Efficiency-focused building designs reduce the use of materials and energy in building construction and operation. Planning for efficiency can help save money and improve building performance. This publication discusses several ways to improve the efficiency of agricultural buildings and provides further references for implementing those strategies. Topics covered include suiting a building to ...

Efficiency-focused building designs reduce the use of materials and energy in building construction and operation. Planning for efficiency can help save money and improve building performance. This publication discusses several ways to improve the efficiency of agricultural buildings and provides further references for implementing those strategies. Topics covered include suiting a building to ...

Lunar Habitation 1 (LH-1) is a proposed permanent lunar base designed to facilitate astronomical research as well as study the feasibility of human colonization of the Moon. Specific emphasis is placed on the effectiveness of inflatable structures as permanent bases and the practicality of incorporating greenhouses in the base. A location on Malapert Mountain on the lunar south pole is selected...

This paper discusses sampling strategies for building a dependency-analyzed corpus and analyzes them with different kinds of corpora. We used the Kyoto Text Corpus, a dependency-analyzed corpus of newspaper articles, and prepared the IPAL corpus, a dependency-analyzed corpus of example sentences in dictionaries, as a new and different kind of corpus. The experimental results revealed that the l...

The paper describes the design of an environment monitoring system supporting the development of black-box model based greenhouse climate control. Despite many currently available control schemes, only black-box modelling can be carried out efficiently for small or medium size greenhouses. For this large amount of measurements is needed, calling for a new distributed measurement system architec...

This paper presents a multi-objective procedure based on a fully elitist genetic algorithm, GA, able to optimize the radiative heat transfer inside greenhouses used to grow crops. Details of the genetic algorithm used is presented herein but the focus is on the heat transfer. The decision variables are the tube temperature and tube radius, that affects directly the entalphy heating flow, and th...