Wind energy penetration in power system has been increased very fast and large amount of capitals invested for wind farms all around the world. Meanwhile, in power systems with wind turbine generators (WTGs), the value of Available transfer capability (ATC) is influenced by the probabilistic nature of the wind power. The Mont Carlo Simulation (MCS) is the most common method to model the uncerta...

BACKGROUND A widely held view in maternity services in rural Australia is they require 24-h on-site surgical and anaesthetic capability to be considered safe. This study aimed to provide a detailed description of three years of activity (2009-2011) of a rural maternity unit approximately 1h from the nearest surgical service. We describe the reasons for transfer to and from the unit, transfer ti...

The ubiquitous use of computer resources for daily productivity is a goal that presently remains unrealised. We believe that the convergence of desktop and mobile applications into a seamless computing experience will provide a strong motivation for future “anytime, anywhere computing.” In this paper we describe this convergence as the capability to perform the handoff of application sessions a...

BioAmbients (BA) is a powerful model for representing various aspects of living cells. The model provides a rich set of operations for the movement and interaction of molecules. The richness of the language motivates the study of fragments of the full model and the comparison with other computational models. In this paper, we investigate the impact of the merge capability, used for fusing the c...

The present study was conducted with the aim of developing and validating the Leiter International Performance Scale software. The research method was psychometrics. Therefore, to validate the test after the software development, 200 children were selected from among all 3-6 year old children in the City of Isfahan, Iran, who attended kindergartens and pre-school centers, using the stratified r...

In this paper a new method is introduced and investigated for removing the destabilizing effects of time-delay parameter in control loops. The concept of the method is taken from the knowledge concerning the dynamic behaviour of irrational transfer functions (Ir-TF), which is discussed and investigated elswhere in frequency response domain and is explained briefly here. Ir-TFs, which are we...