House Design Transformation by Short-Term Owners

On auditory-phonetic short-term transformation

In a previous experiment, we showed that the vowel-vowel token [ai] is perceived by adult French listeners as / ai/ for transition durations between the 2 vowels lesser than 200 ms (50% of the response) and as /αΕι/ for larger durations. Recall that the /ai/ formant trajectory in the F1-F2 plane crosses the region of the vowel /Ε/. Further, the 200 ms /αι/-/αΕι/ perceptual boundary can be relat...

Long Term versus Short Term Evolutionary Design

Factors Influencing German House Owners’ Preferences on Energy Retrofits

In this paper, we identify key drivers and barriers for the adoption of building energy retrofits in Germany, which is promoted by public policy as an important measure to address the future challenges of climate change and energy security. We analyze data from a 2009 survey of more than 400 owner-occupiers of single-family detached, semidetached, and row houses in Germany, that was conducted a...

Jay Sethuraman Mechanism Design for House Allocation Problems : A Short

March 16, 2010. You should recently have received a letter concerning a possible change of name for MPS, to “Mathematical Optimization Society”. This issue has been discussed in earnest since ISMP 2009, where it was raised at the Council and Business meetings. Some of you were kind enough to send me your views following the mention in my column in Optima 80. Many (including me) believe that the...

Short-term and Medium-term Gas Demand Load Forecasting by Neural Networks

The ability of Artificial Neural Network (ANN) for estimating the natural gas demand load for the next day and month of the populated cities has shown to be a real  concern. As the most applicable network, the ANN with multi-layer back propagation perceptrons is used to approximate functions. Throughout the current work, the daily effective temperature is determined, and then the weather data w...