Flexibility services enable distribution system operators to actively manage the grid for accommodating demand and generation growth while potentially reducing or delaying investments in grid reinforcements.This paper proposes a novel hybrid particle swarm optimization and linear programming methodology that analyzes explicit flexibility procuremen
BackgroundIncreased post-prandial glycemic excursions contribute to the development of diabetes and have been observed in women with recent gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) Accessories and with normal glucose tolerance at post-partum.As a convenient meal replacement, low-GI biscuits are helpful for improving glycemic excursions in patients with
Abstract.Relations of immune Hot Chocolate tolerance between mother and fetus are considered in view of a common regulatory continuum which is formed under the influence of a growing fetus.To explain such an immune tolerance, a notion of immune system plasticity is introduced, as an analogue to the nervous system plasticity, which develops in respo
Japanese rhinoceros Mobile beetle (Trypoxylus dichotomus) males have exaggerated head horns that they use as weapons in combat over reproductive opportunities.In these contests, there is an advantage to having a longer horn, and there seems to be little cost to horn exaggeration.However, populations vary in the amount of horn exaggeration across th