A Realistic Look At Energy

A Realistic Look At Failure Detectors

This paper shows that, in an environment where we do not bound the number of faulty processes, the class P of Perfect failure detectors is the weakest (among realistic failure detectors) to solve fundamental agreement problems like uniform consensus, atomic broadcast, and terminating reliable broadcast (also called Byzantine Generals). Roughly speaking, in this environment, we collapse the Chan...

A Look at the Challenges of Boundary-Spanner Academic Leaders

The present study was an exploratory sequential mixed method approach, so the qualitative section of the study was done by descriptive phenomenology method. The participants in the qualitative section included academic administrators with managerial experience who by criterion sampling and saturation in the research findings, 12 were selected for the interview. Research tools in the section wer...

A Different Look at Peer-Reviewing of Articles

A look at signification of ‘then’ in the Holy Quran

‘Then’ as one of conjunctions, has many usages in Arabic language. Since one of its usages is in the religious texts and the Holy Quran so that its different usages effect on the style, meaning, and concepts, and also, due to the sensitivity and significance of the Holy Quran, understanding the exact meaning of this conjunction, i.e. ‘then’, and studying its various stat...

A Closer Look at Demand Bids in CAISO Energy Market

One year of demand bids in the California energy market are analyzed and observations are reported on type, size, shape, and other characteristics of the bids. The implications of these observations, the underlying causes, and the potentials to improve demand bids by exploiting load flexibility are discussed.