Research on energy efficiency of today’s buildings focuses on the monitoring of a building’s behavior while in operation. But without a formalized description of the data measured, including their correlations and in particular the expected measurements, the full potential of the collected data can not necessarily be exploited. Who knows if a measured value is good or bad? This problem becomes ...

Larvae of the whitemarked tussock moth, Orgyia leucostigma (J.E. Smith) (Lepidoptera: Lymantriidae), defoliate and contaminate blueberries, Vaccinium corymbosum L., in eastern North America, but infestations are often not detected until economic damage has been caused. To improve monitoring techniques and understand the phenology of the whitemarked tussock moth in blueberry, we compared four tr...

Epistemic justification has been claimed to be a special case of argument by philosophers such as Accordingly for each attempt, epistemic justification is the occasion of the arguer making a case for some conclusion based on other premises, when the audience and the arguer are the same person. The dialectical model of argument is used to inform how it is that a subject could come to justify her...

This note adds three annexes to my previous paper math/9904044 Annex 1. A sufficient condition for self-adjointness Annex 2. Invariant closed operators on locally compact abelian groups Annex 3. The trace of Connes for quaternions This last item is a minor variation on the evaluation of Connes’s trace (math/9811068), which is explained here in the setting of quaternions and can be applied also ...

Starting from the early years of 21st century, problem monitoring physical–chemical–mechanical conditions structures and infrastructures for civil use began to be thought in a significantly different way than last century [...]

Over the past few years electrochemical capacitors (ECs) or, as they are so often referred to today, superor ultracapacitors, have become increasingly interesting for a certain critical group of applications because of their unique attributes. The first of these EC attributes is exceptional power performance, even at very low temperatures. The second is an essentially unlimited cycle life when ...

It is well understood that induction motors draw higher currents during their starting operations than is the case under full load running conditions. Since the early days of induction motor availability, starting methods other than Direct-on-Line have been used, and in some cases mandated by Utilities, to reduce the effect of these high starting currents on the electrical distribution network....