One of the important aspects realizing smart cities is developing homes/buildings and, from energy perspective, designing and implementing an efficient home area management system (HAEMS) vital. To be effective, HAEMS should include various electrical appliances as well local distributed/renewable resources storage systems, with whole a microgrid. However, collecting processing data associated ...

The machines and beamlines controlled by VME industrial networks are very popular in accelerator faculties. Recent new software technologies, among which are Internet/Intranet application, Java language, and distributed calculating environment, have changed the control manner rapidly. A program based on DCOM is composed to control a variable angle spherical grating monochromator beamline at the...

This paper addresses the optimal power generation and load management problems in off-grid hybrid electric systems with renewable sources based on appropriately constructed optimization problems. In this venue, the capacity and operating constraints for generating, storage and load units are first formulated as mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) models. In addition, we integrate the power ...

Construction quality associated with the life of construction enterprises. Risk assessment of construction quality referred to a comprehensive evaluation of the degree of risk confronting construction units during the construction process. Construction units provide a decision-making basis for employers and supervisors, who considered the evaluations of construction quality and accidents in the...

HVAC compressor units are major energy consumers in both residential and commercial buildings today. Faulty and energy wasting operation of these units often goes unnoticed due to the corrective action of feedback control. Power system monitoring is an exciting approach for creating inexpensive, highly capable methods to monitor compressor unit performance. In this paper we develop a method to ...

For the distributed control of an electricity infrastructure incorporating clusters of residential combined heat and power units (micro-CHP or μCHP) a Multi-Agent System approach is considered. The network formed by households generating electricity with μCHP units and the facilitating energy supplier can be regarded as an electricity production system, analogous to a (flexible) manufacturing s...

Significance Part 5 – Monitoring Instruments, laboratory measurements, and test methods This report describes in detail a surge generator producing a waveform mimicking a typical waveshape as observed during several years of recording transients in residential circuits; the source impedance is believed to be representative of real-world conditions. This packaged design, suitable for bench-top u...

OBJECTIVE To develop an environmental audit tool suitable for use across the spectrum of people with dementia. METHOD The existing Environmental Audit Tool was supplemented with items describing the environmental needs of people in the final stages of dementia. Two independent raters assessed 30 aged care homes using this draft tool and the Therapeutic Environment Screening Survey for Nursing...

In 2006, the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors (NASMHPD) published a report entitled “The Crisis in Acute Psychiatric Care.” The report noted reduced inpatient bed capacity in state, private, and general hospital psychiatric units. Citing estimates from the National Association of Psychiatric Health Systems, NASMHPD reported a long-term shift in the locus of hospital...

BACKGROUND Population-based patterns of care studies are important for trauma care but conducting them is expensive and resource-intensive. Linkage of routinely collected administrative health data may provide an efficient alternative. The aims of this study are to describe the rehabilitation pathway for trauma survivors and to analyse the brain injury rehabilitation outcomes in the two care se...