bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
A survey-based approach used to analyse the indoor satisfaction and productivity level of user in smart working during lock-down due to the COVID-19 pandemic
Authors: Salamone Francesco , Belussi Lorenzo , Danza Ludovico , Meroni Italo 
Published: November 2021

Abstract
Italy was the first country in Europe to enter lock-down due to COVID-19 pandemic. Most employees have been forced to adopt a work at home solution to avoid any possibility of spreading the virus. The article presents the results of a survey carried out in March-June 2020, during the first lockdown in Italy, aimed at investigating how people perceive the Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) of their households during working from home. The questionnaire consists in a general section reporting information about participant, households and rooms where they perform the working activities; a specific section reporting feedbacks on each IEQ aspects (thermal, visual comfort, air and acoustic quality), overall comfort, productivity and other external variables that can affect users’ well-being during working hours. A total of 330 participants from all over the Italian territory signed the consent to participate in the survey over a period of about 3 months. The dataset was used to define the global level of satisfaction, perception, preference and interference with work at home, considering the main indoor environmental factors. The Machine Learning (ML) approach was applied to identify the most useful model to predict the overall comfort satisfaction.
Electricity demand flexibility potential of optimal building retrofit solutions
Authors: Thrampoulidis Emmanouil , Orehounig Kristina , Hug Gabriela 
Published: November 2021

AbstractSwiss buildings, the majority of which will last beyond 2050, are responsible for a large share of energy demand and greenhouse gas emissions. Hence, building retrofit is considered as one of the most promising approaches to reduce those shares. However, reducing the energy load should not be an end in itself. The continuous integration of intermittent power sources in the electricity grid imposes new challenges to the supply-demand problem that might directly affect the retrofit process and vice-versa. Therefore, this paper aims to develop a model to analyze the demand flexibility potential of optimal retrofit solutions. Co-simulation and a rolling horizon approach are used to derive upper and lower electricity consumption profiles given some temperature comfort bands. Within those electricity bands, the feasible area provides insights on the extent by which the electricity consumption can be shifted within the comfort constraints. The method is applied to a building archetype. Results show that when the comfort constraints are relaxed the feasible area increases, e.g., up to five times for the case of enhancing the roof insulation, while building retrofit influences the electricity bands. Such a method could enhance the retrofit process and address both the emissions’ and the supply-demand balancing problem.
Effect of thermal mass of insulated and non-insulated walls on building thermal performance and potential energy saving
Authors: Haj Hussein M , Monna S , Juaidi A , Barlet A , Baba M , Bruneau D 
Published: November 2021

Abstract
The presented study aims to evaluate the effect of thermal mass in heavyweight construction in residential buildings in Palestine on indoor thermal environment using a building performance simulation tool. The most used residential building types, shapes and sizes were used as typical models for indoor environment performance simulation. The paper used a sensitivity analysis for four different scenarios according to the location of thermal insulation in the wall for two climatic zones, when no heating and cooling was used. The building material’s thermal properties, infiltration, activities, time schedule, electric lighting and glazing selection were based on onsite studies. The results show that the internal thermal mass of the studied buildings influences their thermal performance and future potential energy demand for heating and cooling. Buildings with insulation positioned on the outside, with high thermal mass and high thermal time constant showed the best thermal performance for different climatic zones, whereas buildings without thermal insulation or with insulation from the inside showed the worst thermal performance. The position of thermal insulation will affect potential energy demand for heating and cooling in the residential buildings.
Cost optimal energy retrofit strategies for public administrative buildings: A Cairo case study
Authors: Hamada A , Raslan R , Mumovic D 
Published: November 2021

Abstract
The Egyptian government is currently constructing a new governmental quarter in the New Administrative Capital City, located east of Cairo. A planned relocation for all ministerial authorities to the New Capital City will leave a vacant governmental estate in Cairo. The study of the energy retrofit options provides a unique opportunity to reduce energy use and maximize the benefit from the anticipated investment in the re-use to be implemented within this stock. However, energy retrofit was found to be under-researched in the Egyptian context. This paper presents a pilot study that aims to identify cost optimal retrofit strategies for one of the soon to be vacated buildings, the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS). Using DesignBuilder, an energy modelling study was implemented to estimate the existing performance of the building, assess the projected performance after a change of use (to an office building), and evaluate the cost optimality and the savings associated with the application of retrofit measures. The study found that the feasibility of implementing retrofit can be significantly offset by the discount rates in Egypt. As such, maintaining economic stability and considering non-economic incentives can be key drivers to increasing the energy retrofit uptake in Egypt.
Should biogenic carbon be analysed separately in the calculation of the GWP indicator?
Authors: Hoxha Endrit , Passer Alexander 
Published: November 2021

