Today's Utility Research Articles

Digitalpreneurship Incubator Curriculum Development to Improve Entrepreneurship Skills

The utilization of today's digital technology impacts the marketing world, which delivers change pattern transactions. People who used to be offline are switching to online transactions. There exists an effort to increase entrepreneurial skills to carry out business-based digitalpreneurship. Incubator digitalpreneurship is one program that trains and improves internal skills for businesses that use digital marketing. The research aims to develop a syllabus incubator digitalpreneursip that experts have validated. Digitalpreneurship is the type of businesses that take advantage technology For marketing. Incubator as an improvement program soft skills entrepreneur To get knowledge of the latest concepts and techniques based on era. Pre-incubation, incubation, and post-incubation are all components of an incubator business. Approach study Uses stage development Plomp, which consists of stages: stage investigation initial, stage design, stage realization/construction, stage testing, and stage implementation. A validation sheet expert form questionnaire was used for data collection. Observation is also used To decide on material lesson syllabus. Created syllabus evaluated by four professionals. Based on the findings CVR calculation, methodology data analysis is presented in a detailed way. Arrange and arrange curriculum education based on needs used To guide results development. The syllabus is Arranged based on Content Identity, Standard Competencies (SK), Basic Competencies (KD), Subject Materials, Activities Learning, Indicators Achievement Competency, Assessment, Time Allocation, Learning Resources, and Language and developed syllabus with allocation time for one semester with the enhancement of skills management marketing using social media and websites. The syllabus has already been tested. Try to team with the validator expert and state the category Good. The syllabus obtains a response to the indicator insistence necessary competencies be repaired. The developed syllabus can be accepted as a reference in implementing a digitalpreneurship incubator

A Comprehensive Exploration of the Capital Asset Pricing Model

Abstract - In this comprehensive paper, we embark on a journey to explore the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) in both theoretical depth and practical breadth. Beginning with an introduction that traces its historical origins and fundamental principles, we delve into the model's theoretical underpinnings, elucidating its core concepts and underlying assumptions. Transitioning from theory to practice, we provide a detailed roadmap for the CAPM's real-world implementation, offering practical insights through examples and case studies. Throughout, we address the model's significance as a foundational pillar of finance, its enduring relevance in contemporary markets, and the practical nuances and limitations that both newcomers and seasoned professionals must navigate to make informed investment decisions. This paper aims to empower readers with a comprehensive understanding of the CAPM, bridging the gap between its theoretical elegance and its practical utility in today's multifaceted financial landscape

The Implementation of Financial System Information toward The Function of Regional Financial Supervision on Regional Financial Management in Bungo Regency

Utilization of today's technology is something that can't be avoided, because of the need for information very fast, and precisely becomes a necessity major in all aspects. One of the technologies that the most developed is the technology that web-based which is often referred to as Internet. This technology is already in use in various fields of business, government, health, education and so on. Internet technology that is now ingrained meat must be used optimally, the existence of technology is also expected to be the answer to generalize speed of service, an advancement if the government is starting to adopt the technology as the main infrastructure of public services. The application of SIMDA Financial application to the Bungo Regency Regional Financial is based on SIMDA elements such as adequate internet network access, basic infrastructure and applications, all infrastructure in the form of hardware, software, and brain ware is adequate as well as information management and processing organizations and electronic documents that are sufficient. So that, the SIMDA Financial Application has produced financial statement information and other financial information with excellent quality relevance, excellent accuracy, and very good timeliness as well.

Engaging Technologies Evolve

Recently, colleagues on LinkedIn have been asking why I am reposting articles regarding blockchain, emergent crypto coins, non‐fungible tokens, and the metaverse. Readers will learn in this column that these trending platforms are not just ancillary trends, but rather key transformative technologies that will influence today's utility industry towards a climate conscious future.

