IMPORTANCE Providing high-quality care while containing cost is essential for the economic stability of our health care system. The United States is experiencing a rapidly growing elderly population. The Acute Care for Elders (ACE) unit interdisciplinary team model of care has been shown to improve outcomes in hospitalized older adults. The University of Alabama at Birmingham ACE unit incorpora...

Complex cryptographic protocols are often designed from simple cryptographic primitives, such as signature schemes, encryption schemes, verifiable random functions, and zero-knowledge proofs, by bridging between them with commitments to some of their inputs and outputs. Unfortunately, the known universally composable (UC) functionalities for commitments and the cryptographic primitives mentione...

The thermal unit commitment (UC) problem has historically been formulated as a mixed integer quadratic programming (MIQP), which is difficult to solve efficiently, especially for large-scale systems. tighter characteristic reduces the search space, therefore, natural consequence, significantly computational burden. In literatures, many tightened formulations single with parts of constraints wer...

Designing secure protocols in the Universal Composability (UC) framework confers many advantages. In particular, it allows the protocols to be securely used as building blocks in more complex protocols, and assists in understanding their security properties. Unfortunately, most existing models in which universally composable computation is possible (for useful functionalities) require a trusted...

The purpose of this research is to study empirically the effect autonomy in joining and legitimation succession towards successors’ commitment a family business. This conducted with sample 109 successor businesses at UC Family Business Community. shows that or freedom making choices has significant on forming affective commitment, while also influence lower level. Autonomy form normative Thestu...

In this paper, the uncertainty of wind, solar and load; smart charging and discharging of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) to and from various energy sources; and the coordination of wind, solar power, PHEVs and cost-emission are considered in the smart grid unit commitment (UC). First, a multi-scenario simulation is used in which a set of valid scenarios is considered for the uncertain...

Abstract—High penetration of intermittent renewable energy sources (RES) such as solar power and wind power into the energy system has caused temporal and spatial imbalance between electric power supply and demand for some countries and regions. This brings about the critical need for coordinating power production and power exchange for different regions. As compared with the poweronly systems,...

10 Abstract 11 In this paper, a methodology to solve Unit Commitment (UC) problem from a probabilistic perspective is developed 12 and illustrated. The method presented is based on solving the Economic Dispatch (ED) problem describing the 13 Probability Distribution Function (PDF) of the output power of thermal generators, energy not supplied, excess of 14 electricity, Generation Cost (GC), and...

This paper presents an improved differential evolution (IDE) method for the solution of large-scale unit commitment (UC) problems. The objective of the proposed scheme is to determine the generation schedule which minimizes the total operating cost over a given time horizon subject to a variety of constraints. Through its use of enhanced acceleration and migration processes, the IDE method limi...