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Energies, 2021 Energy savings based upon use of smart WiFi thermostats ranging from 10 to 15% have been documented, as new features such as geofencing have been added.
Abdulrahman Alanezi +2 more
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Residential Satisfaction as an Intervening Variable in Residential Mobility [PDF]
Demography, 1974 Abstract The stress-threshold model (Wolpert, 1965; Brown and Moore, 1970) assumes that people do not consider moving unless they experience residential stress. This paper develops a similar model of residential mobility in which residential satisfaction acts as an intervening variable between individual and residence variables and ...
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Buildings, 2021 Air conditioning (A/C) is generally responsible for a significant proportion of total building energy consumption. However, occupants’ air conditioning usage patterns are often unrealistically characterised in building energy performance simulation tools,
Bongchan Jeong +4 more
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Celebrating 20 residential childcare developments from across the world
Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 2022 This issue celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care. While the journal has a very important place in residential childcare in Scotland, its readership and contributors are now increasingly global.
Iain Matheson
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The AI Classroom: Revolution, Cheat Engine, or the End of Critical Thinking?
SanskritiThe rapid proliferation of generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPTrepresents a seismic shift for educational paradigms. This article interrogates the multifaceted impact of AI in the classroom, moving beyond the initial
Sayed Mahbub Hasan Amiri +6 more
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Pesticides and The Residential Bystander [PDF]
The Annals of Occupational Hygiene, 2006 Some time ago I stood on a public road in France watching a helicopter spraying pesticide on the fields of my father-in-law. The helicopter overshot and sprayed me as well. My father-in-law severely reprimanded the pilot and since then has no longer used aerial spraying, but the incident gave me an immediate experience of bystander exposure. In Britain
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Sociological EducationThe global COVID-19 pandemic acted as a profound catalyst, forcing an unprecedented and rapid shift to remote learning and exposing both the potential and the deep-seated vulnerabilities within global education systems.
Sayed Mahbub Hasan Amiri +4 more
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Design of a Variable Drop Variable refrigerant flow system Experimental Setup Based on Refrigerant Flow Characteristics [PDF]
E3S Web of ConferencesThe Variable Refrigerant Flow (VRF) air conditioning system has been extensively applied in modern buildings. To ensure its operational performance and reliability under real-world conditions, it is essential to conduct simulation experiments in ...
Liu Xinyi +3 more
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Raw fetal PCG dataset contaminated with Mother’s PCGMendeley Data
Data in BriefThis article presents a dataset of raw fetal phonocardiogram (fPCG) signals that naturally include contamination from maternal heart sounds. Recordings were conducted with eight pregnant participants, most of whom were at 36 weeks or later gestation, and
Tasfia Hasan Faiza +5 more
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The feeling of comfort in residential settings II: a quantitative model
Buildings & Cities, 2023 Building science has historically used quantitative methods to study comfort. Yet, these methods struggle to consider non-quantifiable factors that are sometimes relevant in the determination of people’s comfort.
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