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Development and Testing of a Modular Sunlight Transport System Employing Free-Form Mirrors

Energies, 2022
The energy consumption of artificial lighting and its impacts on health have stimulated research into natural lighting systems. However, natural lighting system designs are mainly custom, making them costly and difficult to replicate.
Allen Jong-Woei Whang, Yi-Yung Chen, Min-Yih Leu, Wei-Chieh Tseng, Yu-Zheng Lin, Hao-Wen Chang, Chih-Hsien Tsai, Yu-Cheng Liang, Xin Zhang, Cheng-Tse Lin, Tzu-Chun Huang, Cheng-Ming Chang, Hsi-Chi Chen   +12 more
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Developing neural networks to investigate relationships between lighting quality and lighting glare indices [PDF]

, 2017
The present work compares the ability of the two most used glare indices, the Daylight Glare Probability (DGP) and the International Commission on Illumination (CIE) Glare Index (CGI), using Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA) and Artificial Neural ...
Mohamed Yacine, Saadi, Morello, Eugenio, Noureddine, Zemmouri, Piga, Barbara E. A., Safa, Daich   +4 more
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Glass Surfaces for Benefits of Daylight in Social Housing [PDF]

, 2017
Internal environment and appropriate natural lighting of the building interior largely affects the health status and course of treatment of patients with psychiatric diagnoses such as depression, Alzheimer and disorder of functions.
DI SALVO, Santina
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Daylength effects on stress and fear responses in broiler chickens [PDF]

, 1998
Heterophil (H) to lymphocyte (L) ratios and durations of tonic immobility (TI) were measured to assess stress and fear responses, respectively, in broiler chickens provided either 12 h of natural lighting (12L) or 12 h natural lighting and 12 h of ...
Abdullah, Rasedee, Idrus, Zulkifli, Mat Taib, Che Norma, O., Nor Syaadah   +3 more
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Natural light adaptive context lighting system that provides a lighting environment tailored to the User's objectives

Heliyon
As modern people spend more time indoors, efforts continue to create a beneficial indoor lighting environment for each user's activity. A suitable lighting environment improves efficiency and concentration, but if not, it has adverse effects such as ...
Seung-Taek Oh, Jae-Hyun Lim
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Tips for Buildings Energy Saving: Results of Some Research

Energies, 2023
Increasing global warming is largely attributable to human activities. International strategies have already been implemented to reduce emissions to zero, thus reducing energy consumption.
Roberto Sebastiano Faranda, Kim Fumagalli, Francesca Oliva   +2 more
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Quantitative Surface Color Measurement of Tomato Fruit Using Illuminating Spectral Information of Natural Lighting

Chemical Engineering Transactions, 2015
This study aims to develop a quantitative surface color measurement method of agricultural products under natural lighting conditions. We then analyzed the relationship between the color appearance differences of the images taken under the standard and ...
A. Hashimoto, K.I. Suehara, T. Kameoka
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Boosting minimalist classifiers for blemish detection in potatoes [PDF]

, 2009
This paper introduces novel methods for detecting blemishes in potatoes using machine vision. After segmentation of the potato from the background, a pixel-wise classifier is trained to detect blemishes using features extracted from the image.
Barnes, Michael, Cielniak, Grzegorz, Duckett, Tom   +2 more
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Louis I. Kahn and Richard Kelly: collaborative design in creation of the luminous environment [PDF]

, 2017
As one of the most prominent architects of the twentieth century, Louis I. Kahn aspired to use natural light to shape his architecture. The lighting designer Richard Kelly, one of his close collaborators, had significant influence on modern architectural
B. Lau, Büttiker U., Curtis W. J. R., Emmitt S., Frampton K., Hawkes D., Hawkes D., Hopkinson R. G., Kimbell Art Museum, Lobell J., McDonald R. C., Neumann D., Neumann D., Olsen C., Plummer H., Pressman A., S. Kaçel, Sanoff H., SLL (The Society of Light and Lighting), Steane M. A., Tanteri M., Vischer J. C.   +21 more
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An investigation into the enhancement of fingermarks in blood on paper with genipin and lawsone [PDF]

, 2013
The abilities of two natural products, genipin and lawsone, to enhance blood contaminated fingermarks on papers of various porosities and colour were investigated and compared to the routinely used amino acid reagents, ninhydrin and 1,8-diazafluoren-9 ...
Farrugia, Kevin J., Thomas, Paula
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