Buildings are major consumers of primary energy and main contributors to carbon emission. To improve efficiency, it is essential understand the characteristics use in buildings. This study uses an in-use office building with digital systems for monitoring control Trondheim, Norway, as case. Based on data collected from this building, a data-driven analysis was conducted capture electricity diff...

the virtual space of internet social networks is one of the most important devices to exert the influence of globalization. this virtual space creates a vast quantity of information and meaning representations. faced with this space and the profusion of sources, people experience suspension (i.e. confusion and indecision) in shaping their identity. the loss of the concepts of time and place and...

This paper describes the outcome of an artefactual field experiment group discrimination using sports fans. The behavior individuals whose identity is deeply tied to a larger or popular institution politically important, particularly when it comes crafting public policy. Sports fans provide unique opportunity study who openly identify their in-group and rival groups. identifies within-subject g...

We propose a high dimensional classification method that involves nonparametric feature augmentation. Knowing that marginal density ratios are the most powerful univariate classifiers, we use the ratio estimates to transform the original feature measurements. Subsequently, penalized logistic regression is invoked, taking as input the newly transformed or augmented features. This procedure train...

When measuring emissions of gases, particulate, and odor from animal buildings, the ventilation data are equally important as the concentration data, because emission rate of a pollutant is the product of its concentration and the ventilation rate. However, effectively measuring and monitoring building ventilation remains a technical challenge, especially in barns with numerous fans. Although s...

Identity plays a central role in many current events of interest and importance. This paper examines a representative sample of the computational social science (CSS) literature which incorporates notions of identity or processes of identity formation. Building on some of the ideas present in the modeling literature, we then proceed to introduce a multilevel conceptual framework for the modelin...

Fans’ causal attributions for a game outcome refer to their assessments of the underlying reasons for why things turned out as they did. We investigate the extent to which team identification moderates fans’ attributional responses to a game outcome so as to produce a self-serving bias that favors the preferred team. Also explored is the ability of team identification to mediate the effect of a...

Introduction In most large air-conditioned buildings, air-handling units account for a significant portion of total building energy consumption and have a major impact on comfort conditions and maintenance costs. The devices within an air-handling unit either use energy directly in the case of fans, or indirectly, in the case of heat exchangers, which impose loads on the chiller and boiler plan...