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Journal articles on the topic "Show windows"
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Jain, Varsha, Mika Takayanagi, and Edward Carl Malthouse. "Effects of show windows on female consumers’ shopping behaviour." Journal of Consumer Marketing 31, no. 5 (2014): 380–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jcm-04-2014-0946.
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Purpose – The purpose of this study if to investigate the effects of show windows on shopping behaviour among female consumers to provide insights that a manager can use to encourage purchase behaviour. Design/methodology/approach – On the basis of 20 in-depth interviews, we developed a survey, which we administered to female consumers (n = 209). The survey was based on a stimulus–organism–response framework. Each respondent was exposed to an image of a show window (images were taken from apparel departments of well-known department stores) and rated her perceptions of the window and intentions to purchase items sold in the store. Findings – Using factor analysis, we identify five components of the show window: social, hedonic, informational, image and “feel-good” factors. The first four factors are aggregated into a “show window” metric, which is shown to influence purchase intentions; this influence is fully mediated by the feel-good factor. The image factor and the social and hedonic factors each significantly influence the feel-good factor. Practical implications – When developing show windows, brand managers should aim to touch on all factors of the show window to make shoppers “feel good”; these positive feelings might intensify shoppers’ purchase intentions. Originality/value – This study identifies five factors that make up consumers’ perceptions of show windows. It shows that exposure to a show window affects consumers’ purchase intentions, and that this influence is determined primarily by the extent to which consumers “feel good” about the store.
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Christensen, Ole, Hong Oh Kim, and Rae Young Kim. "Regularity of Dual Gabor Windows." Abstract and Applied Analysis 2013 (2013): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/747268.
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We present a construction of dual windows associated with Gabor frames with compactly supported windows. The size of the support of the dual windows is comparable to that of the given window. Under certain conditions, we prove that there exist dual windows with higher regularity than the canonical dual window. On the other hand, there are cases where no differentiable dual window exists, even in the overcomplete case. As a special case of our results, we show that there exists a common smooth dual window for an interesting class of Gabor frames. In particular, for any value ofK∈ℕ,there is a smooth functionhwhich simultaneously is a dual window for all B-spline generated Gabor frames{EmbTnBN(x/2)}m,n∈ℕfor B-splinesBNof orderN=1,…,2K+1with a fixed and sufficiently small value ofb.
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Zhao, Chuanli, and Hengyong Tang. "Due-Window Assignment for a Single Machine Scheduling with Both Deterioration and Positional Effects." Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research 32, no. 03 (2015): 1550014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0217595915500141.
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This paper considers a single machine scheduling with both deterioration and positional effects and due-window assignment problem. The job-dependent due-windows are obtained by the common flow allowance criterion. The objective is to schedule the jobs, and the due-windows so as to minimize the sum of earliness, tardiness, and due-window starting time and due-window size costs. We introduce a polynomial solution for the problem. Furthermore, we show how the solutions can be extended to the setting with job rejection.
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Kim, Seok-Hyun, Hakgeun Jeong, and Soo Cho. "A Study on Changes of Window Thermal Performance by Analysis of Physical Test Results in Korea." Energies 12, no. 20 (2019): 3822. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en12203822.
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The interest in zero energy buildings is increasing in South Korea. Zero energy buildings need to save energy by using passive technology. The window performance is important to the thermal insulation of the building. Also, the government regulates the window performance through regulation and standards. However, it is difficult to predict window performance because the components of the window have become complicated due to the various materials used in the glass and frame. Based on window performance standards and regulations, the quality of window performance was managed. In this research, to consider thermal performance in proper window design in South Korea, we confirmed the impact on the thermal performance of the window through various kinds of materials and shapes. The authors also propose a window shape classification and frame calculation method based on actual test results. The authors analyzed the thermal performance data of the windows provided by the Korea Energy Agency and confirmed the change in the thermal performance of the windows by year and by frame material. The average U-value of the window decreased from 2012 to 2015 and maintained similar values until 2017. In 2018, this value was decreased to comply. Also, the authors confirmed the U-value of the windows through actual physical experiments and confirmed the change in thermal performance by the construction of the windows based on the results. The results show, in the case of aluminum windows, the U-value corresponding to Grade 3 (1.4–2.1 W/m2·K) was as high as about 60%. Regarding the analyzed results of the U-values of PVC windows, Grade 3 (U-value of 1.4–2.1 W/m2·K) accounted for about 35%, and Grade 2 (U-value of 1.0–1.4 W/m2·K) for about 29%. This paper also confirmed that the frame U-value of the PVC windows is lower than the frame U-value of the aluminum windows. Therefore, the authors proposed the performance index of the glazing part in PVC and aluminum window design. The results of this research can be used as basic data to identify problems in the method of determining the performance of windows in Korea.
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Huang, Rong Hwa, Tung Han Yu, and Chang Lin Yang. "Multiprocessor Flow Shop Scheduling Problem with Common due Window." Applied Mechanics and Materials 284-287 (January 2013): 3712–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.284-287.3712.
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The objective of scheduling is to maximize capacity utilization, minimize work-in-process inventory and ensure timely delivery. The due windows problem proposes that jobs should only be finished within the time interval that meets customer needs. This research applies integer programming (IP) and ant colony optimization (ACO) to solve due window problems in a flow shop with multiprocessors (FSMP). To improve the performance of jobs within due windows, this research splits them into different numbers of processing lots so they can be processed on more than one machine simultaneously. This shortens the total weighted earliness and tardiness of the jobs. The ACO is applied as a heuristic tool for solving the scheduling problems, and the solution results show that ACO has good validity, robustness and effectiveness.
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Drauschke, M., and H. Mayer. "THE POTENTIAL OF SPECULAR REFLECTIONS FOR FAÇADE IMAGE ANALYSIS." ISPRS Annals of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences II-3/W4 (March 11, 2015): 33–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprsannals-ii-3-w4-33-2015.
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Several approaches for window detection have been proposed in recent years, which all use the window size, shape or position within the façade as characteristics for the detection. In this paper another property of windows is proposed for their detection: Windows are made of glass, so they tend to specularly reflect sun light, while the surrounding wall diffusely reflects it. To this end, colour values in multiple views are analysed to detect specular reflections. In the experiments, walls often show a high homogeneity of small colour differences, and many windows are clearly visible in the form of colour differences. Nevertheless, it is difficult to segment windows from the façade if there is no prior knowledge about the intensity of the scene’s illumination. Promising results are obtained if the façade lies in the shadow, e.g., of another building or a tree.
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Hu, Xing Jun, Feng Tao Ren, Bo Yang, and Peng Guo. "Effect of Sunroofs and Side Windows on Aerodynamic Characteristics of Transit Bus." Applied Mechanics and Materials 224 (November 2012): 333–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.224.333.
