The effects of building leakage on heat and mass transfer in buildings are difficult to model due to the difficulty in knowing crack size, shape, position, and number. Nevertheless, interest remains high in the estimation of crack areas in buildings because of the important effects cracks have on infiltration, indoor air quality, building energy performance, and because of interest in exploring...

Abstract The selective broadband absorption of solar radiation plays a crucial role in applying energy. However, despite being decade-old technology, the rapid and precise designs absorbers spanning from spectrum to infrared region remain significant challenge. This work develops high-performance design paradigm that combines deep learning multi-objective double annealing algorithms optimize mu...

For the 1995 1m prototype data it was observed that particles escaping the calorimeter can produce light in the PMT/light guide region [1]. Using both test beam and laboratory data, evidence for this effect was found and the mechanism behind it identified as ionisation or Cherenkov light in the photocathode. For Module 0 this effect is expected to be smaller because of the use of smaller photom...

In order to deal with the conflicts between broad spectral region and high resolution in compact spectrometers based on a flat field concave holographic grating and line array CCD, we present a simple and practical method to design a flat field concave holographic grating that is capable of imaging a broad spectral region at a moderately high resolution. First, we discuss the principle of reali...

Various types of errors during the measurements of ion-selective electrodes, ionsensitive field effect transistors, and fibre optic chemical sensors are described. The errors were divided according to their nature and place of origin into chemical, instrumental and non-chemical. The influence of interfering ions, leakage of the membrane components, liquid junction potential as well as sensor wi...

Enhancement of speech signal degraded by several types of noise is a topic of interest for last many years. The main aim of speech enhancement algorithm is to improve the quality and/or intelligibility of the noisy speech signals by using various techniques and algorithms. Among the all available methods, the spectral subtraction algorithm is the historically one of the first algorithm proposed...

Y.-D. Chuang,1 A. D. Gromko,1 D. S. Dessau,1 Y. Aiura,2 Y. Yamaguchi,2 K. Oka,2 A. J. Arko,3 J. Joyce,3 H. Eisaki,4 S. I. Uchida,4 K. Nakamura,5 and Yoichi Ando5 1Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0390 2Electrotechnical Laboratory (ETL), 1-1-4 Umezono, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305, Japan 3Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545 4Department of Su...