Index Terms — Smart grid; power engineering education; power engineering curriculum; power engineering resources; power engineering workforce. Abstract — A widely supported effort to modernize the United States power system has led to an engineering initiative variously known as ‘smart grid’, ‘intelligrid’, “gridwise”, “modern grid”, “perfect grid”, “future grid”, and similarly denominated prog...

An eight-factor survey-based Bayesian model (Bridge-It) for assessing school capacity to implement health and education programs was tested in secondary analyses of data from 47 schools in the Texas Tobacco Prevention Initiative (TTPI). Bridge-It was used during the pre-implementation phase and again at mid-course of the TTPI 2 years later. Achieved implementation status was evaluated in follow...

UML class diagrams provide notations to model the semantics of the structural relationships, i.e., associations, that occur between objects. These diagrams can be extended with Object Relationship Notation (ORN) to provide for the modeling of enhanced association semantics. While previous work has shown that the association semantics defined by ORN can be directly defined to and supported by an...

INTRODUCTION During the past 20 years, with huge advances in information technology and particularly in the areas of health, various forms of electronic records have been studied, analyzed, designed or implemented. An Electronic Health Records (EHRs) is defined as digitally stored healthcare information throughout an individual's lifetime with the purpose of supporting continuity of care, educa...

This paper presents a new algorithm to implement causal ordering. Causal ordering was first proposed in the ISIS system developed at Cornell University. The interest of causal ordering in a distr ibuted system is that it is cheaper to realize than total ordering. The implementation of causal ordering proposed in this paper uses logical clocks of Mat te rn-Fidge (which define a partial order bet...

We describe a new approach to implement proportional share resource allocation and to provide diierent levels of service quality. We consider multiple clients that compete for a time-shared resource, and we associate to each client a certain amount of funds. At the beginning of every time-slice a client is selected and it is granted to use the resource during that time-slice. For selecting a cl...

This work is part of a larger framework where the goal is a high level language to write automaton based applications. The language lets the user specify the data structures to use and designate where the application must be optimized in space or in time. In a second step, we want the language to choose automatically which structure ts best to a given algorithm. This article deals with the foun...

Teams of robots can be redundant with respect to a given task. This redundancy can be exploited to pursue additional objectives during the execution of the task. In this paper, we describe a control-based method to exploit such redundancy for the execution of additional behavior, leading to the improvement of overall performance. The control-based method provides a suitable mechanism for combin...

Given that poor asthma management leads to such devastating rates of morbidity and mortality in this country, efforts must be made to increase the knowledge, skills, and behaviors of persons with asthma. The suggestions and recommendations provided here represent a blend of academic opinion and practical advice on methods to implement an asthma education program. In developing an asthma educati...