The current practice with building energy simulation software tools requires the manual entry of a large list detailed inputs pertaining to characteristics, geographical region, schedule operation, end users, occupancy, control aspects, and more. While these allow evaluation consumption various combinations parameters, information considering number parameters related design global optimization...

Global climate change is a major threat to biodiversity, posing increasing pressures on species to adapt in situ or shift their ranges. A protected area network is one of the main instruments to alleviate the negative impacts of climate change. Importantly, protected area networks might be expected to enhance the resilience of regional populations of species of conservation concern, resulting i...

Optimal behaviour is one the most desired features of contemporary technological systems. Challenges like secure operation, energy efficiency, and reliable performance call for the optimised behaviour of any systems that operate and interact in our living environment. The challenge in achieving optimised performances resides in the uncertainty that qualifies the environment surrounding technica...

Climate change and urbanization are two major challenges when planning for sustainable energy transition in cities. The common approach demand estimation is using only typical meso-scale weather data building models (BEMs), which underestimates the impacts of extreme climate microclimate variations. To quantify such underestimation on assessing future performance buildings, this study simulates...

This technical report has been submitted for review and possible publication in a journal. Because changes may be made before publication, this document is made available with the understanding that any journal version supersedes this document. Until such journal publication occurs, please cite this work using the above technical report number. Magnetoencephalography (MEG) and electroencephalog...

The importance of molecular electrostatic interactions in aqueous solution has motivated extensive research into physical models and numerical methods for their estimation. The computational costs associated with simulations that include many explicit water molecules have driven the development of implicit-solvent models, with generalized-Born (GB) models among the most popular of these. In thi...

Today, Building Energy Models (BEM) have become essential in regulatory compliance calculations, the correct assessment of it’s Air Conditioning (AC) systems is critical for reduction performance gap between BEMs and reality increase accuracy evaluating buildings energy efficiency. Given that multi-split Variable Refrigerant Flow (VRF) grown market recent years becoming a particular trending so...

In source localization of electroencephalograpic (EEG) signals, as well as in targeted transcranial electric current stimulation (tES), a volume conductor model is required to describe the flow of electric currents in the head. Boundary element models (BEM) can be readily computed to represent major tissue compartments, but cannot encode detailed anatomical information within compartments. Fini...

It rain aging involves rrurofunctiorul, ncurmmtomical, ard lJ ncurochcmical charryes, and thc dynamic inEractions bctwcen thcse lewh (see tlbcza, Nybcrg, and Part, 2005; Lindenberger, Li, and Bickrnan,20(b for rccant rariors). Therc arc about 100 billion nerve cclls in the human brain and eadr of thce rrurons communicatcs with at lcast l,(tr0 other rrurons via synaptic nrchanisrns. Owr 99h of a...

Recently, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are used for many applications, e.g. health monitoring of buildings, factory automation, and energy management systems. For example, in Building Energy Management System (BEMS), numerous sensors are deployed in fields such as office room to observe environmental information, e.g. temperature, brightness, human detection, and so on. The information are g...