P E Baker, Prof: C Mitchell and Dr B Woodman October 2010 T H E U K E N E R G Y R E S E A R C H C E N T R E The UK Energy Research Centre carries out world-class research into sustainable future energy systems. It is the hub of UK energy research and the gateway between the UK and the international energy research communities. Our interdisciplinary, whole systems research informs UK policy deve...

The objective of this research is to develop a science base and integrative technologies for implementing a scalable and secure hub for reverse logistics e-commerce. The proposed system consists of a transactions hub called the Management and Archival (MA) subsystem and a product information database referred to as the Product Design Advisory (PDA) subsystem. In the initial phase of exploratory...

In this paper, a comprehensive model for hub location-routing problem is proposed which no network structure other than connectivity is imposed on backbone (i.e. network between hub nodes) and tributary networks (i.e. networks which connect non-hub nodes to hub nodes). This model is applied in public transportation, telecommunication and banking networks. In this model locating and routing is c...

The amount of generation of renewable energy sources in the European grid has strongly increased. In 2005 eight times more energy was generated by RES compared to 1990. In the future the EU wants to promote the integration of RES. Mainly the use of wind energy and biomass should be expanded. As to date, RES were connected to the distribution grid usually with a ”fit and forget” approach. Due to...

Abstract The renewable energy system integrates various power generating units, heating conversion devices, and storage which is an effective way to improve efficiency realize clean utilization. In this paper, a integrating with photovoltaic electric generation systems, wind‐driven generators, gas‐driven gas‐fired boilers, chillers, devices constructed in isolated tourist area. Considering the ...

The cross-border securities settlement in Europe is still said to be highly inefficient. One main reason can be seen in technical barriers between the different domestic settlement systems. Beside efforts to implement industryspecific communication standards an integration of the different settlement systems is necessary. The CSD-link model, the hub and spokes model, and the European CSD model ...

Today large amount of data is generated by cities. Many of the datasets are openly available and are contributed by different sectors, government bodies and institutions. The new data can affect our understanding of the issues faced by cities and can support evidence based policies. However usage of data is limited due to difficulty in assimilating data from different sources. Open datasets oft...

OBJECTIVE To retrospectively examine the success and complication rates associated with image-guided percutaneous bone biopsy with a simulated Van Sonnenberg removable hub system. MATERIALS AND METHODS During a 3.5-year period, 27 bone lesions at different anatomic locations with an indication for biopsy based on plain film, computed tomography (CT) and/or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) fin...

To resolve the difficulties in deployment of the classic security solution S-BGP (Secure Border Gateway Protocol), the Translator Trust Model (TTM) for a new solution SE-BGP (Security Enhanced BGP) was proposed to transform the centralized deployment mode of S-BGP to distributed mode. However, the trust (attestations of routing information) translation of TTM only depends on a single hub node a...