Renewable energy sources (RES) for powering desalination processes is a promising option especially in remote and arid regions where the use of conventional energy is costly or unavailable. Reverse Osmosis (RO) is one of the most suitable desalination processes to be coupled with different...

This paper presents a new multi-objective optimization based reactive power price clearing (RPPC) mechanism, considering voltage stability. Use of realistic voltage dependent load models is important in power system analysis and optimization. The influence of the same on RPPC is investigated in...

Groundwater is the main water resource in many semi-arid coastal regions and water demand, especially in summer months, can be very high. Groundwater withdrawal for meeting this demand often causes seawater intrusion and degradation of water quality of coastal aquifers. In order to satisfy...

It is a well-known fact that Haar wavelet can exactly represent any piecewise constant function. Beam and Warming proved later, in 2000, that the supercompact wavelets can exactly represent any piecewise polynomial function in one variable. Higher level of accuracy is attained by higher order...

A possible definition of the term fusion could be a simultaneous combination of output information from several sources. Using complementary data, image fusion may improve quality and consequently interpretability of the result. There are many different ways to proceed with image fusion and...

The effective local reuse of physical cash by depository institutions (DIs) is the primary goal of the new cash recirculation policy of the Federal Reserve System (Fed) of the United States. These guidelines, implemented since July 2007, encourage the reuse of cash by (i) penalizing a DI for the...