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The rapidly growing world energy use has already raised concerns over supply difficulties, exhaustion of energy resources and heavy environmental impacts (ozone layer depletion, global warming, climate change, etc.). The global... more
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      EngineeringClimate ChangeEnergy PolicyEnergy Efficiency Buildings
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      Renewable EnergyEnergy ConservationEnergy ConsumptionEnergy and Environment
This paper proposes S-MAC, a medium access control (MAC) protocol designed for wireless sensor networks. Wireless sensor networks use battery-operated computing and sensing devices. A network of these devices will collaborate for a common... more
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      Distributed ComputingComputer NetworksEnergy ConservationAdaptive Control
Anatomic and physiologic data are used to analyze the energy expenditure on different components of excitatory signaling in the grey matter of rodent brain. Action potentials and postsynaptic effects of glutamate are predicted to consume... more
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      Magnetic Resonance ImagingEnergy ConsumptionEnergy MetabolismSignal Transduction
This paper presents Span, a power saving technique for multi-hop ad hoc wireless networks that reduces energy consumption without significantly diminishing the capacity or connectivity of the network. Span builds on the observation that... more
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      Distributed ComputingEnergyRoutingEnergy Consumption
This article reviews and evaluates the effectiveness of interventions aiming to encourage households to reduce energy consumption. Thirty-eight studies performed within the field of (applied) social and environmental psychology are... more
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      Environmental PsychologyEnergy ConservationEnergy ConsumptionMultidisciplinary
Large-scale Internet services require a computing infrastructure that can be appropriately described as a warehouse-sized computing system. The cost of building datacenter facilities capable of delivering a given power capacity to such a... more
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      Energy ConsumptionPower ManagementPower ConsumptionEnergy Saving
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      Energy ConsumptionWireless networksBroadcastingNetwork Protocols
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      Distributed ComputingEnergy ConsumptionEnergy efficiencyMIMO
A wireless sensor network (WSN)consisting of a large number of tiny sensors can be an effective tool for gathering data in diverse kinds of environments. The data collected by each sensor is communicated to the base station, which... more
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      Distributed ComputingData MiningTaxonomyWireless Sensor Networks
The growing demand for more fuel-efficient vehicles to reduce energy consumption and air pollution is a challenge for the automotive industry. The characteristic properties of aluminium, high strength stiffness to weight ratio, good... more
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      Materials EngineeringMechanical EngineeringMaterials ScienceEngineering Design
The energy usage of computer systems is becoming an important consideration, especially for battery-operated systems. Various methods for reducing energy consumption have been investigated, both at the circuit level and at the operating... more
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      SchedulingEnergy ConsumptionOPERATING SYSTEMJob Scheduling
We consider wireless systems where the nodes operate on batteries so that energy consumption must be minimized while satisfying given throughput and delay requirements. In this context, we analyze the best modulation strategy to minimize... more
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      Distributed ComputingSignal ProcessingWireless CommunicationsWireless Systems
Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) provide rapidly deployable and self-configuring network capacity required in many critical applications, e.g., battlefields, disaster relief and wide area sensing. In this paper we study the problem of... more
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      Mobile Ad Hoc NetworksEnergy ConsumptionMobile Ad Hoc NetworkLong Range
Power management is an important concern in sensor networks, because a tethered energy infrastructure is usually not available and an obvious concern is to use the available battery energy efficiently. However, in some of the sensor... more
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      Distributed ComputingEnergy ConsumptionPower ManagementComputer Hardware
Topology Control (TC) is one of the most important techniques used in wireless ad hoc and sensor networks to reduce energy consumption (which is essential to extend the network operational time) and radio interference (with a positive... more
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      Energy ConsumptionTopology ControlSensor networksSensor Network
The traffic-adaptive medium access protocol (TRAMA) is introduced for energyefficient collision-free channel access in wireless sensor networks. TRAMA reduces energy consumption by ensuring that unicast and broadcast transmissions incur... more
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      Distributed ComputingNetworksEnergy ConsumptionWireless networks
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      Distributed ComputingLinear ProgrammingWireless Sensor NetworksRouting algorithm
In wireless sensor networks that consist of a large number of lowpower, short-lived, unreliable sensors, one of the main design challenges is to obtain long system lifetime, as well as maintain sufficient sensing coverage and reliability.... more
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      Energy ConsumptionEnergy SavingLow PowerWireless Sensor Network
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      Social NetworksEnergy ConsumptionUser eXperienceMobile phone
Efficient routing among a set of mobile hosts (also called nodes) is one of the most important functions in ad-hoc wireless networks. Routing based on a connected dominating set is a frequently used approach, where the searching space for... more
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      Distributed AlgorithmsRoutingEnergy ConsumptionParallel Processing
The potential for collaborative, robust networks of microsensors has attracted a great deal of research attention. For the most part, this is due to the compelling applications that will be enabled once wireless microsensor networks are... more
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      Wireless Sensor NetworksLocalizationEnergy ConsumptionAlgorithm Design
This paper studies the problem of determining the node locations in ad-hoc sensor networks. We compare three distributed localization algorithms (Ad-hoc positioning, Robust positioning, and N -hop multilateration) on a single simulation... more
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      EngineeringTechnologyAntennasDistributed Algorithms
The clustering Algorithm is a kind of key technique used to reduce energy consumption. It can increase the scalability and lifetime of the network. Energy-efficient clustering protocols should be designed for the characteristic of... more
