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ZEMCH: Toward the Delivery of Zero Energy Mass Custom Homes
In this book, leading international experts explore the emerging concept of the zero energy mass custom home (ZEMCH) – designed to meet the need for social, economic, and environmental sustainability – and provide all of the knowledge required for the delivery of zero energy mass customized housing and community developments in developed and developing countries. The coverage is wide rangin…
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- 978-3-319-31967-4
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World Sustainable Energy Days Next 2014 Conference Proceedings
These conference proceedings contain contributions to one of Europe’s largest annual conferences on energy efficiency and renewable energy. From two main fields - biomass and energy efficiency in buildings - contributions offer an insight into the research work and the scientific findings and developments of young researchers from all over the world. The papers were selected by a high-level s…
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- 978-3-658-04355-1
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Air Flow Management in Raised Floor Data Centers
The Brief discuss primarily two aspects of air flow management in raised floor data centers. Firstly, cooling air delivery through perforated tiles will be examined and influence of the tile geometry on flow field development and hot air entrainment above perforated tiles will be discussed. Secondly, the use of cold aisle containment to physically separate hot and cold regions, and minimize hot…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-25892-8
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- XX, 72
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- SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology
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- 333.79 ARG a
Vehicular Air Pollution and Urban Sustainability An Assessment from Central …
This Brief examines the impact of the Oxford Transport Strategy in central Oxford as a means of assessing the effect of reduced traffic congestion in the city centre on its sustainability. Air pollution (from vehicular traffic) has been monitored at three locations in central Oxford on the High Street, St Aldates and St Ebbes (background monitoring station). There is a further monitoring site s…
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- 978-3-319-20657-8
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- VII, 68
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Against All Odds: An Empirical Study about the Situative Pedagogical Ethos of…
It is nearly impossible to overestimate the significance of a professional ethos in pedagogical situations. Most theories of education understand ethos and ethical acting as belonging to the core of the pedagogical profession. Despite this evidence, remarkably few empirical studies exist on ethos. This book has three main aims: 1) to conceptualize the pedagogical ethos at the theoretical level,…
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- 978-94-6209-941-8
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- XVIII, 330
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- Moral Development and Citizenship Education
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- 658 FOR a
FPGA Based Accelerators for Financial Applications
This book covers the latest approaches and results from reconfigurable computing architectures employed in the finance domain. So-called field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) have already shown to outperform standard CPU- and GPU-based computing architectures by far, saving up to 99% of energy depending on the compute tasks. Renowned authors from financial mathematics, computer architecture an…
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- 978-3-319-15407-7
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- 25 b/w illustrations, 47 illustrations in colour
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Green Energy and Efficiency
"Addressing the major issues associated with green energy and energy efficiency, this book examines the economics of energy from the theoretical as well as applied perspectives. It makes a valuable contribution to existing discussion around environment and climate change issues, and provides an analysis of the socioeconomic and policy-oriented aspects of this topic. Each chapter is self-contain…
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- 978-3-319-03631-1
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- XII, 428
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- 621.312\'
Optimization Methods for Gas and Power Markets
As power and gas markets are becoming more and more mature and globally competitive, the importance of reaching maximum potential economic efficiency is fundamental in all the sectors of the value chain, from investments selection to asset optimization, trading and sales. Optimization techniques can be used in many different fields of the energy industry, in order to reduce production and finan…
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- 978-1-137-41296-6
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- XVII, 192
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- Applied Quantitative Finance
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Modern Climate Change Science
Composed of two extensive sections, this book surveys important work in climate change science, mainly in the United States, and introduces contributions to the body of science that have arrived on the scene between January 2013 and February 2014. The opening section offers a broad examination of contemporary climate change science, with subsections on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate …
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- 978-3-319-09221-8
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- XXV, 106
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- SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science
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Monetary Policy and the Oil Market
While oil price fluctuations in the past can be explained by pure supply factors, this book argues that it is monetary policy that plays a significant role in setting global oil prices. It is a key factor often neglected in much of the earlier literature on the determinants of asset prices, including oil prices. However, this book presents a framework for modeling oil prices while incorporating…
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- 978-4-431-55796-8
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