Considering the majority of the power losses occur in distribution systems, it is worthwhile to investigate the use of reactive power compensation (RPC) from wind turbines installed in the distribution system for loss reduction. Therefore, this paper analyses the effectiveness of the RPC for loss reduction under different system conditions. These include power factor of the system load, X/R rat...

There is no need to show the importance of the ltering techniques to solve constraint satisfaction problems i.e. to nd values for problem variables subject to constraints that specify which combinations of values are consistent. They can be used during a preprocessing step to remove once and for all some local inconsistencies, or during the search to eeciently prune the search tree. Recently, i...

We propose the RPC chain, a simple but powerful communication primitive that allows an application to reduce the performance effects of wide-area links on enterprise and data center applications that span multiple sites. This primitive chains together multiple RPC invocations so that the computation can flow from one server to the next without involving the client every time. We demonstrate tha...

We present a high-level RPC architecture. Although RPC systems seem quite varied they actually share the same fundamental building blocks. We examine the operation of several technologies (e.g., SOAP/HTTP, RMIIIOP) to show what they have in common, namely four main blocks that we call PEPt: Presentation, Encoding, Protocol and transport. Presentation encompasses the data types and APIs availabl...

Epithelial barrier dysfunction is associated with a number of inflammatory disorders. However, the pathogenesis of epithelial barrier dysfunction is unclear. This study aims to elucidate the involvement of dicaine in airway epithelial barrier dysfunction. In the present study, an RPMI2650 (Rpc) human airway epithelial cell line was cultured, with or without dicaine, in monolayers using Transwel...

During retina development, retinal progenitor cell (RPC) proliferation and differentiation are regulated by complex inter- and intracellular interactions. Bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (BMSCs) are reported to express a variety of cytokines and neurotrophic factors, which have powerful trophic and protective functions for neural tissue-derived cells. Here, we show that the expanded RPC cult...

Electrically induced signals and light emissions from Restrictive Plate Chamber (RPC) are simultaneously measured using a glass RPC with transparent high-voltage planes, operating in the streamer mode. With one exception, good correspondence is seen in between the electrical and optical signals in every aspect: signal shapes, pulse heights, timing and afterpulses. The one exception is a possibl...

Primary ionization is created inside the gas gap of a small size ð10 20 cmÞ RPC, analogous to the RPC of the ATLAS muon detector, by focusing a pulsed (width p0:5 ns) nitrogen laser beam (transverse diameter E15 mm). With this set-up we can characterize the behaviour of the RPC by measuring such parameters as drift velocity and gas amplification. For an ATLAS-like gas mixture (97% C2H2F4; 3% is...

Restricted path consistency (RPC) is a strong local consistency for binary constraints that was proposed 20 years ago and was identified as a promising alternative to arc consistency (AC) in an early experimental study of local consistencies for binary constraints. However, and in contrast to other strong local consistencies such as SAC and maxRPC, it has been neglected since then. In this pape...

Gene transcription is carried out by RNA polymerases (RNAPs). For transcription to occur, the closed promoter complex (RPc), where DNA is double stranded, must isomerize into an open promoter complex (RPo), where the DNA is melted out into a transcription bubble and the single-stranded template DNA is delivered to the RNAP active site. Using a bacterial RNAP containing the alternative σ54 facto...