Organisms evolve as compromises, and many of these compromises can be expressed in terms of energy efficiency. For example, a compromise between rate of information processing and the energy consumed might explain certain neurophysiological and neuroanatomical observations (e.g., average firing frequency and number of neurons). Using this perspective reveals that the randomness injected into ne...

Green computing is the process of reducing the power consumed by a computer and thereby reducing carbon emissions. The total power consumed by the computer excluding the monitor at its fully computative load is equal to the sum of the power consumed by the GPU in its idle state and the CPU at its full state. Recently, there have been tremendous interests in the acceleration of general computing...

The purpose of this study was to determine the meal- and snack-eating frequency and the nutritional composition of each eating occasion of Canadian high-performance athletes during training. Athletes from 8 Canadian Sport Centres prospectively completed 3-d dietary records including all food, fluid, and supplements consumed. The time of consumption and whether the consumption was a meal or snac...

Currently in most buildings, the heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems are controlled by the present temperature in the building. If the predictions for future temperature in the building or a zone were available, the building management system (BMS) could use both present and future temperatures to control HVAC systems, the energy consumed by HAVC systems could then be minim...

Energy carriers are one of the most important inputs in the agricultural sector. These inputs have been the foundation of the development and transition of the agricultural sector from the traditional stage to the industrial stage. The energy per capita marginal consumption in Iran’s agricultural sector is 3.2 times greater than its global average. Therefore, it is essential to save and optimal...

this study was conducted to determine a relationship between energy input and yield in greenhouse basil production in esfahan province, iran. data were collected from 26 greenhouse basil producers through a face-to-face questionnaire. the data collected belonged to the production period of 2009–2010 with the following results obtained. a total energy input of 236,057 mj ha-1 was estimated to be...

Over the course of the 20th century, fossil fuels became the dominant energy input to most of the world's fisheries. Although various analyses have quantified fuel inputs to individual fisheries, to date, no attempt has been made to quantify the global scale and to map the distribution of fuel consumed by fisheries. By integrating data representing more than 250 fisheries from around the world ...

Sustainable energy development had been signified as the pathways for global transition, that drive important changes in how is being generated, transmitted, and consumed. The concept of Circular Economy (CE) has proposed to address environmental problem by minimizing resource inputs emission generation, reuse waste refuse from conventional production process obtain a further benefit. However, ...

An objective measure of building energy performance is crucial for performance assessment and rational decision making on energy retrofits and policies of existing buildings. One of the most popular measures of building energy performance benchmarking is Energy Use Intensity (EUI, kwh/m2). While EUI is simple to understand, it only represents the amount of consumed energy per unit floor area ra...

Green computing is the process of reducing the power consumed by a computer and thereby reducing carbon emissions. The total power consumed by the computer excluding the monitor at its fully computative load is equal to the sum of the power consumed by the GPU in its idle state and the CPU at its full state. Recently, there have been tremendous interests in the acceleration of general computing...