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Purwoko, Agus, Wanda Kuswanda, Rospita Odorlina Pilianna Situmorang, Freddy Jontara Hutapea, Muhammad Hadi Saputra, and Parlin Hotmartua Putra Pasaribu. "Orangutan Ecotourism on Sumatra Island: Current Conditions and a Call for Further Development." Sustainability 14, no. 18 (September 9, 2022): 11328. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su141811328.

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This paper aimed to provide a narrative review of the current conditions of orangutan ecotourism on Sumatra Island, problems in the current management systems, and some recommendations for further development. Orangutan conservation centers have been developed on Sumatra Island since 1973. The Bukit Lawang Conservation Station is one of the orangutan conservation centers that have practiced ecotourism to overcome ecological and socio-economic issues. Even though the Bukit Lawang Conservation Station has operated for decades, this station has faced several issues, in particular a monetary crisis in 1997, a flash flood in 2003, and the COVID-19 pandemic. We identified that orangutan conservation centers on Sumatra Island have the potential to support orangutan ecotourism. These conservation centers have ecological support, available facilities, and rich local wisdom that can provide added value for orangutan ecotourism. Therefore, we propose that the development of orangutan ecotourism on Sumatra Island should accommodate surrounding communities through community-based wildlife ecotourism. We also recommend the following strategies to develop orangutan ecotourism on Sumatra Island: (1) mapping the location and distribution of wild orangutans in their natural habitats; (2) managing captive and semi-captive orangutans in conservation centers; (3) provision of tour packages; (4) community empowerment; (5) institutional strengthening of community-based ecotourism management (CBEM); (6) developing ecotourism through a benefit-sharing model; (7) anticipating and minimizing the negative impacts of ecotourism on orangutans; and (8) integrating orangutan tourism with local wisdom.
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El-belkasy, Mohamed Ibrahim, and Sahl Abdullah Wahieb. "Sustainable Conservation and Reuse of Historical City Center Applied Study on Jeddah—Saudi Arabia." Sustainability 14, no. 9 (April 25, 2022): 5188. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su14095188.

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Developing a historical city center leads to city resilience and sustainable heritage conservation; changing the social fabric is a fundamental problem that affects historical and heritage areas. As a result of Jeddah’s development, the community of the heritage area changed to another without the same interest or appreciation for the region’s heritage. After listing it as a world heritage, the government is taking care of many conservation projects for Historic Jeddah. The research aims to evaluate a proposed project to reverse the last decade’s social changes of the local community as a step in achieving historic center sustainability. The scope of this proposal is to select adaptive reuse of the listed historic buildings and provide the area with state-of-the-art services. This proposed project will attract the targeted community to return, which will achieve the research purpose. The research followed three different methodologies; through a theoretical approach, Jeddah city urban development and growth were highlighted, and the currently enforced conservation policies regulating land use were introduced. Moreover, the analytical approach studies the possibility of social reform of the local community by implementing adaptive reuse for heritage buildings. Three sustainability pillars were tested through a survey of three different stockholders. The research discussed the various stockholders’ visions toward the aimed sustainable objectives. Hence, the applied part of the research evaluates the sustainability of the proposed project. The study finds that the local community is essential in the conservation process’s sustainability. Reusing the heritage buildings in the resettled original community will sustain the conservation process and increase the real estate value of the Jeddah historical areas.
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El-belkasy, Mohamed Ibrahim, and Sahl Abdullah Wahieb. "Sustainable Conservation and Reuse of Historical City Center Applied Study on Jeddah—Saudi Arabia." Sustainability 14, no. 9 (April 25, 2022): 5188. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su14095188.

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Developing a historical city center leads to city resilience and sustainable heritage conservation; changing the social fabric is a fundamental problem that affects historical and heritage areas. As a result of Jeddah’s development, the community of the heritage area changed to another without the same interest or appreciation for the region’s heritage. After listing it as a world heritage, the government is taking care of many conservation projects for Historic Jeddah. The research aims to evaluate a proposed project to reverse the last decade’s social changes of the local community as a step in achieving historic center sustainability. The scope of this proposal is to select adaptive reuse of the listed historic buildings and provide the area with state-of-the-art services. This proposed project will attract the targeted community to return, which will achieve the research purpose. The research followed three different methodologies; through a theoretical approach, Jeddah city urban development and growth were highlighted, and the currently enforced conservation policies regulating land use were introduced. Moreover, the analytical approach studies the possibility of social reform of the local community by implementing adaptive reuse for heritage buildings. Three sustainability pillars were tested through a survey of three different stockholders. The research discussed the various stockholders’ visions toward the aimed sustainable objectives. Hence, the applied part of the research evaluates the sustainability of the proposed project. The study finds that the local community is essential in the conservation process’s sustainability. Reusing the heritage buildings in the resettled original community will sustain the conservation process and increase the real estate value of the Jeddah historical areas.
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Alford, Élan R., Sam Hoadley, Caroline R. Fazzini, Laura K. Reilly, Amy Highland, Ellen C. Lake, and Jeffrey A. Downing. "Applying United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, Mt. Cuba Center Gardens with Native Plants and Grows Conservators." Sustainability 14, no. 10 (May 17, 2022): 6074. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su14106074.

