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Automated Demand Response and Commissioning

Piette, Mary Ann; Watson, David S.; Motegi, Naoya; … - 2008

This paper describes the results from the second season of research to develop and evaluate the performance of new Automated Demand Response (Auto-DR) hardware and software technology in large facilities. Demand Response (DR) is a set of activities to reduce or shift electricity use to improve...

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Estimating carbon dioxide emission factors for the California electric power sector

Marnay, Chris; Fisher, Diane; Murtishaw, Scott; Phadke, Amol - 2008

The California Climate Action Registry (''Registry'') was initially established in 2000 under Senate Bill 1771, and …, the mix of generation resources used to meet loads may vary at different times of day or in different seasons. Third …

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Implications of biofilm-associated waterborne Cryptosporidium oocysts for the water industry

Angles, ML; Chandy, JP; Cox, PT; Fisher, IH; Warnecke, MR - 2007

Waterborne Cryptosporidium has been responsible for drinking water-associated disease outbreaks in a number of developed countries. As a result of the resistance of Cryptosporidium to chlorine, which is typically applied as a final barrier to protect the quality of distributed drinking water,...

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Culture Methods for Growth Enhancement and Off-Season Production of Yellow Perch Perca flavescens

Shewmon, Laura Norkio - 2005

growth enhancement. Results indicate that a) constant temperature is the strongest promoter of overall growth regardless of … photoperiod; b) constant photoperiod also promotes overall growth regardless of temperature; c) natural (decreasing) photoperiod … initiates maturation in yellow perch regardless of temperature; d) natural temperature is required for late maturational …

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Weather, mobility and the evolution of the Covid-19 pandemic

Ghirelli, Corinna; González Piñero, Andrea; Herrera …

Estimamos el coeficiente de reproducción efectivo (Rt) de la pandemia de Covid-19, con datos de casos detectados en Estados Unidos, a nivel de condado, entre febrero y septiembre de 2020. Con esta información estimamos el efecto de la climatología y de la movilidad sobre el ritmo de...

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Management of small tourism business in rural areas

Do, Kyungrok - 2010

Drawing from contingency theory and the concept of entrepreneurship, this study investigates the viability of the small-scale agritourism business by identifying the environmental and operational characteristics unique to agritourism businesses and proposing a model to explain owner behavior in...

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Development of an exceedance probability streamflow forecast

Piechota, Thomas C.; Chiew, F. H.S.; Dracup, J. A.; … - 2001

categorical streamflow forecast model that used persistence (i.e., the previous season’s streamflow) and El Niño …/Indian Ocean sea surface temperature (SST) series as the main predictor variables. Using linear discriminant analysis, the forecast …

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Alternative PCA-based regression procedures in dendroclimatic reconstructions

Hidalgo, H. G.; Piechota, Thomas C.; Dracup, J. A. - 2000

Streamflow reconstruction using tree ring information (dendrohydrology) has traditionally used principal components analysis (PCA) and stepwise regression to form a transfer function. However, PCA has several procedural choices that may result in very different reconstructions. This study...

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Streamflow variability, seasonal forecasting and water resources systems

Chiew, F. H.S.; McMahon, T. A.; Zhou, S. L.; Piechota, … - 2000

forecast over certain seasons with some success using indicators of ENSO and the serial correlation in runoff. The second part …

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