cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Advanced simulations of energy demand and indoor climate of a passive ventilation concept with heat recovery and night cooling
Creators: name: Hviid, Christian Anker
name: Svendsen, Svend
name: Hviid, Christian Anker
Publisher: name: 8th Symposium on Building Physics in the Nordic Countries
Year: 2008

description: In building design the requirements for energy consumption for ventilation, heating and cooling and the requirements for increasingly better indoor climate are two opposing factors. This paper presents the schematic layout and simulation results of an innovative multifunctional ventilation concept with little energy consumption and with satisfying indoor climate. The concept is based on using passive measures like stack and wind driven ventilation, effective night cooling and low pressure loss heat recovery using two fluid coupled water-to-air heat exchangers developed at the Technical University of Denmark. Through building integration in high performance offices the system is optimized to incorporate multiple functions like heating, cooling and ventilation, thus saving the expenses of separate cooling and heating systems. The simulation results are derived using the state-of-the-art building simulation program ESP-r to model the heat and air flows and the results show the feasibility of the proposed ventilation concept in terms of low energy consumption and good indoor climate.
Tightening against rain and wind for facades – practical experiences
Creators: name: Bøhlerengen, Trond
name: Gustavsen, Arild
name: Einstabland, Håkon
name: Rolstad, Anna Næss
name: Bøhlerengen, Trond
Publisher: name: 8th Symposium on Building Physics in the Nordic Countries
Year: 2008

description: SINTEF Building and Infrastructure’s archive of building defect assignments represents one of Norway’s most important sources of knowledge on types of process induced building defects and related causes. This knowledge has been thoroughly analysed during the last years. At least 75 % of these defects are related to moisture, and most of the defects are related to moisture from outside the building (for instance wind-driven rain). Earlier, most building defects were related to roofs. However, an analysis of building defects from 1993 to 2002 reveals that the majority of the defects in this period is related to walls and facades. About 30 % of the defects are related to walls, while about 25 % of the building defects are related to roofs.

In 1997 the thermal insulation requirements were restricted. The U-value requirement for walls was set to 0.22 W/m2K. In 2007 new requirement levels were introduced. 0.18 W/m2K was the new requirement for walls. For roofs the U-value was restricted from 0.15 to 0.13 W/m2K. The thermal performance requirement was also restricted for most of the other building sections. The result is a building envelope with more thermal insulation and less transmission heat losses. As a result, outer part of walls on the average has a lower temperature. This leads to reduced drying of built-in moisture and moisture penetrated into the construction from outside. New constructions are therefore more dependent on correct workmanship and solutions built according to sound building physical principals.

Using a two-stage tightening to prevent rain water from entering the construction has been an important principle in Norway for more than 50 years. However, one-stage tightening wall systems are often used. Analyses of the archive of building defects show that these systems are vulnerable considering external moisture often due to insufficient workmanship. This paper presents the results of these analyses with focus on examples showing typical weak points like detailing around openings and in the boundary between materials or construction parts. Alternative solutions which have proved to be more reliable are also presented.
Particulate collector
Creators: name: Matsumoto, Edson
name: Caram, Rosana
name: Catalano, Fernando
name: Matsumoto, Edson
Publisher: name: 8th Symposium on Building Physics in the Nordic Countries
Year: 2008

description: The goal of this work was to manufacture and to analyze a passive device performance (inertial collector). This one has worked as an opening for the inside ambient natural airing and also it retains some particulate material present in the air which passes through it. The collector work has been based in the inertia which each particle has, that is, as the air flow enters through the inertial collector opening it is accelerated due to the reduction in the duct transversal section. As these ducts are made with obstacles forcing the flow direction change, the heaviest particles, by their higher inertia have followed in rectilinear path against the obstacle. In order to check the inertial collector yield particulate material samples have been collected in thin filters (to collect particles up to 2.5 micrometer aerodynamic diameter) and in coarse filters (over 2.5 micrometer) set in sequence. These samplings have been performed in and out the test cell with two inertial collectors installed at opposite sides. After the gravimetric analysis of these filters one checked that the inertial collectors have achieved inside the test cell up to 80% reduction of coarse particulate mass and up to 15% of thin particulate mass.
Complete mapping of interacting charging states in single coupled colloidal quantum dot molecules
Creators: name: Panfil, Yossef E.
name: Cui, Jiabin
name: Koley, Somnath
name: Banin, Uri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Colloidal Quantum Dots (CQDs), major building blocks in modern opto-electronic devices, have so far been synthesized with only one emission center where the exciton resides. Recent development of coupled Colloidal Quantum Dots Molecules (CQDM), where two core-shell CQDs are fused to form two emission centers in close proximity, allows to explore how charge carriers in one CQD affect the charge carriers in the other CQD. Cryogenic single particle spectroscopy reveals that while CQD monomers manifest a simple emission spectrum comprising a main emission peak with well-defined phonon sidebands, CQDMs exhibit a complex spectrum with multiple peaks that are not all spaced according to the known phonon frequencies. Based on complementary emission polarization and time-resolved analysis, this is assigned to fluorescence of the two coupled emission centers. Moreover, the complex peak structure shows correlated spectral diffusion indicative of the coupling between the two emission centers. Utilizing Schrodinger-Poisson self-consistent calculations, we directly map the spectral behavior, alternating between neutral and charged states of the CQDM. Spectral shifts related to electrostatic interaction between a charged emission center and the second emission center are thus fully mapped. Furthermore, effects of moving surface charges are identified, whereby the emission center proximal to the charge shows larger shifts. Instances where the two emission centers are negatively charged simultaneously are also identified. Such detailed mapping of charging states is enabled by the coupling within the CQDM and its anisotropic structure. This understanding of the coupling interactions is a progress towards quantum technology and sensing applications based on CQDMs.
description: 34 pages, 6 figures
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung, unnummeriert.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 08.07.1933, erstellt von Friedrich Buser in der privaten Beobachtungsstation im Prätschli in Arosa
Creators: name: Buser, Friedrich
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1933

