Abstract: This paper investigates fast first-order methods for nonconvex optimization, inspired by a second-order dynamical system with vanishing damping and strongly convex dry friction. By ...

Abstract: This paper aims to promote the lifespan benefit of multiple battery energy storage (BES) in real-time scheduling. An effective real-time scheduling model is formulated with the proposed ...

Sometimes, you can persuade people to join your cause by lying to them… but if they find out later on, they will, as we say in South Africa, braai you. But what if you’re trying to win people over by ...

Rising pressure on Social Security and major health programs is set to drive federal spending higher over the next decade, even as US deficits and debt climb to levels without modern precedent. That's ...

JOHANNESBURG - Sitting in the middle of a Johannesburg road as traffic snaked around her, Susan Jobson banged empty bottles to protest the water cuts that have upended her life for nearly three weeks.

Feb. 10 (UPI) --Air Canada became the first scheduled airline to withdraw services to Cuba due to shortages of jet fuel as the United States tightened its energy embargo on the Caribbean island.

An eastern Iowa dairy has agreed to pay more than $38,000 in a consent order with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources for a March 2025 manure spill that killed more than 126,000 fish. The ...

WaterCAN says Johannesburg residents already live in Day Zero conditions, with areas experiencing outages lasting close to 20 days. The group calls on the government to declare Johannesburg a national ...