This paper argues that the market rules governing the operation of a re-structured electricity market in combination with its market structure can have a substantial impact on behavior of marketclearing prices. Using evidence on the design of electricity markets in England and Wales, Norway, the state of Victoria in Australia and New Zealand, this paper illustrates that market structure and mar...

E®ective competition in wholesale electricity markets is a necessary feature of a successful electricity supply industry restructuring. We examine the degree of competition in the California wholesale electricity market during the period June 1998 to September 1999 by comparing the market prices with estimates of the prices that would have resulted if owners of instate fossil fuel generating fa...

This paper presents some simulations of the proposed California power exchange, or pool, as it might interact with the regional market in the Western U.S. Pooling will increase interdependence with the regional market. We study this using a multi area chronological production simulation model. We find that overall operating economies resulting from pooling are small. Physical changes in the dis...

Recently, speech pattern analysis applications in building predictive telediagnosis and telemonitoring models for diagnosing Parkinson's disease (PD) have attracted many researchers. For this purpose, several datasets of voice samples exist; the UCI dataset named "Parkinson Speech Dataset with Multiple Types of Sound Recordings" has a variety of vocal tests, which include sustained vowels, word...

This paper investigates the effects of standard speech compression techniques on the accuracy of automatic emotion recognition. Effects of Adaptive Multi-Rates (AMR), Adaptive Multi-Rate Wideband (AMR-WB) and Extended Adaptive Multi-Rate Wideband (AMR-WB+) speech codecs were compared against emotion recognition from uncompressed speech. The recognition methods included techniques based on three...

A connection graph represents resolvability in a set of clauses explicitly. The corresponding connection graph proof procedure has the deeciency that the graphs may grow, becoming impractical to handle. We present a novel proof procedure for condition graphs, which is a reenement of connection graphs. Our idea is to control the growth of the graph by recognizing tests in clauses and translating...