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der privaten Beobachtungsstation Prätschli in Arosa. Instrument: 11-cm-Refraktor von Steinheil.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen
description: ETH-Bibliothek
Study of Optimal Extraction Conditions and Antioxidant Activity of Schoutenia glomerata King subsp. peregrina(Craib) Roekm Leaves and Flowers
Creators: name: Srikanlayanukul, Mayura
Publisher: name: Research Administration Division
Year: 2022
Subjects: Yellow star
Extraction conditions
Antioxidant

description: Thai Science and Technology Journal, 30, 3, 90-99
Farm Population Estimates for 1969
Creators: name: Human Resources Branch, Economic Development Division
name: Human Resources Branch, Economic Development Division
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1970
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development
Labor and Human Capital

description: Excerpts from the report: An average of 10,307,000 persons lived on farms in the Nation's rural areas during the 12 months centered on April 1969. This figure is an indicated decline of 147,000 persons since the preceding year. Because the data are based on a sample survey, the chances are about one out of three that a change this size or greater would have been obtained in the survey even if no actual change had occurred. The 1969 farm population comprised about 5 percent of the total U.S. population. Between 1960 and 1969, the U.S. farm population dropped by 34.1 percent. Geographically, the rate of loss ranged from 46.6 percent in New England to a low 27.5 percent in the East North Central States. Aside from New England, the heaviest declines occurred in a belt of States stretching westerly across the South Central part of the Nation into the Mountain Division.
A Symbolic Approach for Counterfactual Explanations
Creators: name: Boumazouza, Ryma
name: Cheikh-Alili, Fahima
name: Mazure, Bertrand
name: Tabia, Karim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper titled A Symbolic Approach for Counterfactual Explanations we propose a novel symbolic approach to provide counterfactual explanations for a classifier predictions. Contrary to most explanation approaches where the goal is to understand which and to what extent parts of the data helped to give a prediction, counterfactual explanations indicate which features must be changed in the data in order to change this classifier prediction. Our approach is symbolic in the sense that it is based on encoding the decision function of a classifier in an equivalent CNF formula. In this approach, counterfactual explanations are seen as the Minimal Correction Subsets (MCS), a well-known concept in knowledge base reparation. Hence, this approach takes advantage of the strengths of already existing and proven solutions for the generation of MCS. Our preliminary experimental studies on Bayesian classifiers show the potential of this approach on several datasets.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung, unnummeriert.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 05.08.1933, erstellt von Friedrich Buser in der privaten Beobachtungsstation im Prätschli in Arosa
Creators: name: Buser, Friedrich
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1933

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der privaten Beobachtungsstation Prätschli in Arosa. Instrument: 11-cm-Refraktor von Steinheil.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen
description: ETH-Bibliothek
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung, unnummeriert.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 12.08.1933, erstellt von Friedrich Buser in der privaten Beobachtungsstation im Prätschli in Arosa
Creators: name: Buser, Friedrich
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1933

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der privaten Beobachtungsstation Prätschli in Arosa. Instrument: 11-cm-Refraktor von Steinheil.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen
description: ETH-Bibliothek
Neapolitan Nights: From Vesuvian Blues To Planetary Vibes
Creators: name: Chambers, Iain
name: Cavallo, Vincenzo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Culture and power - local musicalities - black music – post colonialism - European historicism - heterotopias – narratives and counter narratives.

description: A sonorial cartography of popular music in post-1945 Naples that considers the sounds in terms of culture and power of historicism, postcolonialism, heterotopias and counter narratives.
Moisture transport through a horizontal opening
Creators: name: Vera, Sergio
name: Fazio, Paul
name: Rao, Jiwu
name: Vera, Sergio
Publisher: name: 8th Symposium on Building Physics in the Nordic Countries
Year: 2008

description: Horizontal openings in dwellings, such as staircases, provide large paths for air and moisture transport between floors. They play an important role in the moisture distribution from a moisture-source room to the rest of the house. The phenomenon, however, has only been barely studied. The objective of this work is to study the moisture transport through a horizontal opening under different ventilation strategies, ventilation rates, temperature differences between the upper and lower room, and locations of the moisture source.