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In this paper, k-Omega turbulence model is applied in the numerical simulation of the transit bus, several typical working conditions of the transit bus with windows open at a speed of 10m/s are investigated, and a custom function Q is introduced to characterize the amount of ventilation of each window. The results show that, when the transit bus travels with windows open, the air always flows into the carriage through the middle and rear side windows of the transit bus, and circulates in the carriage and then flows out of the carriage through the front side window. When the bus travels with sunroofs open in leeward mode and side windows open, the amount of ventilation is the maximum. This working condition is the best one when taking both drag coefficient and the amount of ventilation.
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Han, Yilong, Wei Liu, Xu Huang, Shugen Wang, and Rongjun Qin. "Stereo Dense Image Matching by Adaptive Fusion of Multiple-Window Matching Results." Remote Sensing 12, no. 19 (2020): 3138. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs12193138.
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Traditional stereo dense image matching (DIM) methods normally predefine a fixed window to compute matching cost, while their performances are limited by the matching window sizes. A large matching window usually achieves robust matching results in weak-textured regions, while it may cause over-smoothness problems in disparity jumps and fine structures. A small window can recover sharp boundaries and fine structures, while it contains high matching uncertainties in weak-textured regions. To address the issue above, we respectively compute matching results with different matching window sizes and then proposes an adaptive fusion method of these matching results so that a better matching result can be generated. The core algorithm designs a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) to predict the probabilities of large and small windows for each pixel and then refines these probabilities by imposing a global energy function. A compromised solution of the global energy function is utilized by breaking the optimization into sub-optimizations of each pixel in one-dimensional (1D) paths. Finally, the matching results of large and small windows are fused by taking the refined probabilities as weights for more accurate matching. We test our method on aerial image datasets, satellite image datasets, and Middlebury benchmark with different matching cost metrics. Experiments show that our proposed adaptive fusion of multiple-window matching results method has a good transferability across different datasets and outperforms the small windows, the median windows, the large windows, and some state-of-the-art matching window selection methods.
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Chmúrny, Ivan. "Windows Energy Labelling in Slovakia." Advanced Materials Research 1020 (October 2014): 597–600. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.1020.597.
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Energy labelling of windows has been introduced in some Member States - for example Denmark, Finland, Slovakia and the UK. The UK BFRC scheme on window energy labelling has proved very efficient in communicating to the general public about the energy saving properties of high performance products thus contributing to their faster uptake. Slovak labelling system was introduced in 2008. The paper deals with main principles of energy rating system used in Slovenergookno. National system for rating the energy efficiency of windows and is recognised within the Building Regulations as a method to show compliance for your replacement windows installation..
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Kim, Ejin, and Hyoung-Kee Choi. "Security Analysis and Bypass User Authentication Bound to Device of Windows Hello in the Wild." Security and Communication Networks 2021 (July 23, 2021): 1–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/6245306.
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Windows Hello is a Fast IDentity Online- (FIDO-) based new login system for Windows 10, which provides a single sign-on (SSO) service to diverse online applications. Hardware protection is essential for Window Hello’s security. This paper aims to examine the security of Windows Hello on a device where hardware protection is unavailable. We present the first detailed analysis of Windows Hello’s security. The results show that, on a hardware-unsupported device, the authentication data for Windows Hello is not properly protected. We propose a migration attack to compromise Windows Hello’s security. In the proposed attack, an attacker extracts authentication data from a device to impersonate a victim in his or her Microsoft online account. We consider the possibility of such an attack to be serious and harmful to our society and demand immediate attention for remediation.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Show windows"
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Furier, Reto Furler Reto. "Experimental and theoretical studies on the energy balance of windows /." [S.l.] : [s.n.], 1988. http://e-collection.ethbib.ethz.ch/show?type=diss&nr=8586.
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Bayless, Brittany N. ""The show windows of a state" a comparative study on classification of Michigan, Indiana , and Ohio parks /." Connect to this title online, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1143423813.
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Gutekunst, Thomas F. "Shared window systems /." [S.l.] : [s.n.], 1995. http://e-collection.ethbib.ethz.ch/show?type=diss&nr=11120.
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GAURILCIKAITE, MIGLE. "HOW SAUDI ARABIA CONSUMER PERCEIVES INTERNATIONAL BRANDS THROUGH SHOP WINDOW DISPLAYS?" Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Institutionen Textilhögskolan, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-18140.
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Research on consumers’ attitude on shop window displays is still a sphere that lacks attention from researchers in the field of consumer behaviour. Moreover, one of the most upcoming research fields recently is Islamic marketing field. Thus, this work is focused on the research of Saudi Arabia consumers’ attitudes on international brands shop window displays. For this purpose the questionnaire was created and spread out in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. There were 61 respondents who answered the questionnaire. Collected results were analysed using mix of qualitative and quantitative methods. Analysis showed that international brands make adjustments of shop window displays in Saudi Arabia. To add more, and most important, local consumers are willing to have more internationalised shop window displays with less cultural adaptation.<br>Program: Master programme in Fashion Management
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Linder, Wolfgang. "Development of thunderstorms in Switzerland in relation to surface winds /." [S.l.] : [s.n.], 1998. http://e-collection.ethbib.ethz.ch/show?type=diss&nr=12589.
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Weber, Marc-André [Verfasser], Rainer [Akademischer Betreuer] Leisten, and Stefan [Akademischer Betreuer] Bock. "Permutation Flow Shop Scheduling unter Einbezug von Lot Streaming bei auftragsspezifischen Lieferterminvektoren für Due Window-bezogene Zielfunktionen / Marc-André Weber. Gutachter: Stefan Bock. Betreuer: Rainer Leisten." Duisburg, 2015. http://d-nb.info/1070170542/34.
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Maffei, Simacek Simone Thereza Alexandrino [UNESP]. "Design emocional e análise observacional: inter-relações entre produto e usuário." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/136228.
