with the aim of reducing cost of electricity consumption and peak load reduction, tools requirement for better managing electricity consumption have become inevitable in recent years. smart home has some equipment which are controllable and this ability is used for increasing comfort and minimizing electricity cost for residence. as a key component of smart home , electric vehicle(ev) ,increase...

An efficient use of dynamic programming requires a substantial reduction of the number of labels. We propose in this paper an efficient way of reducing the number of labels saved and dominance computing time. Our approach is validated by experiments on shortest path problem with time windows instances.

There is an increasing prevalence of childhood asthma and allergic diseases in mainland of China. Few studies investigated the indoor dampness, ventilation and cleaning habits and their interrelationship with childhood asthma and allergic diseases. A large-scale cross-sectional study was performed in preschool children in Urumqi, China. Questionnaire was used to collect information on children'...

BACKGROUND Unintentional falls from windows are an important cause of paediatric morbidity. There have been no controlled studies to identify modifiable environmental risk factors for window falls in young children. The authors have piloted a case-control study to test procedures for case identification, subject enrolment, and environmental data collection. METHODS Case windows were identifie...

As computer systems become increasingly complicated, it is harder for users to maintain an overview. In many professional applications, user tasks are spread out over many windows located on different virtual screens, and sometimes displayed on a single physical screen. The design of the interface for this must enable the user to understand the relative locations of these windows. Studies of na...