Circulatory changes in neurosurgical patients with intracerebral angiomas in neuroleptanaesthesia (author's transl)

In 10 neurosurgical patients with intracerebral angiomas circulatory and respiratory functions were studied. After induction of anesthesia the cardiac output declined from an average value of 7.63 +/- 2.13 1.min-1 to 3.99 +/- 0.43 1.min-1 (-48%) in consequence to the decline of the heart rate by 24% and the stroke volume by 32%. In the same time increased the calculated peripheral resistance in reverse proportion to the decline of the cardiac output by 47%. The oxygen transport decreased after induction of anaesthesia by 48% while the oxygen uptake decreased by 28.6%. The oxygen utilization coefficient increased by 48% (0.33) and documented a satisfactory relation between oxygen-uptake and oxygen utilization in neuroleptanaesthesia.     

Thermal power generation scheduling by simulated competition

This paper presents a new method for solving the unit commitment problem by simulation of a competitive market where power is traded through a power exchange (PX). Procedures for bidding and market clearing are described. The market clearing process handles the spinning reserve requirements and power balance simultaneously. The method is used on a standard unit commitment problem with minimum up/down times, start-up costs and spinning reserve requirement taken into account. Comparisons with solutions provided by Lagrangian relaxation, genetic algorithms and Chao-an Li's unit decommitment procedure demonstrate the potential benefits of this new method. The motivation for this work was to design a competitive electricity market suitable for thermal generation scheduling. However, performance in simulations of the proposed market has been so good that it is presented here as a solving technique for the unit commitment problem