Prior to the deregulation trend, electricity prices were highly regulated and were usually fairly predictable generators and wholesalers knew their production costs and revenues, and consumers knew their electricity costs. However, deregulation has caused electricity to become the most volatile of the commodities. Not only is the demand for electricity highly variable, but the inability to stor...

Introduction: Long-term care assessment and assignment is a process in which individual’s needs are mapped and is examined to what extent for those needs appropriate care is available. Care assignment is successful, when the assigned and provided care fits the needs of the individual and contributes to the individual’s quality of life. Policy: Up to the 1990s long-term care assignment was suppl...

We develop a tractable macroeconomic model that captures dynamic behaviors across multiple timescales, including business cycles. The is anchored in capital demand framework reflecting an interactions-based process whereby firms determine needs and make investment decisions at the micro level. derive equations for aggregate from this setting embed them Solow growth economy. As result, we obtain...

TThe uncertainty estimation and compensation are challenging problems for the robust control of robot manipulators which are complex systems. This paper presents a novel decentralized model-free robust controller for electrically driven robot manipulators. As a novelty, the proposed controller employs a simple Gaussian Radial-Basis-Function Network as an uncertainty estimator. The proposed netw...