This paper is about the merging of two software applications that allows building decision makers to consider code compliance and to use performance simulation tools from the early, schematic phases of building design. By making the capabilities of a code compliance tool available at the early schematic phases of building design, the hope and expectation is that users will use this software to ...

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The earlier concern was sparked by a paper by Mankiw and Weil (1989), in which the authors famously predicted that between 1987 and 2007, real house prices could fall by 3% per year. In fact, real house prices grew by an average of 31/2% per year from 1987 to 2004. Of course, the MankiwWeil prediction may yet come to pass; or it may have already occurred and simply been masked by the surge in d...

In China, 260 million people migrate to cities to realize their urban dreams. Despite that these migrants play an important role in the rapid urbanization process, many of them fail to settle down and eventually leave the city. The integration process of migrants thus raises an important issue for scholars and policymakers. In this paper, we use Shanghai as an example to investigate migrants’ b...

Time-domain eoders use long-term predietors to exploit the quasiperiodie strueture of voiced speech. However, one major drawbaek with classical predictors is the restriction of the delay to integer values, reducing the performance especially when the pitch period is short. This paper presents an extension of the prediction technique to encompass non-integer delays enabling more aeeurate represe...

This study utilized energy simulation in support of a forensic pathology time of death analysis for a corpse discovered in a single family residence two years prior to the study. In order to produce an accurate estimate of the interior temperature profile at the time of death, a thermal model was constructed using EnergyPlus and calibrated using environmental monitoring data from the site. The ...

The prediction of protein structure is an important problem in molecular biology. It is also a diicult problem since the available data are incomplete and uncertain. This paper describes models for the prediction of a particular level of protein structure, known as the topology, which handle uncertainty in a qualitative fashion.