Energy Science & Engineering, 2022 A great deal of energy used in buildings is directed toward heating, ventilation, and air‐conditioning (HVAC). The key procedure in reducing heating and cooling loads is the creation of a baseline model that represents a theoretical version of the ...
Mahmood Mehregan +3 more
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Using Degree-Day Methodology to Ascertain Early Flight Periods of Michigan Butterflies and Skippers [PDF]
, 2018 Butterflies and skippers have been collected in Michigan for over 130 years and the accompanying data labels continue to provide significant information.
Perkins, Owen A
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From Centrality to Temporary Fame: Dynamic Centrality in Complex Networks [PDF]
, 2006 We develop a new approach to the study of the dynamics of link utilization in complex networks using records of communication in a large social network.
Bar-Yam, Yaneer, Braha, Dan
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Preliminary estimates of mass-loss rates, changes in stable isotope composition, and invertebrate colonisation of evergreen and deciduous leaves in a Waikato, New Zealand, stream. [PDF]
, 1999 Rates of mass loss are important in the choice of tree species used in riparian rehabilitation because leaves that break down fast should contribute to stream food-webs more rapidly than leaves that break down more slowly.
Chatfield C. +10 more
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Heating and Cooling Degree-Days Climate Change Projections for Portugal
Atmosphere, 2021 Climate change is expected to influence cooling and heating energy demand of residential buildings and affect overall thermal comfort. Towards this end, the heating (HDD) and cooling (CDD) degree-days along with HDD + CDD were computed from an ensemble ...
Cristina Andrade +2 more
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Accuracy of predicting milk yield from alternative milk recording schemes [PDF]
, 2005 peer-reviewedThe effect of reducing the frequency of official milk recording and the number of recorded samples per test-day on the accuracy of predicting daily yield and cumulative 305-day yield was investigated.
Berry, Donagh +5 more
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The weekly structure of US stock prices [PDF]
, 2010 In this paper we use fractional integration techniques to examine the degree of integration of four US stock market indices, namely the Standard and Poor, Dow Jones, Nasdaq and NYSE, at a daily frequency from January 2005 till December 2009.
Caporale, GM, Gil-Alana, LA
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A Data Analysis Technique to Estimate the Thermal Characteristics of a House
Energies, 2017 Almost one third of the energy is used in the residential sector, and space heating is the largest part of energy consumption in our houses. Knowledge about the thermal characteristics of a house can increase the awareness of homeowners about the options
Seyed Amin Tabatabaei +3 more
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Degree-Day Summation and Hatching of the Forest Tent Caterpillar, \u3ci\u3eMalacosoma Disstria\u3c/i\u3e (Lepidoptera: Lasiocampidae) [PDF]
, 2017 (excerpt) The forest tent caterpillar, Malacosoma disstria (Htibner), is a common defoliater of deciduous trees throughout most of the United States and Canada.
Erickson, Glen W +1 more
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Julius-Kühn-Archiv, 2018 Predicting the occurrence of insects with a high accuracy requires the estimation of insect development time and the variation among individuals for each life stage and species under different environmental conditions such as fluctuating temperature ...
Jian, Fuji +3 more
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