The inappropriate indoor environmental quality of a building causes different problems such asheadache and breathing difficulties which are called the syndrome of building sickness. These diseases reduce the efficiency of people and deteriorate the quality of their life. Studies carried out in hundreds of big office buildings across the world show that the indoor environment qualities of these ...

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This essay begins at the intersection of two controversies that are of considerable importance to contemporary discussions about the relationship between our species and the rest ofnature. One concerns the question of whether a compelling case can be made for vegetarianism on moral grounds. The other has to do with the debate between proponents ofanimal rights and ethical holists over which kin...

1. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid 28040, Spain. 2. Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge TN 37831, USA. 3. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235, USA. 4. INSTM and Dept. di Chimica “U. Schiff”, Universitá degli Studi di Firenze, Firenze 50121, Italy. 5. Depto. de Química Inorgánica, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona 08028, Spain. 6. Departmen...

Motivated by Hubert's segmentation procedure [16, 17], we discuss the application of hidden Markov models (HMM) to the segmentation of hydrological and enviromental time series. We use a HMM algorithm which segments time series of several hundred terms in a few seconds and is compu-tationally feasible for even longer time series. The segmentation algorithm computes the Maximum Likelihood segmen...