This paper studies the linkages between housing and consumption in the United States taking into account regional variation. We estimate national and regional housing factors from a comprehensive set of US price and quantity data available at mixed frequencies and over different time spans. Our housing factors pick up the common components in the data and are less affected by the idiosyncratic ...

This article identifies and compares the passive cooling strategies used their relationship to optimising sustainability environmental ergonomics based on 47 case studies. The analysis of schools has resulted in identification 20 strategies, eight parameters related six ergonomics. results show that most are natural ventilation, green roofs, low thermal transmittance windows solar shading. In c...

Introduction Noise pollution has become an important problem in our society. Noise assessment regulations require the measurement and evaluation of noise. The basic equipment for this measurement is the noise monitoring systems (or NMS). The current generation of NMS consists of "dumb" systems that record noise level and, possibly, noise spectra, over programmed periods of time. The interpretat...

An efficient finite volume approach has been used to develop a three dimensional Helmholtz acoustic solver for complex geometries. This acoustic solver was utilized to obtain characteristic mode shapes and frequencies of a baffled combustion chamber. An experimental setup, including stationary and moving sensors, has also been used to measure these quantities for the same model combustion chamb...

introduction climate affects, more than any other factors, the type and form of human life, so that many cities that have made or developed regardless of climatic information are suffering from weather-related problems such as air pollution, water supply and flooding etc. by using the meteorological information in designing new cities as well as developing old cities can reduce the mentioned pr...

this research. Abstract The scope and magnitude of anthropogenic noise pollution are often much greater than those of natural noise and are predicted to have an array of deleterious effects on wildlife. Recent work on this topic has focused mainly on behavioural responses of animals exposed to noise. Here, by outlining the effects of acoustic stimuli on animal physiology, development, neural fu...

Spoken language systems are often deployed with static speech recognizers. Only rarely are parameters in the underlying language, lexical, or acoustic models updated on-thefly. In the few instances where parameters are learned in an online fashion, developers traditionally resort to unsupervised training techniques, which are known to be inferior to their supervised counterparts. These realitie...