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Mt. Cuba Center is a botanical garden created with a conservation purpose: to work with native plants and inspire people to become conservators of native habitats. Adherence to this founding mission aligns Mt. Cuba’s activities with 4 of the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. This article shares aspects of the center’s founding, interpretative plan and content, horticultural research, and conservation programs. We hope that it will inspire the development and implementation of more botanical garden conservation programs that catalyze members, guests, and community partners to participate in and amplify conservation efforts through collective actions. By highlighting the region and its beautiful native flora, Mt. Cuba teaches conservation of native habitats and how to incorporate native plants into home gardens. The garden’s conservation messages are brought to life through interpretive plans, horticultural research, and public engagement. The garden itself acts as a tool to promote conservation by influencing guest attitudes and experiences. The renewal of Mt. Cuba from a fallow cornfield to a thriving ecosystem illustrates that individuals can make a difference. By telling its story and demonstrating accessible conservation actions through its work with native plants, Mt. Cuba aims to transform garden guests into conservators.
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Hamza, Neveen, Dalila ElKerdany, John Pendlebury, Sahar Imam, Aliaa AlSadaty, and Tamer ElSerafi. "SUSTAINED LIVEABILITY: A FRAMEWORK BEYOND ENERGY CONSCIOUS BUILDING CONSERVATION OF MARKET HALLS." International Journal of Architectural Research: ArchNet-IJAR 11, no. 3 (November 22, 2017): 119. http://dx.doi.org/10.26687/archnet-ijar.v11i3.1381.

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Market halls are commonly found in contexts of cultural and heritage value. Positioned in urban centres and transport networks, these unique buildings were originally constructed in the 19th century to ensure better food distribution in growing European cities, then copied to other territories such as Egypt. We argue that leaving market halls, with their large spanning structures and indoor open space, for dilapidation is a lost opportunity for sustaining community engagement, and educating the public on the original sustainability, neighbourhood regeneration and cultural thinking that underpinned these buildings. The proposed framework extends current sustainable ‘heritage conservation frameworks’ beyond concepts of adding renewable energy technologies, recycling and sustainable goods movement, to ‘sustaining liveability and social inclusion’. We argue that market halls offer the opportunities to merge the daily activities of buying and selling food with creating local creative economies such as culinary art exhibitions, and culinary schools. The paper consists of two parts: the first discusses the historical urban context of market halls in Cairo; the second proposes a sustainable heritage conservation model for market halls.
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Feng, Xian Jie. "Design of a Green Intelligent Building." Advanced Materials Research 1049-1050 (October 2014): 357–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.1049-1050.357.

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Follow the principle of sustainable development of green building, in accordance with the "section, energy saving, water saving, material saving, environmental protection" tenet, into the spirit of green energy conservation principle. From the use of reduced building materials, all kinds of resources and non renewable resources, the use of green materials, waste recycling, reducing emissions of pollutants, etc. In the process of implementation, the use of communications technology, control technology, IC card technology, security, integrated wiring technology and system integration technology, to establish a system of community residents, residents of internal communication center, tenants and external social information.
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Karam, Sarah, Giuliano Martiniello, Ali Chalak, Mounir Abi-Said, and Shadi Kamal Hamadeh. "Biosphere Reserves in Lebanon: Rifts between Conservation Discourse and Practice." Sustainability 13, no. 22 (November 10, 2021): 12411. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su132212411.

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Protected areas (PA), especially biosphere reserves (BR), are considered effective instruments for nature conservation and rural development. However, their impact on rural communities constitutes the most controversial debate in conservation policy and practice. This study aims to reveal the perceptions of local communities towards conservation, the extent of the inclusion of local communities in the establishment and management of a BR and the impact of BRs on local livelihoods by exploring a case study while reflecting on major debates in the conservation and rural development paradigms. Mixed research methods focusing on qualitative methodology are used. By exploring a BR in Lebanon, this research highlights how the allocation and management of the BRs have not always reflected participatory, sustainable and community-based approaches. This study stresses the importance of the locals’ engagement in the whole conservation process. By putting people, their needs and perceptions at the center of decision-making, conservation agencies would shift the main objective of BRs from conservation to poverty reduction.
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Kruk, Michael C., Britt Parker, John J. Marra, Kevin Werner, Richard Heim, Russell Vose, and Philip Malsale. "Engaging with Users of Climate Information and the Coproduction of Knowledge." Weather, Climate, and Society 9, no. 4 (October 1, 2017): 839–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/wcas-d-16-0127.1.

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Abstract Within the realm of climate and environmental sciences, stakeholder engagement has traditionally been given a relative low priority in favor of generating tools, products, and services following the longstanding practice of pushing out information in the hopes users will pull it into their decision toolkits. However, the landscape is gradually shifting away from that paradigm and toward one in which the stakeholder community is more directly involved in the production of products and services with the scientific organization. This mutual learning arrangement, referred to as the coproduction of knowledge, has been applied to two user engagement activities within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) and the NOAA Office of Coastal Management (OCM) Coral Reef Conservation Program (CRCP). The iterative nature of such dialogues helped scientists within NCEI and OCM to better understand user requirements and as a result generate climate information that was locally relevant and regionally applicable. The recent engagement activities exemplified the benefits of a robust and sustained relationship between climate scientists and the user community. They demonstrate that the interactions between the two led to the empowerment of the local community to shape and mold climate information products as well as further enhancing user buy in of these products and services with which local agriculture and food security, disaster risk reduction, energy, health, and water decisions are being made. This coproduction of knowledge model for user engagement activities also serves to build trust between the scientific and user communities.
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Liu, Zhiqiang, Yanqi Niu, Caiyun Guo, and Shitong Jia. "A Vehicle Routing Optimization Model for Community Group Buying Considering Carbon Emissions and Total Distribution Costs." Energies 16, no. 2 (January 13, 2023): 931. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en16020931.

