Rising electricity prices and the greater penetration of consumption in end-uses have prompted efforts to set up data-driven methodologies optimise energy foster user engagement demand-side management strategies. The performance energy-management systems is greatly affected by consumer behaviors adopted methodology. Consequently, it necessary develop appliance-level, detailed energy-consumption...

This paper investigates the search and consumption behavior of workers as they move between readily available low wage employment and uncertain search for a high wage job. Analytic results derived from our model include: (1) voluntary planned quits occur in a cyclical pattern, (2) consumption while searching falls over time until either a good job is found or assets run out and the worker accep...

Like other physiological functions, food intake and metabolism (including alcohol consumption) in humans and animal models may be regulated by circadian rhythm. For example, many studies of rodents have found that alcohol consumption in these nocturnal animals peaks during their active dark period. This alcohol consumption pattern can be influenced, however, by experimental manipulation. One fa...

Public health protection from environmental contaminants requires an understanding of the extent of contamination and of the extent of exposure to the contamination. My argument here is that weight-normalized, species-specific, individual-consumption pattern data are vital for determining exposure levels used to ascertain health protection measures and impacts from consuming contaminated fish. ...

Nowadays mobile devices are used for various applications such as making voice/video calls, browsing the Internet, listening to music etc. The average battery consumption of each of these activities and the length of time a user spends on each one determines the battery lifetime of a mobile device. Previous methods have provided predictions of battery lifetime using a static battery consumption...