The study was carried out in a full-scale test-hut composed of two rooms connected by a large horizontal opening of 1.19m x 0.91m x 0.22 m. The inner dimensions of each room are 3.62m x 2.44m x 2.43m. Moisture was generated for 10 hours at known rates (107±2 and 113±2 g/h in the first and second floor, respectively) followed by 14 hours without moisture generation; the RH and temperatures were measured across both rooms. Different ventilation strategies were studied: no ventilation, net flow up-to-down, and independent ventilation for each room. Also, temperature difference between the two rooms was set between -3.5ºK to 3ºK.

The main results show that moisture exchange between the two rooms starts when the moisture generation begins and two-way airflow exists through the opening. A colder upper room promotes moisture and air exchange between the two rooms even if the net flow is downward. Additionally, it was found that air was not well mixed in each room, thus significant humidity ratio variations were found across each room and between the both rooms, especially when the upper room temperature was higher.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung, unnummeriert.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 28.11.1933, erstellt von Friedrich Buser in der privaten Beobachtungsstation im Prätschli in Arosa
Creators: name: Buser, Friedrich
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1933

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der privaten Beobachtungsstation Prätschli in Arosa. Instrument: 11-cm-Refraktor von Steinheil.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen
description: ETH-Bibliothek
Critical Review of Moisture Balance Models for Indoor Humidity
Creators: name: Glass, Samuel
name: TenWolde, Anton
name: Glass, Samuel
Publisher: name: 8th Symposium on Building Physics in the Nordic Countries
Year: 2008

description: Moisture balance models for indoor humidity have been developed and used by researchers and practitioners for analysis of humidity levels in existing buildings and for generating realistic interior boundary conditions for building design. These models require as inputs the rates of moisture generation and air exchange, indoor and outdoor temperatures, and outdoor humidity, while handling the effect of moisture storage (moisture buffering) with various levels of complexity. This paper provides a critical review of models in the literature, focusing on the following issues: (i) What are the uncertainties in the various input data required, such as moisture generation rates and ventilation rates? (ii) How accurate are the models for real occupied buildings? (iii) How much is gained by various refinements in the models? (iv) What is the likely effect of common HVAC equipment on indoor humidity?
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung, unnummeriert.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 17.08.1933, erstellt von Friedrich Buser in der privaten Beobachtungsstation im Prätschli in Arosa
Creators: name: Buser, Friedrich
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1933

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der privaten Beobachtungsstation Prätschli in Arosa. Instrument: 11-cm-Refraktor von Steinheil.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen
description: ETH-Bibliothek
Boosted decision trees
Creators: name: Coadou, Yann
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Boosted decision trees are a very powerful machine learning technique. After introducing specific concepts of machine learning in the high-energy physics context and describing ways to quantify the performance and training quality of classifiers, decision trees are described. Some of their shortcomings are then mitigated with ensemble learning, using boosting algorithms, in particular AdaBoost and gradient boosting. Examples from high-energy physics and software used are also presented.
description: 46 pages, 12 figures. To appear in Artificial Intelligence for High Energy Physics, World Scientific Publishing, 2022
The Role of Protein Tyrosine Kinase 6 in Prostate Cancer Progression
Creators: name: Alwanian, Wanian
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The intracellular non-receptor protein tyrosine kinase 6 (PTK6, BRK, Sik) is distantly related to SRC family kinases (SFK). PTK6 is part of family of non-receptor tyrosine kinases that also includes FRK and SRMS. Like SFK, PTK6 contains SRC homology domains required for its function; SH3, SH2 and SH1. However, PTK6 does not contain an SH4 domain needed for palmitoylation/myristylation and membrane localization although membrane localization of PTK6 is detected in breast and prostate tumors. Through intramolecular regulation, PTK6 is activated and inhibited by autophosphorylation which may be regulated by interactions with other binding partners. PTK6 promotes oncogenic signaling in breast and prostate tumors. Here, we showed that PTK6 expression is dysregulated in advanced prostate cancer. We characterized a crosstalk between PTK6, SRC and AR in prostate cancer cell lines and identified SRC and AR as new substrates of PTK6. PTK6 directly phosphorylates AR on novel tyrosine residues and induces its activity in a ligand dependent manner. PTK6 also promotes survival and growth of castration resistant prostate cancer cell lines. PTK6 phosphorylates SRC on Tyr416 and promotes its activation. Through SRC activation, PTK6 promotes activation of SHP2-ERK1/2. Inhibition of EGFR with erlotinib results in the inhibition of PTK6, AKT and ERK1/2 in control cells while no apparent change in AKT, SHP2 in cells expressing ectopic active PTK6. These studies provide insights into the complex and unique roles of PTK6 in prostate cancer by regulation of AR and SRC, and stress the importance of PTK6 as a potential therapeutic target in advanced prostate cancer.
Stochastic analysis of moisture buffering in rooms
Creators: name: Carmeliet, Jan
name: Derome, Dominique
name: Guyer, Robert
name: Carmeliet, Jan
Publisher: name: 8th Symposium on Building Physics in the Nordic Countries
Year: 2008