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Under the background of the normalization of COVID-19 prevention and control and the rapid development of e-commerce, community group buying has occupied the market by providing low-priced, fast, and green consumer goods, but with it, the logistics and distribution volume of goods has also increased sharply. In order to reduce environmental pollution and the carbon emissions caused by transportation in the community group buying logistics distribution, it is necessary to investigate a suitable method to optimize vehicle distribution routes and reduce carbon emissions. Taking the lowest total costs of logistics and distribution and the smallest carbon emissions, this article introduces soft time window function and carbon emissions parameters, takes the delivery of goods from the community group buying distribution center in Wu’an Town, Hebei Province to customer points in 14 townships as an example, an optimization model for the distribution route of low carbon vehicles for community group buying based on improved genetic algorithm was constructed, AHP-EW fusion technology was used to calculate carbon emissions and cost weights, and compared with the traditional genetic algorithm and ant colony algorithm two typical heuristic algorithms, the feasibility of the proposed model and the advantages of the improved algorithm are verified, and the research results showed that it can reduce the costs and carbon emissions of vehicle distribution, provide decision-making reference for community group buying logistics enterprise distribution, and promote energy conservation and environmental sustainable development.
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Ares-Pernas, Ana, Carmen Coronado Carvajal, Alfonso Gomis Rodríguez, María Isabel Fernández Ibáñez, Vicente Díaz Casás, María Sonia Zaragoza Fernández, María Sonia Bouza Fernández, et al. "Towards a sustainable campus: working together to achieve the green campus flag on the UDC peripheral campus of Ferrol." International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education 21, no. 7 (November 18, 2020): 1367–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijshe-02-2020-0056.

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Purpose This paper aims to present and describe the main actions carried out in six different faculties and common areas such as cultural and research centres and administrative buildings in the Ferrol campus at the University of A Coruña to achieve the second green flag on a Galician University. Design/methodology/approach A case study describing the steps for implementing a green campus programme in a medium-size, young university campus integrated into a small city. An Environmental Campus Committee was created to assess the main factors that affect environmental footprint, discuss sustainability initiatives and develop a guide to action regarding different goals related to sustainable transport options, energy, water conservation and waste reduction. The actions included several fields such as education, circular economy and healthy life and involved the on and off-campus community. Findings The programme achieved a decrease in water consumption and electrical energy. An important change in educational values and behaviours regarding sustainability was observed in and out of the campus community. The measurements adopted mainly in waste management, mobility and education led the Ferrol campus to achieve a green campus flag on November 2019. Originality/value This experiment can serve as a guide to establish the Green Campus philosophy in other similar university campuses.
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Wu, Kwok-cheung. "Redevelopment and conservation of YMCA building." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1996. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25949111.

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Thesis (M. Arch.)--University of Hong Kong, 1996.
Includes special report study entitled: Re-integration of a historic building : the YMCA building at Bridge Street, Sheung Wan and system integration in the conservation project. Includes bibliographical references.
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Kumar, Anubhav. "Use of air side economizer for data center thermal management." Thesis, Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/24672.

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Akoush, Sherif. "Exploiting surplus renewable energy in datacentre computing." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.610058.

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Hughes, Kristen. "The city as a community-based force for sustainability in energy systems." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file, 577 p, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1891601521&sid=6&Fmt=2&clientId=8331&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Wu, Kwok-cheung, and 胡國祥. "Redevelopment and conservation of YMCA building." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1996. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31983108.

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Bullock, Alan. "The optimisation of an hydraulic accumulator energy buffer and wind/diesel system for remote community electricity generation." Thesis, University of Reading, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.278091.

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Martiskainen, Mari. "Developing community energy projects : experiences from Finland and the UK." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2014. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/51506/.

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Community energy has drawn interest from the general public, policy makers and researchers in the UK over the last few years. Community energy projects, such as energy saving measures and renewable energy projects, are usually organised by civil society groups rather than commercial businesses. This DPhil research approaches community energy as local grassroots innovation and compares its development in two different countries, Finland and the UK. Key research question is: Why and how do community energy projects develop and how do they contribute to niche development? The thesis uses Sustainability Transitions studies literature, especially literature on Strategic Niche Management (SNM), as a theoretical framing, and empirical in-depth analysis of four community energy projects, two in the UK and two in Finland. The research examines how community energy projects develop in ‘niches'. Research findings highlight that motivations for projects include monetary savings, energy savings and climate change. Projects are developed by pre-existing community groups or groups that have come together to develop an energy project. Local embedding of community energy projects to each project's individual circumstances helps successful project delivery. Pre-existing skills and tacit knowledge such as the ability to seek information and fill in funding applications can aid success. Engagement with key stakeholders further shapes projects' aims and objectives. Community energy projects benefit from a clear leader who works with a supportive team. There is evidence of projects networking at the local and national level in the UK, while in Finland networking remains limited to the local area and projects often develop in isolation. Furthermore, there is a clear lack of active intermediary organisations in the Finnish context. Policy discourse at the government level can aid the attractiveness of community energy, while continued funding support encourages more people to get involved in projects in their local areas.
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Warner, Katherine Anne. "Investigating the effects of noise pollution from energy development on the bat community in the Piceance Basin." Thesis, Colorado State University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10149854.

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Throughout the United States, and globally, there has been recent interest in large-scale monitoring of bats, driven largely by the many threats that bats currently face such as climate change, white nose syndrome, habitat loss, and wind energy development. Additionally, many human activities generate sensory disturbances including anthropogenic light and noise pollution that have been shown to affect habitat use and foraging efficiency in bats and other wildlife. My research took place in the Piceance Basin of northwestern Colorado, where there has been considerable development of natural gas resources in recent years. During the drilling phase for natural gas, drill rigs run continuously for weeks to months at each well development site. In addition to the physical disturbance and increased human presence at the well pad, drill rigs are brightly lit, and also emit high amplitude anthropogenic noise. The light and noise from active drill rigs can travel many miles from the source, far beyond areas where wildlife habitat has been physically disturbed. The goal of my research was to isolate noise from the other associated forms of disturbance, and investigate what, if any, effects drilling noise is having on the bat community.

