System Restoration Navigator: A decision support tool for System Restoration

Power system restoration is well recognized as an important task to reduce the duration of a disturbance that occures in power systems. The complex tasks of emergency recovery require advanced decision support tools to enhance the resilience and, utimately, self-healing capabilities for a smart grid. A piece of software entitled “System Restoration Navigator” (SRN) has been developed based on the Generic Restoration Milestones (GRMs) concept, with the support of EPRI during the last two years. This paper addresses the development and functionality of SRN. Firstly, the basic philosophy of GRMs is introduced. Secondly, the functionality of SRN and integration of SRN with EPRI Operator Training System (OTS) are demonstrated. Thirdly, the Power and Light (PALCO) system is used to illustrate the general restoration plan and concrete restoration actions under a blackout scenario. It is believed that the development of SRN and its integration with OTS is a major step towards the on-line decision-making for system restoration.published_or_final_versio

The Healing Touch: Tools and Challenges for Smart Grid Restoration

Major electric power disturbances can be triggered by storms, heat waves, solar flares, and many other sources, but all have their roots in the mechanical, cyber, and human vulnerabilities of existing power grids. As shown in ?Figure 1, 2012 was a particularly bad year for extreme weather in the United States. An aging grid infrastructure only exacerbates this problem by creating new concerns over energy reliability and grid resiliency. A single storm can cost billions of U.S. dollars in terms of direct damage to the grid, and it can cause significant power outage-related costs, including lost productivity.published_or_final_versio

New light on the ‘Drummer of Tedworth’: conflicting narratives of witchcraft in Restoration England

This paper presents a definitive text of hitherto little-known early documents concerning ‘The Drummer of Tedworth’, a poltergeist case that occurred in 1662-3 and became famous not least due to its promotion by Joseph Glanvill in his demonological work, Saducismus Triumphatus. On the basis of these and other sources, it is shown how responses to the events at Tedworth evolved from anxious piety on the part of their victim, John Mompesson, to confident apologetic by Glanvill, before they were further affected by the emergence of articulate scepticism about the case

Selective, non-covalent conjugation of synthetic peptides with recombinant proteins mediated by host-guest chemistry.

The combination of potent chemical moieties with biologically active proteins is key to some of today's most innovative therapeutic drugs. In order to obviate any chemical modification of the proteins, we present a novel and powerful strategy for the selective conjugation of recombinant protein domains with synthetically derived peptides via a cucurbit[8]uril host-guest chemistry approach.We thank Alexandra Rieck, Isabelle Sermadiras, Benjamin Kemp and Jennifer Spooner for help with the expression and purification of the Fc and Tn3 domains, Jefferson Revell and Jacky Metcalfe for help with the synthesis of modified peptides and Christel Veyssier for help with the light scattering experiments. RJG was supported by the MedImmune postdoctoral program. SS was supported by ERC Starting Investigator grant ASPiRe (No. 240629).This is the final version of the article. It first appeared from Royal Society of Chemistry via http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C6CC00405

Gordon Thompson at Bell Northern Research

An introduction to the work of Gordon Thompson and his three criteria for judging new information technologies. A refutation of Goldhaber's criticism. An evaluation of Thompson's work and final comments. </jats:p

The World Wired Up: Unscrambling the New Communications

Some very important changes in American telecommunications policy occurred in 1982. On 1 the one hand Judge Harold Greene brought the anti-trust cast against AT&amp;T (American Telephone and Telegraph Company) to a successful conclusion and achieved the breakup of the world's largest private corporation. On the other hand, Mark Fowler, Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, steered American telecommunications policy towards deregulation. Because of the influence of the United States, these two events will have repercussions not only in North America but also in Western Europe and the Third World. </jats:p