Sentences with phrase «energy use patterns»

To do this, we need to modernize our approach to building codes to reflect the evolution in construction practices, changes in building energy use patterns, and new goals we've established for our building stock.

It is therefore essential to understand how energy use patterns affect the growth and structure of the global human population [1].

There will also be holiday periods where the energy use is dramatically reduced in educational buildings so it will perform differently from operational energy use patterns in an office building or leisure centre would, for example.

Not exact matches

«City officials may not understand that they will get access to very little of what Google learns from their citizens... Meanwhile, Google will be gaining insights about urban life — including energy use, transit effectiveness, climate mitigation strategies, and social service delivery patterns — that it will then be able to resell to cities around the world.

These strategies — mapping your daily energy patterns, setting your priorities based on value, using time blocks, and protective scheduling — are all keys to developing a defensible calendar.

The intelligent monitoring system then tracks numerous factors including weather patterns, predicted energy use, and current utility prices.

Whereas modern science and technology offer immense new potentialities in relation to nature such as use of solar energy, and improvements in medical science, yet overall nature is being badly exploited by the present pattern of development.

Whitehead says this is one manifestation of energy, but he wants to use it in a more general sense — really as a more metaphysical notion — and the problem is what to call it: this «drive of the universe,» «X,» or whatever, that manifests itself as a patterning activity.

The policy statement zeroes in on ecological justice's demand for appropriate patterns of energy use.

Age, education, living alone, smoking status, BMI, height, physical activity, cortisone use, Charlson's comorbidity index, calcium and vitamin D supplementation, healthy dietary pattern, alcohol and total energy intake

Covariates were age, total energy intake, body mass index, height, educational level, living alone, calcium supplementation, vitamin D supplementation, ever use of cortisone, healthy dietary pattern, physical activity, smoking status, and Charlson's comorbidity index.

Because these patterns have a fixed size, they can be used to determine the distance of objects and probe the expansion of the universe for the effects of dark energy.

However, magnetic fields travel in a looping pattern, requiring the use of fragile and lossy ferrites to keep the fields and the energy directed — resulting in an expensive system.

Because the snake essentially follows its own tracks through the sand, the amount of slip generated by its motion is small, allowing it to move through the sand using less energy than the sandfish (Scincus scincus), whose movement pattern generated a larger fluidized region of sand around its body.

Working at the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) X-ray laser at the Department of Energy's (DOE's) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, the scientists then used a newly designed injection system, engineered by a team from Arizona State University, to stream the gel into the path of the X-ray pulses, which hit the crystals and produced patterns used to reconstruct a high - resolution, 3 - D model of the receptor.

A test in 1991 by researchers at the US Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories showed that the hand geo - metry system made fewer mistakes than identification systems using voiceprints or retinal patterns.

That means that if you know the curvatures of any shape you can reverse engineer the energy and growth patterns needed to grow that shape using a bilayer.

«The microscope was tested for its spatial resolution, the presence of chromatic aberrations, and long - term stability using a fine test pattern called a Siemens star and a photon energy of approximately 10 keV,» explains Professor Kazuto Yamauchi of Osaka University's Center for Ultra-Precision Science and Technology.

The human uses of energy are reflected in patterns on the land.

To identify transcriptional patterns that correlate with body mass, we used oligonucleotide microarrays to catalogue gene expression levels in the parametrial or epididymal adipose tissue from two dozen mice whose body mass and adiposity varied due to diet, sex, and mutations in genes affecting energy homeostasis.

Within this paradigm, energy use and prey acquisition play a fundamental role in affecting behavior, especially with respect to foraging patterns and predator - prey interactions.

The technique, which uses a heated atomic force microscope (AFM) tip to produce patterns, could facilitate high - density, low - cost production of complex ferroelectric structures for energy harvesting arrays, sensors and actuators in nano - electromechanical systems (NEMS) and micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS).

If humanity is to cope with this extra heat, Stokes says, people need to understand energy - use patterns and the human behaviors that shape them.

NASA and NOAA used the VIIRS instrument on the Suomi NPP satellite to study light patterns during Christmas and Ramadan to «provide new insights into how energy consumption behaviors vary across different cultural settings.»

The tidal disruption flare from this distant black hole was first discovered on Nov. 11, 2014, and subsequent observations using a variety of telescopes have revealed curious pattern in the energy being emitted.

A solar yoga practice uses certain postures and breathing patterns to generate feelings of energy, enthusiasm, and inspiration.

Answer a few questions about your transportation habits, energy use, and consumption patterns to get a better idea of where you're acting in an eco-friendly way and where you could use a little improvement.

