THE LEED-COMMERCIAL INTERIORS (V4) PROJECTS IN CALIFORNIA

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 57-72
Author(s):  
Svetlana Pushkar
Keyword(s):  
Green Building ◽  
Nonparametric Tests ◽  
Indoor Environmental Quality ◽  
Positive Correlation ◽  
Low Level ◽  
Impact Reduction ◽  
Environmental Product Declarations ◽  
The Difference ◽  
High Level ◽  
Building Standards

ABSTRACT This study analyzed the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for Commercial Interior Certified, Silver, and Gold projects version 4.0 (LEED-CIv4) in California for the period 2015‒2020. Nonparametric tests were used to assess category and credit achievement, i.e., the difference between possible and achieved points and the correlation between associated credits. The results show that most of the credits in the location and transportation category and the indoor environmental quality categories had a high level of achievement, a few credits in the energy and atmosphere and materials and resources categories had a high level of achievement, and all of the credits in the water efficiency category had a low level of achievement. Some associated credits, such as surrounding density and quality transit, had a high level of achievement and a positive correlation, whereas other associated credits, such as life-cycle impact reduction and environmental product declarations, had a low level of achievement and a positive correlation. If LEED-CIv4 credits meet the requirements of the California Green Building Standards Code 2016 (CGBSC 2016), then these credits typically have a medium/high level of achievement. If LEED-CIv4 credits exceed the requirements of CGBSC 2016, then these credits have a low level of achievement. Therefore, to improve the next version of LEED-CI, it is necessary to improve the local green codes.

scholarly journals Static Profiling of Assembly Code Performance and Optimization Effectiveness using Instructions Performed and Program Latency

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2S8) ◽  
pp. 1463-1468
Keyword(s):  
Assembly Language ◽  
Optimization Method ◽  
Program Optimization ◽  
Low Level ◽  
Code Performance ◽  
Execution Speed ◽  
The Difference ◽  
And Performance ◽  
High Level ◽  
Optimization And Performance

Software program optimization for improved execution speed can be achieved through modifying the program. Programs are usually written in high level languages then translated into low level assembly language. More coverage of optimization and performance analysis can be performed on low level than high level language. Optimization improvement is measured in the difference in program execution performance. Several methods are available for measuring program performance are classified into static approaches and dynamic approaches. This paper presents an alternative method of more accurately measuring code performance statically than commonly used code analysis metrics. New metrics proposed are designed to expose effectiveness of optimization performed on code, specifically unroll optimizations. An optimization method, loop unroll is used to demonstrate the effectiveness of the increased accuracy of the proposed metric. The results of the study show that measuring Instructions Performed and Instruction Latency is a more accurate static metric than Instruction Count and subsequently those based on it.

Some results of an experiment to compare ley and arable rotations at Woburn

1958 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 297-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. H. Mann ◽  
D. A. Boyd
Keyword(s):  
Farmyard Manure ◽  
Potato Yield ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Average Effect ◽  
Potato Root ◽  
Winter Cereal ◽  
Arable Crops ◽  
Low Level ◽  
The Difference ◽  
High Level

The effect of short leys and arable cropping on the yields of the following arable crops has been tested since 1937 at Woburn Experimental Farm, Bedfordshire. The leys were a 3-year grazed ley and 3 years of lucerne cut for hay and the arable cropping was potatoes, winter cereal and either a 1-year ley or a third tillage crop. The effects of these crop sequences were measured by test crops of potatoes and barley, uniformly treated except that 15 tons farmyard manure was applied on one-half of each plot for potatoes.Without farmyard manure, the yield of potatoes after the grazed ley was higher than after three tillage crops by an average of about 3 tons per acre; after lucerne it was about 2 tons per acre more than after the tillage crops and after the 1 -year ley under 1 ton per acre more. With farmyard manure the benefit from leys was less (about 2 tons per acre for both lucerne and the grazed ley). The average effect of the farmyard manure was about 2·8 tons except after the grazed ley, where the increase was only 1·6 tons per acre.Effects of the previous cropping on the yield of barley were small in the early years of the experiment, but in the last 5 years the yield after ley and lucerne has exceeded that after the tillage crops by about 15%.Part of the difference in potato yield between the ley and arable sequences can be attributed to the differential incidence of potato-root eelworm, which has reached a high level of infestation on some of the arable plots. Much of the remainder may be ascribed to the low level of basal manuring which has affected the yield of all plots, but particularly those under tillage crops. How far the observed differences can be explained by these considerations remains a matter for speculation, but may to some extent be clarified when further results are obtained from a revised scheme of cropping and manuring.

