An expected increase in the use of air conditioning by 2050 will significantly electricity demand and come at a cost to environment. Implementing passive cooling strategies focusing on personal environmental control systems (PECSs) could help address this issue. While numerous studies have investigated positive impact PECSs thermal comfort energy savings, their overall economic benefit has been...

Iran is a country with different ethnicities and religions some negative experiences of conflicts throughout history. It believed that; Sports success factor in the greater convergence country's citizens. This article analyzes ethnic differences Iranian sports fans Islamic cohesion, national identity, perception success. The research was descriptive survey. statistical population all Iranians i...

Despite recent high impacts of disease in the ocean, quantitative studies of diseases in natural marine populations lag far behind terrestrial systems. Transmission processes are poorly known in relatively open marine systems. We studied infection of sea fans Gorgonia ventalina by the fungus Aspergillus sydowii. To assess detectability and mechanisms of secondary transmission of the fungus, we ...

In order to examine the detailed attachment structure held by fans of a talking toy character (Primopuel), the contents of fan letters sent to a toy company were analyzed. Using our content classification system (Matsumoto et al, 2003, 2004), 51 fan letters were analyzed in terms of attachment. Based on the results of factor analysis, we argue that attachment is one of the factors that (a) evok...

Smart building, which delivers useful services to residents at the lowest cost and maximum comfort, has gained increasing attention. HVAC equipment is a particularly expensive and energy consuming of building operation. A variety of emerging information technologies has been adopted. As a result, the concept of “demanddriven HVAC control” is a hot research topic. In this work, we investigated t...

This study explores fans’ identification and enduring involvement of professional baseball in Taiwan; it discusses the research objectives through investigating the relationships with different demographic variables of the subject, such as age, gender, marital status, educational attainment, parenthood status, and monthly income, by the application of questionnaire survey approach. The investig...

We propose a high dimensional classification method that involves nonparametric feature augmentation. Knowing that marginal density ratios are the most powerful univariate classifiers, we use the ratio estimates to transform the original feature measurements. Subsequently, penalized logistic regression is invoked, taking as input the newly transformed or augmented features. This procedure train...