The renewable energy sources and plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) are becoming very popular because of the combination of high fuel costs and concerns about emission issues. This paper presents modelling and control of a Building Integrated Fuel Cell and Plug-in Electric Vehicles (BIFC-PEV) in smart distribution systems. In BIFC-PEV system, conventional building elements could be replaced by sp...

Building energy management systems (BEMSs), dedicated to sustainable buildings, may have additional duties, such as hosting efficient (EMSs) algorithms. This duty can become crucial when operating renewable sources (RES) and eventual electric storage (ESSs). Sophisticated EMS approaches that aim manage RES ESSs in real time need high computing capabilities BEMSs typically cannot provide. articl...

Citation: Miclau TA, Chomsky-Higgins K, Ceballos A, Balmaseda R, Morshed S, Bhandari M, de la Huerta F and Miclau T III (2017) Building Surgical Research Capacity Globally: Efficacy of a Clinical Research Course for Surgeons in Low-Resource Settings. Front. Educ. 2:57. doi: 10.3389/feduc.2017.00057 Building surgical research capacity globally: efficacy of a clinical research course for surgeons...

The purpose of the study was to identify the level of coaching efficacy among a group of high school coaches so as to gain an insight for planning future coach preparation programs. In this study, the Coaching Efficacy Scale was used to assess the efficacy of high school coaches in four dimensions: Motivating Athletes, Strategy Use, Coaching Techniques, and Character Building. Results indicated...

Building automation is the key to exploiting flexibilities in building operation with regard to integration of renewable energy sources, load shifting and general optimization for energy efficiency. Based on thermal and electric models of building physics and the energy producers and consumers in the building it is possible to assess the current state of the building and its systems and make pr...