HVAC Best Practices in Arctic Climates

Weather sequences for predicting HVAC system behaviour in residential units located in tropical climates

The purpose of our research deals with the description of a methodology for the definition of specific weather sequences and their influence on the energy needs of HVAC system. We’ll apply the method on the tropical Reunion Island. The methodological approach based on a detailed analysis of weather sequences leads to a classification of climatic situations that can be applied to the site. These...

Are Java Programming Best Practices Also Best Practices for Android?

1998 CR Categories: D.1.5 [Programming Techniques] Object-oriented Programming; D.2.2 [Software Engineering] Design Tools and Techniquesobject-oriented design methods; D.2.3 [Software Engineering] Coding Tools and Techniquesobject-oriented programming; D.3.3 [Software Engineering] Language Constructs and Featuresclasses and objects, dynamic storage management; D.4 [Operating Systems] Storage...

Best Practices in Nondiscriminatory Assessment

Nondiscriminatory assessment is often thought of as a set of methods and procedures that are applied in evaluations conducted on individuals from diverse cultural and racial backgrounds. In a similar vein, the phrase bilingual assessment has become the most common way of referencing evaluations on individuals from language backgrounds that are other than monolingual English. Of course, individu...

Best Practices in Cleaner Production

Best practices in summative assessment.

The goal of this review is to highlight key elements underpinning excellent high-stakes summative assessment. This guide is primarily aimed at faculty members with the responsibility of assigning student grades and is intended to be a practical tool to help throughout the process of planning, developing, and deploying tests as well as monitoring their effectiveness. After a brief overview of th...