Courtyards are a passive strategy to improve the energy performance of buildings. However, accurate simulation courtyards’ thermodynamic in early design stage is still challenging, even though there has been an emergence new methods assess outdoor simulation. This paper tests novel workflow using Ladybug Tools that uses CFD for temperature and comfort courtyards suitable building design, compar...

The authors discuss the differences of envi~onmeats whexe dialogue translation and textual translation systems might be used. The differences are summarized as clear definition of information and active participations of speakers and hearers in dialogue t~anslation. A new approach to MT, interpretation based approach, is proposed to take the advantages of dialogue translation environments. The ...

Among these variables, soil moisture (SM) is one of the most requested ones [1]. This envi‐ ronmental variable is considered important to many ecological processes that occur on Earth's surface, from its relationship to climate events to its importance in terms of water availability for agricultural crops. In fact, it is considered an essential climate variable domain for the Global Earth Obser...

The university campus is an interesting application environment for the ubiquitous computing paradigm: a large number of users share a substantial amount of their information needs and much of this information is directly related to physical objects, places, and people that are situated in the campus environment. We motivate the need for material entry points into a virtual campus that increase...

in other parts of the hippocampal formation (see below), Department of Physiology but here the term “place cell” is reserved for the principal SUNY cells of CA3 and CA1. Health Sciences Center at Brooklyn Functionally, place cells are characterized by locaBrooklyn, New York 11203 tion-specific firing. A given place cell is intensely active only when the rat’s head is in a certain part of the envi-

The study involves segmentation of the image using the three segmentation modules of three software namely ERDAS Imagine, ENVI and eCognition to extract building features. The best parameters for segmenting buildings have been established. New method of evaluation has been presented for evaluating segmentation quality. The results of three segmentation modules are assessed using the proposed ev...