In this paper, we present what was learned in the research & design process of a decentralized ventilation system with chilled ceilings for a commercial office in Singapore. We make two key observations from the knowledge gathered. First, we observe, in quantitative terms, that present-day radiant cooling panel products may not provide sufficient sensible cooling capacity for commercial offices...

The nonlinear reality structure of the derivatives and the differentials for the euclidean q-spaces are found. A real Laplacian is constructed and reality properties of the exterior derivative are given. On leave of absence from P.N.Lebedev Physical Institute, Theoretical Department, 117924 Moscow, Leninsky prospect 53, CIS This work was supported in part by the Director, Office of Energy Resea...

Taiwan is located in a subtropical region with high temperatures and humidity. Office spaces are air-enclosed rooms buildings, where doors windows remain closed only central air-conditioning system provides temperature adjustment ventilation. Most offices this area have office seating areas, document storage areas on both sides of the office, multi-function devices, which can cause sick syndrom...

'Space and place are central to the strategies and meaning of protest’ (p. xi) reads the opening sentence of Katrina Navickas's latest study, Protest and the Politics of Space and Place 1789–1848. Written, in part, as a response to the 'spatial turn' in History, Navickas makes a cogent and persuasive argument for attending to the importance of the particularities of 'place' rather than the abst...

Abstract In the Netherlands traditionally many employees often did not work at office. The Dutch workforce was a large user of third spaces, especially in libraries and coffee bars coworking spaces. This meant that for most workers switch to working from home during pandemic less substantial than some other countries. These spaces suffer loss clientele (non)commercial had close. are mostly foun...

The risk of long range, herein ‘airborne', infection needs to be better understood and is especially urgent during the COVID-19 pandemic. We present a method determine relative airborne transmission that can readily deployed with either modelled or monitored CO 2 data occupancy levels within an indoor space. For spaces regularly, consistently, occupied by same group people, e.g. open-plan offic...

SETTING The Health Sciences and Human Services Library (HS/HSL), University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB), is located in an urban environment on the west side of downtown Baltimore. Founded in 1813, the library opened its current building in 1998 and is one of the largest health sciences libraries in the United States, with 6 floors and over 180,000 gross square and 118,000 net assignable square...

Localization is a general-purpose representational technique for part i t ioning a problem into subproblems A localized problem-solver searches several smaller search spaces, one for each subproblem Unlike most methods of part i t ioning, however, localization allows for subproblems that overlap 1 e multiple search spaces may be involved in constructing shared pieces of the overall plan In this...

Semantic technologies are prominent for gathering human sensor observations. Linked Data supports sharing and accessing of not just data but also vocabularies describing the data. Human sensor observations are often a combination of natural language and categorizable entries, thus calling for semantic treatment. Space and time serve as natural integrators of data in addition to concepts. In thi...