The Japanese government’s setting of mediumterm targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions (cutting emissions by 25% from 1990 levels by 2020), revision of the “Law concerning the rational use of energy” (energy saving law), the international standard (ISO 50001) concerning energy management to be issued this year, and the like are measures that address the urgent need to prevent global warmi...

Building’s energy consumption prediction is a major concern in the recent years and many efforts have been achieved in order to improve the energy management of buildings. In particular, the prediction of energy consumption in building is essential for the energy operator to build an optimal operating strategy, which could be integrated to building’s energy management system (BEMS). This paper ...

In data, bilateral trade is strongly correlated with bilateral GDP comovement. This paper examines whether trade in intermediate inputs explains this empirical fact. I integrate input trade into a many country, multi-sector model and calibrate the model to data on bilateral input-output linkages. With estimated productivity shocks, the model generates an aggregate trade-comovement correlation 3...

Production of high quality seeds in African leafy vegetables has not been practiced due to varying reasons including incorrect harvesting stages and fertilizer rates. Jute mallow (Corchorus olitorius L.) pods do not ripen simultaneously and fruits left to dry on mother plant long before harvesting, which face seed quality deterioration. Timely seed harvesting ensures maximum seed quality attrib...

In Europe, the energy renovation of existing building stock is a great opportunity to significantly reduce consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reach European sustainability targets. this framework, simulations (BES) tools are very useful in verifying retrofit measures' effectiveness compliance with national standards. However, an inaccurate numerical prediction, so-called “performanc...

Building energy modelling (BEM) is crucial for achieving conservation in buildings, but occupant energy-related behaviour often oversimplified traditional engineering simulation methods and thus causes a significant deviation between prediction actual consumption. Moreover, the conventional fixed schedule-setting method not applicable to recently developed data-driven BEM which requires more fl...

Within the wave energy community, hydrodynamic coefficients obtained from boundary element methods (BEMs) are commonly used to predict behaviour of converters (WECs) in response incident waves. A number commercially-available BEM solvers exist, with a open-source alternatives also available. While have an obvious cost advantage compared their commercial counterparts, results such often suscepti...

MEG/EEG source imaging is usually done using a three-shell (3-S) or a simpler head model. Such models omit cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) that strongly affects the volume currents. We present a four-compartment (4-C) boundary-element (BEM) model that incorporates the CSF and is computationally efficient and straightforward to build using freely available software. We propose a way for compensating t...

Abstract Nowadays, building energy models (BEMs) are widely used, particularly in the assessment of consumption buildings to address potential savings that can be generated. The realisation a dynamic model based on high-fidelity physics (white-box models) requires tuning process fit reality, due many uncertainties involved. Currently some research trends try reduce this performance gap by modul...