Author details Intensive Care Unit, Level 4, Emergency Services Building, Royal Adelaide Hospital, North Terrace, Adelaide 5000, South Australia, Australia. Discipline of Acute Care Medicine, University of Adelaide, Level 5, Eleanor Harrald Building, Frome Road, Adelaide 5000, South Australia, Australia. Clinical Evaluation Research Unit, Kingston General Hospital, Kingston K7L 2 V7, Ontario, C...

This paper presents the first attempt to address uncertainty in zone temperature prediction with stochastic optimization. The uncertain is a process and has not been considered existing optimization for building control. To fill this gap, we proposed novel formulation of handle Specifically, examined accuracy typical linear model predicting temperature. We then formulated scheduling cooling sys...

The presented paper is focused on the building of personalized text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis for people who are losing their voices due to fatal diseases. The special conditions of this issue make the process different from preparing professional synthetic voices for commercial TTS systems and make it also more difficult. The whole process is described in this paper and the first results of th...

The system of model building codes and voluntary product standards used in the United States for structural lumber and engineered wood products can appear complicated and confusing to those introduced to it for the first time. This paper discusses the various types of structural wood products commonly used in U.S. residential and commercial construction, and the system of building codes and pro...

Four inter-related building blocks can provide the new foundation: focusing R&D efforts and commercial capabilities; making use of product and capability partnerships; providing customer solutions (not just “therapeutics”), and creating a business unit based organization model instead of a functional one. Companies need to find a combination of these building blocks that makes best use of their...