description: This paper presents a stochastic analysis of moisture buffering in a room. The relative humidity in a room depends on the ventilation rate (or supply of air with a different RH and temperature), the moisture production rate and the moisture uptake/release rate by finishing materials, also called moisture buffering. The ventilation rate, the outside vapour pressure and temperature, the moisture production rate are essentially random and can be considered as stochastic variables. In this paper, the moisture transport properties of the surface materials and the surface transfer coefficients are considered to be deterministic.

As a measure for moisture damage risk, referred to as damage indicator, we consider the difference in maximal and minimal relative humidity during a day. Since the inside relative humidity variation can be considered as a stochastic process, the damage indicator is also random and can be described by a cumulative distribution function. As performance criterion in a reliability approach, we can then define a maximum risk of exceeding a limit value for the daily variation in relative humidity.

The cumulative distribution of daily variation in relative humidity depends on the moisture buffering capacity of the surfaces. We found that the moisture buffering capacity of a room is related to the reduction of the moisture damage risk, when comparing a room with and without moisture buffering capacity. As long as the average moisture production rate and ventilation rate are maintained, the moisture buffering capacity seems not to be influenced by the randomness in the stochastic variables. Using a penetration depth model, an average effective surface mass coefficient for the room is defined, taking into account the vapour transport from air to the surface, through paint layer and finally to the active surface material layer. A relation between moisture buffering capacity and effective surface mass coefficient has been demonstrated for a given room, with geometric characteristics, such as the total surface to volume ratio, with a given average ventilation rate and moisture production rate.
Radical and gradual environmental innovations in urban water management - could they be friends?
Creators: name: Hegger, D.L.T.
name: Vliet, B.J.M. Van
name: Mels, A.R.
Publisher: name: DTU Library, Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Wastewater Management
subject: Ecological Sanitation
subject: environmental innovations in urban water
subject: management
subject: socio-cultural aspects
subject: strategic niche management
subject: citizen-participation

description: This paper deals with the socio-cultural aspects of environmental innovations in urban water management, comparing two categories of cases: disconnection of rainwater from the sewage system and Ecological Sanitation. The former is a gradual innovation that has become official policy in The Netherlands. The latter is a radical innovation that has been implemented in several demonstration projects in Western Europe. After studying the cases, it can be concluded that gradual innovations such as disconnection of rainwater in the long run act as a stepping stone for radical innovations such as Ecological Sanitation, not only from a technical, but also from a socio-cultural viewpoint. Traditionally, demonstration projects function as stepping stones for technological change. At least as important as their technological features is the organisation of such projects. Furthermore, the role of the citizen-consumer in the planning phase of projects and the actual use phase of new technologies is crucial. To build trust in technologies, it is required to fine tune new technologies to the needs of citizen-consumers. For a successful use of stepping stones in technological development, there should be deliberate experimentation, not only with different technological solutions, but also with different social constellations.
Using Benthic Macrofauna as Biological Index for Water Resources Quality Assessment in Pasak River, Ayutthaya Province
Creators: name: Natthakitt To-Orn
Publisher: name: Research Administration Division
Year: 2022
Subjects: Benthic macrofauna
Biological index
Pasak river
Ayutthaya province

description: Thai Science and Technology Journal, 30, 3, 33-46
Co-operation of inhabitants and public authorities
Creators: name: Jacobs, E.
Publisher: name: DTU Library, Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Communication
subject: drainage
subject: groundwater
subject: public private co-operation

