Urban heat island (UHI) effects can strengthen heat waves and air pollution episodes. In this study, the dampening impact of urban trees on the UHI during an extreme heat wave in the Washington, D.C., and Baltimore, Maryland, metropolitan area is examined by incorporating trees, soil, and grass into the coupled Weather Research and Forecasting model and an urban canopy model (WRF-UCM). By param...

1 In the review, Latash summarizes the many achievements of his group and numerous collaborators in clarifying and experimentally supporting the synergy concept redefined in the framework of the uncontrolled manifold (UCM) concept. This concept is the basis of an effective method of analysing motor actions, including their anticipatory (" feedforward ") aspects and their deficiencies in the cas...

Online users tend to select claims that adhere to their system of beliefs and to ignore dissenting information. Confirmation bias, indeed, plays a pivotal role in viral phenomena. Furthermore, the wide availability of content on the web fosters the aggregation of likeminded people where debates tend to enforce group polarization. Such a configuration might alter the public debate and thus the f...

Street trees are an important driver of street microclimate through shading and transpirative cooling, which key mechanisms for improving thermal comfort in urban areas. Urban canopy models (UCM) with integrated useful tools because they represent the impacts on neighborhood-scale climate, resolving interactions between buildings, atmosphere. In this study, we present results a measurement camp...

—The utility of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs)has promoted the successof virtual campuses. This success has increased the number and complexity of virtual campuses worldwide. The Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) is a big university with a fragmented organizational model, and with a heterogeneous acceptance degree of ICTs.The fast and wide use of the UCM Virtual Campus ...

Use Case Modeling (UCM) has become an essential ingredient of computing courses, as it is widely used in object-oriented analysis and design. Although a simple concept, UCM is not straightforward to teach. We report on our experience gained in teaching students as a part of requirements engineering education at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. Two case studies reveal a number of probl...

The User Requirements Notation (URN) is a standard modeling language that includes two complementary views, one for goals with the Goaloriented Requirement Language (GRL) and one for scenarios/processes with Use Case Maps (UCM). The URN standard, however, does not provide means of checking consistency between the GRL and UCM views, leading to models that are potentially erroneous. This paper pr...

This article introduces the SAS/ETS UCM procedure, which uses structural models to analyze time series data. Structural models provide regression-like decomposition of the response series into latent components (such as trend, seasonal, or other periodic components) and linear and nonlinear regression effects. Apart from the series forecasts, structural modeling provides estimates of these unob...