The European Commission has mandated the use of digital building logbooks (DBL) to encourage deep energy renovations and overcome barriers in renovations. current performance certificates (EPCs) focus on operational consumption, whereas DBL will cover entire life cycle buildings provide a more comprehensive evaluation buildings, through providing passport rating three domains: performance, sust...

Future adaptations in vehicle design should be linked in some parts to the age-related changes often faced by the older users. The aim of this research is to investigate the multiple age-related changes of Chinese older vehicle users in order to assist designers to better understand current and future older users’ needs. Although qualitative interpretative approaches have rarely been applied in...

Port Lincoln, South Australia is the departure port for the only white shark, Carcharodon carcharias, cage dive industry in Australia. Established in the early 1960’s as a niche tourism venture, the industry has recently undergone a rapid expansion to accommodate greater passenger numbers, more tourism operators, and additional infrastructure aimed at capturing a greater proportion of the touri...

The Alcator C-Mod group has been using an electronic lab notebook based on a relational database since the experiment started in 1991. The software, called logbook, provides a shared lab notebook abstraction for all of the participating scientists. It currently contains more than 37,000 text entries. This application and its underlying database schema are also being used at DIIID and NSTX in th...

A preliminary study on species composition of a Korean purse seine catch landed at cannery was conducted in April 2011. In the cannery, all tuna catch are sliding through a sorting grid panel that filters and drops fish in the buckets by size class (above 9 kg, 3.4-9 kg, 1.8-3.4 kg, 1.4-1.8 kg and below 1.4 kg). In cannery processing, species sorting was made for skipjack and yellowfin tuna onl...

The main target species of Japanese purse seine operating in the tropical waters of the western Pacific Ocean is skipjack tuna (Katsuwonus pelamis) and yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares), which account for nearly 98 % of their total catch in weight and the remaining is bigeye tuna (Thunnus obesus) according to the catch based on logbook data. The recent study of the vertical distribution of the...