Current bed bug, Cimex lectularius L., control usually involves insecticide applications that pose a high risk of insecticide exposure to residents and applicators. To minimize these risks and the amount of insecticides used, we designed and evaluated a dust band treatment technique. The laboratory assay showed that 1% cyfluthrin dust treated bands are highly effective in killing bed bugs. We f...

Home area networks (HANs) consisting of wireless sensors have emerged as the enabling technology for important applications such as smart energy and assisted living. A key challenge faced in deploying robust wireless sensor networks (WSNs) for home automation applications is the need to provide long-term, reliable operation in the face of the varied sources of interference found in typical resi...

Understanding indoor scenes is an important task in computer vision. This task is typically ambiguous, so we require a strong prior, that captures the regularity of indoor environments. This is naturally expressed by a probabilistic model over 3D room layouts and geometry, reasoning over complex layouts in 3D space, including high-order spatial relations among objects. In this work, we construc...

We have studied how energy efficiency is discussed by professionals during renovation of multifamily dwellings, in order to capture how barriers in relation to energy measures are appearing, disappearing and transformed during the process. We did participatory observations of renovation meetings, conducted interviews with the involved professionals and studied-related documents. Our intentions ...

When most people hear the words affordable housing, they picture old-style urban public housing with apartments stacked end-to-end, replete with graffiti and shadylooking characters, unkempt and marked by a general malaise. Nothing seems healthy about it. But today’s affordable housing is different. Successful projects are well-designed, built to a reasonable scale, and have landscaping and ame...

We describe the stabilizers of points in the Bruhat-Tits building of the group SL with tropical geometry. There are several compactifications of this building associated to algebraic representations of SL. We show that the fans used to compactify apartments in this theory are given by tropical Schur polynomials. 2000 MSC: 20E42, 20G25, 52B99

The subject matter of this article is the conversion post-industrial architecture for residential usage. Lofts (or loft apartments) are typical such conversions. Definitions type architectural building determine their specificity. aim research was to answer question Do modern-day adaptations buildings usage in Poland meet criteria definition lofts? first section introduces origins and evolution...