The title compound, C(17)H(18)N(2)O(4), is the methyl ester of the adduct of intra-molecular Diels-Alder reaction between maleic anhydride and 1-(2-fur-yl)-2,3,4,5-tetra-hydro-1H-pyrrolo-[1,2-a][1,4]diazepine. The mol-ecule comprises a fused penta-cyclic system containing four five-membered rings (viz. pyrrole, 2-pyrrolidinone, tetra-hydro-furan and dihydro-furan) and one seven-membered ring (1...

A new model to deal with the short-term generation scheduling problem for hydrothermal systems is proposed. Using genetic algorithms (GAs), the model handles simultaneously the subproblems of short-term hydrothermal coordination, unit commitment, and economic load dispatch. Considering a scheduling horizon period of a week, hourly generation schedules are obtained for each of both hydro and the...

Identification of the precise nature and attributes of the time series of climatological data is very important and is usually the first step for water resources planning and management. Such exercise is very important for hydro-climatic extremes. In many instances, a climatic time series is generally not statistically independent but is comprised of patterns of persistence, cycles, trends or s...

Renewable energy resources have played an important role to meet increasing energy demand in the world. Among the renewable energy resources, especially, wind energy is of interest due to some advantages, such as being clean, environmental friendly etc. However, the intermittent nature of wind creates several problems to the power system operation and new approaches based on the combined use of...

THE TITLE COMPOUND (SYSTEMATIC NAME 7-oxo-3-phenyl-2,6-dioxabicyclo-[3.3.1]nonan-4-yl acetate), C(15)H(16)O(5), is a styryllactone derivative which was isolated from Goniothalamus macrophyllus. The mol-ecule has two fused rings consisting of a tetra-hydro-2H-pyran and a lactone ring, with the benzene ring and the acetyl group attached to the tetra-hydro-2H-pyran ring. The tetra-hydro-2H-pyran r...

In this paper we describe a heterogeneous knowledge base management system which is being designed and developed at North Dakota State University with support from IBM Rochester, MN. The system is called KB-HYDRO. It will connect a variety of autonomous local database systems as well as one or more knowledge base systems into one unified system. We show how global serializability and atomic com...

The title compound, C15H19NO4, is the a product of the esterification of the corresponding carbonic acid with methanol. The mol-ecule comprises a fused tetra-cyclic system containing three five-membered rings (2-pyrrolidinone, tetra-hydro-furan and di-hydro-furan) and one seven-membered ring (azepane). The five-membered rings have the usual envelope conformations, with the quaternary C atom bei...

The asymmetric unit of the title compound, C44H44N2O6, contains two independent mol-ecules with similar conformations. The di-hydro-naphthalene ring systems are approximately planar [maximum deviations = 0.036 (2), 0.128 (2), 0.0.24 (2) and 0.075 (2) Å]. The dihedral angle between two di-hydro-naphthalene ring systems is 83.37 (4)° in one mol-ecule and 88.99 (4)° in the other. The carbonyl O at...

The title compounds, C15H19N4O+·Cl- and C15H19N4O+·Cl-·H2O, obtained in attempts to synthesize metal complexes using tetra-hydro-indazole as a ligand, were characterized by NMR, IR and X-ray diffraction techniques. The partially saturated ring in the tetra-hydro-indazole core adopts a sofa conformation. An intra-molecular N-H⋯N hydrogen bond formed by the protonated amino group and the N atom o...

An economic operation scheduling problem of a hydro-thermal power generation system has been properly solved by the proposed multipath adaptive tabu search algorithm (MATS). Four reservoirs with their own hydro plants and another one thermal plant are integrated to be a studied system used to formulate the objective function under complicated constraints, eg water managements, power balance and...