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DRSim: A Cyber Physical Simulator for Demand Response Systems

Karl Aberer, Dipanjan Chakraborty, Tri Kurniawan Wijaya

Demand Response (DR) is a mechanism in which electricity consumers alter their demand in response to power grid’s supply and economic conditions. DR programs have the potential to improve resource efficiency, sustainability, grid reliability and economic v ...

2013

Cutaneous Notch Signaling in Health and Disease

Freddy Radtke, Craig Nowell

The development and maintenance of the skin are dependent on myriad signaling pathways that regulate a variety of cellular processes. In cutaneous epithelial cells, the Notch cascade plays a central role in ensuring that proliferation and differentiation a ...

Cold Spring Harbor Lab Press, Publications Dept2013

The many faces of α-synuclein: from structure and toxicity to therapeutic target

Hilal Lashuel, Abid Oueslati

Disorders characterized by α-synuclein (α-syn) accumulation, Lewy body formation and parkinsonism (and in some cases dementia) are collectively known as Lewy body diseases. The molecular mechanism (or mechanisms) through which α-syn abnormally accumulates ...

Nature Publishing Group2013

What does S-palmitoylation do to membrane proteins?

Françoise Gisou van der Goot Grunberg, Sanja Blaskovic, Mathieu Blanc

S-palmitoylation is post-translational modification, which consists in the addition of a C16 acyl chain to cytosolic cysteines and which is unique amongst lipid modifications in that it is reversible. It can thus, like phosphorylation or ubiquitination, ac ...

Wiley-Blackwell2013

Knowledge, Networks, and Knowledge Networks: A Review and Research Agenda

Anu Wadhwa

A large and growing body of empirical research shows that social relationships and the networks these relationships constitute are influential in explaining the processes of knowledge creation, diffusion, absorption and use. We refer to such networks as 'k ...

2012

Crowdsourcing As A Solution To Distant Search

Christopher Tucci, Allan Afuah

We argue that under certain circumstances crowdsourcing transforms distant search into local search, improving the efficiency and effectiveness of problem solving. Under such circumstances a firm may choose to crowdsource problem solving rather than solve ...

Academy of Management2012

The fragility of experiential knowledge

Dominique Foray

Abstract of the book: While there is growing recognition that understanding knowledge is at the very heart of economics, little work has thus far been forthcoming representing in a comprehensive and coherent way its fundamental nature and wide-ranging cons ...

Edward Elgar Publishing2012

Where are we in understanding salamander locomotion: biological and robotic perspectives on kinematics

Auke Ijspeert, Konstantinos Karakasiliotis

Salamanders have captured the interest of biologists and roboticists for decades because of their ability to locomote in different environments and their resemblance to early representatives of tetrapods. In this article, we review biological and robotic s ...

Springer Verlag2012

Comparison-Based Learning with Rank Nets

Amin Karbasi

We consider the problem of search through comparisons, where a user is presented with two candidate objects and reveals which is closer to her intended target. We study adaptive strategies for finding the target, that require knowledge of rank relationship ...

2012

Scientific Diasporas, Knowledge Circulation, Development: Insights from the Study of Skilled Moldovans Abroad

Gabriela Tejada Guerrero

The world knowledge divide has led to demands for alternative ways of improving international cooperation in order to contribute to a reduction in the scientific disparity and inequalities in the availability of human capital between the North and the Sout ...

2012