Precast concrete sandwich panels (PCSPs) are known for their good thermal, acoustic and structural properties. Severe environmental demands can be met by PCSPs due to use of highly thermally insulating materials non-metallic connectors. One the main issues limiting wider walls in construction is unknown fire resistance. Furthermore, actual behaviour connectors insulation terms mechanical perfor...

A popular retrofit option is to install an exterior insulation finish system to the walls of existing buildings. This study evaluates the thermal and moisture performance of such a system with a vented wall assembly. In addition to being a case study, this field monitoring was intended to verify computation methods of building envelope performance. The long term monitoring was designed to be no...

Distances from the insulation shell of pipelines duringchannelless laying to utility networks are recommended by regulatory documents, but in real conditions it is not always possible comply with these parameters. Calculations have been made verify that gas pipeline can be laid next supply heating network problematic section installation where restrictions met. The soil temperature on wall case...

The paper aims at studying different strategies for the optimal operation of Breathing Walls during summer. investigation is carried out by performing dynamic simulations on a case study. To this purpose, transient Finite-Difference numerical model Wall components, previously developed in Matlab and validated Authors, coupled with TRNSYS. study consists an office room located Milan, Italy, prov...

Inferring walls configuration of indoor environment could help robot “understand“ the environment better. This allows the robot to execute a task that involves inter-room navigation, such as picking an object in the kitchen. In this paper, we present a method to inferring walls configuration from a moving RGB-D sensor. Our goal is to combine a simple wall configuration model and fast wall detec...

Hyperosmolar food causes atherosclerosis. Hyperosmolal food hypothesis encompasses all the factors involved under one heading and, that is, the generation of heat in the body. The involvement of cigarette smoking is obvious. High glycemic index food and diabetes result in high levels of blood glucose, which raises the core body temperature. The ingestion of hyperosmolal salt, glucose, and amino...

Abstract: There exists huge differences in climatic conditions and occupant energy-consuming behavior between Berlin and the “hot summer and cold winter zone of China” (HSCW), which implies that the building energy consumption compositions of two regions are completely different. In this paper, dynamic energy consumption simulation for passive houses with Design Builder software was performed. ...

Budding yeast contain at least four distinct MAPK (mitogen activated protein kinase) cascades that transduce a variety of intracellular signals: mating-pheromone response, pseudohyphal/invasive growth, cell wall integrity, and high osmolarity adaptation. Although each MAPK cascade contains a conserved set of three protein kinases, the upstream activation mechanisms for these cascades are divers...

The oven, in which the diffusion runs were carried out, was built of a vertical glass tube with a Kanthal winding (see Fig. 1). This winding was supplied with some extra terminals; shunting parts of it allowed the temperature to be kept constant (or slightly increasing upwards) over a sufficient length in the oven. The insulation consisted of rockwool, a section of which could be removed tempor...