This study provides a comprehensive analysis of the predictors influencing operations on windows and external doors as well their impact IEQ, comfort energy. The was carried out in 31 naturally ventilated classrooms eight primary schools UK during non-heating heating seasons. state collected by time-lapse cameras visual observations. Environmental variables impacting window were recorded at 10-...

BACKGROUND The increasing use of ontologies highlights the need for a library for working with ontologies that is efficient, accessible from various programming languages, and compatible with common computational platforms. RESULTS We developed owlcpp, a library for storing and searching RDF triples, parsing RDF/XML documents, converting triples into OWL axioms, and reasoning. The library is ...

In this paper we present a novel voice capture sensor network architecture proposal, we detail the implementation procedure that we followed to build a working prototype. The prototype is oriented towards a secure ubiquitous home environment but can be extended to other similar scenarios. Our approach is based on reducing data redundancy while maintaining node redundancy for reliability and pro...

MOTIVATION Due to the steadily growing computational demands in bioinformatics and related scientific disciplines, one is forced to make optimal use of the available resources. A straightforward solution is to build a network of idle computers and let each of them work on a small piece of a scientific challenge, as done by Seti@Home (http://setiathome.berkeley.edu), the world's largest distribu...

Like many large institutions, Indiana University has thousands of desktop computers devoted primarily to running office productivity applications on the Windows operating system, tasks which are necessary but that do not use the computers’ full capacity. This is a resource worth pursuing. However, the individual desktop systems do not offer enough processing power for a long enough period of ti...

Noise exposure prediction models for health effect studies normally estimate free field exposure levels outside. However, to assess the noise exposure inside dwellings, an estimate of indoor sound levels is necessary. To date, little field data is available about the difference between indoor and outdoor noise levels and factors affecting the damping of outside noise. This is a major cause of u...