My dissertation is comprised of three stand-alone chapters, as follows. In Chapter 1, I test two different strategies for deploying bat detectors to determine which strategy yields higher detection and species identification rates. In Chapters 2 and 3, I present the results of noise playback experiments. Chapter 2 compares bat activity levels at control sites, and at treatment sites where noise was added experimentally. In Chapter 3, I monitor bat activity patterns both during and after a noise playback experiment to determine how rapidly activity levels recover post-exposure. A brief summary of each chapter follows.

In Chapter 1, I focus on the methods for recording bat echolocation calls, and identifying free-flying bats in the field. Unlike capture techniques, current acoustical methods for bat monitoring do not provide information about unique individuals, age, sex, or reproductive status. What acoustical monitoring can provide is information about bat activity levels, habitat use, and species identification in some cases, without interfering with bat movement, foraging, or other activities. The commercially available technology for recording bat echolocation calls has rapidly advanced, and there are many ultrasound detector–recorder systems (hereafter, ‘bat detectors’) available with a wide range of recoding options. Due to rapid attenuation of ultrasound signals, one of the challenges to acoustical monitoring is the relatively limited recording range of bat detectors. To increase this range, I took advantage of a bat detector that had the ability to record on two channels (in stereo). By attaching microphone extension cables, I was able to increase the distance between the left and right channel microphones, thereby increasing the acoustical sampling space. When this data collection effort took place, the SM2BAT+ detector from Wildlife Acoustics, Inc. was the only commercially available bat detector that had the two-channel recording capability. I deployed two identical bat detectors at each study site, and compared the recordings made using the stereo option to recordings made from a single channel.

In general, the stereo setup outperformed the single-channel systems. With the stereo microphones separated by approximately 10 m, the bat detectors that recorded in stereo produced 2.7 times more recordings overall. The increased number of recordings resulted in a higher number of calls that could be identified to species. The benefit of the stereo setup was not equal for all species. With the stereo microphones only about 10 m apart, there was some overlap between the calls that were identified on the left and right channels. The highest rate of overlap (19.5%) was in big brown bats (Eptesicus fuscus ). Rates of overlap for species in the Myotis genus were all less than 5%, and none of the recordings of pallid bats (Antrozous pallidus ) were identified on both channels for the same bat-pass-event. The stereo option is a promising way to increase the number of bat recordings, which may be a particularly useful when surveying for rare species.

In Chapter 2, I used a noise playback experiment to isolate noise from other forms of anthropogenic disturbance, and monitored the bat activity level response. I recorded the sounds of an active drill rig, and played these recordings at treatment sites. I measured sound pressure levels at the drill site, and estimated the sound pressure levels at the noise playback sites. Using outdoor speakers, I was unable to project the drill rig noise at the same amplitude of an actual rig, but I was able to significantly elevate the sound levels at treatment sites. The noise levels at treatment sites roughly corresponded to noise levels that can be experienced approximately 100 m from a drill rig. This distance from a drill rig is typically beyond the well pad, in habitat that is not physically disturbed. There is widespread recognition that noise, light, and other sensory disturbances can affect the behavior and physiology of wildlife. The goal of the experiment was to determine if noise alone impacted the activity levels of bats, after being separated from the other forms of disturbance at a drilling site. I projected noise at treatment sites that were not already developed, and paired these treatment sites with control sites with no added noise. I conducted this experiment in 2013 and 2014, and present the results from 20 sites each year (10 control-treatment pairs annually).

Both years, there was an overall decrease in bat activity at treatment sites, when compared to control sites. In 2013, 8 of the 10 treatment sites had lower estimated bat activity levels. In 2014, all 10 treatment sites had lower estimated activity levels, although for some control-treatment pairs there was overlap in the credible intervals. Multiple species showed signs of reduced activity at treatment sites. For both years, M. ciliolabrum and L. cinarius had reduced activity levels at treatment sites. The response of other species was more idiosyncratic, with reduced activity in one field season, and inconclusive or no response during the other year. The species that did respond to the noise treatment have very different life histories, making it difficult to generalize about how any given species may respond to noise.

Chapter 3 focuses on bat activity level trends over time during a two period cross-over experiment. The classic two-period crossover experiment consists of two treatments (i.e., treatments ‘A’ and ‘B’), where each site is exposed to both treatments, and the order of the treatments is randomly assigned. For this study, ‘A’ refers to no added noise, and ‘B’ refers to a noise treatment consisting of the projected recording of drilling noise. A total of 12 sites were randomly assigned to the A:B sequence, and 13 sites were assigned to the B:A sequence. I acoustically monitored bat activity throughout the experiment, with particular interest in understanding the activity level dynamics post-exposure to the noise treatment. Most studies that investigate the impacts of noise on wildlife have focused on the response to noise during a noise treatment period, or noise event. Only a handful of previous studies have addressed the post-exposure period after noise ends. In these studies, noise treatments or events were relatively short in duration (a few minutes), and the corresponding recovery period was monitored over a similarly brief timeframe. My study differs in both the duration of the noise treatment (continuous noise over six days/nights), and in the duration of the post-exposure monitoring period (also six days/nights). I focused on the response of four bat species, Myotis ciliolabrum, Myotis evotis, Lasiurus cinareus, and Taderida brasiliensis.

Of the four focal species, M. evotis showed no substantial response to the noise treatment. The responses of M. ciliolabrum and T. brasiliensis were somewhat challenging to interpret. The overall activity levels of these species were lower during the treatment period in the A:B sequence, but they also had declining activity levels throughout the pre-exposure period. The activity patterns of L. cinareus provided the most convincing evidence of noise avoidance. Furthermore, L. cinareus activity levels did not show signs of recovery after the noise treatment ended in the B:A sequence. This suggests that after the six-day post-exposure period, there were still lingering effects of noise on L. cinareus activity levels. This study provides evidence that the effects of noise can linger for multiple days post-exposure. Future wildlife studies that assess periods of post-exposure could contribute meaningfully to this area of research, and aid in the development of conservation and mitigation efforts.

