Turning to Renewable Energy Sources (RES) is the most logical politics in securing the modern society from critical changes in earth increasing temperature. However, Distributed Generation (DG) sources could lead to new challenges in electricity network, mainly allocation of DG sources in distribution level of power system will set the existing network under stress of power flow parameters. The...

A smart community can be considered an essential component to realize a sustainable, low-carbon, and disaster-tolerant society, thereby providing a base for community inhabitants to lead a simple, healthy, and energy-saving way of life as well as ensuring safety, security, and a high quality-of-life in the community. In particular, a smart community can be essential for senior citizens in an ag...

Development of every society is incumbent upon energy sector’s technological and economic effectiveness. The electricity industry is a growing and needs to have a better performance to effectively cover the demand. The industry requires a balance between cost and efficiency through careful design and planning. In this paper, a two-stage stochastic programming model is presented for the design o...

The appearance of different social media has been very influential in individuals’ life. The most common social networks are virtual social networks which have been fascinated by many users because of a lot of similarities with human society, and communications and interactions which are formed in it. This study investigates the role of membership and participation in virtual social network on ...

Technology has had many influences on the Iranian society in different eras. Today, information and telecommunication technologies have revolutionized the basic structures of society and a new network society has been propagated inside the traditional and semi-modern context. In countries like Iran, which are in the process of modernization, a chaos deriving from the transition period is obs...

Authors G. Höffken1,2, J. Lorenz2, W. Kern3, T. Welte2,4, T. Bauer1,2, K. Dalhoff2, E. Dietrich1, S. Ewig1,2, P. Gastmeier1, B. Grabein1, E. Halle1, M. Kolditz2, R. Marre3,4, H. Sitter5 Institutions 1 for the Paul-Ehrlich-Society of Chemotherapy 2 for the German Respiratory Diseases Society 3 for the German Infectious Diseases Society 4 for the competence network CAPNETZ 5 for the Arbeitsgemein...

Price is an long-time proved effective lever in a complicated system like human society. In such a society, people often needs to compete for a same set of limited resources. However, the demand of different people and the potential welfare generated from the usage the resource (utilization) is so different that a universal allocation scheme is unlikely to work well in large scale. Economic rul...

  E-Science is a tool that helps scientists to store, interpret, analyze and make a network of their data, and it can play a critical role in different aspects of the scientific goals and research. This commentary, under the topic of Cross Border E-Science and Research Partnership: Bridging the Gap between Science and Media,[1] attempts to shed light on E-Science with emphasis on three importa...

This article deals with an emerging type of social capital which is labeled as ‘network capital’. It is formed from collaborative practices emerging from e-enabled human networks. It is proposed that network capital is a specific type of social capital in the Network Society, and that it holds significant value for the advancement of human development around the world. Social Capital and Human ...