Search Results - "Braham, William W."

Adaptive behavior and different thermal experiences of real people: A Bayesian neural network approach to thermal preference prediction and classification by Ma, Nan, Chen, Liang, Hu, Jian, Perdikaris, Paris, Braham, William W.

“…Various observed and unquantifiable factors affect the thermal comfort of occupants in indoor environments and can lead to high uncertainty in the prediction…”
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Uncertainty characterization of building emergy analysis (BEmA) by Yi, Hwang, Braham, William W.

“…In this article, the authors quantify uncertainty of the building emergy analysis (BEmA). The emergy accounting considers environmental sources from the most…”
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Measuring public service quality: Revisiting residential location choice using emergy synthesis of local governments in Pennsylvania by Lee, Jae Min, Braham, William W.

“…In this article, we present a study of local governments in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania measuring public service quality and revisiting residential…”
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An ecological understanding of net-zero energy building: Evaluation of sustainability based on emergy theory by Yi, Hwang, Srinivasan, Ravi S., Braham, William W., Tilley, David R.

“…This study evaluates the sustainability of net-zero energy building (NZEB), in terms of ecosystems development on a global environmental scale, with ecological…”
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An integrated energy–emergy approach to building form optimization: Use of EnergyPlus, emergy analysis and Taguchi-regression method by Yi, Hwang, Srinivasan, Ravi S., Braham, William W.

“…This research presents a new methodology of environmental building design with an integrated energy–emergy (spelled with an “m”) approach to study building…”
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Climate responsive lessons from an architectural and ethnographic study of Hijazi traditional dwellings in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia by Basunbul, Anwar Islem, Braham, William W.

“…This study investigated the thermal environment in a traditional Hijazi building, the Baeshen House in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, a city on the Red Sea. This…”
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A metabolic network approach to building performance: Information building modeling and simulation of biological indicators by Yi, Hwang, Braham, William W., Tilley, David R., Srinivasan, Ravi

“…In an effort to complement energy-efficiency oriented methods of environmental building study, this research seeks to understand building as a metabolic…”
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Re(De)fining Net Zero Energy: Renewable Emergy Balance in environmental building design by Srinivasan, Ravi S., Braham, William W., Campbell, Daniel E., Curcija, Charlie D.

“…The notion that raw materials for building construction are plentiful and can be extracted “at will” from Earth’s geobiosphere, and that these materials do not…”
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Measuring the right factors: A review of variables and models for thermal comfort and indoor air quality by Ma, Nan, Aviv, Dorit, Guo, Hongshan, Braham, William W.

“…The indoor environment directly affects health and comfort as humans spend most of the day indoors. However, improperly controlled ventilation systems can…”
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Land development in an urban megalopolis: A holistic environmental assessment of housing on Chongming Eco-island, China by Hou, Miaomiao, Braham, William W.

“…Over the last decade, the Chinese government has promoted Chongming Eco-Island as an example of sustainable urbanization and a means to mitigate the growth of…”
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Building emergy analysis of Manhattan: Density parameters for high-density and high-rise developments by Lee, Jae Min, Braham, William W.

“…To better understand how cities work, this study performs emergy (spelled with an “m”) synthesis of buildings on Manhattan Island. Conventional emergy studies…”
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Learning building occupants’ indoor environmental quality complaints and dissatisfaction from text-mining Booking.com reviews in the United States by Ma, Nan, Zhang, Qi, Murai, Fabricio, Braham, William W., Samuelson, Holly W.

“…Traditional post occupancy evaluation (POE) poses a challenge to the comprehensive knowledge of occupant dissatisfaction with indoor environmental quality…”
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Blockchain + IoT sensor network to measure, evaluate and incentivize personal environmental accounting and efficient energy use in indoor spaces by Ma, Nan, Waegel, Alex, Hakkarainen, Max, Braham, William W., Glass, Lior, Aviv, Dorit

“…[Display omitted] •Blockchain + IoT network is developed to connect energy data to a reward system.•This can incentivize demand response by building…”
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Spatial concentration of urban assets in the Philadelphia region: An emergy synthesis by Braham, William W., Lee, Jae Min, Oskierko-Jeznacki, Evan, Silverman, Barry, Khansari, Nasrin

“…•The concentration of energy into more valuable forms is the driver for urban growth.•In cities, energy is concentrated in fuels, buildings, institutions, and…”
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Adaptive behavior and different thermal experiences of real people: A Bayesian neural network approach to thermal preference prediction and classification by Ma, Nan, Chen, Liang, Hu, Jian, Perdikaris, Paris, Braham, William W.

“…Various observed and unquantifiable factors affect the thermal comfort of occupants in indoor environments and can lead to high uncertainty in the prediction…”
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Cooking, Heating, Insulating Products and Services (CHIPS) for Mongolian ger: Reducing energy, cost, and indoor air pollution by Braham, William W., Hakkarainen, Max, Buyan, Munkhbayar, Janjindorj, Gankhuyag, Turner, Jay, Erdenekhuyag, Sunder

“…This project sought to answer three related questions about the Mongolian ger (ger are called yurt in Russian) assembled in the highly polluted, informal…”
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Impacts of building envelope design on indoor ozone exposures and health risks in urban environments by Ma, Nan, Hakkarainen, Max, Hou, Miaomiao, Aviv, Dorit, Braham, William W.

“…Much of human exposure to ozone takes place indoors. However, few studies have focused on human ozone exposures in normally occupied residential houses in the…”
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A spatial analysis of ozone and PM2.5 distribution for assessing design factors of healthy buildings by Zhang, Qi, Li, Linxue, Zhou, Jin, Braham, William W., Ma, Nan

“…Indoor air quality (IAQ) represents one of the significant challenges in healthy building design, with thermal comfort and daylighting being primary design…”
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Measuring ecological characteristics of environmental building performance: Suggestion of an information-network model and indices to quantify complexity, power, and sustainability of energetic organization by Yi, Hwang, Braham, William W., Tilley, David R., Srinivasan, Ravi

“…•A network-based evaluation model of environmental building performance is suggested.•System-level ecological/thermodynamic principles are discussed and…”
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Metabolism of Urban Location: Travel Time and the Morphology of Cities by Braham, William W., Lee, Jae Min

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