The Power Grid
The Power Grid

Author: Brian D'Andrade

Publisher: Academic Press

Published: 2017-03-03

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 0081009526

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The Power Grid: Smart, Secure, Green and Reliable offers a diverse look at the traditional engineering and physics aspects of power systems, also examining the issues affecting clean power generation, power distribution, and the new security issues that could potentially affect the availability and reliability of the grid. The book looks at growth in new loads that are consuming over 1% of all the electrical power produced, and how combining those load issues of getting power to the regions experiencing growth in energy demand can be addressed. In addition, it considers the policy issues surrounding transmission line approval by regulators. With truly multidisciplinary content, including failure analysis of various systems, photovoltaic, wind power, quality issues with clean power, high-voltage DC transmission, electromagnetic radiation, electromagnetic interference, privacy concerns, and data security, this reference is relevant to anyone interested in the broad area of power grid stability. - Discusses state–of-the-art trends and issues in power grid reliability - Offers guidance on purchasing or investing in new technologies - Includes a technical document relevant to public policy that can help all stakeholders understand the technical issues facing a green, secure power grid

Transforming Provincial Politics
Transforming Provincial Politics

Author: Bryan M. Evans

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2015-03-27

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 1442695935

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Over the past thirty-five years, Canada’s provinces and territories have undergone significant political changes. Abandoning mid-century Keynesian policies, governments of all political persuasions have turned to deregulation, tax reduction, and government downsizing as policy solutions for a wide range of social and economic issues. Transforming Provincial Politics is the first province-by-province analysis of politics and political economy in more than a decade, and the first to directly examine the turn to neoliberal policies at the provincial and territorial level. Featuring chapters written by experts in the politics of each province and territory, Transforming Provincial Politics examines how neoliberal policies have affected politics in each jurisdiction. A comprehensive and accessible analysis of the issues involved, this collection will be welcomed by scholars, instructors, and anyone interested in the state of provincial politics today.

The Psychobiology of the Depressive Disorders
The Psychobiology of the Depressive Disorders

Author: Richard A. Depue

Publisher:

Published: 1979

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13:

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Part I: provides a conceptual framework for the many issues and variables inherent in a comprehensive theory of human disorders -- Part II: provides a framework for clinical distinctions in the depressive disorders which may prove meaningful in the investigation of more specific stress-biology pathways -- Part III: provides a framework from several different vantage points for examining biologic variables, found to be relevant to the depressive disorders -- Part IV: provides the latest statements on two issues by prominent researchers -- Part V: provides two creative discussions on the manner in which Stress-Biology interactions may be conceptualized and studied.