The goal of this paper is to propose a performance assessment for normally closed-loop type distribution power systems. Pilot relaying systems have been successfully applied to the protection scheme for normally closed-loop distribution systems in the Taiwan Power Company (Taipower). This paper demonstrates that the proposed protection scheme is extremely well designed, such that both the numbe...

Individuals with elevated social anxiety appear especially vulnerable to cannabis-related problems, yet little is known about the antecedents of cannabis-related behaviors among this high-risk population. The present study used ecological momentary assessment (EMA) to examine the relations among social anxiety, cannabis craving, state anxiety, situational variables, and cannabis use in the natu...

One of the main theories in ecological psychology is the theory of affordances. Affordances are opportunities for action which are provided by the environment in which the action takes place and are action specific. So affordances describe how the environment allows, supports and constrains an action. The idea of studying the affordances can also be applied to sport, in this case to putting in ...

Biosphere 2 is a closed ecosystem located near Tucson, Arizona, designed for studying the interactions between different biological species among each other and with their materially closed controlled environment, taking into account the limited resources that such an environment provides. Energy considerations play a central role in how these interactions play out. To this end, bond graph mode...

We explore the construction of parametric surfaces which interpolate prescribed 3D scattered data using spaces of parametric splines defined on a 2D triangulation. The method is based on minimizing cettain natura1 energy expressions. Several examples involving filling hoies and crowning surfaces are presented, and the role of the triangulation as a Parameter is explored. The problem of creating...

Development of the general ecological model (EM) of the CSSR has been included in the state program for environmental policy the Ecoprogramme of the CSSR at a scale of 1 : 1 000 000 for the entire Czechoslovak territory and at a scale of 1500 000 for the Czech Socialist Republic (CSR) and the Slovak Socialist Republic (SSR). The objective of the first EM stage was to make a survey of spatial di...

Identifying information requirements is a well-understood activity, but the practice of converting data into visual form based on these requirements is less defined. The Ecological Interface Design (EID) framework attempts to bridge this design gap by offering a set of visual design principles. While these principles supply high-level goals to be achieved by the display, they do not describe th...

“Water is central to human needs, equitable growth and development. It is one of the key drivers of sustainable economic growth through contribution to activities such as agriculture, manufacturing, mines, energy and transport. It contributes to social activities such as productive use of water within households (poverty alleviation), water for drinking, sanitation and health, etc. It should th...

The superform construction of supersymmetric invariants, which consists of integrating the top component of a closed superform over spacetime, is reviewed. The cohomological methods necessary for the analysis of closed superforms are discussed and some further theoretical developments presented. The method is applied to higher-order corrections in heterotic string theory up to α. Some partial r...

Introduction A number of authors have investigated associations between MR vascular parameters and traditional histopathological prognostic markers. Results have varied with some studies revealing correlations while others have failed to find any associations. The aim of this work was to determine if there were any associations not only between pretreatment MR derived vascular parameters and hi...