Utilities Can Improve Customer Experience to Meet Growing Customer Expectations

With the continued customer‐centric focus of companies such as Amazon, Apple, Zappos, Netflix, and USAA, customers have come to expect the same personalized and world‐class service from all their service providers, including energy utilities. Today's utilities are expected to do more for their customers than just provide safe and reliable service. Customers are demanding more information about their bills, usage, and new programs to reduce energy usage and costs and want highly functional, easy‐to‐use digital platforms to interact with. While utilities have made efforts to increase customer experience in recent years, they continue to lag behind other industries and sectors on overall customer satisfaction and digital customer experience (i.e., ease of use).

Oncology Nursing Considerations when Developing Outpatient Staffing and Acuity Models.

Objectives include review of existing benchmarks and nurse-sensitive indicators relevant to the ambulatory care setting. Applying the data to existing ambulatory staffing models with consideration of multiple clinic settings that include medical oncology, infusion, and stem cell transplant clinics. And to describe key considerations needed to optimize oncology care efficiently with an acuity-based staffing model. Published literature indexed in PubMed, CINAHL, textbooks. In today's complex oncology environment, optimization and utilization of outpatient facilities is essential in providing high-quality care and improving satisfaction of patients as well as providers and staff. Nurse leaders should utilize benchmarking data to ensure staffing levels are appropriate, given the size and scope of their facility. Staff nurses should be engaged to ensure that acuity tools are developed in accordance with their experiences and perceptions of patient care.

Deploying Digital Assets: Natural Gas Utilities Using Smart Grid Technologies to Modernize Infrastructure

Grid modernization is a critical component in transforming today's electric, gas, and water utilities to meet the growing expectations of regulators and customers. Grid modernization is the integration and use of connected devices from the customer premises to the rest of the transmission and distribution networks. The connected devices are the meters, monitoring equipment, and controllers that allow utility employees to remotely access data and operate the network. These devices are the backbone that enables electric utilities to improve reliability, maximize operational efficiencies, and accommodate the increasing proliferation of distributed renewable generation and changing loads throughout the system. Natural gas utilities are beginning to experience the same evolution electric utilities have been going through for the past two decades, but many are now well positioned to leverage lessons learned from their electric counterparts to execute some other, and perhaps less controversial, infrastructure‐modernization plans.

Assessing the utility of preoperative serum thyroglobulin in differentiated thyroid cancer: a retrospective cohort study

Serum thyroglobulin (TG) is used to monitor for recurrence or progression of differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC). The role of preoperative TG measurement is more ambiguous, yet still being used in some centers. We aimed to determine whether preoperative TG correlates with disease stage or metastatic burden. A retrospective review of patients with TG measured before thyroidectomy was conducted. Data collected included demographics, preoperative TG, pathology, and cancer stage. Associations between preoperative TG levels and size of largest malignant nodule, thyroid gland size, stage of cancer, and presence of metastasis using Wilcoxon rank sum tests and Spearman correlations were performed. Receiver operator curve (ROC) was generated for metastasis status. Of 598 patients, we excluded those with positive TG antibodies (n = 176); 422 patients were included in the final analysis. Median age was 55 years and 76% were female. Of 78% with malignancy, papillary thyroid cancer was the most frequent (92%). 18% had TG levels >500 ng/mL and 29% <45 ng/mL. 4% had distant metastasis and 18% had lymph node metastasis. Median follow-up was 52 months. Significant positive correlations between preoperative TG and thyroid size (rho 0.49, p < 0.001), and malignant nodule size (rho 0.27, p < 0.001). Using a cut-off of 500 ng/mL, sensitivity to detect metastasis was 10.3% (95% CI 2.5-18.2), specificity 90.0% (95% CI 86.0-93.9). The area under curve for ROC (0.46, 95% CI 0.38-0.54) indicated poor diagnostic ability for metastasis. Although preoperative TG correlated significantly with the size of the gland and T stage, there was no correlation with metastasis. Preoperative TG is of limited utility in today's value-based healthcare environment.

