New contours of global inequality present new challenges for global health, and require that we consider new kinds of health issues as global. I provide a number of illustrations, arguing the need for a political science of health that goes beyond conventional preoccupations with formal institutional and inter-state interactions and takes into account how globalization has affected the health p...

In the restructured environment of electricity market, firstly the generating companies and the customers are looking for maximizing their profit and secondly independent system operator is looking for the stability of the power network and maximizing social welfare. In this paper, a one way auction in the electricity market for the generator companies is considered in both perfect and imperfec...

This paper describes the uses and architecture of a network-centered computing-rich software platform called PowerWeb. PowerWeb was designed and built as a simulation environment for experimentally testing various power exchange auction markets through tournaments. It is designed to host simulations of a competitive “day-ahead” electric energy market in the context of a restructured electric po...

This paper describes the uses and architecture of a network-centered computing-rich software platform called PowerWeb. PowerWeb was designed and built as a simulation environment for experimentally testing various power exchange auction markets through tournaments. It is designed to host simulations of a competitive “day-ahead” electric energy market in the context of a restructured electric po...

In restructured power systems, planning unit commitment includes optimization of production sources in order to maximize the profit of power producing corporations (GENCO) with conforming to the related limits, which is introduced as the planning based on the profit of units commitment (PBUC). In this paper, the algorithm of Iteration Particle Swarm Optimization (IPSO) has been used in order to...

In restructured power market, power producers and customers utilize the transmission network and try to maximize their benefits. Hence it is important to improve the static ATC for allowing more transaction in future without any transmission limit violation. This paper suggests the method for establishing bilateral/multilateral transaction based on the optimal generator selection and it’s shari...

The paper reports on the restructured electric markets in Latin America, which have pioneered changes worldwide. The changes started taking place in 1982, when Chile formalised an electric power reorganisation. Argentina followed in 1992, and then Perú in 1993, Bolivia and Colombia in 1994, the Central American countries and Brazil join the group in 1997. Venezuela and Ecuador have also started...

This study was conducted to evaluate the effects of oyster shell calcium powder (OSCP) as a substitute for phosphates in curing agent, on the quality of restructured pork ham. Restructured pork ham was processed under six treatment conditions: T1 (no additives), T2 (0.3% sodium tripolyphosphate), T3 (1.5% NaCl+0.5% whey protein), T4 (1.5% NaCl+0.5% whey protein+0.15% OSCP), T5 (1.5% NaCl+0.5% w...

Nonlinear AC Optimal Power Flow (OPF) problems are commonly approximated by linearized DC OPF problems to obtain real power solutions for restructured wholesale power markets. We first present a standard DC OPF problem, which has the numerically desirable form of a strictly convex quadratic programming (SCQP) problem when voltage angles are eliminated by substitution. We next augment this stand...