Sustainable building design, such as the Passivhaus standard, seeks to minimise energy consumption, while improving indoor environmental comfort. Very few studies have studied air quality (IAQ) in homes outside of Europe. This paper presents particulate matter (PM2.5), carbon dioxide (CO2), and total volatile organic compounds (tVOC) measurements first residential Latin America. It compares the...

In this paper we provide an extension of the Chebyshev orthogonal rational functions with arbitrary real poles outside [−1, 1] to arbitrary complex poles outside [−1, 1]. The zeros of these orthogonal rational functions are not necessarily real anymore. By using the related para-orthogonal functions, however, we obtain an expression for the nodes and weights for rational Gauss-Chebyshev quadrat...

This paper reports "work in progress" on a project which I've titled, "The Spaces of Transnational Cultures". The aim of the project is to build on, but be methodologically different from, my earlier research on the architecture and urbanism of colonial and postcolonial cities in which the principal objective had been to demonstrate the inherently constitutive relationship between the political...

In this paper, we establish the conditional stability of the generalized Jensen functional equation f (ax+by) = ag(x)+bh(y) on various restricted domains such as inside balls, outside balls, and punctured spaces. In addition, we prove the orthogonal stability of this equation and study orthogonally generalized Jensen mappings on balls in inner product spaces.

In this paper, we establish the conditional Hyers-Ulam-Rassias stability of the generalized Jensen functional equation r f ( sx+ty r ) = s g(x) + t h(y) on various restricted domains such as inside balls, outside balls, and punctured spaces. In addition, we prove the orthogonal stability of this equation and study orthogonally generalized Jensen mappings on Balls in inner product spaces.

Wadge reducibility provides a rich and nice analysis of Borel sets in Polish zero dimensional spaces. However, outside this framework, reducibility by continuous functions was shown to be ill behaved in many important cases. We define a notion of reducibility for subsets of a second countable T0 topological space based on the notions of admissible representations and relatively continuous relat...

The rapid urbanization of Chinese cities has been resulting to the degradation of urban residential environments. As a representative of green areas, residential open spaces play key roles to balance the needs for both conservation and development. Traditional ways to observe resident’s behavior mode only by calculating the absolute population count is not perfect. In order to achieve the goal ...