There has been a long-standing debate about whether urban living is more or less sustainable than suburban living, and quality of life (QoL) is one of several key measures of the social sustainability of residential living. However, to our knowledge, no study to date has examined life satisfaction among residents of downtown high-rise living compared to residents living in suburban low-rise hou...

Over the past several years many issues have come to light that have highlighted the need for improved ventilation in multi unit residential buildings (MURB's). High-rise buildings, for example, are all too often connected with poor indoor air quality. When looking at this issue from the perspective of urbanism and the trend to increasing the density of our urban centres, there is a dramatic ne...

Based on topological analysis, an automatic detection method of residential area change is presented in this paper. Firstly, we demonstrated the importance of extracting residential area in remote sensing images accurately and automatically. Then, it is found that the old vector of the same region even at different time is useful to obtain the train samples. By applying old vector, we classifie...

Spontaneous adsorption of cucurbit[n]uril CB[n] (n=6, 7, and 8) on the surface of naked upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs), in particular, NaYF4:Er3+(2%),Yb3+(18%) gave rise to UCNP@CB[n] exclusion complexes. These complexes proved to be highly stable as well as highly emissive under near-infrared excitation. By using two tricyclic basic dyes (specifically, methylene blue and pyronin Y) as a pr...

In this letter, it is shown that dark energy is contributed by riccion (a particle concept for physical aspect of the Ricci scalar curvature) in a natural way without any input in the theory for it. In contrast to other models, where an idea for dark energy is introduced in the beginning of the theory, here it emerges from the gravitational sector spontaneously. Interestingly, it is found that ...

Aerodynamic testing of low-rise structures is fraught with difficulties that can be the cause of large measurement errors, resulting in the underestimation of aerodynamic pressures by a factor of as much as two. The errors are primarily attributable to the inadequate knowledge and simulation of wind flows affecting low-rise buildings, especially residential homes in suburban environments. A typ...