scholarly journals Academic Performance as a Function of Level of Aspiration & Gender – A Comparative Study amongst Different Streams of Education

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anshu Paliwal ◽  
Dr. Nanda Rathi
Keyword(s):  
Academic Performance ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Low Achievers ◽  
Low Level ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The Difference ◽  
High Level ◽  
Age Range ◽  
Level Of Aspiration ◽  
Better Than

The present study examines the level of aspiration of students belonging to different streams of education and its impact on academic performance. The sample of the study consisted of 717 students (358 males and 358 females). The age range of the sample was 18 to 19 years. Tool used for measuring level of aspiration was Level of Aspiration Measure developed by Dr. Mahesh Bhargava and Prof. M A Shah. Goal Discrepancy Score is the difference between aspiration and the achievement on the same trial. The percentiles of marks obtained in the last qualifying exam were treated as an indicator of academic performance. For inferential purpose the data was treated with ANOVA and Scheffe’s test of Multiple Comparison. The findings of the study revealed that no significant difference exists between Academic Performance of students with high and low achievers belonging to Engineering and Management streams of education; however there exists significant differences between academic performances of students with high and low Level of Aspiration belonging to Law fraternity; with students showing low Level of Aspiration performing better than students with high Level of Aspiration. There exists no significant difference between academic performance of boys and girls with respect to Level of Aspiration in engineering stream. However, there exists significant difference between academic performance of boys and girls with respect to Level of Aspiration in Management and Legal streams of education. In both the streams girls outshine boys.

scholarly journals RESEARCH ON AGGRESSIVENESS WITH ATTITUDES TO YOUR AND OTHER PEOPLE'S DECEPTION IN ADOLESCENCE

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (3) ◽  
pp. 14-20
Author(s):  
Oleksii Chebykin ◽  
Olena Kosianova ◽  
Irina Voloshina
Keyword(s):  
Significant Positive Correlation ◽  
Positive Correlation ◽  
Low Level ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
High Level ◽  
Critical Situations

The article deals with the problem of aggression in adolescence in the correlation with various types of deception. The use of techniques of I. P. Shkuratova ("Types of deception", "Attitude to other people`s deception", "Attitude to your deception"), Buss-Durkey Inventory intended for diagnosing aggressive and hostile reactions that allowed to identify significant positive correlation between all indicators of aggression and types of deception. It is determined that in both groups there is almost the same attitude towards other people`s deception. Thus, representatives of high and low levels of aggressiveness demonstrate an uncensorious attitude to etiquettical deception, pious fraud, fraud-fantasy, which are recognized as socially acceptable. It is established that people with a high level of aggression choose a competitive style of behavior, which is manifested in the control of the opponent's actions, pressure by all available means, the use of deception, cunning, insults, etc. Pepople with a low level of aggression tend to use avoidable and adaptive types of behavior, which are characterized by constant compliance with the requirements of the enemy, the desire to please everyone, avoiding offense, indecision in critical situations.

scholarly journals SISTEM INFORMASI GEOGRAFIS PEMETAAN FAKTOR-FAKTOR YANG MEMPENGARUHI ANGKA KEMATIAN IBU (AKI) DAN ANGKA KEMATIAN BAYI (AKB) DENGAN METODE K-MEANS CLUSTERING (STUDI KASUS: PROVINSI BENGKULU)

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-66
Author(s):  
Kevin Bima Aditya ◽  
Yudi Setiawan ◽  
Diyah Puspitaningrum
Keyword(s):  
Mortality Rate ◽  
Service Management ◽  
National Average ◽  
Middle Level ◽  
Infant Mortality Rate ◽  
Important Indicator ◽  
Infant Deaths ◽  
Low Level ◽  
The Difference ◽  
High Level

