Meeting uncertain supply conditions with adequate demandside measures is becoming increasingly central to the day-to-day operations of energy utility companies, as variability is one of the main drivers of cost in operating the grid. In this paper we provide the first characterization of demand variability and the factors influencing it. We propose that heterogeneity in energy consumption is dr...

BACKGROUND Most manufacturers of blood glucose monitoring equipment do not give advice regarding the use of their meters and strips onboard aircraft, and some airlines have blood glucose testing equipment in the aircraft cabin medical bag. Previous studies using older blood glucose meters (BGMs) have shown conflicting results on the performance of both glucose oxidase (GOX)- and glucose dehydro...

The federal government has the goal of decreasing commercial building energy consumption and pollutant emissions by incentivizing the adoption of commercial building energy codes. Quantitative estimates of code benefits at the state level that can inform the size and allocation of these incentives are not available. We estimate the state-level climate, environmental, and health benefits (i.e., ...

The supply of high data rates is a major goal of the communication industry. Towards this goal one solution is to use high level modulation combined with powerful coding. We propose a turbo-coded high-level modulation system (16/32/64-QAM) for the downlink that could be used for example in the future evolution of the EGPRS. The evaluation of such a system over the GSM channels is performed thro...