MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small non-coding RNAs that fine-tune the cell response to a changing environment by modulating the cell transcriptome. miR-155 is a multifunctional miRNA enriched in cells of the immune system and is indispensable for the immune response. However, when deregulated, miR-155 contributes to the development of chronic inflammation, autoimmunity, cancer, and fibrosis. Herein, ...

The deregulation in power systems brings some new issues in equipment maintenance scheduling where more coordination and communication among different entities is required. In this paper, the mobile agent software is applied in the facility maintenance scheduling in deregulated power systems environment. In the given example, the problem is de-coupled into a master problem and a sub-problem usi...

The voltage stability constrained Available Transfer Capability (ATC) computations are obtained on IEEE 9-bus by running load flow until the voltage collapse point is achieved by enhancing the load in steps with constant power factor. These results are used to train the Neural Network by using Radial Basis Function Neural Network (RBFN) technique. The comparative results of convergence method, ...

-This paper presents a new Hybrid Fuzzy (HF) PID type controller based on Genetic Algorithms (GA’s) for solution of the Automatic generation Control (AGC) problem in a deregulated electricity environment. In order for a fuzzy rule based control system to perform well, the fuzzy sets must be carefully designed. A major problem plaguing the effective use of this method is the difficulty of accura...

This paper presents the robust design of a Power System Stabilizer (PSS) to improve the stability in the composed two-area Load Frequency Control (LFC) and Automatic Voltage Regulator (AVR) using Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) in a restructured environment. The coupling effects of the LFC and AVR loops are studied by extending the linearized Automatic Generation Control (AGC) system to include the...

Electricity industries throughout the world have been using load profiles for many years. Previously, in a regulated environment, load profiles have been employed to provide information for forecasting, system planning and demand side planning. However, in the deregulated environment, load profiles have become more significant. The determination of customer load profile may provide utility comp...

In this paper, the problem of finding the optimal topological configuration of a deregulated distribution network is considered. The new features of this paper are proposing a multiobjective function and its application on deregulated distribution networks for finding the optimal configuration. The multi-objective function will be defined for minimizing total Energy Supply Costs (ESC) and energ...

The major problem of wind turbines is the great variability of wind power production. The dynamic change of the wind speed returns the quantity of the power injected to networks. Therefore, wind–thermal generation scheduling problem plays a key role to implement clean power producers in a competitive environment. In deregulated power systems, the scheduling problem has various objectives than i...