Recently, there has been great interest in the integration of distributed generation units at the distribution level. The foreseeable large use of DG in the future requires the distribution system engineers to properly take into account its impact in the system planning. When considering DG impact the attention should be paid in the siting and sizing of DG units. This paper proposes the use of ...

[1] For the first time, global ocean usable wind power is evaluated for modern offshore turbine characteristics including hub height, usable portion of the wind speed distribution, and siting depth. Mean wind power increases by 30%, 69%, and 73% within the tropics and Northern and Southern Hemisphere extratropics, respectively, between hub heights of 10 m and 100 m. A turbine with a cut‐out spe...

The recent proliferation of facility-siting conflicts underscores the need for new analytical techniques in which the external effects associated with noxious facilities are considered explicitly. In general, in prescriptive facility-location models it is assumed that having populations "closer", as characterized by transport or accessibility advantages, is better for desirable facilities, but,...

There is little evidence on which to judge the optimal treatment for convulsive status epilepticus (CSE) in children. This study compares the effect of intravenous (iv) lorazepam with iv diazepam as the first line of treatment of CSE. We studied all children with prolonged seizures arriving in the Accident and Emergency (A&E) Department in two separate periods. In the first 6-month period iv di...

There has been little previous research on public attitudes about precaution and their significance for risk opinions and attitudes. The present case of application is that of the siting of a repository for spent nuclear fuel, a controversial issue in most countries. Data from a representative sample of the Swedish population were collected with a mailed questionnaire, which covered risk percep...

A difficult and challenging decision facing policy makers is the allocation of goods that generate externalities. It is well known that markets forces alone will lead to inefficient outcomes. Of particular interest in modern industrial societies is the task of choosing locations for siting noxious facilities such as waste treatment facilities, landfills, or nuclear waste repositories. Such faci...

The location set covering problem continues to be an important and challenging spatial optimization problem. The range of practical planning applications underscores its importance, spanning fire station siting, warning siren positioning, security monitoring and nature reserve design, to name but a few. It is challenging on a number of fronts. First, it can be difficult to solve for medium to l...

INTRODUCTION Singapore's rapidly ageing population and chronic disease burden at public hospital specialist clinics herald a silver tsunami. In Singapore, "right siting" aims to manage stable chronic disease in primary care at a lower cost. To improve the quality of rheumatology care, we created shared care between rheumatologist and family physician to reduce hospital visits. METHODS Clinica...

Successful development of wind farms relies on the optimal siting turbines to maximize power capacity under stochastic conditions and wake losses caused by neighboring turbines. This paper presents a novel method quickly generate approximate layouts support infrastructure design decisions. We model quadratic integer formulation discretized layout problem with an undirected graph that succinctly...

Wildfire smoke and other particulate matter can substantially inhibit solar photovoltaic (PV) generation production. While PV facilities may not be located in areas with a high fire risk, from wildfires travel hundreds of kilometers impacting large number facilities. This paper proposes geospatial wildfire capacity model to quantify the anticipated temporal reduction due smoke. A case study usi...