title: Assisting Inhabitants of Residential Homes with Management of Their Energy Consumption

authors: Kugler, Michael

subjects: residential energy consumption

abstract: Although there are already a range of energy monitoring and automation systems available in the market that target residential homes, mostly with the aim of reducing their total energy consumption, very few of these systems are directly concerned with how those energy savings are actually made. As such, these systems do not provide tools that would allow users to make intelligent decisions about their energy usage strategies, and encourage them to change their energy use behaviour. In this paper we describe a system designed to facilitate planning and control of energy usage activities in residential homes. We also report on a user study of this system which demonstrates its potential for making energy savings possible.

text: Assisting Inhabitants of Residential Homes with Management of Their Energy Consumption Although there are already a range of energy monitoring and automation systems available in the market that target residential homes, mostly with the aim of reducing their total energy consumption, very few of these systems are directly concerned with how those energy savings are actually made. As such, these systems do not provide tools that would allow users to make intelligent decisions about their energy usage strategies, and encourage them to change their energy use behaviour. In this paper we describe a system designed to facilitate planning and control of energy usage activities in residential homes. We also report on a user study of this system which demonstrates its potential for making energy savings possible.

year: 2013

title: On trivial p-adic zeroes for elliptic curves over Kummer extensions

authors: Delbourgo, Daniel

abstract: We prove the exceptional zero conjecture is true for semistable elliptic curves E/Q over number fields of the form F(e²ⁿⁱ⁄ｑⁿ, ∆₁¹⁄ｑⁿ , . . . , ∆₁¹⁄ⁿd) where F is a totally real field, and the split multiplicative prime p ≠ 2 is inert in F(e²ⁿⁱ⁄ｑⁿ) ∩ R.

text: On trivial p-adic zeroes for elliptic curves over Kummer extensions We prove the exceptional zero conjecture is true for semistable elliptic curves E/Q over number fields of the form F(e²ⁿⁱ⁄ｑⁿ, ∆₁¹⁄ｑⁿ , . . . , ∆₁¹⁄ⁿd) where F is a totally real field, and the split multiplicative prime p ≠ 2 is inert in F(e²ⁿⁱ⁄ｑⁿ) ∩ R.

year: 2015

title: Maori preservice primary teachers’ responses to mathematics investigations

authors: Hāwera, Ngārewa

subjects: mathematics

abstract: There has been concern for some years about the low mathematics achievement of Maori students in New Zealand. This case study reports on the responses of 18 Maori preservice teachers to investigative approaches to learning mathematics during their compulsory Year 1 mathematics education course, as a possible aid towards helping improve the achievement level of Maori in mathematics.

text: Maori preservice primary teachers’ responses to mathematics investigations There has been concern for some years about the low mathematics achievement of Maori students in New Zealand. This case study reports on the responses of 18 Maori preservice teachers to investigative approaches to learning mathematics during their compulsory Year 1 mathematics education course, as a possible aid towards helping improve the achievement level of Maori in mathematics.

year: 2006