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Previous issue date: 2016-01-26<br>Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)<br>Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)<br>O design, em seus diversos campos, é um agente gerador de necessidades contínuas. Responsabiliza-se por causar o desejo de compra e isso se dá principalmente com a exposição de seus produtos em vitrinas. Mas um expositor pode também ser considerado um produto de design, pois, para chamar a atenção do consumidor e despertar-lhe prazer (visual), usa de estratégias que envolvem elementos de percepção e emoção. Luzes, cores, formas, elementos tridimensionais encenam valores sociais, econômicos e culturais e isso provoca no observador uma mistura de sentimentos. Porém as respostas emocionais que ocorrem diante de uma vitrina não são conhecidas pelos designers, tampouco quais são os elementos da vitrina que provocam esses retornos afetivos. Seriam os elementos de percepção ou os objetos expostos? Haveria alterações nessas respostas ao colocar um objeto de possível desagrado emocional, como uma cadeira de rodas? Além disso, conseguir compreender as respostas emocionais dos consumidores ao observa-los diante de uma vitrina geraria informações projetuais muito mais verdadeiras e seguras sobre o que se está observando, do que propor um questionamento. Questionar um consumidor sobre um produto pode pô-lo em situação desconfortável e sua resposta não seria, assim, verdadeira. Portanto essa pesquisa visa compreender as respostas emocionais de observadores de vitrinas, por meio de imagens das mesmas, aplicando metodologia observacional, e assim obter dados que possam corroborar o design, nos âmbitos do emocional e de moda.<br>The design, in its various fields, is a generator agent of needs. The responsibility of design is causing the desire to purchase and the mainly way to do this proposition is with the exposure of products in shop windows. But an exhibitor can also be considered a design product, therefore, to draw the consumer's attention and awaken them (visual) pleasure, uses strategies that involve elements of perception and emotion. Lights, colours, shapes, three-dimensional elements enact social, economic and cultural values and this causes in observers a mixture of feelings. But the emotional responses that occur in front of a shop window are not known by designers, nor what are the elements of shop window that cause these emotional returns. Would be the exhibits elements of perception? There would be changes in these responses when introducing a possible emotional dislike object, such as a wheelchair? In addition, be able to understand the emotional responses of consumers, by observation, in front of a shop window would generate data to design much more accurate and secure about what consumers are watching, than proposing them a question. Questioning consumers about a product can be an uncomfortable situation and their answer would not be true. Therefore this research aims to perceive the emotional responses of consumers in front of images of shop windows, applying observational methodology, and thus obtain data that can corroborate the design, in the emotional and fashion areas.<br>CAPES/PDSE: 13845/12-8<br>CNPq/Programa Ciência sem Fronteiras: 248830/2013-9
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Anagnou, Eleni. "Escenas comerciales de Barcelona : atractivo visual de los escaparates con la luz natural de las ciudades mediterráneas." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/585929.
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Being a fundamental element of the commercial process, the importance of a proper visual presentation of shop windows is critical. The present research analyzes this everyday urban element in the city of Barcelona, and more specifically, its lighting requirements and visual inconvenients associated with the Mediterranean climate, and how they are or should be faced so its aesthetic and commercial function is not prevented.
The complexity of light presentation of these elements is linked to their exposure to varying light conditions of the outside environment. In Mediterranean climates, the temperature favors the urban commerce; duration of daily solar radiation is extensive and solar intensity is very important throughout the whole year. The most radical change between day and night, in
the constantly changing urban landscape, includes natural lighting of surfaces that no lighting design has projected and with unsurpassed intensity for whatever artificial lighting applied, making its energy consumption vain.
There has been performed a study of a sample of shop windows of Barcelona in its natural opposing lighting situations, day and night, analyzing their visual results and using as a tool their own luminance maps. Also, after analysis in simulation program that incorporates solar trajectories, have been selected typical cases which by their orientation and position in the Barcelona 's urban fabric bring the most commonly produced effects in the majority of them, delving the effect of solar incidence. The basic tools of this analysis have been, once again, the luminance maps themselves and evaluation, by computer application, of the odds of glare and its possible sources. The study concluded identifying and confirming the main inconvenients that can impair the visual result and, therefore, the commercial purposes.
Reflecting on the possible solutions and their proven effectiveness on the problem, instead of aspiring to compete with sunlight, there have been studied design alternatives with minimal environmental impact. Projecting an adequate sun protection for each case by its analysis in simulation program, and changing the reflection factor of its key surfaces, are an example. Finally, the potential visual and energy benefits of redirecting sunlight towards the interior of the scene were evaluated.
In this regard, a system of reflective surfaces for a showcase type has been designed and two prototypes, with and without the proposed system, have been elaborated in light models. By the comparison of their visual outcome, have been confirmed its visual benefits and the possibility to reduce energy consumption by the double effect of obstruction of sunlight and the use of its intensity so as to raise illuminance levels in the interior of the scene.<br>Siendo un componente básico en el proceso comercial, la importancia de una correcta presentación visual en un escaparate es fundamental. La presente investigación estudia y analiza este elemento urbano tan cotidiano en la ciudad de Barcelona y, más concretamente, sus exigencias lumínicas e inconvenientes visuales vinculados con su clima mediterráneo, y cómo son o deben ser afrontados sin que se impida su función estética y comercial.
La complejidad en si misma de la presentación lumínica de estos elementos se enlaza con su
exposición a las condiciones lumínicas variables del ambiente exterior. En los climas mediterráneos, cuya temperatura favorece el comercio urbano, la duración de la radicación solar diaria es extensa y su intensidad solar muy importante a lo largo de todo el año. La alteración más radical, entre el día y la noche, en el paisaje urbano constantemente cambiante, incluye la iluminación natural de superficies que ningún diseño lumínico ha
proyectado, así como una intensidad insuperable por cualquiera que sea la iluminación artificial que se aplique, haciendo que el gasto energético de esta última sea en vano.
Se ha realizado un estudio de una muestra de escaparates de Barcelona en sus situaciones lumínicas naturales más opuestas, la de día y la de noche, analizando sus resultados visuales y utilizando como herramienta de trabajo sus propios mapas de luminancias. Asimismo, tras análisis en programa de simulación que incorpora las trayectorias solares, se escogieron casos característicos que por su orientación y por su posición en la trama urbana barcelonesa nos aportan los efectos más comúnmente producidos en la mayoría de ellos, profundizando en el efecto de la incidencia solar directa. Las herramientas básicas del análisis han sido, una vez más, los propios mapas de luminancias y la evaluación, mediante aplicación informática, de las probabilidades de deslumbramiento y sus posibles fuentes. El estudio concluyó dentificando y comprobando los principales inconvenientes que pueden perjudicar el resultado visual y, por lo tanto, los propósitos comerciales.
Reflexionando en las posibles soluciones y su efectividad sobre la problemática comprobada, en lugar de pretender competir con la luz solar, se han estudiado alternativas de diseño con el mínimo impacto medioambiental. Proyectar una protección solar adecuada para cada caso, mediante su análisis en programa de simulación, y modificar el grado de reflexión de sus superficies clave, son un ejemplo de ello. Finalmente, se evaluaron los posibles beneficios visuales y energéticos de la redirección de los rayos solares hacia el interior de la escena.
Al respecto, se diseñó un sistema de superficies reflejantes para un escaparate tipo y se elaboraron dos modelos, sin y con el sistema propuesto, en maquetas de luz. De la comparación de su resultado visual, se comprobaron los beneficios visuales y la posibilidad de reducir el gasto energético, mediante el doble efecto de la obstrucción de la luz solar y el aprovechamiento de su intensidad para elevar el nivel de iluminancia en el interior de la escena
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Pánek, Martin. "Víceúčelový dům." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta stavební, 2014. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-226543.
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The main concern of this thesis is to design a five-storey multifunctional house. The house is divided into the main living area to which it belongs especially residential units accessible by stairs from the ground floor and also basement boxes and room for prams. On the ground floor are also located the individual garage, store room and technology. The house has four floors and a basement, the basement are located mass garages. The house has a sloping wooden roof trusses.