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Hill, Heather Lorraine. "Connecting to self, community, and the environment: Energy conservation and well-being in households with low income." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2018. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/122957/1/Heather%20Lorraine_Hill_Thesis.pdf.

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This thesis advances knowledge in the household energy conservation field by developing a transdisciplinary, systematic program that improves the well-being and conservation levels of households with low-income. Drawing on proven and recognised principles from self-determination theory and psychology this thesis conducted three studies. It examines therapeutic approaches that enhance well-being and facilitate change, and suggestions for an effective energy conservation program. Next, Brisbane renters with low-income intrinsic motivations, energy conservation program suggestions, and overall needs, values, and life satisfaction are evaluated in order to create applied solutions for NGOs, governments, and HCI and psychological fields.
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Dubois, James H. "An architectural vision of Marysville, Kansas : community energy planning and design - a process to achieve a self reliant, sustainable future." Thesis, Kansas State University, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/14004.

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Books on the topic "Community centers Energy conservation"

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Massachusetts. Office of Energy Conservation. Community development weatherization assistance program. Boston, MA: the office, 1988.

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American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers. Real-time energy consumption measurements in data centers. Atlanta, GA: American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers, 2009.

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Talerico, Tom. Viroqua conserves: A study of a community-based program : a WDSD evaluation report. Madison, WI: Wisconsin Demand-Side Demonstrations, 1995.

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Limited, Acres International. Community energy plan, Beaver Creek, Yukon, and energy planning handbook for remote northern communities. [Ottawa: The Program], 1985.

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author, Patterson Trista, and Pacific Northwest Research Station (Portland, Or.), eds. Community energy management in Sitka, Alaska: What strategies can help increase energy independence? Portland, Or.]: United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, 2013.

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Kebede, Bereket. The energy ecosystem of an Ethiopian village: An economic study of energy flows in a rural community. Addis Ababa: Institute of Development Research, Addis Ababa University, 1992.

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Canada. Energy, Mines and Resources Canada. Renewable Energy Division. Remote community demonstration program. Phase 1, report summaries. [Ottawa]: Energy, Mines and Resources Canada, 1985.

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American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers. Green tips for data centers. Atlanta, GA: American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers Inc., 2011.

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NTT Dēta Sentan Gijutsu Kabushiki Kaisha. "Dēta senta no bapponteki teisansoka to offisu tō e no hainetsu riyō ni kansuru kyōdō gijutsu kaihatsu" ni kansuru itaku gyōmu seika hōkokusho. [Tōkyō-to Chiyoda-ku]: Kankyōshō, 2014.

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Taha, Haider. Ranking and prioritizing the deployment of community-scale energy measures based on their indirect effects in California's climate zones. Martinez, California]: Altostratus, 2013.

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Albers, Susanne, and Jens Quedenfeld. "Algorithms for Energy Conservation in Heterogeneous Data Centers." In Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 75–89. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75242-2_5.

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AbstractPower consumption is the major cost factor in data centers. It can be reduced by dynamically right-sizing the data center according to the currently arriving jobs. If there is a long period with low load, servers can be powered down to save energy. For identical machines, the problem has already been solved optimally by [25] and [1].In this paper, we study how a data-center with heterogeneous servers can dynamically be right-sized to minimize the energy consumption. There are d different server types with various operating and switching costs. We present a deterministic online algorithm that achieves a competitive ratio of 2d as well as a randomized version that is 1.58d-competitive. Furthermore, we show that there is no deterministic online algorithm that attains a competitive ratio smaller than 2d. Hence our deterministic algorithm is optimal. In contrast to related problems like convex body chasing and convex function chasing [17, 30], we investigate the discrete setting where the number of active servers must be an integral, so we gain truly feasible solutions.
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Chen, Wenguang, Feiyun Jiang, Weimin Zheng, and Peinan Zhang. "A Dynamic Energy Conservation Scheme for Clusters in Computing Centers." In Embedded Software and Systems, 244–55. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11599555_25.

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Neudecker, Gregory A., Alison L. L. Duvall, and James W. Stutzman. "Community-Based Landscape Conservation: A Roadmap for the Future." In Energy Development and Wildlife Conservation in Western North America, 211–30. Washington, DC: Island Press/Center for Resource Economics, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-022-4_12.

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Albers, Susanne. "Energy-Efficient Scheduling." In Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 196–212. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21534-6_11.

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AbstractWe review algorithmic techniques for energy conservation in processing environments handling big data sets. Firstly, we address dynamic speed scaling, where processors can run at variable speed/frequency. The goal is to use the speed spectrum of the processors so as to minimize energy consumption while providing a desired service. Here we focus on multi-processor platforms with heterogeneous CPUs. Secondly, we examine power-down mechanisms where idle devices can be transitioned into low-power standby and sleep states. We consider power-down mechanisms in massively parallel systems, where the components have to coordinate their active and idle periods. In particular we focus on data centers with homogeneous as well as heterogeneous servers.
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Hsueh, Sung-Lin, and Chien-Min Hsu. "A Multi-criteria Assessment Model of Community College Development for Energy Conservation Promotion in Network Environment." In Advances in Computer Science, Environment, Ecoinformatics, and Education, 457–67. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23345-6_84.

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da Silva, Izael, Daniele Bricca, Andrea Micangeli, Davide Fioriti, and Paolo Cherubini. "Triple Helix as a Strategic Tool to Fast-Track Climate Change Adaptation in Rural Kenya: Case Study of Marsabit County." In African Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation, 1873–95. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45106-6_76.