ABSTRAK Angka Kematian Ibu (AKI) dan Angka Kematian Bayi (AKB) merupakan salah satu indikator penting dalam menilai tingkat derajat kesehatan masyarakat di suatu negara. Berdasarkan data Dinas Kesehatan Provinsi Bengkulu tahun 2012 hingga 2015, AKI dan AKB di Provinsi Bengkulu masih diatas rata-rata nasional. K-Means Clustering merupakan salah satu metode pengelompokan non hirarki yang bertujuan mengelompokkan objek sedemikian hingga jarak-jarak tiap objek ke pusat kelompok di dalam satu kelompok adalah minimum. Penelitian ini bertujuan (1) Merancang dan membangun Sistem Informasi Geografis untuk memetakan angka kematian ibu dan bayi di setiap Kota/Kabupaten di Provinsi Bengkulu menggunakan metode K-Means Clustering, (2) Mengetahui perbedaan dan status pengelompokkan angka kematian ibu dan bayi di setiap Kota/Kabupaten di Provinsi Bengkulu. Hasil penelitian yang diperoleh yaitu (1) Penelitian ini berhasil memetakan angka kematian ibu dan bayi dalam 3 kelompok, yaitu rendah, sedang dan tinggi (2) berhasil menerapkan metode K-Means Clustering (3) Persentasi AKI berdasarkan kota/kabupaten di Provinsi Bengkulu, sebagai berikut: 15% kota/kabupaten berada di tingkat rendah, 65% berada di tingkat sedang dan 20% berada di tingkat tinggi. Sedangkan persentasi AKB-nya 32,5% kota/kabupaten berada di tingkat rendah, 60% berada di tingkat sedang dan 7,5% berada di tingkat tinggi. Secara keseluruhan dapat dikatakan bahwa tingkat AKI/AKB di Provinsi Bengkulu masih belum memuaskan, yaitu < 15% AKI dan < 32,5% AKB..   ABSTRACT Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) and Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) is one important indicator in assessing the degree of public health in a country. Based on data from Bengkulu Provincial Health Office in 2012 until 2015, MMR and IMR in Bengkulu is still above the national average. K-Means Clustering is one of the non-hierarchical clustering method that aims to group objects so that the distance from the object to the center of each group in the group is the minimum. This study aims to (1) Designing and building a Geographic Information System to map the mortality rate of mothers and babies in each City/Regency in Bengkulu using K-Means Clustering, (2) Know the difference and status grouping of maternal and infant deaths in each city/regency in Bengkulu. The results obtained are: (1) This research has mapped the mortality rate of mothers and infants into three groups: low, medium and high (2) successfully applied the method of K-Means Clustering (3) Percentage of AKI city/regency in Bengkulu, as follows: 15% city/regency is at a low level, 65% were in the middle level and 20% are at a high level. While his AKB percentage 32.5% city/regency is at a low level, 60% were in the moderate and 7.5% were at high levels. Overall it can be said that the rate of MMR / IMR in Bengkulu Province is not too satisfied in term of healty service management that is < 15% MMR  and < 32.5% IMR. How to Cite : Aditya, K.B. Setiawan, Y. Puspitaningrum, D. (2017). SISTEM INFORMASI GEOGRAFIS PEMETAAN FAKTOR-FAKTOR YANG MEMPENGARUHI ANGKA KEMATIAN IBU (AKI) DAN ANGKA KEMATIAN BAYI (AKB) DENGAN METODE K-MEANS CLUSTERING (STUDI KASUS: PROVINSI BENGKULU). Jurnal Teknik Informatika, 10(1), 59-66. doi:10.15408/jti.v10i1.6817Permalink/DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15408/jti.v10i1.6817

Forced Convective Aggregation

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beth Dingley ◽  
Guy Dagan ◽  
Philip Stier
Keyword(s):  
Diabatic Heating ◽  
Monsoon Season ◽  
Radiative Properties ◽  
Aerosol Model ◽  
Low Level ◽  
Heating Source ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Difference ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Impact

