The important, while mostly underestimated, step in the process of short-term load forecasting–STLF is selection similar days. Similar days are identified based on numerous factors, such as weather, time, electricity prices, geographical conditions and consumers’ types. However, those factors influence differently within different circumstances conditions. To investigate optimise process, a new...

Understanding the water balance of large groundwater systems is fundamental for the sustainable management of the resource. However, measuring many of the major components of the water balance pose considerable challenges and are thus estimated through modelling. A shortcoming of the modelling approach is that the water balance may have high bias and uncertainty due to insufficient information....

Enzymatic changes are often detrimental to quality of low-moisture foods. In the present study, effects of glass transition and water on sucrose inversion in a lactose-sucrose food model were investigated. Amorphous samples were produced by freeze-drying lactose-sucrose (2:1)-invertase (20 mg invertase/49.4 g of carbohydrate) dissolved in distilled water. Sorption isotherms were determined grav...

The data presented in this article are related to the research article entitled "Mapping the Critical Gestational Age at Birth that Alters Brain Development in Preterm-born Infants using Multi-Modal MRI" (Wu et al., 2017) [1]. Brain immaturity at birth poses critical neurological risks in the preterm-born infants. We used a novel change-point model to analyze the critical gestational age at bir...

A Preisach model able to adjust to different systems with hysteresis is presented. The related identification scheme involved uses data from a major hysteresis curve and a least-squares error minimization procedure for the parameters of the characteristic density. The output sequence, f ðtÞ; is obtained by integrating the characteristic probability density function, rða;bÞ; of the elementary hy...

This work describes moisture sorption behavior and other physicochemical properties of gelatin/poly (Ani) films. Theglyoxal (Glox) cross linked gelatin (Gel) films have been loaded with aniline, followed by their in-situ oxidative polymerization to yield Gel/poly (Ani) composite films. The moisture uptake behavior of the plain Gel and Gel/poly (Ani) films has been studied under various Relative...

Moisture transfer characteristics of dambu-nama (DN) as influenced by addition citric acid, salt and sugar hurdles were investigated. Four products comprising DN with 0.1% acid + 2% (DNC0.1); DN+ 0.2% (DNC0.2); 0.3% +2% (DNC0.3) a control without , or (DNC0) produced subjected to moisture sorption studies at different temperatures (30, 40, 50 60oC) relative humidities of(10-96%). Incorporation ...

Moisture sorption characteristics of Mohanthal, a traditional dairy product from Gujarat were investigated at temperature 5–45 °C and water activities (aw) 0.11–0.97. The isotherms obtained sigmoid in nature. Nine different mathematical models found to effectively describe the moisture data on basis regression analyses goodness fit. Each model was statistically evaluated by means percent r...