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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Efficiency Gap"”.
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Whose fault is it anyway? evaluating the energy efficiency gap in commercial buildings & measuring energy savings associated with fault detection and diagnostics
… to the International Energy Agency, energy efficiency programs make up 72% of global greenhouse gas abatement strategies. However, there is extensive literature that shows compelling evidence for an "energy efficiency gap" in which expected energy savings from energy efficiency programs are …
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Retrofitting the domestic built environment: investigating household perspectives towards energy efficiency technologies and behaviour
… full potential and realised adoption of energy efficiency measures in the UK, a phenomenon termed the ‘Energy Efficiency Gap’. While a number of technical or economic factors may help explain this gap, difficult to quantify factors, such as social motivations, barriers, and viewpoints towards …
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Barriers and Cognitive Biases in the Monitoring-Based Commissioning Process
… by organizations leading to an energy efficiency gap between the energy saving potential of technologies like EMIS and observed savings. This energy efficiency gap can be attributed to general barriers to MBCx and barriers caused specifically by cognitive bias in the decision-making …
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Examining Partisan Advantage In Congressional Maps Using Simulations Based On Election Data
… measures of partisan gerrymandering, such as the efficiency gap, and do so in light of recent court cases and other important contexts. </p>
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State estimation of switched nonlinear systems and systems with bounded inputs: Entropy and bit rates
… the algorithm is optimal in the sense that the efficiency gap is within an additive constant from the gap between the entropy of the considered system and its computed upper-bound. Finally, we apply our theory and algorithms to linear and nonlinear models of systems such as a glycemic index for …
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Stochastic architectures for probabilistic computation
… principles and structures needed to narrow this gap are unknown. Here I show how to build fast Bayesian computing machines using intentionally stochastic, digital parts, narrowing this efficiency gap by multiple orders of magnitude. By connecting stochastic digital components according to simple …
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Toward Practical Quantum Computing Systems with Intelligent Cross-Stack Co-Design
… classically hard problems with greater speed and efficiency, and recent years have seen exciting advancements in this field. However, significant gaps remain between application requirements and the capabilities of current devices, particularly in terms of software framework support, efficiency, …
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Power and energy management of modern architectures in adaptive HPC runtime systems
Power and energy efficiency are important challenges for the High Performance Computing (HPC) community. Excessive power consumption is a main limitation for further scaling of HPC systems, and researchers believe that current technology trends will not provide Exascale performance within a …
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Competitive selection and international trade under monoplistic competition
… competition are characterized by persistent efficiency gaps both within and across countries.This thesis constructs a monopolistically competitive framework of non-localized competition where inter-firm and inter-country technical heterogeneity is explicitly allowed for and modelled as …
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Food Distribution Efficiency in Eastern Europe
… are perceived as meaningful in food distribution efficiency: processing, quality, cost, availability and retailing. Based on mean factor- scores-, an index- has been derived which is useful_ in making cross-cultural comparisons. By comparing the countries' mean factor scores to those of US and UK, …
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Evaluation of the design and implementation of climate change mitigation policies in developing countries
… found that for a wide range of technological gap, transaction costs effect dominates asymmetric information effect in impeding small developing countries from supplying credits of emission reduction as expected by the CDM. Second, the study employed dynamic optimization to test the …
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Advanced Compilation Techniques for Logic Programming = Técnicas Avanzadas de Compilación para Programación Lógica
… and declarative nature imposes a considerable efficiency gap. An ambitious goal for Prolog implementations, shared with many other declarative languages, is closing this gap while not sacrificing expressivity. The objective of this thesis is the development and improvement of advanced …
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Loosely Coupled Transformer and Tuning Network Design for High-Efficiency Inductive Power Transfer Systems
… systems, two major drawbacks including low power efficiency and coil displacement sensitivity are identified as the main obstacles that have to be solved in order for these systems to reach full functionality and compete with existing wired solutions. To address the limitations and design …