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Wallpapers in Historic Preservation

Energy efficiency in historic buildings

The particularity of cultural heritage and its interaction with the theme of energy efficiency has often been analysed either for the purposes of integrating climate control systems in listed buildings, which can be quite a complicated problem [ASHRAE, 2003] [CIBSE, 2002], or in the framework of the conservation of cultural heritage, using approaches which at times can be overly sectoral – [Tet...

Historic Integrity in Distributed Systems

In an all-digital, all-online setting, long-term secure record-keeping is a difficult task. The record-keeping problem comes up with increasing frequency, as we migrate to exclusively digital ways of transacting business. Accountability requires information about the content and the timing of business transactions. In the digital world, ideally, we should be able to tell with conviction when a ...

Catalysis in Perspective: Historic Review

Catalysis as a scientific discipline originated in the early part of the last century. Earlier, the unique feature of a catalytic substance, namely that when added in small quantities to a reaction it affects its rate and selectivity but is not consumed, had become widely recognized, and many applications had been developed. Only after chemical thermodynamics had been defined did a rational app...

Historic Queries in Geosensor Networks

This paper addresses—to our knowledge, for the first time—the problem of querying a geosensor network—a sensor network of mobile, locationaware nodes—for historical data. It compares different network architectures and querying strategies with respect to their performance in reconstructing events or processes that happened in the past, trying to support the hypothesis that reconstruction is pos...