

Microgrids are autonomous low-voltage power distribution systems that contain multiple distributed energy resources (DERs) and smart loads that can provide power system operation flexibility. To effectively control and coordinate multiple DERs and loads of microgrids, this paper proposes a distributed intelligent management system that employs a multi-agent-based control system so that delicate...