Artificial Intelligence Assisted Consumer Privacy and Electrical Energy Management

Smart metering infrastructure brings unique benefits for Utility Companies as well as consumers, however, massive consumer data collected and transmitted by the smart meters have raised consumers2019; privacy concerns. This paper presents a novel solution that is based on Artificial Intelligence Agent that continuously computes the gap between 201C;Average Daily Demand201D; and 201C;Instantaneous Demand201D; of a consumer, and allows the Battery Banks to discharge just enough to fill the gaps and eliminate kinks in the energy usage graph to mask the energy usage. This novel approach offers several benefits, such as, it conceals the utility usage patterns and thus ensures privacy, eliminates excessive discharging and charging of batteries that lifts operational constraints of the batteries, employs scheduling that renders utility bill reduction as an add-on

Jammu and Kashmir: A Situation of Systematic Violations of Human Rights and Role of Mainstream Political Parties

As the peace process started from 1996, it has been taken as a starting point for assessing the efforts of the mainstream political parties in controlling human rights violations. The mainstream political parties had played a crucial role in the peace process. Violence due to militancy and misgovernance has seriously dented the resilient Kashmir identity. Social institutions collapsed and society became harsh, punitive, withdrawn, and distrustful as well. In this study an attempt is made to undertake an intensive and detailed analysis of the role played by mainstream political parties in controlling human rights violations in Jammu and Kashmir and to explore the impact of violence on the human rights and socio-economic development of the people. Keywords: Mainstream political parties, People, Violence, Peace, human rights, Normalc

Modified PSO-Based Virtual Inertia Controller for Optimal Frequency Regulation of Micro-Grid

Owing to the growing need to address the energy crisis by the traditional sources (e.g. Thermal power plants), as well as the associated environmental concerns posed, the power system witnessed increased penetration of power electronics-based power sources like solar, wind, and energy storage in terms of battery technologies. Consequently, modern compared with traditional power systems have become more susceptible to large frequency fluctuations due to the emergence of stability issues. Prominent among these include the reduction of system properties such as damping and inertia which are significant characteristics of system stability. Insufficient inertia drives the grid frequency outside the acceptable range under severe disturbances and this may lead to an outage of generators and tripping, unscheduled shedding of load, system collapse, and in the severe scenario, an entire power blackout, this threatens the system dynamic security. To preserve the system's dynamic security, this paper proposes an alternative approach to frequency regulation built upon a PID-based Virtual Inertia Control (VIC) which imitates the inertia property. The proposed virtual inertia uses the frequency derivative to emulate virtual inertia. The optimality search capability of the Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) technique is used to design the proposed controller. Evaluation of the robustness of the proposed controller is demonstrated through Time Domain Analysis, considering different system operating ranges for improving frequency stability and resilience. Improved performance of the proposed controller when paralleled with the traditional virtual inertia controller shows a 69.2% reduction in frequency nadir under the condition of reduced system inertia, 70% without RESs integration. Also, 50.7% and 44.4% improvement in the reduction of frequency nadir and maximum overshoot respectively were observed under the situation of nominal system inertia, 100%, and Renewable Energy Systems (RESs) penetration

UML-based DEMO Profiles as Metaconcepts for Interlocking Institutional Worlds

An information system supporting an organisation is based on concepts from the organisation\u27s institutional world. An institutional world consists of a collection of speech acts and institutional facts . For a group of information systems to interoperate, the organizations responsible for these systems must first agree on what the words mean in the interoperation. This agreement is called an ontology. The ontology is generally defined as an explicit specification of a conceptualization . One of the major uses of ontology is to support interoperation of information systems. Many institutions whose systems are to interoperate are not fully autonomous; they do sometimes cooperate with each other, so that their institutional worlds will interlock therefore interlocking ontologies . Modeling interlocking institutional worlds (IWs) requires a dedicated representation system that gives a formal model which is the specification of institutional facts as well as the specification of speech acts . The ontology is the specification of institutional facts. However, we do not have a system that can give a formal model for the speech acts. Therefore, this paper adopts a synthesis approach to propose the UML extension for modeling speech acts in the context of interlocking institutional worlds. DEMO is one of the most popular Language Action Paradigms (LAP)-based methodologies based on speech act theory so is close to the concept of IWs. The UML is a standard modelling language in the world of information system development and currently there is a growing interest in its adoption as a language for conceptual modeling and business process representation. Taking advantage of the fact that UML is an OMG standard and its use is growing quickly, this paper proposes UML-based DEMO profiles purposely for modelling IWs

Produksi Infused Water Berbahan Dasar Seledri untuk Para Penderita Hipertensi

Hypertension is one of the causes of premature death worldwide or better known as the “silent killer,” because people with hypertension often do not feel any symptoms. The prevalence of hypertension in the community is included in the high category, which is 34.1%. The general purpose of this community service is to improve the knowledge and skills of nutrition alumni who are members of IKAGIZI. The specific goal is to foster an entrepreneurial spirit by producing infused water as a functional food product made from celery. These efforts can have health and economic value for the community. Programs and activities are carried out through training and practice in making celery-based infused water products. The service produced commercial functional food products and was expected to be the main solution to reducing hypertension in the community

Trends of motorcyclist accidents in Kelantan and factors associated With severity of motorcyclists' Injury seen in Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia (HUSM), Kelantan