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AbstractThe lack of affordable, clean, and reliable energy in Africa’s rural areas forces people to resort to poor quality energy source, which is detrimental to the people’s health and prevents the economic development of communities. Moreover, access to safe water and food security are concerns closely linked to health issues and children malnourishment. Recent climate change due to global warming has worsened the already critical situation.Electricity is well known to be an enabler of development as it allows the use of modern devices thus enabling the development of not only income-generating activities but also water pumping and food processing and conservation that can promote socioeconomic growth. However, all of this is difficult to achieve due to the lack of investors, local skills, awareness by the community, and often also government regulations.All the above mentioned barriers to the uptake of electricity in rural Kenya could be solved by the coordinated effort of government, private sector, and academia, also referred to as Triple Helix, in which each entity may partially take the other’s role. This chapter discretizes the above and shows how a specific county (Marsabit) has benefited from this triple intervention. Existing government policies and actions and programs led by nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and international agencies are reviewed, highlighting the current interconnection and gaps in promoting integrated actions toward climate change adaptation and energy access.
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Küver, Jan. "The Politics of Shared Heritage: Contested Histories and Participatory Memory Work in the Post-Colonial Urban Landscape." In 50 Years World Heritage Convention: Shared Responsibility – Conflict & Reconciliation, 139–50. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05660-4_11.

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AbstractShared heritage is a concept that serves to address cultural ties between countries or people that emanate from colonial history, including conflicts and contestations as well as connections and commonalities. This contribution evaluates the potential of shared heritage to work as a tool for a transformative heritage management practice through exploring the post-colonial heritage landscape of Iringa, Tanzania. The historical dynamics of colonialism have left various tangible and intangible traces throughout Iringa Town and Region. Combining ethnographic and historical methods, this paper examines historical narratives of different social groups, representations of these trajectories in the regional museum, and community responses to buildings and sites of colonial origin in the cityscape. In line with UNESCO’s Historic Urban Landscape (HUL) approach, observed applied conservation activities are discussed in the light of local development processes. I argue that shared heritage can serve as a viable concept to grapple with the colonial legacy vested in the HUL while at the same time using the discursive energy provided by these conflicts to support the cultural, social, and economic development of communities.
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Katondo, Richard J. M., and Agnes M. S. Nyomora. "The role of ecosystem services in enhancing climate change resilience of local communities: the case of Ngarambe-Tapika Wildlife Management Area, Rufiji district, Tanzania." In Climate change impacts and sustainability: ecosystems of Tanzania, 169–79. Wallingford: CABI, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1079/9781789242966.0169.

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Abstract This study examined the role of ecosystem services in enhancing climate change resilience of local communities in Ngarambe-Tapika Wildlife Management Area (WMA). The study aimed to identify forms of ecosystem services that can be gained from conservation of a WMA in relation to climate change adaptation. The design for this study adopted both a quantitative and a qualitative research approach. The study was undertaken in Ngarambe-Tapika WMA located between latitude 39° S and 39°30' S and between longitude 12°30' E and 13° E. It is located alongside the north-eastern border of the Selous Game Reserve. The area is also the home of local people whose lifestyles and livelihoods are intricately tied to the biological diversity and the functioning of this natural system. Purposive sampling was employed in selecting respondents for the household questionnaire, focus group discussions and key informant interviews. This study found that income obtained from Ngarambe-Tapika ecosystems by the communities were invested in material welfare and livelihoods that enhance resilience to climate change, primarily social services (54.9%) such as construction of houses, dispensaries and rehabilitation of the primary schools, and some of the money was spent on electricity provision for the community and energy for light and water pumps. Other benefits included employment (16.5%), protection from dangerous and problematic wildlife (14.3%) and petty business (14.3%). Generally, in Ngarambe-Tapika WMA there is a need to emphasize conservation awareness and extension programmes which advocate sustainable utilization of wildlife resources, and adopt an integrated approach of climate-smart agriculture to address the challenges related to food insecurity and climate change and variability. The latter would enable increased agricultural productivity to support equitable increases in farm incomes, improve food security and build resilience of agricultural and food security systems to adapt to climate change and variability.
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"Paddlefish Management, Propagation, and Conservation in the 21st Century." In Paddlefish Management, Propagation, and Conservation in the 21st Century, edited by MARK A. PEGG, JOHN H. CHICK, and BRENDA M. PRACHEIL. American Fisheries Society, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.47886/9781934874127.ch12.

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<em>Abstract</em>.—Invasive species are one of the dominant problems fisheries managers face when dealing with management, conservation, or preservation of native fishes. The primary concern is the potential for negative interactions between invasive and native species where the outcome is reduced abundance, fitness, growth, or extirpated native fish species. These negative interactions can come from direct competition for resources, vectors for the spread of disease or parasites, and subtle effects such as altering the flow of energy within and among other trophic levels. Paddlefish <em>Polyodon spathula </em>are not exempt from these threats and may even be at a higher risk because they are endemic to historically lotic systems in the central United States where many invasive species are now becoming established. The most prominent invasive threat to paddlefish may be from fellow filter-feeders bighead carp <em>Hypophthalmichthys nobilis </em>and silver carp <em>H. molitrix </em>because they consume similar food resources, possibly displace other pelagic species, and can also change the plankton community to one that cannot be as efficiently used by paddlefish. These two carp species have had a negative influence on native fish communities in other parts of the world, and have been shown to negatively interact with juvenile paddlefish in North America. Response plans that implement a movement barrier or removal of invasive species may also have ramifications for paddlefish in that they restrict movement patterns or reduce abundances as bycatch through harvest schemes. Gaining insights into potential invasive species threats to paddlefish is critical so that informed decisions can be made to prevent ecological damage from the invasive species while optimizing sustainability of native species.
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Weyman-Jones, Thomas G. "Energy conservation and demand in the European Community." In Energy in Europe, 79–104. Routledge, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429265624-4.

