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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"saving energy"”.
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Energy efficient path planning: the effectiveness of Q-learning algorithm in saving energy
… algorithm to investigate how effective it is in saving energy. It is important to pursue any means to save energy in this day and age, due to the excessive exploitation of natural resources and in order to prevent drops in production in industrial environments where less downtime is necessary or …
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Qualitative and quantitative optimization of skylights : a comprehensive and inclusive analysis of skylight sizes for an office while providing enough daylight, avoiding glare and saving energy
… Skylight to Floor area Ratio (SFR) while saving energy consumption, as a quantitative aspect of daylight, and improving daylighting quality by providing sufficient daylight without causing glare discomfort. This platform was built as an Inclusive Integrative Algorithm (IIA) to weight …
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General -Purpose Processors for Multimedia Applications: Predictability and Energy Efficiency
… apply the above findings towards improving the energy efficiency of general-purpose processors for real-time multimedia applications. Recently, researchers have proposed two forms of hardware adaptation to improve energy efficiency of these processors: architecture adaptation and dynamic …
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Feeling Good, Being Green: The Emotional Drivers of Proenvironmental Action
… is specifically tied to a behavior (e.g., saving energy). Positive behavior-specific emotions, specifically feelings of pride, were hypothesized to most strongly influence energy conservation, as well as broad proenvironmental action (e.g., water conservation, intentions to invest in energy …
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Aeolous Innovations: The Sonivent Automated HVAC Heating/Cooling Register
… the vent to an unoccupied room, a customer is saving energy by not heating or cooling that room. It is also efficient by throttling the air flow
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VALUE CREATION, VALUE SENSING, VALUE DELIVERY, AND VALUE CAPTURING MECHANISM OF GREEN BUILDING: A VALUE NETWORK
… building eases the pressure of urbanization by saving energy, reducing waste, protecting the environment, improving the living standard, and encouraging industry. Consequently, green building has developed rapidly for 20 years. This study reviews the literature on green building, recognizes the …
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A study on static pressure reset and instability in variable air volume HVAC systems
… place from July 2009 through January 2011 at the Energy Resource Station in Ankeny. During this time, these five experimental control strategies were modified and altered in order to achieve substantial energy savings without unwanted instability. In the end, only one strategy, tiered Trim and …
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Impact of ventilation system operation and building products on perceived indoor air quality
… systems and other sources. With the intention of saving energy, the ventilation systems in many office buildings are turned off during the night. This process may reduce the quality of indoor air during day time, because of accumulation of contaminants in the air as well as the process of sorption …
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Design and analysis of energy-efficient media access control protocols in wireless sensor networks. Design and analysis of MAC layer protocols using low duty cycle technique to improve energy efficient and enhance communication performance in wireless sensor networks.
… stand as vulnerabilities for WSNs, including energy waste sources, synchronisation leaks, low network capacity and self-configuration difficulties. However, energy efficiency remains the priority challenging problem due to the scarce energy resources available in sensor nodes. These concerns …
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Student perceptions and definitions of sustainability
… low. Students placed greatest importance on saving energy, developing renewable energy sources, and considering impacts on natural systems. Interest in personal education and development of green courses and sustainability initiatives was quite low.
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Remanufacturing and energy savings
… service-life. Remanufacturing utilizes the energy and embedded value retained in a product upon reaching end-of-life. Remanufacturing can close the loop between disposal and supply chains, extend the service lifetime of products, conserve resources, and help mitigate environmental …
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Modeling of Industrial Air Compressor System Energy Consumption and Effectiveness of Various Energy Saving on the System
… of this research is to analyze the overall energy consumption of an industrial compressed air system, and identify the impact of various energy saving of individual subsystem on the overall system. Two parameters are introduced for energy consumption evaluation and potential energy saving: …
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Anoxia-Induced Changes in Action Potential Propagation in a Non-Myelinated Axon
… potentials (APs) change following an acute energy stress in control and heat shock (HS) pre-treated animals. We also attempted to determine if Ca2+ is involved in the DCMD AP and the possible changes indicated above. Conduction velocity decreased over an hour of recording in all groups, …
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Benefit-Cost Analysis Of Using Class F Fly Ash-Based Green Cement In Masonry Units
… as the emission of greenhouse gasses and high-energy consumption from cement production. Therefore, Portland cement concrete has many disadvantages that can only be overcome by being replaced with new materials such as fly ash-based green cement. Recycling fly ash and using it to replace cement …
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A Variation of Positioning Phase Change Materials (PCMs) Within Building Enclosures and Their Utilization Toward Thermal Performance
… more serious attention to help reduce global energy consumption. At the same time, thermal comfort has become an increasing concern for building occupants. Phase Change Materials (PCMs), which are capable of storing and releasing significant amounts of energy by melting and solidifying at a …
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An investigation of border traps and interface states in high-k/InGaAs metal-oxide-semiconductor systems
One approach to saving energy in metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistors (MOSFETs) is to replace SiO2/Si structure with high dielectric constant (high-k) oxides on high mobility channel materials (e.g. InGaAs), which have the potential to achieve a comparable on current and operating …
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Manothermosonication (MTS) treatment of apple-carrot juice blend: effect on inactivation of Escherichia coli O157:H7 and quality attributes during storage
With advantages such as requiring less time, saving energy and reducing the costs manothermosonication has become increasingly popular in the food processing industry in recent years. My thesis research was conducted to investigate the effect of manothermosonication (MTS) on microbial inactivation …
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Social network support for data delivery infrastructures
… down disks containing unpopular content, thereby saving energy. The second study examines whether human face-to-face contacts can efficiently create paths over time between arbitrary users. Here, content is staged by spreading it through intermediate users until the destination is reached. …
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Urban carbon and energy analysis: calculation of energy flows and emissions from residential housing clusters and assessment of sustainable energy options
… sector accounts for around 30% of fuel-use and energy related carbon emissions, and therefore has the potential to deliver significant reductions in carbon dioxide emissions. The purpose of this work is to form and examine various heat and electricity supply scenarios at the street-level and …
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High-Performance Communication Protocols for Asynchronous Duty-Cycling Wireless Networks
Duty cycling is a technique for saving energy in resource-limited wireless networks such as sensor networks. With duty cycling, each node periodically switches between active and sleeping states, for example being active for only 1 to 10 percent of the time. Wireless duty-cycling networks face many …
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