Homes, buildings and industrial facilities together represent nearly 100 % of the load on the electric grid. Beyond load, these facilities comprise a significant amount of electricity generation and thermal storage. These customer-owned load, storage and generation resources must be made responsive to needs of the electric grid in order to enable the Smart Grid. At issue is the best way to acco...

BACKGROUND The positive matrix factorization is a powerful environmental analysis technique which has been successfully utilized to assess air-born particulate matter source contribution. The new version of this model (PMF5) has two additional estimation error methods and some other useful advantages compared to the previous versions. In the present study, the capability of PMF5 for identificat...

In transport experiments through columns packed with naturally Fe/Al oxide-coated quartz sand, breakthrough curves (BTCs) of natural organic matter (NOM) displayed strong and persistent power law tailing that could not be described by the classical advection-dispersion equation. Tailing was not observed in BTCs for a nonreactive tracer (sulforhodamine B); therefore, the anomalous transport is a...

Two different methods for predicting the quality of the water draining from a pyritic tailing are compared; for this, a static test (ABA test) and a kinetic test in large columns were chosen. The different results obtained in the two experimental set-ups show the necessity of being careful in selecting both the adequate predictive method and the conclusions and extrapolations derived from them....

In a magnetized inhomogeneous warm plasma having ionization/recombination, usual version of the KdV equation is found to be modified by two additional terms arising due to the inclusion of ionization/recombination and the density gradient in the plasma. The density gradient in the plasma shows its dependence on the ionization/recombination rate, ion-to-electron temperature ratio, obliqueness of...

Controlled ribonucleotide tailing of cDNA ends (CRTC) by terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase is a polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-mediated technique that was developed to facilitate cloning and direct sequence analysis of complete 5'-terminal unknown coding regions of rare RNA molecules. In contrast with standard tailing protocols using dNTPs as the substrate, ribo-tailing of cDNA ends is eas...

We develop a game theoretic model of a shared commodity storage facility whose injection/ejection and space resources have been allocated to multiple selfish firms. We assume a setting where each firms injectability and deliverability depend on overall inventory within the store. This is most common in settings that involve the storage of liquids or gases such as natural gas or oil. We analyze ...

It is well-known that the main disadvantages associated with reconfigurable hardware are long reconfiguration latencies, high opcode space requirements, and complex decoder hardware. To overcome these disadvantages, we use microcode since it allows emulation of “complex” operations which are performed using a sequence of smaller and simpler operations. Microcode is used to control the reconfigu...

Monitorovanie a únik testovanej WWER – 440 látky namočenej do vyčerpaného paliva zo skladu sústredenom na Slovensku An accelerated monitoring system designed for the Slovak wet interim spent fuel storage facility in NPP Jaslovské Bohunice bases on the newly designed “cesium detectors” is presented in the paper. Since 1999, leak tests of WWER-440 fuel assemblies are provided by a special leak ti...

We develop a game theoretic model of a shared commodity storage facility whose injection/ejection and space resources have been allocated to multiple selfish firms. We assume a setting where each firms injectability and deliverability depend on overall inventory within the store. This is most common in settings that involve the storage of liquids or gases such as natural gas or oil. We analyze ...