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France, Todd M., Rick A. Hurt, Robert F. Boehm, and Suresh B. Sadineni. "Home Energy Conservation in the Las Vegas Valley." In ASME 2009 3rd International Conference on Energy Sustainability collocated with the Heat Transfer and InterPACK09 Conferences. ASMEDC, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/es2009-90020.

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Pulte Homes, a production home builder and community developer partnering with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Building America program, has collaborated with the Center for Energy Research at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and NV Energy, the local electric utility, on an energy conservation project in the Las Vegas Valley. This study entails four model homes at a new development named Villa Trieste, located in the Summerlin community of Las Vegas. The models, ranging in floor plan area from 1,487 to 1,777 square feet, have been constructed under the Environments for Living program and have been platinum certified by LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) for Homes. According to the Home Energy Rating System Index, all four models are over 50% more efficient than homes of equal size built to 2006 International Energy Conservation Code standards. The study focuses on the cost benefit of installing additional efficiency upgrades in future homes at the development. Though all proposed upgrades offer reductions in energy use, many offer little improvement relative to their installation costs. Higher-efficiency windows, heat recovery ventilators, and R-36 spray foam attic insulation have been deemed appropriate measures for future homes. All homes are to be equipped with photovoltaic arrays; increasing the size of the arrays will cost-effectively reduce net energy consumption.
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Albers, Susanne. "On Energy Conservation in Data Centers." In SPAA '17: 29th ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3087556.3087560.

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Zhivov, Alexander, Richard J. Liesen, Stephan Richter, Reinhard Jank, and Franklin H. Holcomb. "Towards a Net Zero Building Cluster Energy Systems Analysis for a Brigade Combat Team Complex." In ASME 2010 4th International Conference on Energy Sustainability. ASMEDC, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/es2010-90487.

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The Army is required by law (Energy Policy Act of 2005 [EPACT] 2005, U.S. Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 [EISA] 2007) to eliminate fossil fuel use in new and renovated facilities by 2030 and to reduce overall facility energy usage by 30% by 2015. Army policy is to achieve 25 net zero energy installations by 2025 and to achieve net zero energy (NZE) status for all installations by 2058. Achieving NZE will only be possible if an optimum mix of demand reduction and renewable sources are put in place at a community (installation) or building cluster scale. The Army runs what are essentially small campuses, or clusters of buildings on its installations. The Department of Energy (DOE) is focused on the national grid scale or on individual buildings, while the commercial focus is on retrofits to individual buildings There is a lack of tools and case studies that address dynamics of energy systems at the community scale. The Army’s future building energy requirements are a mixture of ultra-low and high energy intensity facilities. Achieving net zero energy economically in these clusters of buildings will require a seamless blend of energy conservation in individual buildings, combined with building systems automation, utility management and control, and power delivery systems with the capability to integrate onsite power generation (including from renewable energy sources) and energy storage. When buildings are handled individually each building is optimized for energy efficiency to the economic energy efficiency optimum and then renewables are added until the building is net zero. This process works for buildings with a low energy intensity process for its mission, such as barracks and administrative buildings. When the mission of the building requires high energy intensity such as in a dining facility, data center, etc., this optimization process either will not end up with a net zero energy building, or large amounts of renewables will be added resulting in the overall technical solution that is not cost effective. But when buildings are clustered together, after each building is designed to its economic energy efficient option, the building cluster is also energy optimized taking advantages of the diversification between energy intensities, scheduling, and waste energy streams utilization. The optimized cluster will minimize the amount of renewables needed to make the building cluster net zero. This paper describes this process and demonstrates it using as an example a cluster of buildings a Brigade Combat Team Complex at Fort Bliss, TX.
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Tsubota, Y., and K. Yamakawa. "Energy conservation in TEPCO R&D Centers." In Proceedings First International Symposium on Environmentally Conscious Design and Inverse Manufacturing. IEEE, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ecodim.1999.747757.

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Ouchi, Mayumi, Yoshiyuki Abe, Masato Fukagaya, Haruhiko Ohta, Yasuhisa Shinmoto, Masahide Sato, and Ken-ichi Iimura. "Liquid Cooling Network Systems for Energy Conservation in Data Centers." In ASME 2011 Pacific Rim Technical Conference and Exhibition on Packaging and Integration of Electronic and Photonic Systems. ASMEDC, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/ipack2011-52066.

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Energy consumption in data center has been drastically increasing in recent years. In data center, server racks are cooled down by air conditioning for the whole room in a roundabout way. This air cooling method is inefficient in cooling and it causes hotspot problem that IT equipments are not cooled down enough, but the room is overcooled. On the other hand, countermeasure against the heat of the IT equipments is also one of the big issues. We therefore proposed new liquid cooling systems which IT equipments themselves are cooled down and exhaust heat is not radiated into the server room. For our liquid cooling systems, three kinds of cooling methods have been developed simultaneously. Two of them are direct cooling methods that the cooling jacket is directly attached to heat source, or CPU in this case. Single-phase heat exchanger or two-phase heat exchanger is used as cooling jackets. The other is indirect cooling methods that the heat generated from CPU is transported to the outside of the chassis through flat heat pipes, and condensation sections of the heat pipes are cooled down by liquid. Verification tests have been conducted by use of real server racks equipped with these cooling techniques while pushing ahead with five R&D subjects which constitute our liquid cooling system, which single-phase heat exchanger, two-phase heat exchanger, high performance flat heat pipes, nanofluids technology, and plug-in connector. As a result, the energy saving effect of 50∼60% comparing with conventional air cooling system was provided in direct cooling technique with single-phase heat exchanger.
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Patil, Vikas Ashok, and Vipin Chaudhary. "Rack Aware Scheduling in HPC Data Centers: An Energy Conservation Strategy." In Distributed Processing, Workshops and Phd Forum (IPDPSW). IEEE, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ipdps.2011.227.