description: In the Netherlands as a low-lying country, high groundwater tables cause problems in some houses. The actual cause of these problems is different in different cases, but a problem is always that the responsibilities are complex. The official policy is that not only there is a responsibility for the public bodies; also the owners of the houses themselves have a responsibility. From the point of view of the inhabitants however, high groundwater tables are something they cannot influence themselves so it is a public responsibility. The process of co-operation between the municipality of Amsterdam and a group of inhabitants shows the development in a specific case. By informing each other and practical co-operation an atmosphere of mutual trust is growing. But the proof of the pudding will be when real measures have to be taken and both the municipality and the owners have to invest.
Studying the role of named entities for content preservation in text style transfer
Creators: name: Babakov, Nikolay
name: Dale, David
name: Logacheva, Varvara
name: Krotova, Irina
name: Panchenko, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Text style transfer techniques are gaining popularity in Natural Language Processing, finding various applications such as text detoxification, sentiment, or formality transfer. However, the majority of the existing approaches were tested on such domains as online communications on public platforms, music, or entertainment yet none of them were applied to the domains which are typical for task-oriented production systems, such as personal plans arrangements (e.g. booking of flights or reserving a table in a restaurant). We fill this gap by studying formality transfer in this domain. We noted that the texts in this domain are full of named entities, which are very important for keeping the original sense of the text. Indeed, if for example, someone communicates the destination city of a flight it must not be altered. Thus, we concentrate on the role of named entities in content preservation for formality text style transfer. We collect a new dataset for the evaluation of content similarity measures in text style transfer. It is taken from a corpus of task-oriented dialogues and contains many important entities related to realistic requests that make this dataset particularly useful for testing style transfer models before using them in production. Besides, we perform an error analysis of a pre-trained formality transfer model and introduce a simple technique to use information about named entities to enhance the performance of baseline content similarity measures used in text style transfer.
Pollution retention of different permeable pavements with reservoir structure at high hydraulic loads
Creators: name: Dierkes, C.
name: Lohmann, M.
name: Becker, M.
name: Raasch, U.
Publisher: name: DTU Library, Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Stormwater infiltration
subject: permeable pavers
subject: heavy metals
subject: pollution control

description: Permeable pavements for sustainable stormwater management and source control are have been furthered and investigated in Germany for many years. In particular the runoff from streets and parking areas with low traffic densities can be permitted to infiltrate with the aid of concrete pavers with wide joints. But runoff from traffic areas contains pollutants such as heavy metals and hydrocarbons that can endanger the soil and groundwater. Furthermore solids in stormwater runoff bring about clogging. Since clogging is a well known problem, it is not clear how long permeable pavements provide sufficient infiltration capacity and which factors must be considered at planning and construction if a long service life of the systems is to be ensured. Investigations on the hydraulic behaviour and the pollutant transport were carried out on a car park of a sports facility. Parts of the traditional pavement of the car park were reconstructed with trenches covered with permeable pavers. The ratio of impermeable to permeable area is 16:1. The infiltration capacities of the pavers after three years of operation and the water quality along the path from rainwater and runoff to seepage water and groundwater were observed. Additional laboratory rigs were charged with an artificial runoff to determine the pollution retention capacities of different substrates. It is concluded that the system is not satisfactory in respect of its hydraulic behaviour but that it works very efficiently in respect of pollution retention.
Distribution Regularized Self-Supervised Learning for Domain Adaptation of Semantic Segmentation
Creators: name: Iqbal, Javed
name: Rawal, Hamza
name: Hafiz, Rehan
name: Chi, Yu-Tseh
name: Ali, Mohsen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper proposes a novel pixel-level distribution regularization scheme (DRSL) for self-supervised domain adaptation of semantic segmentation. In a typical setting, the classification loss forces the semantic segmentation model to greedily learn the representations that capture inter-class variations in order to determine the decision (class) boundary. Due to the domain shift, this decision boundary is unaligned in the target domain, resulting in noisy pseudo labels adversely affecting self-supervised domain adaptation. To overcome this limitation, along with capturing inter-class variation, we capture pixel-level intra-class variations through class-aware multi-modal distribution learning (MMDL). Thus, the information necessary for capturing the intra-class variations is explicitly disentangled from the information necessary for inter-class discrimination. Features captured thus are much more informative, resulting in pseudo-labels with low noise. This disentanglement allows us to perform separate alignments in discriminative space and multi-modal distribution space, using cross-entropy based self-learning for the former. For later, we propose a novel stochastic mode alignment method, by explicitly decreasing the distance between the target and source pixels that map to the same mode. The distance metric learning loss, computed over pseudo-labels and backpropagated from multi-modal modeling head, acts as the regularizer over the base network shared with the segmentation head. The results from comprehensive experiments on synthetic to real domain adaptation setups, i.e., GTA-V/SYNTHIA to Cityscapes, show that DRSL outperforms many existing approaches (a minimum margin of 2.3% and 2.5% in mIoU for SYNTHIA to Cityscapes).
description: Accepted for publication at Image and Vision Computing
Ascona: Albergo al Lago (Albergo del Lago)
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1944

