KEY FEATURES: Multidisciplinary team-based approach to addressing patients’ medical, behavioral, and social needs. At the heart of the Intensive Outpatient Care Program (IOCP) is the care coordinator, who links patients to primary, specialty, and ancillary services; provides tools for effective self-management; guides participants through development of a shared action plan; and provides connec...

In a de-regulated open access environment, reactive power is one of the ancillary services which must be provided by an Independent System Operator (ISO). In this paper, a new algorithm is proposed in which reactive power resources are initially so tuned that optimum security in terms of voltage profile and voltage stability are achieved while at the same time, the system losses are minimized. ...

Traditionally, conventional generation unit was used to provide ancillary services e.g. reactive power support, and spinning reserve. Nonetheless, with the emergence of highly penetrated distributed energy resources (DERs) systems and considering how beneficial they can be; it appears reasonable to use them as reactive power providers. Therefore, this paper introduces a new procedure for DERs t...

With the introduction of volatile renewable energy sources into the grid, the need for inexpensive ancillary service increases. We propose a method to provide ancillary service by using the flexibility of demand in commercial building HVAC (heating, ventilation, air-conditioning) systems. In particular, we show how a regulation command transmitted by a balancing authority can be tracked by vary...

Recent studies have shown that about 70% of the total oil extracted worldwide is consumed in the transportation sector [1]. With rising oil prices, USA and many other countries have set long-term plans to electrify their transportation system and manufacture electric vehicles (EVs) to reduce their oil consumption. It is foreseen that by 2013, approximately 700,000 grid-enabled electric vehicles...

Current concepts underlying the treatment of the acute leukaemias are presented. Improved drug regimens and ancillary services have been developed and their role in the management of acute leukaemia is reviewed.