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Estimating residential energy flexibility potential through forced activations [PDF]
Proceedings of the 8th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation, 2021 Energy flexibility characterization studies have largely focused on the case of smart buildings that respond to penalty or activation signals. This assumes the presence of flexible loads or human occupants in the building which modulate their behavior according to a penalty signal.
Kazmi, Hussain +2 more
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Parental perceived neighborhood attributes : associations with active transport and physical activity among 10-12 year old children and the mediating role of independent mobility [PDF]
, 2014 Background: During the last decades, the use of active travel modes declined in all age groups. Childhood is a critical time to establish lifelong healthy patterns. To develop effective interventions in this age group, insight in the correlates of health
Cardon, Greet +3 more
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Journal of Transport and Land Use, 2015 This paper extends and integrates the general activity-based model framework to present the complex relationship between long-term individual decisions, such as residential location, and daily activity and travel-behavior decisions. More specifically, it
Rachel Katoshevski +3 more
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Community social environments and cigarette smoking
SSM: Population Health, 2022 Cigarette smoking remains a primary contributor to health disparities in the United States, and significant evidence suggests that smoking behavior is socially influenced.
Justin T. Denney +2 more
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Zombie Developments in the Polish Residential Market – Their Causes and Consequences
Studia Regionalne i Lokalne, 2021 “Zombie developments”, i.e. the problem of unfinished development projects, is an unrecognised phenomenon in Poland. In the USA, research on the causes, consequences and actions aimed to reduce the nuisance has been conducted for years.
Agata Antczak-Stępniak
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Energy use in residential buildings: Impact of building automation control systems on energy performance and flexibility [PDF]
, 2019 This work shows the results of a research activity aimed at characterizing the energy habits of Italian residential users. In detail, by the energy simulation of a buildings sample, the opportunity to implement a demand/response program (DR) has been ...
DE SANTOLI, Livio +2 more
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Advances in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2021 Manageable electricity demand capacity and the user activities that make up this demand is crucial for aggregators in residential demand response events.
SONMEZ, M. A., BAGRIYANIK, M.
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Active Monitoring of Residential Radon in Rome: A Pilot Study
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2022 We present an overview of the potential of active monitoring techniques to investigate the many factors affecting the concentration of radon in houses. We conducted two experiments measuring radon concentration in 25 apartments in Rome and suburban areas for two weeks and in three apartments in the historic center for several months.
Gaia Soldati +4 more
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Lower neighbourhood walkability and longer distance to school are related to physical activity in Belgian adolescents [PDF]
, 2009 OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether adolescents living in a high-walkable town centre are more physically active than those living in a less-walkable suburb. METHODS: This cross-sectional study was conducted in Izegem (Belgium).
Cardon, Greet +3 more
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Atmosphere, 2022 Children’s activity spaces in communities designed for children’s recreation are related to children’s safety and physical health. Outdoor thermal comfort of children’s activity spaces in high-density urban residential areas is the key to children’s use ...
Han Gu +5 more
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