Costs versus Benefits of Increased Electric Power

Costs versus Benefits of Increased Electric Power.

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Computational Costs versus Benefits of Control Reasoning

‘This research was supported by the following grants: NIH Grant RR-00785; NIH Grant RR-00711; Boeing Grant W266875; NASA/Ames Grant NCC 2-274; DARPA Contract N00039-83-C0136; ONR Contract N00014-86-K-0652. We thank Micheal Hewett, M. Vaughan Johnson Jr., Robert Schulman and Jeff Harvey for their work on BBl. We thank Russ Altman, Jim Brinkley, Bruce Duncan, Olivier Lichtarge, John Brugge, and O...

Statistical analysis of electric power production costs

Electricity cannot be conviently stored. Thus there should be sucient production at all times to meet the demand for electric power. If a low-cost generating unit fails this will lead to its substitution by a higher cost unit. The cost of producing electric power is a random variable because it depends upon two uncertain quantities, demand and the availability of the generating units. Analytic...

Increased Living Costs and Social Security Benefits

T HE inroads of inflation on the living standards of social security beneficiaries have become familiar in many countries and have induced counter-measures of various sorts. The diversity of legislative action undertaken on behalf of retired beneficiaries serves to underline the virtually unanimous approval of higher benefits when they are required. Inspection of individual programs shows some ...

Clinical Governance: Costs and Benefits