Communication Modeling for Differential Protection in IEC-61850-Based Substations

Today's power utilities, around the world, own multiple substations that are connected together to form a complex energy network. The functions within and between these substations are being automated according to globally accepted power utility automation standard IEC 61850. This automation results in efficient operation and enhanced protection of power network with the aid of the communication system. Implementing the protection schemes modeled using communication configurations of standardized information exchange will lead to digital power grid. Designing an IEC-61850-based protection scheme to take care of the faults outside the substations is a challenge, as the typical local-area-network-based generic-object-oriented substation events and sampled-value messages need to be transmitted over a wide-area network. This paper presents communication configuration for line current differential protection schemes applied between two automated substations. It presents the simulation results of communication configuration network between two substations. Its performance is evaluated using a network simulator tool. This study intends to guide the development of a robust protection scheme with IEC-61850-based communication configuration.

Learn from the Past: It's Better Than Repeating It [In My View

The articles in this issue of the publication present a contrast in the outlook for the grid of the future. On one hand, serious efforts are underway to define the distribution system operator (DSO ) and plan the transition from today's distribution utility to tomorrow's distribution market operator. On the other hand, a grim assessment of the cyber insecurity of the grid operating-system infrastructure is, if anything, understating the risks and challenges in addressing them.

Aligning Water Rates, Revenues, and Resources: Strategies for Today's Utility Managers

How can water utilities better align customer water rates and utility revenue and better cope with more expensive water?

Experts Support Safety and Utility of Today’s Diapers

With the needs of both pediatricians and parents in mind and the safety of babies a top priority, continual innovations in diaper technology have produced meaningful improvements in duration of use and care for the skin, all with the reassurance of extensive safety validation.

Estimated Demand for Women's Health Services by 2020

To estimate the demand for women's health care by 2020 using today's national utilization standards. This descriptive study incorporated the most current national data resources to design a simulation model to create a health and economic profile for a representative sample of women from each state. Demand was determined utilizing equations about projected use of obstetrics-gynecology (ob-gyn) services. Applying patient profile and health care demand equations, we estimated the demand for providers in 2010 in each state for comparison with supply based on the 2010 American Medical Association Masterfile. U.S. Census Bureau population projections were used to project women's health care demands in 2020. The national demand for women's health care is forecast to grow by 6% by 2020. Most (81%) ob-gyn related services will be for women of reproductive age (18-44 years old). Growth in demand is forecast to be highest in states with the greatest population growth (Texas, Florida), where supply is currently less than adequate (western United States), and among Hispanic women. This increase in demand by 2020 will translate into a need for physicians or nonphysician clinicians, which is clinically equivalent to 2,090 full-time ob-gyns. Using today's national norms of ob-gyn related services, a modest growth in women's health care demands is estimated by 2020 that will require a larger provider workforce.

What role for revenue decoupling for today's utilities?

AbstractTo understand revenue‐decoupling mechanisms, it is necessary to start with an explanation of what typically is “coupled” in utility‐rate structures.

Turning Vision Into Reality: Leveraging Technology and Culture to Realize Energy Savings at a Large Public Utility

ABSTRACT The operating pressures faced by today's utilities include an increased focus on fiscal responsibility and cost reductions, combined with a higher and ever-increasing level of environmental quality standards. This puts a brighter spotlight and greater pressure on improving operational efficiency and optimizing the performance and operation of their facilities, which not only saves energy but makes them more environmentally sustainable. An energy audit is a process typically used to evaluate a system for such efficiency and the associated energy savings. Energy audits also provide the factual basis needed to support the establishment of a culture that focuses on energy efficiency as a core part of its decision-making model. When energy audits are performed for water and wastewater utilities, not only can electrical energy savings be achieved, but savings in other areas such as process chemical use or parasitic water losses may also realized. The energy audit and savings plan conducted for DC Water...