description: Enthält: 4 Fotografien (innen, aussen). Anzahl Pläne im separaten Plandossier: 3
description: Besitzer: Wwe Annetta Pedrazzi. Architekt: G. Broggini, Ascona
description: Archivalienart: Manuskript, Bildmaterial, Kartenmaterial
Geophysical internal equatorial waves of extreme form
Creators: name: Lyons, Tony
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Primary: 76B55, 76B15, Secondary: 35Q31

description: The existence of internal geophysical waves of extreme form is confirmed and an explicit solution presented. The flow is confined to a layer lying above an eastward current while the mean horizontal flow of the solutions is westward, thus incorporating flow reversal in the fluid.
Feasibility Study in Develop the Rotating Electrodes, Electrostatic Air Cleaner for Removal Particulate Matter from Indoor Air
Creators: name: Visut Asanavijit
Publisher: name: Research Administration Division
Year: 2022
Subjects: Particle
Dust
Rotating Electrode
Electrostatic
Air cleaner

description: Thai Science and Technology Journal, 30, 3, 100-119
San Bernardino: Hotel Victoria
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1944

description: Enthält: 6 Fotografien (innen, aussen). Anzahl Pläne im separaten Plandossier: 9 (10, 1 bei Th. Schmid?)
description: Darin: geblümte Tapete im Zimmer
description: Besitzer: G. Schönenberger; Baujahr: 1889-1890. Architekt: E. & A. Cavadini, Locarno
description: Archivalienart: Manuskript, Bildmaterial, Kartenmaterial
Dynamic Heat Transfer in Large Systems Modeled in the Frequency Domain. Formulation and Implementation in Standard Finite Element Software.
Creators: name: Johannesson, Gudni
name: Lazzarro, Alberto
name: Johannesson, Gudni
Publisher: name: 8th Symposium on Building Physics in the Nordic Countries
Year: 2008

description: The calculation of heat transfer in systems with large thermal inertia in the time domain  is a process that needs  high computer capacity and CPU time. This is the case for problems as two or three dimensional heat transfer to the ground when calculating ground heat loss from buildings and different configurations for ground heat storage. Furthermore a finite difference software based on rectangular elements gives an ineffective element structure resulting in an excessive number of elements and elements with an unfavorable aspect ratio. The strategy chosen in the present work is to use standard finite element software which gives the possibility to use triangular elements and to run different physical models in parallel and with interaction between the models. The use of standard finite element codes also gives instant access to advanced features of pre- and post-processing. From earlier work the formulation of the solution for the heat transfer equation in the for a given in the frequency domain gives the possibility to formulate the problem as two steady state temperature fields, one  for the real and one for the imaginary parts of the temperature oscillation. The different temperature fields are interlinked via the heat source term. In this way the solution time for each frequency will be of the same order of magnitude as for the steady state solution. The modern finite element software gives the user the possibility to create macros or scripts for administration of calculations giving the possibility within the software environment to convert real time data into Fourier series, run the solution for a large set of frequencies and to carry out the inverse transformation of the results to time series. In this way a rational and highly effective calculation technique for this problem area can be reached. The use of the technique is demonstrated for simulation of annual heat and moisture balance for a crawlspace, for building heat loss to the ground and for ground heat storage.
Ascona: Albergo Riposo
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1944

description: Enthält: 6 Fotografien (innen, aussen). Anzahl Pläne im separaten Plandossier: 4
description: Besitzer: Margherita & Eduard Rieder; Erweiterungen: 1931; Handänderungen: 1926/1938. Architekt: G. Broggini, Ascona
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Determining Fall Types and Fall Assessment Measures for People with Osteoarthritis
Creators: name: Kim, Janis Ji Hyun
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Falls are a leading cause of death and disability for older adults in the US. A commonly reported risk factor to falls is the presence of osteoarthritis (OA). People with OA fall at rates 50% higher than older adults without OA. There are currently no fall prevention programs targeting this population. The scarcity of information about the circumstances and consequences of falls experienced by people of OA could be limiting the development of effective fall prevention programs. There is currently no self-report instrument that collects information about the circumstances and consequences of falls that include factors associated with symptoms of OA. Thus, a series of 4 studies were performed to explore the fall experience from the perspectives of people with OA and to create a Fall Assessment Survey for People with Osteoarthritis (FASPO), then utilize this instrument to gather information about the circumstances and consequences of falls. Next, to organize fall information in a standardized and systematic format, a fall classification framework was created to improve the analysis and reporting of falls. Finally, the information gathered was used to determine the types of falls to examine the relationships between types of falls and the following variables: 1) demographic characteristics, 2) personal characteristics that contribute to falls, and 3) self-report measures for pain, function, activity, and balance. Types of falls were categorized based upon the mechanism of instability, e.g., the cause of the fall. Focus group discussions revealed that symptoms of pain and joint issues contributed to falls experienced by people with OA. Cognitive interviews revealed that the FASPO was clear and meaningful and required minimal modification to improve functionality. The fall classification framework was created to categorize falls into the following types: trip, slip, misplaced step, loss of support, and collision. Walking was the most reported activity, slips were the most reported types of falls, only 3 participants reported no injury after the fall, and 63% of participants reported OA symptoms contributed to their falls. Associations were found between personal characteristics and types of falls and self-report measures, but further research is needed to examine the relationships.
Comparison of small- and large-scale wall assembly specimens exposed to similar experimental conditions
Creators: name: Derome, Dominique
name: Saneinejad, Saba
name: Carmeliet, Jan
name: Karagiozis, Achilles
name: Saneinejad, Saba
Publisher: name: 8th Symposium on Building Physics in the Nordic Countries
Year: 2008

