In response to California’s electricity supply and demand crisis of 2001, the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) implemented a portfolio of programs funded by the California Legislature, through Senate Bill 5X. As part of its SB5X portfolio, SMUD implemented a Small Commercial Prescriptive Lighting program. SMUD’s initial goal for the program was to achieve installation 450 installati...

background recognizing the importance of having a broad exploration of how cultural perspectives may shape thinking about ethical considerations, the centers for disease control and prevention (cdc) funded four regional meetings in africa, asia, latin america, and the eastern mediterranean to explore these perspectives relevant to pandemic influenza preparedness and response. the meetings were ...

Due to climate change, frequencies of natural disasters, including earthquake, hurricane, typhoon and heavy precipitations, increase rapidly. The emergency distribution center (EDC) plays an important role in emergency planning and disaster response. During the process of delivering relief to shelters, the infrastructure could be deteriorated by the disaster. Most of the existing models neglect...

There is an increasing demand of multimedia and location aware services when an accurate and immediate response is needed, for example in the case of emergency services. In parallel, the technology has evolved from Circuit Switch (CS) to Packet Switch (PS) networks requiring backwards compatibility. As a result the emergency services support for NGNs, in particular for IMS, is being standardize...

Quality or performance improvement is paramount to trauma programs. In an effort to improve the emergency care continuum for children and in response to the Government Performance Review Act, the Federal Emergency Medical Services for Children (EMSC) Program developed EMSC performance measures. The measures provide benchmarking capabilities and a plan for state EMSC programs to reduce pediatric...

Demand response is getting increased attention these days due to the increase in electricity demand and introduction of renewable resources in the existing power grid. Traditionally demand response programs involve large industrial consumers but with technological advancement, demand response is being implemented for small residential and commercial consumers also. In this paper, demand respons...

Demand response (DR) has many beneficiaries in the electricity market. There are independent players who are interested in DR, which include: transmission system owners, distributors, retailers, and aggregators. In this paper DR is introduced as a tradable commodity that can be exchanged between DR buyers and sellers in a pool-based market which is called demand response exchange (DRX). DRX ope...