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Růžička, Jiří. "Polyfunkční koncový dům v Karlových Varech." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta stavební, 2017. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-265694.
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The project solves a multifunctional Duma building in a vacant lot, contemplated the construction site is located in Carlsbad, in the street Vyhlíce. This is a protected site spa. Part of the project's layout and structural design of the house. It is a six-storey house with an attic and a basement floor. It is designed as a free-standing in the gap as the final house. The layout is divided into two complete units with their own input. There are spaces for business and residential units for permanent housing. Part of the living area are also room house equipment. Inputs to both parts are wheelchair accessible. The house is not wheelchair The house is designed as a brick building of brick masonry Porotherm the module dimensions of 250 (125) mm with reinforced concrete ceilings. Roofed by a hipped roof. The house is located on a private plot of 519 m2 built-up area of 221 m2. The land is gently sloping. The main orientation of the building to the cardinal's east and west. The south wall is adjacent to the neighboring house.
Books on the topic "Show windows"
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Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science (U.S.), ed. Gaussian windows: A tool for exploring multivariate data. Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science, NASA Ames Research Center, 1990.
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Silvio, San Pietro, and Ferrero Alberto, eds. Vetrine a Milano. Edizioni L'Archivolto, 1995.
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McGuire, Laura. "Automatic show windows." In Architectures of Display. Routledge, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315567792-10.
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Gunawan, Haris, Dian Afriyanti, and Haryo A. Dewanto. "Show Windows and Lessons Learned from Peatland Restoration in Indonesia." In Tropical Peatland Eco-management. Springer Singapore, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4654-3_28.
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Orr, Emily M. "“The Age of Show Windows” in the American department store." In Architectures of Display. Routledge, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315567792-8.
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Offtermatt, David, Daniel Lust, and Tobias Erhart. "Box-Type Windows as Means for Better Air Quality and Acoustic Comfort in Urban Areas." In iCity. Transformative Research for the Livable, Intelligent, and Sustainable City. Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92096-8_21.
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AbstractControlled natural ventilation in office buildings can ensure the indoor thermal comfort while reducing the life cycle energy consumption for ventilation, compared to mechanical ventilation systems (e.g. HVAC). Natural ventilation is mostly used in moderate climate zones where air conditioning is not a standard. During intermediate seasons, buildings with HVAC systems can additionally use natural ventilation to reduce energy consumption. However, in dense urban areas, natural ventilation can be problematic in terms of acoustic comfort. Here, a box-type window can serve as a compromise between thermal and acoustic comfort. Due to the more complex handling of the box-type window, an automated (electric driven) novel box-type window approach was developed within the imaF project, a part of the iCity initiative. The following article describes the basics of automated natural ventilation, acoustic characterization as well as architectural integration of this window type and the optimization of the airflow through box-type windows. The results show that the proposed geometry can provide sound insulation while providing an appropriate air exchange rate.
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Salim, Sherna, and Amin Al-Habaibeh. "Exploring Windows Opening Behaviour of Occupants of Residential Buildings Using Artificial Intelligence." In Springer Proceedings in Energy. Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30960-1_29.
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AbstractThe residential sector contributes significantly to the overall energy consumption in the UK. Occupant’s behaviour is a major factor that sometimes could be overlooked when considering energy efficiency of buildings. Although building simulations play a major role in the design of energy efficient buildings, significant discrepancies have been seen between the actual and predicted energy values in simulation models. This is because simulation does not consider occupant behaviour in many cases or finds it difficult to present such behaviour. This study attempts to investigate the reason behind occupant’s behaviour of windows opening; to analyse the collected data, to understand the occurrences that lead to an occupant opening window in a residential building. In this paper, data were collected from a selected house in Nottingham. Data were experimentally collected in peak winter of 2020, from end of Nov/20 to March/21 during Covid-19 pandemic. Sensors were fitted to measure radiator temperature, room temperature, room humidity and near-window temperature both upstairs and downstairs. Outdoor ambient temperature for the same period was also collected. Stochastic models were implemented with datasets with window opening behaviour as response. The input parameters to the model were the radiator temperature, room temperature, outside ambient temperature, and time. The predicated output was the window status (open/close). The prognostic precision of the suggested model was verified by testing the models with the rest of the collected data. The predicted values were compared with the actual measured values. The results show a strong prediction with success rate of 76.2%. The findings from this investigation have been found to be able to identify the factors that contribute to the ‘performance gap’ in energy efficiency of a building.
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Schivelbusch, Wolfgang. "Shop Windows [1983]." In The Design Culture Reader. Routledge, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003416692-27.
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Maloney, Ross J. "Getting Something to Show." In Low Level X Window Programming. Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74250-2_2.
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Wilson, Kevin. "Keyboard Shor tcuts." In Everyday Computing with Windows 8.1. Apress, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-0805-2_20.
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Webster, Peter. "A Shop Window in Europe." In The European Marketplace. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1991. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11344-6_7.
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Hall, Jack, Bubaker Shakmak, Amin Al-Habaibeh, and Eiman Kanjo. "The Analysis of Sensory Data from Smart Office Environment Towards the Development of an Intelligent System." In Springer Proceedings in Energy. Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30960-1_17.
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AbstractWith the increase in energy prices and the drive to reduce carbon emission, this paper presents an investigation of the use of smart office environments to monitor and evaluate the sustainability and behaviour of employees and the utilisation of space and resources. This paper presents analysis of data in an office environment in a company in Derby city to attempt to understand the behaviour of employees, pattern of work, power consumption and performance of heating and air-conditioning systems. Data from occupancy, room temperature, CO2, humidity, lighting, air temperature, windows status are all collected and analysed. The data also included external environmental conditions. The results indicate some correlation between CO2 levels and the number of employees. They also show correlation between outside and inside environmental conditions. In addition, the utilisation of space was also monitored, and the results demonstrate low utilisation during most days, this was due to Covid-19 and to working from home and off-site patterns. However, the data is found useful to inform future decisions about the actual space needed for normal working conditions.
Conference papers on the topic "Show windows"
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"Redesign of Airplane Windows Due to Environmental Crazing of Acrylic." In Aerospace Engineering Conference and Show. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1985. http://dx.doi.org/10.2514/6.1985-847.
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Han, Yanhui, Chao Liu, and Dung Phan. "An Integrative Software Platform to Support Drilling Operations in Troublesome Formations." In Middle East Oil, Gas and Geosciences Show. SPE, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/213695-ms.
