Deregulation has created new market pressures for innovation across many national infrastructures. This, in turn, creates complex interdependencies. For example, in previous years both the US and European energy markets relied upon vertical integration. The same companies that generated the power were also, typically, responsible for its transmission to consumers. This market structure creates ...

This paper studies the applicability of the linearized DC model in optimizing power restoration after significant network disruptions. In such circumstances, no AC base-point solution exists and the objective is to maximize the served load. The paper demonstrates that the accuracy of the linearized DC model degrades with the size of the disaster and that it can significantly underestimate activ...

The positive thrust of Dr. Philip May's thesis, "Alcohol Policy Considerations for Indian Reservations and Bordertown Communities," is certainly a breath of fresh air in approaching this very important and multifaceted issue. My comments on these issues will be from the standpoint of someone who has worked in the Alaskan mental health community for more than a quarter of a century. My involveme...

The article by van Oorsouw and colleagues presents interesting survey and experimental data, exploring the question of whether alcohol blackouts occur frequently or are used primarily as an excuse to minimize legal responsibility. The authors concluded that the results of their analysis indicated that blackouts during serious misbehavior are often reported outside the court, but the denial or c...

We propose a method to analyze the risk of blackouts with high penetration variable renewable energy sources (VRESs). consider model for long-term evolution power grid including propagation cascading failures, day-to-day fluctuations generation and moderate use storage. resilience stress as VRESs are progressively incorporated. also evaluate VRES performance average fraction daily demand covere...

BACKGROUND Alcohol-induced blackouts (ie, periods of anterograde amnesia) have received limited recent research attention. OBJECTIVE To examine the genetic epidemiology of lifetime blackouts and having had 3 or more blackouts in a year, including analyses controlling for the frequency of intoxication. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS Members of the young adult Australian Twin Register, a v...