When you get used to tuning into your breath and releasing stressful negative thought patterns your digestion will improve, you'll have more energy for fun activities and life will seem a whole lot less overwhelming.

Because the brain uses mainly glucose for fuel, when glucose levels fall or fluctuate widely, neurons will not be supplied a constant source of energy and may «misfire,» affecting thinking and reasoning patterns.

Alisa will help you unlock «the power in your panties» by outlining the neuro - hormonal patterns of each phase and their effects on your mood, physical energy, and cravings, how to strategically plan your work and social scheduling to best optimize your productivity during these phases, and how you can use all of this to get more done at work, lose weight, feel better and have rockin» relationships.

In fact, Reiki healing and Chakra healing practitioners often use crystal healing techniques in their energy healing practices since healing crystals both strengthen the body and resolve internal energy patterns as the crystal power conducts and amplifies energy throughout the body.

Although sustainability guidelines are unlikely to be included in the final version of the 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, the Advisory Committee included the following statement in their initial report: «Consistent evidence indicates that, in general, a dietary pattern that is higher in plant - based foods, such as vegetables, fruits, whole grains, legumes, nuts and seeds, and lower in animal - based foods is more health promoting and is associated with lesser environmental impact (greenhouse gas emissions and energy, land, and water use) than is the current average U.S. diet.

Private yoga lessons can be used to address concerns such as injuries, therapeutics, energy balancing, and can even be used to transform bad habits, including postural misalignments and behavioural patterns.

Like you had energy, you may have been stressed, you may have been anxious but you had the energy, you know, behind you to do all the things that you needed to do, and then at some point, it started to teeter out where, you know, you're having less energy, you're feeling more fatigue, you need more naps, you need more time sleeping, you spend more time resting on the weekend, and most people when we do a detail history, we see that pattern kind of unfolding and we progress, that's called stage 1 — again, depending on what lab you use, there's a lab called Diagnos - Techs out of Washington, they have like a 7 phases of adrenal fatigue — I like keeping things really simple.

The first was the appropriateness of using sedentary, reference - sized individuals in assigning target energy levels for the proposed food intake patterns.

Energy drink use patterns among young adults: Associations with drunk driving.

Looking at energy points, different typeface shapes, negative and positive shapes, symmetry patterns, repeat patterns, designing with geometric and organic shapes, drawing shapes to different smells, using music to capture shapes, looking at the meaning of words to capture shapes and the play with tangram shapes.

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That will give you information about how much energy is being used and also the pattern.

Major transit investments contribute to the livability of communities by reducing air pollution, offering additional travel capacity during periods of congestion (including peak commuting hours), and promoting compact urban land use patterns that reduce energy use.

Investment in transit infrastructure also contributes to the livability of our cities and communities by reducing air pollution, reducing congestion (during peak commuting periods) and promoting urban land use patterns (that reduce energy use).

«The facts are clear: Our patterns of energy use — both where we get our energy supplies and how we consume them — are contributing to a grave and growing crisis.

Its dynamic splayed pattern is said to optimize efficiency and energy is also used to power the interior cooling system.

The program signals are pattern based so that it uses the markets own price action to identify «sweet spots» where the markets are building energy inside a trend that precede explosive market moves.

The most effective way to use herbs in treating skin problems is to apply Traditional Chinese Veterinary Medicine (TCVM) to diagnose the pet's energy pattern and treat that pattern and not the specific allergy symptoms.

In addition, the show suggests two unexpected affinities among these artists» works: the intersection between pattern and landscape, and the use of repeated line to induce a sense of balanced energy in a geometrically structured piece.

Using (i) a state - of - the - art global climate model and (ii) a low - order energy balance model, we show that the global climate feedback is fundamentally linked to the geographic pattern of regional climate feedbacks and the geographic pattern of surface warming at any given time.

Promoting energy sustainability means that as an individual I need to think beyond the light bulb, and not only promote renewable energy initiatives in my community, but also reduce my consumptive patterns, reuse as much material as possible, consider the embodied energy used to produce my food, and continue minimizing my use of fossil fuels.

The system is made up of a postage - stamp - sized sensor that is placed on the incoming power line to a person's home and software that analyzes the spikes and patterns in voltage to identify and monitor the energy use of each device.

Later this year, though, if he wants to fulfill his campaign pledge to avoid the American pattern of «shock to trance» energy policy, he must really grab the broader issue tightly, using all of his skills to build an American energy quest — from the light socket to the boardroom, the classroom to the laboratory — and, yes, the Oval Office.