Energy-savings considerations in manufacturing processes have been drawing a great attention to the designers and manufactures because of the ecological issues, cost-saving pressure, and new environmental legislations. Manufacturing companies have been trying to “produce more with less”, so the improvement of machining and process efficiency for manufacturing is one of the promising solutions. ...

We detect bright [Cii]λ158 μm line emission from the radio galaxy 3C 326N at z = 0.09, which shows no sign of ongoing or recent star formation (SFR < 0.07 M yr−1) despite having strong H2 line emission and a substantial amount of molecular gas (2 × 109 M , inferred from the modeling of the far-infrared (FIR) dust emission and the CO(1−0) line emission). The [Cii] line is twice as strong as the ...

We investigate the existence of the principal-agent (PA) problem in non-government, non-mall commercial buildings in the U.S. in 2003. The analysis concentrates on space heating and cooling energy consumed by centrally installed equipment in order to verify whether a market failure caused by the PA problem might have prevented the installation of energy-efficient devices in nonowner-occupied bu...

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