The sensitivity of electricity consumption to air temperature and air humidity are effective indicators in evaluating the impacts of countermeasures against urban heat islands. The impacts of these countermeasures vary in time and space and so sensitivities based on finer resolution data are...

this paper is concerned with the determinants of historical changes in the rate of voluntary job leaves due to marriage or childbirth/childcare among Japanese women.

A rigid lattice gas model of solid-liquid, liquid-gas, and solid-gas transformations is proposed. The total free energy is separated into a lattice part and a vibrational correction part. It is reported that the vibrational part plays an important role in obtaining the gas, liquid and solid...

In this paper, a control method with which it is possible to extract wind energy effectively, even when the system characteristic is unknown, is suggested. With this control method, it is possible to follow the quasi-maximum output only by measurements of the load terminal voltage and current,...

The two-dimensional thermal analysis code TAC-NC is modified from the analytical code TAC-2D in order to calculate temperature transients in the case of loss of forced cooling accidents of the HTTR (High Temperature engineering Test Reactor) such as a depressurization accident. The TAC-NC code...

Investigating honeycomb and triangular simple spin-12 Ising model ferromagnets, exact algebraic systems of linear identities are developed containing the spontaneous magnetization and other odd-number correlations where the coefficients depend upon the interaction parameters. Aided by...

This paper presents a new numerical simulation method to calculate transient voltage profiles of lithium-ion secondary batteries. The method employs circuit analysis of an internal equivalent electric circuit composed of an electromotive force, an LR parallel circuit, and eight CR parallel...

The growth mode and electronic structure of the vapor-deposited Ag overlayer on the ${\rm ZnO}(10\overline{1}0)$ surface is investigated by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy utilizing synchrotron radiation. The coverage dependent measurements of the two-dimensional band structure by the...