In recent years, much attention has been focused on the mentally ill offender, particularly those found "not guilty by reason of insanity" and "unfit to stand trial." The more recent trial and verdict involving John Hinckley, Jr., in the United States, has given momentum to the desire on the part of some to completely change the system. In Canada, the 1976 report of the Law Reform Commission on...

the purpose of present paper was to examine the relationship between central bank independence and inflation rate in iran over 1960-2008. first, central bank independence has been accomplished through three indices including legal and real cbi indices and turnover rate of central bank governor index. then, augmented dickey-fuller test for model stationary of variables has been done by applying ...

© 2014 AENSI Publisher All rights reserved. To Cite This Article: K.Jagatheesan, Dr.B.Anand ., Automatic Generation Control of Three Area Hydro-Thermal Power Systems considering Electric and Mechanical Governor with conventional controller and Ant Colony Optimization technique. Adv. in Nat. Appl. Sci., 8(20): 2533, 2014 INTRODUCTION Nowadays electrical device has become the basic need of human ...

Reference Governor for Constrained Nonlinear Systems Alberto Bemporad Abstract| This note addresses the problem of satisfying pointwise-in-time input and/or state hard constraints in nonlinear control systems. The approach is based on conceptual tools of predictive control and consists of adding to a primal compensated nonlinear system a Reference Governor (RG). This is a discrete-time device w...

On Thursday, February 12, Gov. Rick Scott held a press conference at the bookstore on FAU’s Boca Raton campus. The governor discussed his proposals to eliminate the sales tax on college textbooks and expand the use of Bright Futures scholarships into the summer semester. By eliminating the sales tax on textbooks, a full time student would save roughly $60 a year and total statewide savings woul...