BACKGROUND Dairy goats are commonly housed at a space allowance of 0.7-0.8 m²/goat in commercial Norwegian goat herds, which is very low compared to regulations and recommendations in other European countries. One easy and cheap way to increase space allowance is to allow the animals' access to outdoor area. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of access to an outside enclosure a...

Open-plan office layout is commonly assumed to facilitate communication and interaction between coworkers, promoting workplace satisfaction and team-work effectiveness. On the other hand, open-plan layouts are widely acknowledged to be more disruptive due to uncontrollable noise and loss of privacy. Based on the occupant survey database from Center for the Built Environment (CBE), empirical ana...

In complex electromagnetic (EM) environment, EM field distribution inside a metallic enclosure is determined by the external EM radiation and emissions from internal contents. In the design of an electronic system, we usually need to estimate the EM field level in a concerned region inside the enclosure under various EM environments. In this paper, we use artificial neural network (ANN), rather...

Consider linear systems involving affine-linear dependencies on interval parameters. Presented is a free C-XSC software implementing a generalized parametric fixed-point iteration method for verified enclosure of the parametric solution set. Some specific features of the corresponding algorithm concerning sharp enclosure of the contracting matrix and inner approximation of the solution enclosur...

In this paper, circuital and numerical models of metal enclosure with apertures are considered for the purpose of accurate shielding effectiveness calculation. An improved circuital model is presented to account for the presence of receiving dipole antenna which is often used in practice to measure the level of electromagnetic field at selected points inside the enclosure. Receiving antenna of ...

A method for enclosing solutions of overdetermined systems of linear interval equations is described. Several aspects of the problem (algorithm, enclosure improvement, optimal enclosure) are studied.

The LMS (Least-Mean-Square) algorithm, which can obtain the complex transfer function in real-time, allows the changes of noise characteristics and the environment of system, thereby maintaining the convergence performance. Therefore, many algorithms based on the LMS algorithm have been modified to solve for some practical considerations, and the FXLMS (Filtered-X LMS) algorithm has been widely...