Buildings are responsible for about 40% of global energy consumption, 42% of global CO 2 emissions and about 30% of global fresh water consumption. Therefore, the importance of energy and water consumption benchmarking in ...

Sick Building Syndrome (SBS) is currently a widely discussed topic all around the world since most of the population spends a majority of their time indoors. However, in Sri Lanka, there is less discussion on SBS. Among ...

Building energy simulation tools are used during the design process of a building to improve its energy performance. In this study, envelope thermal performance enhancement strategies were evaluated using eQUEST building ...

Climate change is a defining issue of our times. It has an influence on humans and the ecosystem because of variations in the earth’s temperature and rainfall patterns. As people spend the majority of their time indoors, ...

Chromosomes and plasmids are the major carriers of genetic material in microorganisms such as bacteria. Separating chromosomal and plasmid DNA from large datasets is important as plasmids and chromosomes affect functions ...

According to statistics, more than 60% of people suffer lower back pain at a certain time in their lives. Disc hernias are the most common cause of lower back pain, and the lumbar spine is responsible for more than 95% of ...

Manufacturers and brand owners apply sentiment analysis techniques on customer reviews to identify customer opinions on their products and services. Sentiment analysis at the document level or sentence level does not provide ...

This paper proposes a new feature aggregation mechanism for deep neural network based speaker embedding for text-independent speaker verification. In speaker verification models, frame-level features are fed into the pooling ...

Chromosomes and plasmids are the main sites of genetic information in microorganisms. Separately identifying plasmids and chromosomes is essential for further metagenomic analysis. Computational tools have achieved significant ...

Kansei Engineering (KE) is an affective engineering methodology that focuses on consumer emotions in conjunction with product features where they are translated into design elements. KE can be used to improve the user's ...