In this paper, investigation has been carried out for the evaluation of reliability behaviour of a power plant with the aid of Boolean function expansion algorithm. The complex system under consideration consists of four power generators in a power house. The object of the system is to supply power from a power house generated by generators to critical consumers fed from an output main switch a...

The inclusion of spatial correlation of house price in hedonic pricing model may produce better marginal implicit price estimate(s) of the environmental variable(s) of interest. Most applications where a spatial econometric model is applied to the estimation of a hedonic property value model have used either a spatial lag model or a spatial autoregressive (SAR) error model. Incorrect spatial sp...

Home automation has recently gained a new momentum thanks to the ever-increasing commercial availability of domotic components. In this context, researchers are working to provide interoperation mechanisms and to add intelligence on top of them. For supporting intelligent behaviors, house modeling is an essential requirement to understand current and future house states and to possibly drive mo...

The authors focus on spectators’ judgements on the performance quality in opera. The results of a field study conducted in Dessau Opera House revealed the single components (e.g. orchestra) and the congruency components (e.g. congruency between the music and the staging dimension) which contribute to operagoers’ overall quality judgements. Spectators’ individual judgements were found to be high...

The Solar Vector Magnetograph (SVM) is a modern imaging spectropolarimeter installed at Udaipur Solar Observatory (USO). Earlier phases saw the development of the instrument using off-the-shelf components with in-house software development. Subsequently, improvements were done in the opto-mechanical design of the sub-systems and the telescope tracking system. The third phase of the instrument d...

T he pineal gland of house sparrows was one of the first biological clocks believed to act as a circadian pacemaker. This view came from brilliant experimental studies by Menaker and coworkers (1, 2) demonstrating that removal of the pineal gland caused arrhythmic behavior and transplantation of pineal glands into pinealectomized arrhythmic birds restored locomotor rhythms. Takahashi and Menake...

The LaHave House Project explores the creation of an automated architectural design service based on an industrial design approach to architecture in which Architects design families of similarly structured objects, rather than individual ones. Our current system consists of three software components: 1) A design engine that uses shape grammars to generate a library of preliminary level house d...

A statistical model for predicting individual house prices and constructing a house price index is proposed utilizing information regarding sale price, time of sale, and location (ZIP code). This model is composed of a fixed time effect and a random ZIP (postal) code effect combined with an autoregressive component. The former two components are applied to all home sales while the latter is app...

Animal species detection is one of the crucial steps for consumer’s food analysis. In the present study we developed an in-house built loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) assay for rapid detection of adulterated cow DNA in goat milk/meat samples. The cow milk/tissue DNA in goat milk/meat samples were identified in the developed LAMP assay by either naked eye visualizing with SYBR Gree...