&lt;p&gt;The phenomenon of convective aggregation in idealised radiative convective equilibrium simulations has the ability to change the mean state of its domain. When compared to non-aggregation conditions, these simulations usually have warmer drier mean atmospheres, with stronger precipitation in the convective areas. Many of these idealised experiments use a fixed sea surface temperature (SST), where higher temperatures generally increase the scale of aggregation. SST gradients have been shown to organise convection, yet there has been no work done to investigate the impact of heating perturbations in the air on the aggregation of convection. Here we investigate how strong diabatic heating of the atmospheric column affect the existence and properties of convective aggregation. These perturbations provide a link to studying the effect of large pollution plumes on convection, for example during the Indian monsoon season.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;An aerosol model is used to insert plumes of strongly absorbing aerosols into aquaplanet, non-rotating, global RCE simulations. We study the sensitivity of the response to aerosol optical depth (AOD) and aerosol radiative properties under different SSTs.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Without any forcing, the simulations at low SST do not aggregate while at high SST they do. We also see that adding the forcing causes aggregation at both temperatures for a wide range of AODs. Detailed investigation shows that the diabatic heating source causes two circulations to develop, one with low-level convergence towards the plume and high-level divergence away from the plume. A secondary circulation works tangentially to the plume, again with low-level convergence and high-level divergence, driving the formation of several radial branches of aggregated convection. We argue that, as we see this aggregation for plumes with realistic AODs, this could be an analogue for real-world organisation during high pollution events. Future work will investigate the difference in mechanisms between forced and unforced convective aggregation as well as conducting similar experiments in smaller, cloud resolving domains.&lt;/p&gt;

LEED-CI V3 AND V4 GOLD PROJECTS FOR OFFICE SPACES: THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SHANGHAI AND CALIFORNIA

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 29-43
Author(s):  
Svetlana Pushkar
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Conditions ◽  
Binary Data ◽  
Ordinal Data ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Environmental Damage ◽  
P Value ◽  
Natural Logarithm ◽  
Building Information ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Building Standards

ABSTRACT The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating system is currently progressing from version 3 (V3) to 4 (V4) with the aim of reducing environmental damage in the global construction sector. The LEED Commercial Interiors (LEED-CI) subsystem is widely used for office spaces, particularly in Shanghai and California. Comparing Shanghai and California in terms of LEED-CI projects can shed light on the ability of the LEED-CI subsystem to adapt to local green building standards and local environmental conditions. The aim of this study was to assess the difference between V3 and V4 LEED-CI Gold office projects using a comparison between Shanghai and California. The US Green Building Council and the Green Building Information Gateway databases were used to source LEED-CI V3 and V4 Gold office projects. The natural logarithm of the odds ratio and Fisher’s exact 2 × 2 tests with a mid p-value were used to evaluate the binary data, while the Cliff’s δ and exact Wilcoxon–Mann–Whitney tests were used to evaluate the ordinal data. The results show no difference between Shanghai and California in terms of LEED-CI V3 Gold office projects in the five main LEED-CI categories. The shift from V3 to V4 LEED-CI Gold office projects is increasing the difference between Shanghai and California in terms of the following LEED-CI categories: location and transportation, water efficiency, energy and atmosphere, and materials and resources. Therefore, as compared to V3, V4 for LEED-CI Gold office projects demonstrated greater adaptability to local green building standards and environmental conditions.

Students’ Elementary Literacy Skill And Critical Thinking Skill Supported By School Literacy Program (SLP)

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 92
Author(s):  
Sri Dewi Nirmala ◽  
R. Rahman ◽  
B. Musthafa
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Fourth Graders ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Literacy Program ◽  
Literacy Skill ◽  
School Students ◽  
Low Level ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Government ◽  
High Level