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Abstract A software product, called SAGE-WSA, has been developed to provide an integrative platform for experimenting impacts of various affecting factors and mechanisms on the drilling mud design and wellbore stability. The software packages analytical solutions of stresses, pore pressure, temperature, and chemical potentials around wellbore in both intact and fractured poroelastic media, and many failure criteria, including all often-used ones and some developed in-house. The software provides a friendly user interface for accepting inputs required for the well stability analysis and presenting computed results, such as mud weight window, failure region, stress distribution, etc., in form of charts, contour and spreadsheet. The application and performance of SAGE-WSA is demonstrated through calculating safe mud weight windows for drilling a few troublesome formations. In the low-permeability formations, the timescale of fluid diffusion around borehole is in the same order as drilling operation so the safe mud weight window is time-dependent. Computation shows that the critical mud weight calculated by SAGE-WSA converges to well-known Hubbert-Willis (H-W) solution for impermeable borehole at short time and Haimson-Fairhurst (H-F) solution for permeable borehole at large time. In high-pressure high-temperature formation, the time-dependent pressure diffusion and thermal diffusion are coupled. It is observed that the critical mud weight window is overestimated without considering cooling effect, which may cause formation permeability damage. In chemically active shales, the trouble comes from the chemical activity difference between drilling mud and the formation. In the analysis the poroelastic and chemical effects are coupled. For mud with lower activity, the water will be driven out of the formation and the pore pressure can be dropped significantly. In naturally fractured formations, the natural fractures speed up the diffusion process and degrade the mechanical strength, causing the safe mud weight window much narrower.
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Kamgue Lenwoue, Arnaud Regis, Jingen Deng, Yongcun Feng, and Naomie Beolle Songwe Selabi. "Numerical Investigation of the Influence of the Drill String Vibration Cyclic Loads on the Time Dependent Wellbore Stability Analysis." In SPE Middle East Oil & Gas Show and Conference. SPE, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/204774-ms.
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Abstract Wellbore instability is one of the most important causes of Non-Productive Time causing billions of dollars of losses every year in the petroleum industry. During the drilling operations, the drilling mud is generally utilized to maintain the wellbore stability. However, the drilling mud is subjected to fluctuations caused by several processes such as the drill string vibration cyclic loads which can result into wellbore instability. In this paper, a nonlinear finite element software ABAQUS is utilized as the numerical simulator to evaluate the time dependent pore pressure and stress distribution around the wellbore after integration of drill string vibration cyclic loads. A MATLAB program is then developed to investigate the wellbore stability by computation of the time dependent wellbore collapse pressure and fracture pressure. The numerical results showed that the safe mud window which was initially constant became narrower with the time after integration of vibration cyclic load. The collapse pressure without vibration cyclic load increased by 14.33 % at the final simulation time while the fracture pressure decreased by 13.80 %. Interestingly, the safe mud windows widened with the increase of the normalized wellbore radius as the wellbore fracture pressure increased and the collapse pressure decreased. This study provides an insight into the coupling of the wellbore stability and the continuous cyclic loads generated by drill string vibrations which is an aspect that has been rarely discussed in the literature.
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Muhammad, Jamal uddin, and Bilal Tariq. "Unsung Attributes of Managed Pressure Drilling Technology that Qualify its Need for Every Producer Well to Be Drilled Mitigating Major Hazards." In Middle East Oil, Gas and Geosciences Show. SPE, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/213496-ms.
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Abstract The Managed Pressure Drilling (MPD) technology had been widely utilized when there is a narrow PP-FG window. This paper summarizes the fact that it's all about MPD awareness and increased knowledge of the system that will mitigate not only the drilling hazards but shall also aid in improving the overall efficiency in drilling operations, saving both cost and time. MPD primarily helps operators drilling through narrow pore pressure - fracture gradient windows, thus minimizing the hazards of well control complications like high pressure influxes or mud losses and the same time mitigating the differential stuck tendency due to the extra over balance. Both of these are prime MPD applications where a corrective approach is utilized when the well has encountered influx or losses situation and all conventional options are exhausted. It has been seen that mostly these two aspects are the driving factors to select the well candidates for MPD during planning phase. Although, without any doubt these are major decisive factors for any well to be an MPD candidate, there are a lot of other factors that add value to the overall drilling process when using MPD technology. These factors include: i)- Precise Drilling window determination, prior to start drilling ii)-Using lighter mud weight iii)- Early kick-loss detection system iv)- Improved well control, v)- Handling mud cut without interrupting drilling, vi)- Improved Bore hole stability and ballooning, vii)- Higher pump-rates, viii)- Efficient Tripping in or out of well ix)- Liner trip and cementing, x)- Added safety factor This paper summarizes the stats of all these value added benefits in a 26 well campaign field. This case study highlights unsung attributes of MPD that adds value to the overall drilling process, clearly aiding in mitigating several hazards that would lead to the complicated well control situations resulting in significant non productive time, NPT and well abandonments. MPD had been used in the region to avoid drilling hazards, but we believed it offered more benefits. We analyzed a bunch of wells and found out that there was definite improvement in the drilling efficiency. The case study includes 26 wells in a challenging formation bearing unpredictable and inconsistent high pressures and 10 gas bearing extended horizontal wells with hard target formations. This publication summarizes all MPD attributes with statistical information that contributed to the success of the operations. Emphasis is on highlighting the factors which are usually taken for granted along with MPD main objectives. These benefits are highlighted for future pre-operational planning of well feasibility studies to improve the overall operational efficiency and the possibility of MPD applications other than just narrow window navigation. Managed pressure drilling optimizes the complete drilling and post drilling process and mitigates drilling hazards. It allows timesaving, reduction of mud costs and drilling un-drillable wells while optimizing overall process. Experience while drilling through the campaign field has proven that using MPD helps to optimize the drilling process and reduce associated costs to well control, lost circulation, stuck pipe and ballooning events. The paper implies that considering all these unsung attributes of MPD, each well should be evaluated for MPD technology during the planning phase to minimize the aforementioned drilling hazards than applying corrective actions. Mud weight, BHA design, drilling parameters and casing design can also be tailored accordingly to suit MPD operations, and enhancing overall drilling and completion processes. The paper emphasizes that MPD has been considered in the planning phase due to the narrow PP-FG window criteria, but there is a lot more added value that directly improve the overall drilling efficiency.
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Gendelis, Stanislavs. "NUMERICAL CALCULATIONS OF THE INSTALLATION THERMAL BRIDGE FOR THE OPTIMIZATION OF WINDOWS PLACEMENT." In 22nd SGEM International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference 2022. STEF92 Technology, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5593/sgem2022v/6.2/s26.57.
