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Adaptations to Climate-Mediated Selective Pressures in Sheep

Following domestication, sheep (Ovis aries) have become essential farmed animals across the world through adaptation to a diverse range of environments and varied production systems. Climate-mediated selective pressure has shaped phenotypic variation and h ...

Oxford Univ Press2014

Ionic Liquid-Sulfolane Composite Electrolytes for High-Performance and Stable Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Jean-David Décoppet, Mingkui Wang, Magdalena Anna Marszalek

Ionic liquid electrolytes are prepared using sulfolane as a plasticizer for eutectic melts to realize highly stable and efficiently performing dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs) in hot climate conditions. Variations in the viscosity of the formulations with ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag Berlin2014

Tool for Design Decision Making: Zero Energy Residential Buildings in Hot Humid Climate

Shady Galal Mohamed Attia

Informed decision-making is the basis for the design of Net Zero Energy Buildings (NZEBs). This paper investigates the use of building performance simulation tools as a method of informing the design decision of NZEBs. The aim of this study was to develop ...

2013

Generation of Weather Files Using Resampling Techniques: An Exploratory Study

Marilyne Andersen, Parag Rastogi

Simulating a building to predict its performance over the course of a full year requires an accurate representation of the stable and representative weather patterns of a location, i.e. a weather file. While weather file providers give due consideration to ...

International Building Performance Simulation Association2013

Bioclimatic Design in Casablanca (Morocco): Decision Support through Building Performance Simulation

Shady Galal Mohamed Attia

In this paper, bioclimatic design strategies in Moroccan architecture have been analyzed for the city of Casablanca. The aim of this study is to enable architects to re-understand the lessons of tradition, because the way towards bioclimatic architecture s ...

2013

Benchmark Models for Air Conditioned Residential Buildings in Hot Humid Climate

Shady Galal Mohamed Attia

This study reports the results of a recent field survey for residential apartment buildings in Egypt. The aim of the survey is to create representative building energy models. Two building performance simulation models are created reflecting the average en ...

2013

Evaluation of models for dermal exposure assessment in farming systems in developing countries

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer

Dermal Exposure Assessment is a crucial aspect within the risk assessment of pesticide use as it may lead to the development and improvement of measures to reduce the health risk of pesticides users. Even though, tools for dermal exposure assessment are av ...

2013

Free Cooling-Aware Dynamic Power Management for Green Datacenters

David Atienza Alonso, Martino Ruggiero, Jungsoo Kim

Free cooling, i.e., directly using outside cold air and/or water to cool down datacenters, can provide significant power savings of datacenters. However, due to the limited cooling capability, which is tightly coupled with climate conditions, free cooling ...

IEEE Press2012

Practical and Policy-Relevant Performance Metrics for Complex Fenestration Systems

Marilyne Andersen

The selection of a fenestration system for a building is critical, as it impacts energy performance, occupant comfort, and ambiance of a space. Complex Fenestration Systems (CFS) address these criteria using a wide variety of novel technologies but are dif ...

2012

New challenges in solar architectural innovation

Christophe Ballif, Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Yves Leterrier, Andreas Schueler, Christian Roecker, Laure-Emmanuelle Perret Aebi, Valentin Chapuis, Patrick Heinstein

Among the century’s main challenges, climate change and the need for energy sources diversification are of great importance. In this context, renewable energies undoubtedly have an important role to play. Photovoltaic (PV) electricity is especially well su ...

2011

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