Motor vehicle crashes (MVCs) contribute large proportion of death and disability globally. In Malaysia, more than 50°/o of the registered vehicles are motorcycle and it becomes one of the most important forms of personal transportation. Approximately 52.2°/o of all fatalities and 70.9°/o of all casualties related to MVCs in Kelantan were motorcycle riders and pillion riders. The objectives of the study were to determine the trend of motorcycle crashes in Kelantan between 1998 and 2003 and to identify factors associated with the severity of injury sustained by motorcyclist accidents. This study has two parts. Part 1 was a retrospective record review of MVCs in Kelantan between 1998 and 2003. Part 2 was a cross-sectional study on associated factors of motorcyclist accidents, assessed through face to face interviewed-based questionnaire and, at the same time the severity of injury was determined through Revised Trauma Score. The study revealed that majority of road traffic injuries involved motorcycle users (58.5°/o to 63.1 °/o). The proportion of fatality was between 8.6o/o and 10.7% and majority involved those aged 11-30 years (60.0°/o- 69.7°/o). About 90°/o of the fatal motorcycle injuries were male. The peak hour for fatality was between 4.00 and 8.00 in the afternoons. There was no seasonal pattern of motorcycle accidents but, there was significant linear increasing trend over time (p<0.001) with an average increase of 9 cases every year. Age more than 50 years (OR=12.87, 95°/o Cl: 1.85, 89.58), no motorcycle license (OR=14.32, 95°/o Cl: 3.85, 53.23), no stressful condition (OR=4. 73, 95°/o Cl: 1.64, 13.69) and crash on two-way road (OR=4. 78, 95°/o Cl: 1.26, 18.1 0) increased the odds of getting low score (RTS<11 ). Accidents on straight roadways (OR=0.24, 95%> Cl: 0.07, 0.75) or on wet roads (OR=0.09, 95o/o Cl: 0.02, 0.55) and drivers sleeping six to less than nine hours at night prior to accidents (OR=0.11, 95o/o Cl: 0.02, 0.64) reduced the odds for low score. Based on the results above, we conclude that the trend of motorcycle accidents was increasing in the years 1998 - 2003, but with no seasonal pattern. Most of the fatal motorcycle crashes involved young men riders and occurred in afternoons. Age more than 50 years, no motorcycle license, no stressful condition and crashes on two-way road showed higher risk to sustain more severe injury. However, drivers sleeping six to less than nine hours at night, crashes on straight roadways and wet road surfaces were associated with less severe injury. We recommend that public education, licensing and enforcement on accident prevention and safety riding should be given a priority

Food Demand Projection and Consumption Patterns of Urban Households in Nigeria’s Kano State

Changes in population and income are essential components for altering the pattern of food demand. In light of the importance of food demand analysis, this study set out to ascertain urban household consumption trends in Nigeria’s Kano State in order to forecast future demand levels for certain food items. This research contributes to becoming a basis for policymakers to increase food productivity. A household’s cross-sectional survey data elicited through a well-structured questionnaire complemented with an interview schedule from a total of 144 households chosen via a multi-stage sampling procedure was used for the study. The collected data were analyzed using both Linear Approximate/ Almost Ideal Demand System (LA/AIDS) and factor analysis models. Based on empirical evidence, households’ poor purchasing power is owed to high food inflation, which causes them to have low dietary diversity. Besides, the necessary and luxury goods, respectively, were rice, beans, spaghetti, and meat; and millet, yam, Irish potatoes, semovita, fish and groundnut. Meanwhile, maze, garri, and palm oil were established to be inferior commodities. Besides rice and semovita being everyday goods, they demand high price-sensitive commodities. Consequently, to maintain the status quo in the households’ welfare, the onus lies on policymakers to compensate consumers if there is a rise in the prices of local rice, indomie and groundnut oil. The study advises policymakers to increase the productivity of those food items projected to witness the steep-to-gentle rise in demand, and government should endeavour to adopt macro-economic policies with human-face so as to cushion/soften households’ economic hardship in the study area

Frequency distribution of HCV genotypes among chronic hepatitis C patients of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) genotypes frequency is important for the predication of response to therapy and duration of treatment. Despite variable response rates experienced in the case of Interferon (IFN) -based therapies, there was scarcity of data on HCV genotypes frequency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK).</p> <p>Study Design</p> <p>A total of 200 blood samples were collected from chronic HCV patients prior to the initiation of anti-viral therapy. The study population included patients from 6 districts of KPK. Active HCV infection was confirmed in case of all the patients by real time PCR. HCV genotypes were determined in each case by Type-specific PCR.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>The analysis revealed that out of 200 PCR positive samples; 78 (39%) were 2a, 62 (31%) were 3a, 16 (8%) were 3b, 34 (17%) were untypable while 1a, 2b and 1b were 3 (1.5%), 2 (1%) and 5 (2.5%), respectively.</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>Genotype determination is not carried out prior to therapy in KPK. Although, the abundantly prevalent types (2a and 3a) of HCV in KPK are susceptible to combination therapy, yet resistance experienced in some of the chronic HCV patients may partly be attributed to the prevalence of less prevalent resistant genotypes (1a, 1b) of HCV among the population.</p