Scalable and Flexible heterogeneous multi-core system

Multi-core system has wide utility in today's applications due to less power consumption and high performance. Many researchers are aiming at improving the performance of these systems by providing flexible multi-core architecture. Flexibility in the multi-core processors system provides high throughput for uniform parallel applications as well as high performance for more general work. This flexibility in the architecture can be achieved by scalable and changeable- size window micro architecture. It uses the concept of execution locality to provide large-window capabilities. Use of high memory-level parallelism (MLP) reduces the memory wall. Micro architecture contains a set of small and fast cache processors which execute high locality code. A network of small in-order memory engines use low locality code to improve performance by using instruction level parallelism (ILP). Dynamic heterogeneous multi-core architecture is capable of reconfiguring itself to fit application requirements. Study of different scalable and flexible architectures of heterogeneous multi-core system has been carried out and has been presented.

In Memoriam

This memorial column pays tribute to Curt Stanton, past‐president of AWWA from 1978‐79. He passed away on August 15, 2011 at the age of 93. He was a long‐standing member of the association and served in many capacities over the years. He became general manager of the Orlando Utilities Commission in 1948. He served as chair of the Florida Section in 1960, as the Florida Section director on the AWWA Board of Directors between 1969 and 1972, and was a member of the AWWA Government Affairs Committee, forerunner of today's Water Utility Council. He represented AWWA on a visit to President Carter and the White House, was recognized by the Florida Section as “Man of the Year” in 1970, and AWWA honored him with its Distinguished Public Service Award in 1982.

The Service Upgrade

Today's utility companies are being driven to upgrade their aging transmission and distribution networks in the face of escalating energy generation costs, serious environmental challenges, and rising demand for cleaner distributed generation from both developing and digital economies worldwide. One of the key challenges facing the industry is how to take advantage of new technologies to better manage the delivery of to customers today and into the future. While introducing this new technology, utilities must keep data and networks secure to be in compliance with critical infrastructure protection regulations. The concept of service management for the smart grid provides an approach for getting started.

Opportunities and Challenges of Wireless Sensor Networks in Smart Grid

The collaborative and low-cost nature of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) brings significant advantages over traditional communication technologies used in today's electric power systems. Recently, WSNs have been widely recognized as a promising technology that can enhance various aspects of today's electric power systems, including generation, delivery, and utilization, making them a vital component of the next-generation electric power system, the smart grid. However, harsh and complex electric-power-system environments pose great challenges in the reliability of WSN communications in smart-grid applications. This paper starts with an overview of the application of WSNs for electric power systems along with their opportunities and challenges and opens up future work in many unexploited research areas in diverse smart-grid applications. Then, it presents a comprehensive experimental study on the statistical characterization of the wireless channel in different electric-power-system environments, including a 500-kV substation, an industrial power control room, and an underground network transformer vault. Field tests have been performed on IEEE 802.15.4-compliant wireless sensor nodes in real-world power delivery and distribution systems to measure background noise, channel characteristics, and attenuation in the 2.4-GHz frequency band. Overall, the empirical measurements and experimental results provide valuable insights about IEEE 802.15.4-compliant sensor network platforms and guide design decisions and tradeoffs for WSN-based smart-grid applications.

Making the Right Choice: The Guide to Choosing the Best Desktop Utility Bill Tracking Software for Your Facility

Today's utility bill tracking software can deliver excellent results for energy managers who want to gain a comprehensive understanding of utility usage and costs in their facilities. All of the major commercially available utility bill tracking software programs are good at what they do; however, they are distinctly different in functionality and capacity. Savvy energy managers have discovered-sometimes the hard way-the importance of selecting the appropriate software package to meet their needs. Before reviewing software packages, it is best to understand the needs of your organization and the resources available. Then you can compare each program's capabilities (such as budgeting and forecasting, temperature correction, rate analysis, report generation, etc.) against your needs. Making the wrong choice can result in wasted time and hours of frustration, or worse-dissatisfied clients or management This article will help you to identify what tasks you want to accomplish with your utility bill tracking software.