reliability evaluation of a large-scale composite power system faces to numerous events/outage and consequently imposes an extensive burden of calculations. in order to simplify the problem, determination of an equivalent system for large-scale power system is inevitable. this paper proposes a framework as reduction technique to separate a composite power system to three areas: external area, o...

Reliability evaluation of a large-scale composite power system faces to numerous events/outage and consequently imposes an extensive burden of calculations. In order to simplify the problem, determination of an equivalent system for large-scale power system is inevitable. This paper proposes a framework as reduction technique to separate a composite power system to three areas: external area, o...

We investigated the impacts of Microstegium vimineum (Trin.) A. Camus, on the density and diversity of native woody species regeneration following canopy disturbance in a productive mixed-hardwood forest in southwest Tennessee. Field observations of M. vimineum in the forest understory preand post-canopy disturbance led us to believe the species might have an impact on post-disturbance regenera...

Structural variations between great ape and human chromosomes due to pericentric inversions and translocations have created at apparent controversy during the reconstruction of hominoid phylogeny. One such variation involves human chromosome 5, which is equivalent to chromosome 4 in chimpanzee and orangutan but equivalent to segments of chromosomes 4 and 19 in gorilla. Obviously, neither bandin...

Operations Research, OR, and Management Science, MS, methodologies attempt to aid "human decision-making" for the improvement of various performance indecies in operation and control of complex "humanistic systems". A historical review of Zadeh's papers and fuzzy system applications reveal that OR, and MS applications were started early in the development of fuzzy systems, even before the adven...

In a large-scale study of how people find topical shifts in written text, 27 annotators were asked to mark topically continuous segments in 20 chapters of a novel. We analyze the resulting corpus for inter-annotator agreement and examine disagreement patterns. The results suggest that, while the overall agreement is relatively low, the annotators show high agreement on a subset of topical break...