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Carlo Ciaponi, Enrico Creaco, Armando Di Nardo, Michele Di Natale, Carlo Giudicianni, Dino Musmarra and Giovanni Francesco Santonastaso
This paper proposes a combined management strategy for monitoring water distribution networks (WDNs). This strategy is based on the application of water network partitioning (WNP) for the creation of district metered areas (DMAs) and on the installation ...
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Song Song, Lehui Fang, Jinxin Yang, Rui Zhou, Gale Bai and Yuqi Qiu
The spatial-temporal mismatch of water resources and socio-economic development in rapidly urbanized regions has been the focus of water resource management, and is one of the main limitations to sustainable development goals (SDGs). Guangdong Province i...
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Mitra Khalilidermani and Dariusz Knez
In the past two decades, various space agencies have shown great enthusiasm for constructing habitable structures on lunar and Martian surfaces. Consequently, several extraterrestrial structures have been proposed by different researchers. Nevertheless, ...
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Amani Cherif, Mohamed Himdi, Xavier Castel, Quentin Simon, Saber Dakhli and Fethi Choubani
In this paper, we present a study on a broadband transparent tapered slot antenna. In general, the objective of achieving optical transparency is to enable antennas to seamlessly integrate into windows, offering an aesthetically pleasing and inconspicuou...
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Youcef Boussaa, Ambrose Dodoo, Truong Nguyen and Katarina Rupar-Gadd
A major challenge in building energy renovation is to cost effectively achieve notable energy savings. This paper investigates cost-effective passive energy-efficiency measures for thermal envelope retrofit of a typical Swedish multi-apartment building f...
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Katarina Monkova, Peter Pavol Monka, Milan ?aludek, Pavel Beno, Romana Hricová and Anna ?meringaiová
Porous materials bring components not only direct advantages in the form of lightening of constructions, saving of production materials, or improvement of physical properties, but also secondary advantages, which are manifested as a result of their daily...
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Tae-Youl Jeon, Chang-Min Lee and Jae-Jung Hur
Large ships adopt a central fresh water-cooling system that indirectly cools waste heat with seawater to discharge the ship's waste heat out of the ship. Such a central fresh water-cooling system is essential for future electric powered ships. Since 2010...
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Zhi Wang, Jun Wang, Jing Tian and Yu Liu
For periodic time-varying systems, a method of parameter identification based on the block-pulse function is presented. Firstly, the state-space equation of the system was expanded using the block-pulse function, then the recursion formula of the paramet...
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Yanqing Xu, Yue Zhang, Cong Fu, Xiyue Deng and Yihe Yang
Improved street lighting can provide better use of public space and helps to promote safety while driving or walking. In terms of balancing benefits and impacts, on the basis of cost saving, this research adopts two prominent mathematical models, the max...
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Christos Melissas, Filippos Bantis, Christodoulos Dangitsis, Stefanos Kostas and Athanasios Koukounaras
Tomato, which is mainly established with grafted seedlings, is one of the most popular vegetables worldwide with a high nutritional value,. Market demand for grafted seedlings is high in specific seasons; thus, commercial nurseries face a problem of limi...
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