The variability in travel times is a very important feature in determining the arrival of the passenger at the destination within a given travel time threshold and can be noted as one of the most important characteristic for travel time reliability that is an increasing concern of travelers, because it allows travelers to make better use of their own time. In this paper reliability in multimoda...

Deregulation policy has caused some changes in the concepts of power system reliability assessment. This paper deals with generation reliability evaluation in perfect competition power market using market economic concepts and its dynamic. Also, because of power markets and generators’ forced outages stochastic behavior, Monte Carlo Simulation (MCS) is used in this research. Generation reliabil...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to develop and evaluate the reliability and factorial validity, of social-cognitive measures related to adolescent healthy eating behaviors. METHODS A questionnaire was developed based on constructs from Bandura's Social Cognitive Theory and included the following scales: self-efficacy, intentions (proximal goals), situation (perceived environment), social support,...

BACKGROUND The Activity Measure for Post-Acute Care was developed to evaluate the limitations of activities of adult individuals with different health conditions. OBJECTIVES To translate and cultural adapt the Activity Measure for Post-Acute Care short forms for outpatients into Portuguese-Brazilian, to verify the comprehension of the items and categories of the responses by users of the reha...

BACKGROUND New quantitative methods to collect and analyze data have produced novel findings in ethnobiology. A common application of quantitative methods in ethnobiology is to assess the traditional ecological knowledge of individuals. Few studies have addressed reliability of indices of traditional ecological knowledge constructed with different quantitative methods. METHODS We assessed the...

For many years, electricity distribution companies have used sustained interruption indices as indicators of the reliability of service provided on their systems. Today, however, many electricity consumers are adversely affected by more subtle voltage disturbances such as sags and swells. Many utilities are well aware of such service quality concerns and are implementing extensive monitoring sy...

At the moment, Moshanir loading code which has been provided by Tavanir Company in 1998 is used for loading transmission line towers. Also ASCE52 are applied for designing these structures. In the above Moshanir loading code, loading parameters such as, maximum yearly ice thickness, maximum monthly ice thickness, maximum yearly wind speed and maximum monthly wind speed have been considered as ...

This paper presents a two-stage restoration technique incorporating weather effect considerations in reliability cost/worth evaluation of distribution systems. The weather conditions play a significant role on the reliability of a given power system leading to frequent incidence of failures to overhead system and their effectiveness. The physical stresses exerted by adverse weather increase the...

When evaluating the capacity of a generation park to cover the load in transmission systems, traditional Loss of Load Expectation (LOLE) and Expected Energy not Served (EENS) indices can be used. If those indices allow computing the annual duration and severity of load non covering situations, they do not take into account the fact that the load excess is generally shifted from one penury state...

The goal of any clustering algorithm is to find the optimal clustering solution with the optimal number of clusters. In order to evaluate a clustering solution, a number of validity indices are used during or at the end of a clustering process. They can be internal, external or relative. In this paper, we provide two main contributions: First, we present an experimental study comparing the majo...