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Avoiding thermal bridges in the building envelope is one of the key elements for the reduction of energy consumption in buildings. Numerical calculations of heat flux through the joints of building structures are becoming very relevant in the past years due to the EU requirements for nearly zero energy buildings. The most problematic typically is windows installation perimeter, where thanks to fastenings of the frame to the loadbearing structure, linear thermal bridge forms. The use of numerical calculation of temperature and heat flux fields allows to visualise the thermal bridge effect, as well as to calculate the additional energy losses is such critical places with following recommendation to minimize it. This work focuses on modelling of top, bottom and side thermal bridges in a new window installation in a thermal insulation layer with the variable depth of the installation. Created models allows also to calculate the minimum surface temperature and the dimensionless temperature factor f, both describes the risks of potential condensation formation and mould growth. Calculations are made using Flixo software and according to ISO 10211 standard. The results of preformed calculations of different installation depths clearly show the optimum of the distance between the main load-bearing wall and window frame. Numerical value of thermal bridge value (or psi-value) at optimum depth may reach even negative values, meaning that the total heat flux for windows and wall connection becomes smaller when they are connected. Overall, the numerical calculations of thermal bridge flux show a wide range of psi-values from 0.025 W/m/K down to -0.005W/m/K for top and side installations. The psi-value for bottom installation with windowsill may be reduced from 0.1 W/m/K down to 0.03 W/m/K. The optimal installation depth is determined as 9�15 cm with essential dependence on the insulation layer thickness. Assuming that windows are the most thermally conductive building elements, carried out calculations provide information for the engineers in the field building energy efficiency regarding the window installation optimization to reduce the thermal bridge effect and to estimate additional heat losses also numerically at the design stage.
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Muhammad, Jamal uddin, and Abdallah Alzahrani. "Not Just for Drilling! Utilization of MPD Technology for Unplanned Events Like Extensive Ballooning in Highly Elastic Formation, Off-Bottom Well Control with a Tapered Drill-String and Freeing Stuck-Pipe, Thinking Out of the Box, A Case Study." In Middle East Oil, Gas and Geosciences Show. SPE, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/213445-ms.
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Abstract Managed Pressure Drilling(MPD) technology primarily helps operators excel in efficiently navigating through narrow pore pressure- fracture pressure windows and detecting gain/losses at an early stage mitigating complex well control situations. Apart from these routine benefits there a several other situations where MPD technology can be utilized for efficient solutions. In the beginning Managed pressure drilling was used during drilling operations only. Now overtime with the realization of the benefits and convenience has made operators more comfortable in applying the technology and exploring its use in operations than drilling. The applications have become more versatile, hence moving from just Managed Pressure drilling to Managed Pressure technology. This paper details three of those unusual applications of Managed Pressure technology, with actual well case studies. 1)- Ballooning case, 2)- Off bottom well control 3)-Stuck -pipe, demonstrating the planning and execution phases successfully The unfortunate situations of ballooning, off-bottom kicks/losses and differential stuck-pipe occurred during conventional drilling operations. When these problems were encountered, MPD technology proposed solutions in the unconventional, more efficient and safer ways by utilizing a sophisticated MPD system that provides precise, fully automatic bottom-hole pressure control almost instantly, when compared to conventional methods. MPD engineering team had established solid procedures for these unplanned events, considering the risks and contingency plans, to minimize several hours of non-productive time faced conventionally. For the highly elastic formation ballooning case, the conventional operations suffered well control situation for over 3 weeks, MPD technology first distinguished between ballooning and kick by proper fingerprinting procedures, minimized ballooning by reducing extra overbalance pressure and then during operations controlled ballooning by real-time gradual bottomhole pressure adjustments. For off-bottom kick case, due to high background gases and extensive swabbing the bit-trips were always a big challenge leading to off-bottom kicks very often. MPD technology took over the situation, enabled to strip-in to bottom safely to circulate out the kick and then utilized the precise fully automatic system to mitigate swabbing effectively for later bit-trips. For the third case of stuck-pipe, MPD technology was utilized for both mechanical stuck and differential stuck, enabled to free the stuck-pipe following the sequence of operations provided by MPD engineering team The competent personnel, sophisticated equipment, and precise pressure adjustments of bottom-hole pressure were the key factors of the overall success, hence mitigating any well control complications which previously costed several rig days and associated costs when dealt conventionally. MPDwas being used primarily for early kick/loss detection and controlling bottomhole pressure in narrow windows environments in drilling phase only. But with extensive successful usage and thinking out of the box MPD technology is now being utilized for post drilling operations like reaming which requires a high pump rate to clean hole, logging, cementing and even workover activities like pressurized plug retrieval as well. This paper details three of those unconventional solutions with actual well case studies where MPD was called out not for drilling, rather other complex issues.
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Mathew, Dennis, Richard O'Hegarty, and Oliver Kinnane. "Historic windows with passive heat loss reduction strategies and their effect on indoor thermal comfort." In Comfort at The Extremes 2023. CEPT University Press, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.62744/cate.45273.1146-514-522.
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Ireland's ambitious goal of achieving net-zero emissions by 2050 necessitates significant reductions in operational emissions from its building sector, prompting the government to target the energy retrofitting of a quarter of its building stock by 2030. However, retrofitting historic buildings poses substantial challenges stemming from concerns related to architectural conservation, cost, and technical complexities. In this context, focusing specifically on addressing heat loss through single-glazed historic windows, this study revisits traditional heat loss mitigation techniques that were once prevalent in historic buildings but have since fallen out of common use. With in-situ tests, we investigate the thermal performance of curtains, blinds and shutters on single-glazed wooden sash and case historic windows. We present variations in heat loss through the window and its associated thermal comfort in response to each strategy. Test results show significant heat loss reduction from a combination of traditional strategies which is on par with secondary glazing. These strategies offer viable solutions for energy efficiency and thermal comfort in historic buildings without major interventions on the protected historic fabric.
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Kvamme, Bjarte O., Adekunle P. Orimolade, Sverre K. Haver, and Ove T. Gudmestad. "Marine Operation Windows Offshore Norway." In ASME 2016 35th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/omae2016-54840.
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A study of the wave conditions in the North Sea, the Norwegian Sea and the Barents Sea is presented in this paper. For each region, one reference location for which there are buoy measurements is selected. For the selected locations, WAM10 hindcast data are obtained from the Norwegian Meteorological Institute (MET Norway). The hindcast data for each location cover the period from 1957 to 2014. First, the hindcast datasets were validated against available buoy measurements — both for extreme value predictions and for application of hindcast data for planning of marine operations. The validation was carried out considering the winter season and the summer season separately. For each season, the datasets for two consecutive months were used. A comparison of the time-series of the hindcast datasets against the buoy measurements showed that the hindcast datasets compared relatively well with the buoy measurements. However, a comparison of the statistical parameters of the hindcast datasets against the buoy measurements showed that the hindcast datasets are slightly conservative in the estimate of the significant wave height for the Barents Sea and the Norwegian Sea. Overall, the data compared well, and the hindcast datasets are therefore considered in the following analysis. Hindcast data from these 57 years show that the wave conditions in the selected Norwegian Sea location is harsher than the wave conditions in both the North Sea and the Barents Sea locations. This is in agreement with the general expected spatial trend in the wave climate on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS). It was also observed that the wave conditions in the selected Barents Sea location are harsher than the wave conditions in the North Sea. These findings are also reflected in the NORSOK N-003 standard on “Actions and Action effects” (NORSOK, 2015). The weather windows for weather-sensitive marine operations, that is, operations with operational reference period not exceeding 72 hours, were established from the hindcast dataset for each of the locations. It was observed that the Norwegian Sea has shorter weather windows, especially in the winter seasons, compared to both the Barents Sea and the North Sea. It was expected that the operational windows would be shorter in the winter seasons in the Barents Sea, due to the occurrence of polar lows. However, the polar lows are few and cause more concern related to forecasting of the weather conditions to start actual marine operations. Generally, the month with the highest probability of weather windows exceeding 72 hours was found to be July for all three locations.
