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whether recipients received a cookstove with USB ports enabled or disabled. We found that access to USB charging ports … the cookstove in a "charging-only" mode; just 11% of total cookstove use was in this mode. As with past work, data showed … that surveys of user behavior do not correlate well with sensor-measured behavior. The trial cookstove was much smaller and …
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whether recipients received a cookstove with USB ports enabled or disabled. We found that access to USB charging ports … the cookstove in a "charging-only" mode; just 11% of total cookstove use was in this mode. As with past work, data showed … that surveys of user behavior do not correlate well with sensor-measured behavior. The trial cookstove was much smaller and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011940303
This paper provides a comprehensive review of the recent progress made in energy harvesting systems for wearable technology. An energy-harvesting system would be a useful strategy to address the issue of powering wearable electronic devices. This review presents different wearable energy...
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representative survey of German households. The direct rebound effect is measured as the elasticity of useful lighting demand with …
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Post-occupancy evaluations represent an important missed opportunity. While POEs are often used to inform design guides, and to support facility management, they are seldom used to support design decision-making. While there are several technical, methodological, and cultural impediments to the...
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estimation of what their electricity consumption is. Studies reveal that they mainly use electricity to meet their lighting needs … that computes the hourly lighting load profiles of rural households in East Africa requiring a small amount of publicly … prediction accuracy of 80% is reached. After applying lighting requirement functions, load profiles are generated and then …
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indicate that the props, setting, and lighting variables has a positive and significant impact on consumer preferences, while …, talent, props, setting, and lighting to consumer preferences by 56,3%, meaning the relationship between variables is quite … closely. A lighting variables is the variable most influential and significant of all independent variables. Adjusted R Square …
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Lighting of pedestrian paths fulfils crucial needs for informal settlement dwellers. A common technological approach in … that those luminaires are not able to create adequate consistent lighting conditions in common forms of informal …
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Market productivity is often greater, and leisure and other household activities more enjoyable, when people perform them simultaneously. Beyond pointing out the positive externalities of synchronicity, economists have not attempted to identify exogenous causes that affect timing. We develop a...
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