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Cao, Bo, Xiaofeng Gao, Guihai Chen, and Yaohui Jin. "NICE: Network-aware VM Consolidation scheme for Energy Conservation in Data Centers." In 2014 20th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS). IEEE, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/padsw.2014.7097805.

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Moh, Teng-Sheng, Barath Kuppuswamy, and Melody Moh. "Prioritizing power management and reducing downtime for energy conservation in data centers." In 2010 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC). IEEE, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/iscc.2010.5546798.

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Wu, Xiao Ping, Masataka Mochizuki, Koichi Mashiko, Thang Nguyen, Tien Nguyen, Vijit Wuttijumnong, Gerald Cabusao, Randeep Singh, and Aliakbar Akbarzadeh. "Data Center Energy Conservation by Heat Pipe Cold Energy Storage System." In 2010 14th International Heat Transfer Conference. ASMEDC, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/ihtc14-23128.

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In this paper, design and economic analysis for applying a novel type of heat pipe into cold energy storage systems have been proposed and discussed. The heat pipe cold energy storage systems can be designed into several types that are ice storage, cold water storage and pre-cool heat exchanger. Those systems can be used for co-operating with conventional chiller system for cooling data centers. The heat load used for discussing in this paper is 8800 kW which represents a large scale data center. The methodology addressed in this paper can be also converted into the middle and small sizes of the data centers. This type of storage system will help to downsize the chiller and decrease its running time that would be able to save significant electricity cost and decrease green house gas emissions from the electricity generation. The proposed systems can be easily connected into the existing conventional systems without major design changes. The analysis in this paper is using Air Freezing Index AFI &gt;= 400 °C-days/year for sizing the heat pipe modules. For the locations where AFI has different value the storage size will be varied accordingly. The paper also addressed a result that an optimum size of cold energy storage system that should be designed at a level to handle 60% of total yearly heat load of a data center.
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Conry, Patrick, H. J. S. Fernando, L. S. Leo, Ashish Sharma, Mark Potosnak, and Jessica Hellmann. "Multi-Scale Simulations of Climate-Change Influence on Chicago Heat Island." In ASME 2014 4th Joint US-European Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting collocated with the ASME 2014 12th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/fedsm2014-21581.

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Over the past half century, burgeoning urban areas such as Chicago have experienced elevated anthropogenic-induced alteration of local climates within urbanized regions. As a result, urban heat island (UHI) effect in these areas has intensified. Global climate change can further modulate UHI’s negative effects on human welfare and energy conservation. Various numerical models exist to understand, monitor, and predict UHI and its ramifications, but none can resolve all the relevant physical phenomena that span a wide range of scales. To this end, we have applied a comprehensive multi-scale approach to study UHI of Chicago. The coupling of global, mesoscale, and micro-scale models has allowed for dynamical downscaling from global to regional to city and finally to neighborhood scales. The output of the Community Climate System Model (CCSM5), a general circulation model (GCM), provides future climate scenario, and its coupling with Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model enables studies on mesoscale behavior at urban scales. The output from the WRF model at 0.333 km resolution is used to drive a micro-scale model, ENVI-met. Through this coupling the bane of obtaining reliable initial and boundary conditions for the micro-scale model from limited available observational records has been aptly remedied. It was found that the performance of ENVI-met improves when WRF output, rather than observational data, is supplied for initial conditions. The success of the downscaling procedure allowed reasonable application of micro-scale model to future climate scenario provided by CCSM5 and WRF models. The fine (2 m) resolution of ENVI-met enables the study of two key effects of UHI at micro-scale: decreased pedestrian comfort and increased building-scale energy consumption. ENVI-met model’s explicit treatment of key processes that underpin urban microclimate makes it captivating for pedestrian comfort analysis. Building energy, however, is not modeled by ENVI-met so we have developed a simplified building energy model to estimate future cooling needs.
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Kirsch, F. W. Energy Analysis and Diagnostic Centers: A program of direct energy conservation assistance for small and medium-size manufacturers. Quarterly progress report, June 1994. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), August 1994. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/10177376.

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Roa, Julia, and Joseph Oldham. Feasibility Study of Regional Air Mobility Services for High Priority Transportation in the San Joaquin Valley. Mineta Transportation Institute, May 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.31979/mti.2022.2129.

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Regional Air Mobility (RAM) focuses on building upon existing airport infrastructure to transport people and goods using innovative aircraft that offer a huge improvement in efficiency, affordability, and community-friendly integration over existing regional transportation options. These aircraft, which typically carry less than 20 passengers or an equivalent weight in cargo, are flexible in terms of where they can take off and land, even using existing runways and infrastructure to maximize compatibility with today’s airports. This project examines the feasibility of RAM supporting high-speed transportation for high-priority passenger and cargo movement within Fresno County and connection to coastal urban centers. Some examples of high-priority passengers and cargo could include, but would not be limited to, medical patients needing specialized and/or emergency treatment, organ transport, and critical medical supply deliveries. Electrification of aviation is happening, and Fresno County has the potential to combine our existing closely spaced underutilized airport infrastructure, early demonstration, and experience with electric aircraft, renewable energy opportunities, central location within the state, and the need to open the door for new industry opportunities for youth to take advantage of this “Third Revolution” in aviation.
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A guidebook for insulated low-slope roof systems. IEA Annex 19, Low-slope roof systems: International Energy Agency Energy Conservation in Buildings and Community Systems Programme. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), February 1994. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/10137651.

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