Online AMR Domestic Load Profile Characteristic Change Monitor to Support Ancillary Demand Services

Customer's Loyalty to Online Banking Services

The progress of technology, the expansion of the Internet, and the emergence of online social media have created an appropriate infrastructure for communication and transfer of experiences. These environmental changes have transformed customer relationship with firms and have forced them to provide online services. The purpose of this paper is to develop a comprehensive model of customer loyalt...

Approaches to Enable Demand Response by Industrial Loads for Ancillary Services Provision

Demand response has gained significant attention in recent years as it demonstrates potentials to enhance the power system’s operational flexibility in a cost-effective way. Industrial loads such as aluminum smelters, steel manufacturers, cement plants, and air separation units demonstrate advantages in supporting power system operation through demand response programs, because of their intensi...

Demand for and availability of online support to stop smoking.

OBJECTIVES Estimate the frequency of online searches on the topic of smoking and analyze the quality of online resources available to smokers interested in giving up smoking. METHODS Search engines were used to revise searches and online resources related to stopping smoking in Brazil in 2010. The number of searches was determined using analytical tools available on Google Ads; the number and...

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Metacomputing refers to the coordinated use of a pool of geographically distributed high-performance computers. The EU projects PHASE and MICA, presented in this paper, are settled in the eld of application speciic metacomputing combining high-performance computing expertise and industrial requirements.

Reactive Power Support Services in Electricity Markets: Costing and Pricing of Ancillary Services