Our laboratory is currently exploring synthetic oligo(poly(ethylene glycol)fumarate) (OPF)-based biomaterials as a means to deliver fibroblasts to promote regeneration of central/partial defects in tendons and ligaments. In order to further modulate the swelling and degradative characteristics of OPF-based hydrogels, OPF crosslinking via a radically initiated, mixed-mode reaction involving poly...

This paper proposes two novel techniques for including contingencies in OPF-based electricity market computations and for the estimation of a “System-wide” Available Transfer Capability (SATC). The OPF problem formulation includes voltage stability constraints and a loading parameter in order to ensure a proper stability margin for the market solution. Two methods are proposed: The first techni...

We study order-parameter fluctuations (OPF) in disordered systems by considering the behaviour of some recently introduced parameters G,Gc which have proven very useful in locating phase transitions. We prove that both parameters G (for disconnected overlap disorder averages) and Gc (for connected disorder averages) take the respective universal values 3 and 13 31 in the T → 0 limit for any fin...

The genetic algorithm (GA) based solution techniques are found suitable for optimization because of their ability of simultaneous multidimensional search. Many GA-variants have been tried in the past to solve optimal power flow (OPF), one of the nonlinear problems of electric power system. The issues like convergence speed and accuracy of the optimal solution obtained after number of generation...

Individuals with a transfemoral amputation (TFA) may experience limitations in daily life due to reduced mobility and prosthesis-related problems. An osseointegrated prosthesis fixation (OPF) procedure in amputees might contribute to a solution for patients with short stumps or socket-related problems. To date, no study has specifically described the application of an OPF procedure in individua...

Enterprise-wide, web-based systems can be assisted in their construction by the use of agents and an agentoriented methodology. As part of an extensive research programme to create such an AO methodology by combining the benefits of method engineering and existing object-oriented frameworks (notably the OPF), we have analysed here contributions to the OPF repository of process components from t...

This data article presents data associated with the research article entitled "Evaluation of cell-laden polyelectrolyte hydrogels incorporating poly(L-lysine) for applications in cartilage tissue engineering" (Lam et al., 2016) [1]. Synthetic hydrogel composites fabricated using oligo(poly(ethylene glycol) fumarate) (OPF) macromers were utilized as vehicles for the incorporation of poly(L-lysin...

This paper presents a new application and evaluation of the Optimum-Path Forest (OPF) classifier to accomplish synthetic material porosity segmentation and quantification obtained from optical microscopic images. Sample images of a synthetic material were analyzed and the quality of the results was confirmed by human visual analysis. Additionally, the OPF results were compared against two diffe...

Stability is an important constraint in power system operation; the transient stability constrained optimal power flow (TSCOPF) has a considerable attention in recent years. The solution obtained from the conventional optimal power flow (OPF), which considers only the static constraints, does not guarantee transient stability in the system against possible contingencies such as line fault. In t...

This article introduces modern optimization models and solution methods for two fundamental decision making problems in electric power system operations, the optimal power flow (OPF) problem and the unit commitment (UC) problem. The article surveys some of the most recent advances, including global optimization techniques for exact solution of the OPF problem, adaptive robust optimization model...