Abstract
The life cycle assessment method is widely accepted for calculating the environmental impacts of buildings. However, the approaches used to translate greenhouse gas emissions to a global warming potential score are largely criticised. By following a static approach (known as 0/0) and a time-dependent approach (known as dynamic) in this paper, we assessed the environmental impacts of two buildings with structures made of reinforced concrete and wood, respectively. The relative difference between the results calculated with the 0/0 approach and the time-dependent approach were larger for the building with the wooden structure. A more detailed analysis identified biogenic carbon as the source that was most responsible for this difference in results. For this reason, biogenic carbon should be treated separately and must be calculated with the time-dependent approach. Meanwhile, the impacts from fossil energy sources should be calculated with the 0/0 approach.
Adapting residential envelope assemblies for full circularity
Authors: Mayer Matan 
Published: November 2021

Abstract
Residential external wall assemblies are among the key contributors to embodied carbon emissions in the building industry. Their design, however, is still largely oriented towards linear consumption trajectories of extraction-use-waste. Within this context, this paper investigates how established material recovery potential assessment metrics could be used to inform design decisions aimed at improving circularity in buildings. A redesign of a typical timber frame assembly is presented and its material recovery performance is compared to standard systems. Results show a 35%-47% improvement in material recovery potential.
Deriving global carbon budgets for the Swiss built environment
Authors: Priore Y D , Jusselme T , Habert G 
Published: November 2021

Abstract
In order to limit global warming, remaining carbon budgets have been defined by the IPCC in 2018. In this context translating global goals to local realities implicates a set of different challenges. Standardized methodologies of allocation can support a target-cascading process. On the other hand, local strategies and norms are not currently designed to directly respond to limited carbon budgets in a 2050 horizon. The life cycle assessment of buildings implicates an intricate cross-industry and cross-border carbon accounting. For these reasons, effective and aligned carbon targets are needed to support and guide all actors in the construction sector. This research aims at addressing these challenges by developing a new methodology of allocation of a global carbon budget at different scales using the Swiss built environment as a case study. This approach allows the assessment of current best practices in regards to limited carbon budgets. Results show misalignment of global goals with current practices at all levels and present the magnitude of effort that would be required to have a chance to limit global warming to 1.5°C.
Design for Disassembly (DfD) in construction industry: a literature mapping and analysis of the existing designs
Authors: Ostapska Katarzyna , Gradeci Klodian , Ruther Petra 
Published: November 2021

Abstract
A systematic search of scientific literature on the topic of Design for Disassembly (DfD) in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry was performed with a special focus on study cases. The results were augmented by electronic magazine search due to the non-representative amount of data found in the scientific database. Results show the domination of wood and steel solutions among architects and engineers designing for disassembly. Frame structural system is preferable. DfD structures are mainly located in Europe but observed in the whole world and growing exponentially since 90'. The database with 117 built DfD study cases is made available online and will be further developed.
Optimization of photoluminescent materials for lighting energy saving in the built environment
Authors: Chiatti C , Fabiani C , Pisello A L 
Published: November 2021

Abstract
In the last decades, fossil fuels have become the primary resource for electricity generation, contributing to the aggravation of problems like global warming and ozone depletion. For this reason, innovative solutions are being continuously developed in order to improve energy efficiency in the construction sector. Beyond heating and cooling, urban lighting plays a significant role on the final energy consumption of a city, including both indoors and outdoors. In this work, photoluminescent materials are investigated as possible light sources to be implemented in urban lighting systems, focusing on the free-cost and renewable luminous gain they provide after being exposed to a proper radiation. In particular, commercially available photoluminescent powders are evaluated by means of spectroradiometric techniques and using a specifically designed experimental setup. Measurements are repeated for different intensities and wavebands of irradiation to identify the most promising “pigment-lamp” combination in terms of (i) luminous intensity and (ii) photoluminescence duration. Results show that the shorter the distance between the emission spectra of the exciting source and the photoluminescent powder, the better the performance of the latter. Therefore, the choice of both afterglow and exciting source cannot be independent from the final system’s application and the required end-use lighting level.
Subjective assessment of visual comfort in a daylit workplace with an electrochromic glazed façade
Authors: Jain S , Karmann C , Wienold J 
Published: November 2021

