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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"climate control"”.
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Climate control: Does caring really matter?
… Faculty Behaviors: Thermostats for the Learning Climate, and Faculty: Neither Primary Influences or Deterrents of Minority Student Success. The qualitative findings suggest that while faculty behaviors do have an impact on minority students in regard to program selection, they are not primary …
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Climate control on plant performance across an Andean altitudinal gradient
… the response of species and ecosystems to climate change is one of the most pressing challenges of biology. The use of altitudinal gradients as 'natural experiments' to test the influence of climate on species distributions and performance has a long history in ecology and biogeography. …
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Design and Optimization of Adsorption Systems for Automotive Climate Control
… sit at the forefront of challenges presented by climate change, spanning direct air carbon capture, to atmospheric water harvesting, to thermal energy storage. Decades of research and development have led to the optimization of adsorption materials to customize them for a specific application by …
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Climate control : smart thermostats, demand response, and energy efficiency in Austin, Texas
… important in cities and states with strong climate change and energy goals. Since 2000, Austin Energy has managed a residential demand response program that enables it to reduce air conditioning usage by remotely adjusting thermostat settings at tens of thousands of homes. The utility …
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Digital reglering av klimatprocesser
… are reported. The main task was to improve climate control technology. The work was focused on digital control. It was split up into three main tasks: model building, design of regulators, and fullscale experiments. Several rooms, airducts, and heat exchangers were modelled. Simple dynamic …
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Development of adsorption-based atmospheric water harvesting and thermal energy storage technologies
… the atmosphere and to store thermal energy for climate control. Recent advances in porous adsorbents such as metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), with high sorption capacity and low regeneration temperature requirements, allow us to efficiently utilize them for these applications. However, detailed …
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A monolithically integrated thermo-adsorptive battery
… potentially includes many mobile or off-grid climate control applications.
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Building condition and student achievement and behavior
… science laboratory conditions. Lastly, varying climate control, locker. and grafitti conditions were factors which were positively related to student achievement scale scores.
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Bodyscapes : body to body, body to city, body to self
… losing agency to technology. In the era of climate control spaces and the digital interfaces of social media, a sense of place and association with others is lost to enclosed spaces of satellite conversations detailed with attention to standardization rather than customization. These desires …
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Witness to the light : the evolution of church sanctuary design & standards of comfort in the last century in Harrison County, Iowa
… between 1880 and 1930, before the era of active climate control. Cultural, historic, and aesthetic factors, as well as the available heating technology, shaped the original design of each church. As the ability to heat and cool interior spaces became more advanced, expectations of comfort changed …
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Energy Harvesting from Human Motion for the Powering of Implantable, Wearable, and Peripheral Electronic Devices
… in automatic occupancy-drive lighting and climate control systems making the building habitable yet energy efficient. Novel energy harvesting solutions are developed for each category, with the impetus of harvesting sufficient energy to perform the desired function without encumbering the …
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Building condition and student achievement and behavior
… structural building condition. Finally, varying climate control, locker, and graffiti conditions were factors which were positively related to student achievement scale scores.
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Programmable Mud: 3D Printing earth to achieve low-carbon, low-cost construction automation
… (4) thermally optimized wall systems for passive climate control. Life cycle assessment reveals that 3D-printed earth structures have approximately one-fifth the embodied carbon of conventional concrete and one-fiftieth that of industry-standard 3D-printed mortar. This research bridges the gap …
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Environmental Impacts on the Development and Dune Activity of Oxbow Lake along the Southwest Coast of Lake Michigan at Saugatuck, Michigan USA
… forcing; to date, little is certain about climate control on dune activity. By unveiling relationships between climate variables and dune activity, it becomes possible to associate the activity of dunes with certain climatic conditions. In this study wind, temperature, precipitation, …
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The market for self-storage in Greater Boston : an analysis of facilities, management and potential
… the quality of security and availability of climate control were significant factors in determining price. While the data identified the most significant variables included in price per square foot for the properties surveyed, the management and facility ratings provided the most important …
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Relating Building and Classroom Conditions to Student Achievement in Virginia's Elementary Schools
… questions indicate problems with roof leaks and climate control. The percentage of students participating in the free and reduced-price lunch program accounted for the largest percentages of variance in English, math, and technology achievement. However, this variable had greater influence on …
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Of man and nature : drivers and barriers within Malaysia's carbon mitigation policy ecosystem
… between Malaysia's development ambitions and its climate change goals may foreshadow the carbon trajectory for much of the rest of the developing world that will similarly seek to obtain high-income status in the coming decades. Through a series of in-country interviews in January 2018, I explored …
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Benthic oxygen exchange across soft and hard bottoms using the new Eddy Correlation technique: Case studies from the tropics to the Arctic
… Over long time scales this process has a role in climate regulation. Measuring the total O2 uptake represents a good proxy for the turnover of organic material at the sediment surface in oxygenated sediments, and equally the release of O2 represents benthic primary production. Many important …
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An Open Architecture for Versatile Machine and Actuator Control
<p>Automatic control technology increases usability, reliability and productivity in manufacturing, transportation, and climate control. There are many additional areas of modern life that could benefit through automatic control; however, current automation components are too expensive or aren't …
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