The literacy skills of elementary school students in Indonesia, according tointernational instructional survey data such as PISA and PIRLS are generally atlow ability level. Starting from this condition, the government then launched theSchool Literacy Program (SLP) which is in sync with the implementation ofCurriculum 2013. This study aims to analyze and calculate the difference ofliteracy ability and students’ fourth graders critical thinking in schools thatorganize SLP in three areas of the village, transitions, and cities located inSukabumi Indonesia. The results showed that the students' fourth-grade literacyability at the SLP organizing school was at a low level of 66.89, the middle level55, the high level 54.67, and the advanced level of 55.89. The students' criticalthinking ability is at a low level of 82.94, 55.33 and 55.67. Based on the resultsof this study, it can be concluded that fourth graders students’ literacy ability atschool organizer SLP in Sukabumi is at low level / factual literal. While fourthgraders students’ critical thinking was able to reach low levels.

scholarly journals IMPROVED SYSTEM FOR RETRIEVAL OF COLOR LOGO IMAGES USING PSO, SOM AND RELEVANCE FEEDBACK TECHNIQUE

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 634-639
Author(s):  
Latika Pinjarkar, Manisha Sharma, Smita Selot
Keyword(s):  
High Precision ◽  
Relevance Feedback ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Self Organizing Map ◽  
Low Level ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Rf Performance ◽  
High Level ◽  
Self Organizing

The colour logo identification has one of the key problems of bridging the difference between low-level characteristics and high-level semantics, as the consumer wants to. Relevance feedback (RF) along with self-organizing map (SOM) have been successfully introduced to resolve this void. However, the efficiency of the automated map (SOM) based RF is always low when the feedback sample is limited. This paper proposed a new technology, namely the SOM-SOM-RF that combines SOM-based RF with warm particle optimization, to boost RF performance (PSO). The aim of this proposed technology is to increase SOM-based RF efficiency and also to minimise user encounters with the device by reducing its RF number. On 3000 colour logo pictures, the PSO-SOM-RF was tested. The findings from the tests revealed the high precision of the proposed PSO-SOM-RF.  

Difference of [Ca2+]i Movements in Platelets Stimulated by Thrombin and TRAP: the Involvement of αIIbβ3-Mediated TXA2 Synthesis

1998 ◽  
Vol 79 (06) ◽  
pp. 1184-1190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoshiaki Tomiyama ◽  
Shigenori Honda ◽  
Kayoko Senzaki ◽  
Akito Tanaka ◽  
Mitsuru Okubo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Platelet Aggregation ◽  
Fibrinogen Binding ◽  
Adp Release ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Txa2 Receptor Antagonist ◽  
High Level ◽  
Inhibition Studies ◽  
Peak Increase ◽  
Second Peak ◽  
Assay Conditions

SummaryThis study investigated the difference of [Ca2+]i movement in platelets in response to thrombin and TRAP. The involvement of αIIbβ3 in this signaling was also studied. Stimulation of platelets with thrombin at 0.03 U/ml caused platelet aggregation and a two-peak increase in [Ca2+]i. The second peak of [Ca2+]i, but not the first peak was abolished by the inhibition of platelet aggregation with αIIbβ3 antagonists or by scavenging endogenous ADP with apyrase. A cyclooxygenase inhibitor, aspirin, and a TXA2 receptor antagonist, BM13505, also abolished the second peak of [Ca2+]i but not the first peak, although these regents did not inhibit aggregation. Under the same assay conditions, measurement of TXB2 demonstrated that αIIbβ3 antagonists and aspirin almost completely inhibited the production of TXB2. In contrast to thrombin-stimulation, TRAP caused only a single peak of [Ca2+]i even in the presence of platelet aggregation, and a high level of [Ca2+]i increase was needed for the induction of platelet aggregation. The inhibition of aggregation with αIIbβ3 antagonists had no effect on [Ca2+]i change and TXB2 production induced by TRAP. Inhibition studies using anti-GPIb antibodies suggested that GPIb may be involved in the thrombin response, but not in the TRAP. Our findings suggest that low dose thrombin causes a different [Ca2+]i response and TXA2 producing signal from TRAP. Endogenous ADP release and fibrinogen binding to αIIbβ3 are responsible for the synthesis of TXA2 which results in the induction of the second peak of [Ca2+]i in low thrombin- but not TRAP-stimulated platelets.

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