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Wang, Yuyu, Rui Yang, Zhenxiang Tao, and Cong Li. "Numerical Simulation of Radioactive Material Around Opening-Windows Construction." In ASME 2017 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2017-71185.
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The diffusion of radioactive material in the atmosphere is vital for environmental assessment. Many researches have focused on the diffusion and deposition outside the construction, whereas less attention was paid on the law of the diffusion from the outside into the room. In this paper, three-dimensional numerical simulation was carried out by using OpenFOAM, an open source software for CFD. The incompressible steady flow around the construction with opening windows was investigated. The influence of inflow wind velocity and windows distribution was considered. The results show that as the inflow wind velocity increases, the diffusion is more significant. The vortexes is related to the windows distribution. When windows are perpendicular to the direction of the inflow wind, the concentration inside the construction is higher than that outside. Besides, the radioactive material gathers in the vicinity of the indoor downstream wall. When windows are parallel to the direction of the inflow wind, the concentration of indoors and outdoors is opposite, and the indoor radioactive material is distributed evenly. This study can provide theoretical support for the emergency evacuation around the construction.
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Lau, John H., Steve Erasmus, and Yida Zou. "Stress and Deflection Analysis of a Glass Window (Circular Plate) Elastically Restrained Along Its Edge in a Photonic Device." In ASME 2002 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. ASMEDC, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2002-39491.
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An exact analysis is presented for the stresses and deflections of circular plates (glass windows) elastically restrained along its edge in a photonic device’s housing subjected to the pressure and temperature loadings. Dimensionless curves and charts are also provided for engineering practice convenience. These charts show the interactions of the deflection, stress, temperature, pressure, linear spring constant, rotational spring constant, geometry of the glass windows, and the Young’s modulus, Poisson’s ratio, thermal coefficient of expansion, geometry, stress-optical coefficient, and birefringence of glass materials. The results presented herein should be useful for designing glass windows for shipping, storing, handling, functioning, and reliability.
Reports on the topic "Show windows"
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Payne, Charles, Steve Gilbertson, and Kimberly Schultz. Small Windowed PDV Slab Shot Verification. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/1888177.
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Ng, Shu Wen, Thomas Hoerger, and Rachel Nugent. Preventing Non-communicable Diseases Using Pricing Policies: Lessons for the United States from Global Experiences and Local Pilots. RTI Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3768/rtipress.2021.pb.0025.2105.
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Preventing non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in an effective and sustainable way will require forward-looking policy solutions that can address multiple objectives. This was true pre–COVID-19 and is even more true now. There are already examples from across the globe and within the United States that show how these may be possible. Although there are still many unknowns around how the design, targeting, level, sequencing, integration, and implementation of fiscal policies together can maximize their NCD prevention potential, there is already clear evidence that health taxes and particularly sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) taxes are cost-effective. Nonetheless, policies alone may not succeed. Political will to prioritize well-being, protections against industry interference, and public buy-in are necessary. If those elements align, pricing policies that consider the context in question can be designed and implemented to achieve several goals around reducing consumption of unhealthy SSBs and foods, narrowing existing nutritional and health disparities, encouraging economic and social development. The US and its local and state jurisdictions should consider these pricing policy issues and their contexts carefully, in collaboration with community partners and researchers, to design multi-duty actions and to be prepared for future windows of opportunities to open for policy passage and implementation.
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Calónico, Sebastián, and Hugo R. Ñopo. Returns to Private Education in Peru. Inter-American Development Bank, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0010873.
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The private provision of educational services has been representing an increasing fraction of the Peruvian schooling system, especially in recent decades. While there have been many claims about the differences in quality between private and public schools, there is no complete assessment of the different impacts of these two type of providers on the labor markets. This paper attempts to provide such a comprehensive overview by exploring private-public differences in the individual returns to education in Urban Peru. Exploiting a rich pair of data sets (ENNIV 1997 and 2000) that include questions on type of education (public vs. private) for each educational level (primary, secondary, technical tertiary and university tertiary) to a representative sample of adults, this paper measures the differences in labor earnings for all possible educational trajectories. The results indicate higher returns to education for those who attended private schools than those who attended the public system. Nonetheless, these higher returns also show higher dispersion, reflecting wider quality heterogeneity within the private system. The private-public differences in returns are more pronounced at the secondary than at any other educational level. On the other hand, the private-public differences in returns from technical education are almost nonexistent. A cohort approach paired with a rolling-windows technique allows us to capture generational evolutions of the private-public differences. The results indicate that these differences have been increasing during the last two decades.
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Farahbod, A., and J. F. Cassidy. Spatial and temporal variations in seismic coda Q attenuation in the lower St. Lawrence region, southeastern Quebec. Natural Resources Canada/CMSS/Information Management, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4095/332027.
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We investigate seismic attenuation characteristics of the Lower St. Lawrence seismic zone in southeastern Quebec. This zone is located ~400 km downstream from Quebec City and is between the Quebec North Shore and the Lower St. Lawrence. We used earthquake recordings from 5 broadband and 5 short period seismograph stations of the Canadian National Seismic Network (CNSN) across the region. Our dataset is comprised of 847 earthquakes recorded between 1985 and 2022 with magnitudes ranging from 2.0 to 5.1, depths from 0 to 30 km and epicentral distances of 5 to 100 km. This gives a total of 446 high signal-to-noise (S/N) traces (S/N?5.0) useful for QC calculation (with a maximum ellipse parameter, a2, of 100) across the region. Coda windows were selected to start at tc = 2tS (two times the travel time of the direct S wave), and were filtered at center frequencies of 2, 4, 8, 12 and 16 Hz. Our study reveals a consistent pattern. We find that the lowest overall average of Q0 (Q at 1 Hz) values are at the three stations (GSQ, ICQ and SMQ) within 100 km of a moderate earthquake of mN 5.1 in 1999 (e.g., Q0 of 81, 88 and 80, respectively). We determined temporal variations in attenuation following the 1999 earthquake. The overall average of Q0 decreased from 87 (before the mainshock) to 77 (GSQ, D=96 km), from 92 to 85 (ICQ, D=69 km) and from 88 to 82 (SMQ, D=73 km). These results are in agreement with global studies that show a decrease in Q0 following a significant earthquake, (e.g., M &amp;gt; 5) likely the result of increased fracturing and fluids in the epicentral region. An average for all the data results in a Q relationship of QC = 86f1.07 for the frequency band of 2 to 16 Hz for the entire region.
