Previous work has identified that providing real time feedback or interventions to consumers can persuade consumers to change behaviour and reduce domestic electricity consumption. However, little work has investigated what exactly those feedback mechanisms should be. Most past work is based on an in-home display unit, possibly complemented by lower tariffs and delayed use of non-essential home...

OBJECTIVE Aspiration of bronchial wash fluid is commonly used in conjunction with brushing and forceps biopsy to diagnose endoscopically visible lung cancer. However, the optimal sequence of these procedures is subject to debate. The objective of this study was to determine if the order in which bronchial washing is performed relative to bronchial brushing and forceps biopsy has any effect on t...

The water conservation campaigns in residential households are hindered by the poor understanding of residents of how much water they use. For the better designed interventions new tools are necessary to educate the consumers on the water usage of different consumption events. In this paper we use the fine grained (0.5 Hz) water consumption data that was collected nonintrusively in a household ...

The application of water washing technology for recycling an organic composite solvent consisting of hexane and pentane (4:1; TU-A solvent) was investigated for extracting total petroleum hydrocarbons (TPH) from contaminated soil. The effects of water volume, water temperature, washing time and initial concentration of solvent were evaluated using orthogonal experiments followed by single facto...

The application of process control automation software for the recycle of peroxide bleaching rinse water to fabric scouring on a continuous preparation range is presented. Analytical data taken on wastewater samples document operating conditions of the preparation range and the quality of the recycle water. An economic analysis of the recycle process and the cost of range modifications to insta...

This paper describes the participation of the TUB-IRML group to the MediaEval 2014 Visual Privacy task. We present a method for privacy protection of individuals in surveillance videos. In order to achieve this, our method obscures both shape and appearance of identity-related regions through blurring and color remapping. The intelligibility is preserved by displaying edges and anomalous events...