With the maturing of the Utility Communication Architecture (UCA), utilities are beginning to implement substation protection and control systems that are based on this technology. This paper describes such an implementation for the control of the Bateias 525kV substation on the COPEL power system in Brazil. In particular, the paper will describe the customer’s requirements and expectations wit...

Death or injury to whales from vessel strike is one of the primary threats to whale populations worldwide. However, quantifying the rate of occurrence of these collisions is difficult because many incidents are not detected (particularly from large vessels) and therefore go unreported. Furthermore, varying reporting biases occur related to species identification, spatial coverage of reports and...

The New Zealand agricultural sector has a rich heritage of measuring yield and growth rates for pastures crops. Historically these datasets were collected by Government departments, Crown research institutes, Universities more latterly seed companies private providers as well on-farm. These data are expensive to collect, spatially temporally patchy, stored in range electronic physical platforms...

Every semester, a university decides which undergraduate courses to offer and how much to spend on instructors for these courses. These choices determine how efficiently resources from governments, donors, and families are used to benefit students; however, very little is known about how universities make these decisions. In this paper, I develop methods for understanding how universities make ...

Effective processing of character strings is required at various stages data analysis pipelines: from cleansing and preparation, through information extraction, to report generation. Pattern searching, string collation sorting, normalization, transliteration, formatting are ubiquitous in text mining, natural language processing, bioinformatics. This paper discusses demonstrates how why stringi,...

The feasibility of human nutritional supplementation is imperative. As a part daily diet, edible fungus polysaccharides have variety health promoting effects, especially for the prevention chronic diseases. Based on extensive collection and collation relevant research datas, beneficial effects various diseases were analyzed, structure functional mechanism with anti-chronic disease properties su...

BACKGROUND In light of an increasing global focus on health system strengthening and integration of vertical programmes within health systems, methods and tools are required to examine whether general health service managers exercise administrative authority over vertical programmes. OBJECTIVE To measure the extent to which general health service (horizontal) managers, exercise authority over...