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Bray, Elizabeth, Zvi Lerner, and Alexander Poljakoff-Mayber. The Role of Phytohormones in the Response of Plants to Salinity Stress. United States Department of Agriculture, 1994. http://dx.doi.org/10.32747/1994.7613007.bard.
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Salinity is an increasing problem in many irrigated areas of crop production and is a significant factor in reducing crop productivity. Developmental, physiological, and molecular responses to salinity were studied in order to improve our understanding of these responses. Improvements in our understanding of plant responses to salinity are necessary in order to develop crops with improved salt tolerance. Previously, in Israel, it was shown that Sorghum biccolor can adapt to an otherwise lethal concentration of NaCl. These experiments were refined and it was shown that there is a specific window of development in which this adaption can occur. Past the window of development, Sorghum plants can not be adapted. In addition, the ability to adapt is not present in all genotypes of Sorghum. Cultivars that adapt have an increased coefficient of variation for many of the physiological parameters measured during the mid-phase of adaptation. Therefore, it is possible that the adaptation process does not occur identically in the entire population. A novel gene was identified, isolated and characterized from Sorghum that is induced in roots in response to salinity. This gene is expressed in roots in response to salt treatments, but it is not salt-induced in leaves. In leaves, the gene is expressed without a salt treatment. The gene encodes a proline-rich protein with a novel proline repeat, PEPK, repeated more than 50 times. An antibody produced to the PEPK repeat was used to show that the PEPK protein is present in the endodermal cell wall of the root during salt treatments. In the leaves, the protein is also found predominantly in the cell wall and is present mainly in the mesophyll cells. It is proposed that this protein is involved in the maintenance of solute concentration.
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Libby, Margarita H. Business Climate for Competitiveness in the Americas: Simplification of Procedures to Promote Competitiveness. Inter-American Development Bank, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0006894.
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International organizations most often recommend a virtual one stop shop such as the Single Window for Foreign Trade (Spanish acronym: VUCE). This model is undoubtedly the most successful scheme available. This paper presents the general framework for trade facilitation and shows how VUCEs have triggered a new perspective of cohesiveness as countries seek to facilitate trade and influence competitiveness indexes. In addition, it assesses the current situation in countries of the Americas that are starting to or have already taken the first steps in developing a VUCE, such as Costa Rica, Colombia, Mexico, and Chile, and discusses the conditions required to implement a VUCE with the understanding that there is more than one possible model of implementation and every government must choose one that is suitable to its own institutional structure and technological progress. This paper was presented at the Fifth Americas Competiveness Forum for the Inter-American Development Bank and Compete Caribbean Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, October 5-7, 2011.
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Thost, Veronika, Jan Holste, and Özgür Özçep. On Implementing Temporal Query Answering in DL-Lite. Technische Universität Dresden, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.25368/2022.218.
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Ontology-based data access augments classical query answering over fact bases by adopting the open-world assumption and by including domain knowledge provided by an ontology. We implemented temporal query answering w.r.t. ontologies formulated in the Description Logic DL-Lite. Focusing on temporal conjunctive queries (TCQs), which combine conjunctive queries via the operators of propositional linear temporal logic, we regard three approaches for answering them: an iterative algorithm that considers all data available; a window-based algorithm; and a rewriting approach, which translates the TCQs to be answered into SQL queries. Since the relevant ontological knowledge is already encoded into the latter queries, they can be answered by a standard database system. Our evaluation especially shows that implementations of both the iterative and the window-based algorithm answer TCQs within a few milliseconds, and that the former achieves a constant performance, even if data is growing over time.
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McKay, S. Is mean discharge meaningless for environmental flow management? Engineer Research and Development Center (U.S.), 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.21079/11681/45381.
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River ecosystems are highly dependent on and responsive to hydrologic variability over multiple time scales (e.g., hours, months, years). Fluctuating river flows present a key challenge to river managers, who must weigh competing demands for freshwater. Environmental flow recommendations and regulations seek to provide management targets balancing socio-economic outcomes with maintenance of ecological integrity. Often, flow management targets are based on average river conditions over temporal windows such as days, months, or years. Here, three case studies of hydrologic variability are presented at each time scale, which demonstrate the potential pitfalls of mean-based environmental flow criteria. Each case study shows that the intent of the environmental flow target is not met when hydrologic variability is considered. While mean discharge is inadequate as a single-minded flow management target, the consequences of mean flow prescriptions can be avoided in environmental flow recommendations. Based on these case studies, a temporal hierarchy of environmental flow thresholds is proposed (e.g., an instantaneous flow target coupled with daily and monthly averages), which would improve the efficacy of these regulations.
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Bittmann, Felix. Academic track mismatch and the temporal development of well-being and competences in German secondary education. Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1553/populationyearbook2021.res5.1.
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Formal education is one of the most influential predictors of professional success. As parents in Germany are aware of the importance of education, they often try to enable their children to enrol in the prestigious academic schooling track (Gymnasium). This explains why the transition recommendation made by the teacher after the fourth grade is sometimes ignored if the desired track was not recommended for a particular student. How the mismatch between the teacher’s recommendation and the parents’ choice of schooling for their child affects the child’s development is not sufficiently known. It is very likely that such a mismatch can have consequences for the child’s well-being, competences and overall academic success. Based on five consecutive panel waves of German National Educational Panel Study (NEPS) data (waves 1 to 5, collected between 2010 and 2016) (n = 2;790 in wave 1), our analyses demonstrate that social background and the probability of ignoring a teacher’s recommendation are associated, and that highly educated parents are more likely to overrule the teacher’s recommendation. Panel regression models show that pupils who pursued the academic track (Gymnasium) despite the absence of a teacher’s recommendation were more likely to drop out of the academic schooling track, and were not able to catch up with their peers with respect to both objective and subjective academic competences over the entire observation window. However, the models also show that academic track mismatch did not seem to negatively influence the health and well-being of these pupils.
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Bielinskyi, A., S. Semerikov, V. Solovieva, and V. Soloviev. Levy distribution parameters as precursors of crisis phenomena. Видавничий будинок Мелітопольської міської друкарні, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.31812/123456789/3597.
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In spite of popularity of the Gaussian distribution in financial modeling, we demonstrated that Levy’s stable distribution is more suitable due to its theoretical reasons and analysis results. We study the possibility of construction indicators- precursors relying on one of the most power-law tailed distributions - Levy’s stable distribution. Here, we apply moving window based procedure for calculation of Levy’s parameters - a - stability and /?- skewness for daily values of Dow Jones Industrial Average (from 1 March 2000 to 28 March 2019), the gold price (from 1 April 1968 to 8 May 2019) and Brent crude oil price (from 2 January 1986 to 6 May 2019) which show their effectiveness as indicators of crisis states. For the construction of the indicators, were selected time series of and, accordingly, for oil. Dow Jones’ time series has the period from 2 January 1920 to 2019. We conclude that a and /3 parameters of Levy’s stable distribution of the observed assets, which demonstrate characteristic behavior for crash and critical states, can serve as an indicator-precursors of the unstable states.