description: It is known that solar driven vapor transport inward to vapour open constructions such as wood frame walls with a vapour tight finishing at the inside may occur and may lead to an undesired wetting of wooden elements and gypsum board. Although the origin of this inward vapor transport may be well understood, the quantification of the moisture damage risks remains not well understood, since the effect of material properties and climate on the two-dimensional hygrothermal behaviour of the walls is not yet adequately addressed.

Therefore, a research project, subsidized by ASHRAE TC4.4, studies solar-driven inward vapor flow combining small and large-scale wall assemblies tests under comparable conditions. The objectives of the tests were to produce precise measurements on wetting and drying behavior of internal parts of the back wall, when a wetted masonry cladding is loaded under cyclic temperature loading.  The specimens were composed of: brick veneer, weather resistive membrane (spun-bonded polyolefin), oriented-strand board (OSB) sheathing, glass fiber insulation, gypsum board and interior finish (acrylic paint or vinyl wall covering). The small specimens measured 400 mm and 400mm and the large specimens, 1200 mm on 2400 mm. The small specimens had their brick veneer wetted at 50% saturation, were covered with an aluminum plate and then were subjected to cyclic temperature conditions for a total test period of. The large specimens saw their brick veneer rewetted daily to the same 50% saturation, and then exposed to 8 hours of simulated solar radiation for periods from 3 to 6 weeks depending on the specimens. The loading conditions are quantified to allow comparison. It is found that, due to the temperature gradient, an important vapor flow is generated to the back wall, wetting the OSB sheathing, mineral wool and gypsum board. The vapor permeance of the interior finishing determines the wetting of the gypsum board: a vapor tight vinyl wall covering leads to significant wetting of the gypsum board and very low drying rates during drying. The moisture contents in the gypsum board are compared.

The moisture behavior of small and large tests is modeled using HAM models and compared. The main differences, due to the 3-dimensional effects observed in the large specimens, are demonstrated and explained by convection loops occurring in the insulation.
Ascona: Pensione Seeschloss - Castello
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1944

description: Enthält: 7 Fotografien (innen, aussen). Anzahl Pläne im separaten Plandossier: 3
description: Besitzer: Albin Schumacher; Handänderungen: 1929/1937. Architekt: G. Broggini, Ascona
description: Archivalienart: Manuskript, Bildmaterial, Kartenmaterial
Kolmogorov algorithm for isochronous Hamiltonian systems
Creators: name: Mastroianni, Rita
name: Efthymiopoulos, Christos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a Kolmogorov-like algorithm for the computation of a normal form in the neighborhood of an invariant torus in `isochronous' Hamiltonian systems, i.e., systems with Hamiltonians of the form $\mathcal{H}=\mathcal{H}_0+\varepsilon \mathcal{H}_1$ where $\mathcal{H}_0$ is the Hamiltonian of $N$ linear oscillators, and $\mathcal{H}_1$ is expandable as a polynomial series in the oscillators' canonical variables. This method can be regarded as a normal form analogue of a corresponding Lindstedt method for coupled oscillators. We comment on the possible use of the Lindstedt method itself under two distinct schemes, i.e., one producing series analogous to those of the Birkhoff normal form scheme, and another, analogous to the Kolomogorov normal form scheme in which we fix in advance the frequency of the torus.
Ascona: Pensione Basilea
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1944

description: Enthält: 4 Fotografien (innen, aussen). Anzahl Pläne im separaten Plandossier: 3
description: Besitzer: Erben von Antonio Maspoli; Erweiterungen: 1936. Architekt: G. Broggini, Ascona
description: Archivalienart: Manuskript, Bildmaterial, Kartenmaterial
Hipposideros einnaythu Douangboubpha et al. 2011
Creators: name: Wilson, Don E.
name: Mittermeier, Russell A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Hipposideridae
Hipposideros
Hipposideros einnaythu

