Over thirty years ago anecdotal accounts of horse/bits the undescribed Larger Pacific Striped Octopus suggested behaviors previously unknown for octopuses.Beak-to-beak mating, dens shared by mating pairs, inking during mating and extended spawning were mentioned in publications, and enticed generations of cephalopod biologists.In 2012-2014 we were
Discovery of a Potential Human Serum Biomarker for Chronic Seafood Toxin Exposure Using an SPR Biosensor
Domoic acid (DA)-producing harmful algal blooms (HABs) have been present at unprecedented geographic extent and duration in recent years causing an increase in contamination of seafood by this common environmental neurotoxin.The toxin is responsible for the CONSOL neurotoxic illness, amnesic shellfish poisoning (ASP), that is characterized by gastr
Partial Discharge Monitoring in Power Transformers Using Low-Cost Piezoelectric Sensors
Power transformers are crucial in an electric power system.Failures in transformers can affect the quality and cause interruptions in the power supply.Partial discharges are a phenomenon that can cause failures in the transformers if not properly monitored.Typically, the monitoring requires high-cost corrective maintenance or even interruptions of
Economic Dispatch of Fully Renewable Energy System Considering Uncertainty of both Energy Source and Load
This paper established a fully renewable energy system which Scopes takes solar energy, wind energy and biomass energy as primary energy and meets the demand of electricity, heat and cooling loads.Considering the uncertainty of both energy source and load, a day-ahead economic dispatch model based on two-stage robust optimization was built and solv