Management problems prompt Canadian utility to shut reactors

Generalized Canadian traveller problems

This study investigates a generalization of the Canadian Traveller Problem (CTP), which finds real applications in dynamic navigation systems used to avoid traffic congestion. Given a road network G = (V, E) in which there is a source s and a destination t in V , every edge e in E is associated with two possible distances: original d(e) and jam d+(e). A traveller only finds out which one of the...

Membrane reactors: A way to increase efficiency

A Systems Approach to Information Technology (IT) Infrastructure Design for Utility Management Automation Systems

Almost all of electric utility companies are planning to improve their management automation system, in order to meet the changing requirements of new liberalized energy market and to benefit from the innovations in information and communication technology (ICT or IT). Architectural design of the utility management automation (UMA) systems for their IT-enabling requires proper selection of ...

Ontology Management with the Prompt Pplugin

The study of ontologies and their use is no longer just one of the fields in the Artificial Intelligence literature. Ontologies are now ubiquitous in many information-systems enterprises: they constitute the backbone for the Semantic Web, they are used in E-commerce, and in various application fields such as bioinformatics and medicine. As a result, developers are designing a large number of on...

Zip it up to shut it down

DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) can be lethal to a cell. However, most sexually reproducing organisms deliberately induce a substantial amount of developmentally programmed DSBs that are subsequently repaired via homologous recombination in meiosis. The goal of this self-damage and self-repair process is to establish physical connections between homologous chromosomes, thereby ensuring accurate...