Introduction The ability to forecast the onset, duration and severity of droughts, floods, and disease outbreaks with reasonable accuracy, especially in terms of their prospective human welfare effects, is critical to the design of timely and cost-effective early warnings and emergency response systems that can minimize the suffering of populations adversely affected by such relatively slow-ons...

This research presents a decentralised incentive-based demand response (DR) program using blockchain technology. Consumers self-report baseline to the system operator (SO), smart contract confirms validity of data execute transactions and finally validators record information on network. During DR event, set consumers are randomly selected deliver required load reduction. The signalled consumer...

in today’s restructured environment, congestion management plays an essential role in power system operation. different methods are presented and discussed in this respect for congestion management in short-term and long-term intervals. it is attempted in the present paper to investigate the impact mechanism of facts devices and demand response programs together with generation re-dispatch as s...

Background: The emergency medical services system has a vital role in the timely treatment of victims and the reduction of injury and mortality rates. Ambulance response time is an essential variable in evaluating the quality of its services. The aim of this study was to determine the ambulance response time and to compare it according to background variables. Methods: This descriptive study ...

Demand Response (DR), also known as electric load-shifting program, is a different way of shaping energy demand with the goal to reduce electricity costs for an organization. Extensive prior research studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of the action of DR through the use of operations research methodology e.g. efficient production scheduling. In the real world, schedulers typically issu...

The Emergency Medical Response (EMR) program is a Victorian Government initiative in which fire fighters trained in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and equipped with automatic external defibrillators are dispatched to suspected cardiac arrests simultaneously with ambulance paramedics across metropolitan Melbourne. During the first 12 months (February 2000 to February 2001) of the expanded EMR pro...

The optimal management of distributed generation (DG) enhances the efficiency of the distribution system; On the other hand, increasing the interest of customers in optimizing their consumption improves the performance of DG. This act is called demand side management. In this study, a new method based on the intelligent algorithm is proposed to optimal operate the demand side management in the ...