Chemical recycling offers the opportunity to foster transition towards a circular economy for plastics as complementary strategy mechanical recycling. For implementation of chemical technologies, there are still significant challenges ahead that – besides definition binding legal frameworks need intensified research: knowledge-based methods both identification suitable process technologies cons...

Approximations made in day-ahead markets can result in suboptimal or even infeasible schedules for generating units and inaccurate predictions of actual costs and wind curtailment. Here we compare different optimal models of day-ahead markets based on unit commitment (UC) formulations, especially energyvs. power-based UC; excluding or including startup and shutdown trajectories; and determinist...

This paper introduces an approach to support different phases of the Even Swaps process by Preference Programming, which is a framework for modeling incomplete information within multiattribute value theory. In the approach, the Even Swaps process is carried out as usual, but in parallel the preferences of the decision maker are modeled with a Preference Programming model, which is also updated...

In this paper, the normalized prediction error of the electroencephalogram (EEG) signal recorded at five different mental tasks was computed. The results indicate that there exists predictability in the EEG signal beyond the baseline prediction of the mean and the one-stepahead normalized prediction error of EEG signal vary greatly when different mental tasks are implemented, which implies that...

In this paper, we show that the Chapman-Kolmogorov formula could be used as a recursive formula for computing the m-step-ahead conditional density of a Markov bilinear model. The stationary marginal probability density function of the model may be approximated by the m-step-ahead conditional density for sufficiently large m.

Approximations made in day-ahead markets can result in suboptimal or even infeasible schedules for generating units and inaccurate predictions of actual costs and wind curtailment. Here we compare different optimal models of day-ahead markets based on unit commitment (UC) formulations, especially energyvs. power-based UC; excluding or including startup and shutdown trajectories; and determinist...

It is worth summarizing and elaborating briefly on the steps (or activities) of outbreak investigation (Exhibit 1-1). Although the steps may not always occur in exactly this order, this is the general pattern of events. It is not unusual for more than one step to be occurring at the same time. Not all lists of outbreak investigation steps are identical, as some steps may be combined into one ov...

OBJECTIVE To identify baseline attributes associated with consecutively missed data collection visits during the first 48 months of Look AHEAD—a randomized, controlled trial in 5,145 overweight/obese adults with type 2 diabetes designed to determine the long-term health benefits of weight loss achieved by lifestyle change. DESIGN AND METHODS The analyzed sample consisted of 5,016 participants...