description: 71. House-dwelling Leaf-nosed Bat Hipposideros einnaythu French: Phyllorhine des maisons! German: Myanmar-Rundblattnase I Spanish: Hiposidérido de Myanmar Other common names: House-dwelling Roundleaf Bat Taxonomy. Hipposideros einnaythu Douangboubpha et al, 2011, “Kan TharYar Beach, Gwa Township, Rakhine State, Myanmar (17°44’00”N, 94°32’30”E).” Hipposideros einnaythu is in the ater species group. Specimens of this species were previously referred to H. atratus and H.fulvus. Future surveys and revision of museum specimens may prove it to be more widespread than currently known. Monotypic. Distribution. W Myanmar, known only from type locality (Rakhine State) and in Tanintharyi Region (Tharabwin Village, Myeik, and Tanintharyi Village). Descriptive notes. Forearm 39-5—40-3 mm. Noseleaf of the House-dwelling Leaf-nosed Bat is relatively large with rounded anterior leaf. It has one pair of supplementary leaflets. Intemarial septum is distinctly swollen in middle with a narrow, bluntly pointed tip. Pelage is uniformly dark brown dorsally, slightly paler on ventral part. Braincase and sagittal crest are low. Zygomata are slender with moderate dorsal process. Habitat. The House-dwelling Leaf-nosed Bat was originally discovered flying around a bathroom before dusk. Surrounding habitats included a beach, a patch of palm trees, and dense vegetation. Food and Feeding. No information. Breeding. No information. Activitypatterns. All known specimens of this species were collected from human habitation; e.g. a house roof. Movements, Home range and Social organization. One of the specimens was found roosting alone in a human settlement. Status and Conservation. Not assessed on The IUCNRed List due to its recent recognition as a species. This is a rare and very poorly known bat. Bibliography. Douangboubpha, Bumrungsri, Satasook eta/. (2011), Douangboubpha, Bumrungsri, Soisook, Murray eta/. (2010).
description: Published as part of Don E. Wilson & Russell A. Mittermeier, 2019, Hipposideridae, pp. 227-258 in Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 9 Bats, Barcelona :Lynx Edicions on page 254, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3739808
Building-envelope parametric study of thermal energy and thermal exergy values in an office building in a cold climate
Creators: name: Sakulpipatsin, Poppong
name: Sakulpipatsin, Poppong
Publisher: name: 8th Symposium on Building Physics in the Nordic Countries
Year: 2008

description: The exergy concept is useful to pinpoint magnitudes and locations of thermal imperfection occurring through an energy supply chain, and ultimately to reduce primary energy input to the energy supply chain.
This work is to investigate the effects of changing values of some building-envelope parameters to thermal exergy values in a simulated office building. The building-envelope parameters considered are the wall thicknesses, the floor thicknesses, the insulation thicknesses in the walls, the window types and the window sizes. The building to be studied in this work is chosen as a cubic box in order to eliminate the effects in building geometry and orientation. The building operation plans and the occupancy requirements are given according to those in a typical office building in the Netherlands. The building is simulated by using the building simulation tool TRNSYS and the TMY2 weather data of a cold climate in De Bilt, the Netherlands. The study is carried out for the 274th hour (when the calculated hourly thermal energy demand for heating the building is the highest one) and the 4096th hour (when the calculated hourly thermal energy demand for cooling the building is the highest one) of the Typical Meteorological Year. The thermal exergies investigated are the thermal exergy supplied by heating (or cooling) equipments, the thermal exergy gains from infiltration and ventilation, the thermal exergy gain by thermal transmission between the inner surface nodes and environment via the walls, the (convective and radiative) internal thermal exergy gain from occupants and appliances and the solar exergy gains absorbed on the inner surfaces of the building envelope, as well as the thermal exergy accumulated in the building envelope.
Investigation of the effects of the same parametric changes to thermal energy values in the building are also carried out in this work. The results of the thermal energies and the thermal exergies are compared and discussed to what discrepancy between thermal energy analysis and thermal exergy analysis of the building occurs.
Ascona: Albergo Schweizerhof
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1944

description: Enthält: 6 Fotografien (innen, aussen). Anzahl Pläne im separaten Plandossier: 3
description: Besitzer: Frau E. Huber-Weibel; Baujahr: 1890; Erweiterungen 1929/1931; Handänderungen 1926. Architekt: G. Broggini, Ascona
description: Archivalienart: Manuskript, Bildmaterial, Kartenmaterial
Variable eddy viscosities in the atmospheric boundary layer from ageostrophic wind-speed profiles
Creators: name: Lyons, Tony
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 76U05, 34B15

description: We generate explicit height-dependent eddy viscosity coefficients in the Ekman layer from convex wind speed profiles. The solutions we obtain are parameterized in terms of the relative deflection angle between the wind directions at the top and bottom of the flow, as well as the geostrophic wind speed and a velocity scale we interpret as the transfer rate of horizontal momentum in the vertical direction. The solutions may be used to infer the thickness of the Ekman layer for a variety of deflection angles different from deflection angle of the classic Ekman spiral.