Impairments of set shifting have been associated with damage to both the prefrontal cortex (PFC) and to the basal ganglia. The purpose of these experiments was to determine whether damage to the PFC was associated with shifting impairments per se or whether any switching deficits could be attributed to a reduction of working memory capacity. In contrast, shifting impairments were expected for P...

We describe the background and analytical framework for a mathematical optimization model for home energy management systems (HEMS) to efficiently shift electricity load. We illustrate the flexibility of the model by modularizing various available technologies such as plug-in electrical vehicle, battery storage, automatic window opening, etc. The analysis shows that the end user can accrue econ...

We study the nonlinearity (NL) in the conversion from charge to voltage in infrared detectors (HXRG) for use in precision astronomy. We present laboratory measurements of the NL function of a H2RG detector and discuss the accuracy to which it would need to be calibrated in future spacemissions to perform cosmologicalmeasurements through theweak gravitational lensing technique. In addition, we p...

Mobility load balancing (MLB) redistributes the traffic load across the networks to improve the spectrum utilisation. This paper proposes a self-organising cluster-based cooperative load balancing scheme to overcome the problems faced by MLB. The proposed scheme is composed of a cell clustering stage and a cooperative traffic shifting stage. In the cell clustering stage, a user-vote model is pr...

The objective of this study was to assess the benefits of introducing a demand side management optimisation controller to a cold thermal storage ice bank. This controller consisted of an ice bank model, an air temperature forecast model and an optimisation algorithm. The financial and grid utilisation benefits produced by implementation of this controller over the current state of the art in ic...