Abstract
Electrochromic (EC) glazing is increasingly employed in building façades to achieve better visual comfort for the occupants. EC glazing can modulate the light entering through the façade by varying the solar transmittance of the glass and therefore can work as a shading strategy to minimize solar heat gains or glare. However, it also alters the spectrum and distribution of light entering through the façade, which influences certain visual attributes associated with a space. This user assessment study evaluates some of these attributes including the colour perception of the elements inside and outside the room, the uniformity of daylight distribution, the clarity of the view through the glazing and the perception of glare when the sun is in the field of view. Results indicate a visual transmittance (τv) of 0.6% is sufficient to control glare when the sun is in the peripheral field of view (FOV) while τv,n-n of 0.14% is required to control glare when the sun is close to the central FOV. Most of the participants did not perceive the colours of outdoor environment as natural when seen through EC glazed window. The majority of participants also desired to change the glazing configuration by adding an additional shading device.
Reconstruction of some cosmological models from the deceleration parameter
Authors: Beesham Aroonkumar 
Published: November 2021

Abstract
Since the discovery of the late-time acceleration of the universe, researchers are still trying to fnd an explanation for it. This is regarded as the most important unsolved problem in cosmology today. The most favoured explanation is dark energy, an unknown or exotic form of matter with negative pressure. One may argue that particle physics may provide the answer in time. Currently, the LambdaCDM model is regarded as the best model. Although this model is reasonably successful and widely accepted, there is growing interest in looking at alternatives. Some of the reasons for this are the fne-tuning, coincidence, infationary paradigm and cosmological constant problems, and whether general relativity is valid on large scales. One focus in trying to understand dark energy is to assume some form of the scale, Hubble or deceleration parameter (or some other reasonable assumption), and then to see how well the model fts in with current observations. This approach is broadly called reconstruction. In this talk, we focus on the deceleration parameter. We provide a brief review of the various forms of the deceleration parameter that have been employed in the past in cosmology, and then focus on some particular forms of interest which have drawn some attention. We note that it is most worthwhile to study alternative dark energy and dark gravity models in order to fully understand the entire space of possibilities.
Estimating the Chirp Mass of Eccentric Inspiraling Binary Systems from Time-Frequency Representations of their Gravitational Radiation
Authors: Pinto Innocenzo M 
Published: November 2021

Abstract
Using the simplest yet meaningful Peters-Mathews model describing the orbital damping of a compact binary system under the emission of gravitatonal radiation, we show that the chirp-mass of an eccentric inspiraling binary, and its (Keplerian) orbital eccentricity at some reference time, can be estimated from the time-frequency skeleton of its gravitational wave signal. The estimation algorithm is nicely simple, and is robust against the non-ideal (non Gaussian, non stationary) features of detector noise.
Optimization of the Euro-Asian network of gravitational detectors for detecting the radiation of collapsing objects
Authors: Rudenko V , Andrusenko S , Krichevskiy D , Manucharyan G 
Published: November 2021

Abstract
A Euro-Asian network of four gravitational-wave (GW) interferometers is considered, taking into account the plan to create such a detector in Novosibirsk. The efficiency of the network is assessed by typical numerical criteria, which also depend on the characteristics of the received signal. In this work, we calculate the optimal orientation of the Novosibirsk detector for the problem of detecting GW radiation accompanying the collapse of the progenitor star with an initial angular momentum. The specificity of the scenario is the presence of the so-called. bar stage deformation, for which the shape of the emitted GW signal is known.
Pulsar: physical generalization of the galactic time-space
Authors: Avramenko A E 
Published: November 2021

Abstract
The article considers a complex of geometric representations of space-time, based on general dynamic theories of celestial mechanics in close connection with pulsar astrometry as the physical basis of coordinate-time transformations within the solar system and galactic space as a whole. The pulsar time scale is considered as a certain material system with continuous and stable motion, representing a certain measurable parameter – the rotation period P, which changes as a function of the independent time variable – its derivative. The physical pulsar scale is a sequence of measured daily increments of the initial radiation period within any duration. According to observations at the BSA radio telescope (Pushchino) of the pulsar B0950+08, the time scale was determined with an initial period of P0=0.2530653211840410 s on the date MJD0 = 58971 (02.05.2020; 21h.58m.07s). A measured daily increment ΔP = 1.4441·10E-11 s corresponds to the measured value of the derivative P = 1.6759949886E-16, which is determined by the observational timing data. Measured ΔP are defined in the 25th decimal place. Up to 14-15 digits, Δ P there is a pulsar time scale with femtosecond resolution. From 15-16 to 25 digits Δ P is presumably sequential fixation of discrete states of microparticles during quantum-mechanical interactions of matter and electromagnetic radiation of a pulsar. According to our hypothesis, the diversity of the material world and physical processes occurring in celestial and quantum mechanics are finite and it can be generalized. This implies the inseparable unity of physical laws in four-dimensional space of celestial and quantum mechanics, detectable on pulsar time scales under the same conditions.
On the Schwarzschild solution in TEGR
Authors: Emtsova E D , Krššák M , Petrov A N , Toporensky A V 
Published: November 2021

