Renovations Big and Small Can Help Make the SNF More Like Home

Adjustable Green Defaults Can Help Make Smart Homes More Sustainable

Smart home technologies offer exciting opportunities to promote more efficient uses of energy. For instance, programmable thermostats, centralized lighting controls, and rooftop solar panels all have potential for energy conservation and efficiency. However, these technologies alone will not guarantee energy savings. Whereas previous research on smart homes has focused on the technologies thems...

Restructuring and revamping workflow help a small hospital make big strides.

Can Analogy Help Children Make Transitive Inference?

This paper is exploring whether analogy-making as an early developing ability could potentially help children to develop deductive reasoning ability and in particular, transitive inference. Two experiments are presented. In the first one transitive mapping is explored further to make sure children at the age of 4 can do the transitive mapping task even when all three objects are hidden and no p...

Big extra dimensions make Λ too small *

I argue that the true quantum gravity scale cannot be much larger than the Planck length, because if it were then the quantum gravity-induced fluctuations in Λ would be insufficient to produce the observed cosmic “dark energy”. If one accepts this argument, it rules out scenarios of the “large extra dimensions” type. I also point out that the relation between the lower and higher dimensional gr...

Projecting Instant Information In Situ: Can It Help Us Make More Informed Decisions?

How can a supermarket shopper choose a yogurt that is affordable, nutritional and has minimal environmental impact? How might they weigh these criteria in making a choice? Increasingly we are told about the risks, the costs and benefits of food choices. However, the information currently available – online, on food labels, or in information leaflets – can be patchy and difficult to find, or ove...