Abstract
Conserved currents, superpotentials and charges for the Schwarzschild black hole in the Teleparallel Equivalent of General Relativity (TEGR) are constructed. We work in the covariant formalism and use the Noether machinery to construct conserved quantities that are covariant/invariant with respect to both coordinate and local Lorentz transformations. The constructed quantities depend on the vector field ξ and we consider two different possibilities, when ξ is chosen as either a timelike Killing vector or a four-velocity of an observer. We analyze and discuss the physical meaning of each choice in different frames: static and freely falling Lemaitre frame. Moreover, a new generalized free-falling frame with an arbitrary initial velocity at infinity is introduced. We derive the inertial spin connection for various tetrads in different frames and find that the “switching-off” gravity method leads to ambiguities.
Including precision clocks into space-based net as gravitational antennas
Authors: Izmaïlov G N , Ozolin V V 
Published: November 2021

Abstract
Here we propose to use a precision clock in a space-based ultra-precise clock network to register sources of low-frequency gravitational waves of cosmic origin in the range of 10-3 ÷ 0.1 Hz. We also show that the method of comparing clocks at inland and intercontinental distances (very long baseline interferometry), originally developed for radio astronomy and geodesy, can be used as a prototype method for recording gravitational waves. Estimates of the measurement accuracy are given. An analyse of precise clocks possibilities for experimental estimates for rotation parameter of Gödel universe and GW recordings is offered, which in particular opens up the prospect of registering circularly polarized gravitational waves. Some new problems of small time intervals registration from general relativity, thermodynamics and quantum mechanics points of view are discussed.
Constrains on an uniform model for Dark Matter and Dark Energy
Authors: Izmaïlov G N 
Published: November 2021

Abstract
In this paper, outlined some of the most important concepts about Dark Matter and methods of their registration, in particular by using SQUIDs, a toy uniform model for Dark Matter and Dark Energy is analyzed. In the frame of the model Dark Matter particles is interpreted as excitations of Dark Energy field. Some constrains are considered. The devices based on SQUID, in particular the SQUID-paramagnetic absorber and the SQUID-magnetostrictor systems, both suitable for investigations of above problems, are considered. Estimates, are carried out within this model, indicate the possibility of experimental detection of the “ether wind” pressure, created by the non-corpuscular incoming flow, corresponding to the galactic orbital motion of the Earth.
Gravitational Radius in view of Existence and Uniqueness Theorem
Authors: Meierovich Boris E 
Published: November 2021

Abstract
Talking about a black hole, one has in mind the process of unlimited self-compression of gravitating matter with a mass greater than critical. With a mass greater than the critical one, the elasticity of neutron matter cannot withstand gravitational compression. However, compression cannot be unlimited, because with increasing pressure, neutrons turn into some other “more elementary” particles. These can be bosons of the Standard Model of elementary particles. The wave function of the condensate of neutral bosons at zero temperature is a scalar field. If instead of the constraint det gik < 0 we use a weaker condition of regularity (all invariants of the metric tensor gik
are finite), then there is a regular static spherically symmetric solution to Klein-Gordon and Einstein equations, claiming to describe the state to which the gravitational collapse leads. With no restriction on total mass. In this solution, the metric component grr
changes its sign twice: g
rr (r) = 0 at r=rg
and r=rh > rg
. Between these two gravitational radii the signature of the metric tensor gik
is (+, +, -, -). Gravitational radius rg
inside the gravitating body ensures regularity in the center. Within the framework of the phenomenological model “λψ4
”, relying on the existence and uniqueness theorem, the main properties of a collapsed black hole are determined. At r = rg
a regular solution to Klein-Gordon and Einstein equations exists, but it is not a unique one. Gravitational radius rg
is the branch point at which, among all possible continuous solutions, we have to choose a proper one, corresponding to the problem under consideration. We are interested in solutions that correspond to a finite mass of a black hole. It turns out that the density value of bosons is constant at r < rg. It depends only on the elasticity of a condensate, and does not depend on the total mass. The energy-momentum tensor at r ⩽ rg corresponds to the ultra relativistic equation of state p = ɛ/3. In addition to the discrete spectrum of static solutions with a mass less than the critical one (where grr
< 0 does not change sign), there is a continuous spectrum of equilibrium states with grr(r) changing sign twice, and with no restriction on mass. Among the states of continuous spectrum, the maximum possible density of bosons depends on the mass of the condensate and on the rest mass of bosons. The rest energy of massive Standard Model bosons is about 100 GeV. In this case, for the black hole in the center of our Milky Way galaxy, the maximum possible density of particles should not exceed 3 × 1081 cm-3.