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      Distributed ComputingEnergy ConsumptionComputer CommunicationsLow Energy Buildngs
On the road towards higher memory density and computer performance, a significant improvement in energy efficiency constitutes the dominant goal in future information technology. Passive crossbar arrays of memristive elements were... more
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      Information TechnologyEnergy ConsumptionMultidisciplinaryPower Consumption
The causality relationship between energy consumption and income is a well-studied topic in energy economics. This paper studies the time series properties of energy consumption and GDP and reexamines the causality relationship between... more
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      Economic GrowthEnergy ConsumptionCointegration
This paper investigates the effect of energy consumption and output on carbon emissions in the United States. Earlier research focused on testing the existence and/or shape of an environmental Kuznets curve without taking energy... more
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      Ecological EconomicsEconomic GrowthEnergy ConsumptionApplied Economics
This review paper first discusses the needs for fundamental changes in the energy system for major efficiency improvements in terms of global resource limitation and sustainable development. Major improvement in energy efficiency of... more
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      EngineeringSustainable DevelopmentEnergy ConsumptionHigh Energy Density Physics
This study examines the long-run relationship between carbon emissions and energy consumption, income and foreign trade in the case of China by employing time series data of 1975–2005. In particular the study aims at testing whether... more
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      Economic GrowthEnergy PolicyEnergy ConsumptionMultidisciplinary
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      MathematicsComputer ScienceDistributed ComputingSpine
In this paper, we present a Minimum Spanning Tree (MST) based topology control algorithm, called Local Minimum Spanning Tree (LMST), for wireless multi-hop networks. In this algorithm, each node builds its local minimum spanning tree... more
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      Distributed ComputingGraph TheoryEnergy ConsumptionTopology Control
Using detailed traces from 255 users, we conduct a comprehensive study of smartphone use. We characterize intentional user activities -interactions with the device and the applications used -and the impact of those activities on network... more
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      Human FactorsEnergy ConsumptionUser eXperienceUser Behavior
Unlike previous studies on the causal relationship between energy consumption and economic growth, this paper illustrates how the finding of cointegration (i.e. long-term equilibrium relationship) between these variables, may be used in... more
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      Mechanical EngineeringEnergy EconomicsMethodologyEconomic Growth
For combustion with CO 2 capture, chemical-looping combustion has the advantage that no energy is lost for the separation of CO 2 . In chemical-looping combustion oxygen is transferred from the combustion air to the gaseous fuel by means... more
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      Mechanical EngineeringChemical EngineeringEnergyEnergy Consumption
The building industry uses great quantities of raw materials that also involve high energy consumption. Choosing materials with high content in embodied energy entails an initial high level of energy consumption in the building production... more
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      ArchitectureMethodologyEnergy ConsumptionRegional development
The focus of surveillance missions is to acquire and verify information about enemy capabilities and positions of hostile targets. Such missions often involve a high element of risk for human personnel and require a high degree of... more
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      Energy ConservationEnergy ConsumptionSensor NetworkLessons Learned
The growing industrial metabolism is a major driver of global environmental change. We present an assessment of the global use of materials since the beginning of the 20 th century based on the conceptual and methodological principles of... more
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      Ecological EconomicsEconomic GrowthEconomic DevelopmentEnergy Consumption
Recent analysis by manufacturers and network operators has shown that current wireless networks are not very energy efficient, particularly the base stations by which terminals access services from the network. In response to this... more
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      Distributed ComputingWireless SystemsEnergy ConsumptionMobile Communication
A selection of the potential impacts of climate change – on agriculture,forestry, unmanaged ecosystems, sea level rise, human mortality, energyconsumption, and water resources – are estimated and valued in monetaryterms. Estimates are... more
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      Climate ChangeEnergy ConsumptionSea LevelApplied Economics
Probabilistic model checking is an automatic formal verification technique for analysing quantitative properties of systems which exhibit stochastic behaviour. PRISM is a probabilistic model checking tool which has already been... more
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      Distributed ComputingModel CheckingSystems EngineeringModeling
This paper examines factors influencing the acceptability of energy policies aimed to reduce the emission of CO 2 by households. More specifically, it is studied to what extent the value-belief-norm theory of environmentalism (VBN... more
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      Environmental PsychologyEnergy PolicyEnergy ConsumptionMultidisciplinary
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      Time SeriesEconomic GrowthScienceEnergy Consumption
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      EngineeringEconomicsSystem IdentificationSignal Processing
Energy consumption in hosting Internet services is becoming a pressing issue as these services scale up. Dynamic server provisioning techniques are effective in turning off unnecessary servers to save energy. Such techniques, mostly... more
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      Teacher EducationEnergy ConsumptionUser eXperienceScaling up
Empirical analyses of the determinants of environmental innovations were rarely able to distinguish between different areas of environmental impacts. The paper tries to close this gap by employing a new and unique dataset based on the... more
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      Environmental policyEcological EconomicsEnergy ConsumptionApplied Economics
This study examines the cointegration and causal relationship between economic growth, carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions and energy consumption in selected Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries for the period 1971e2009.... more
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      EngineeringMechanical EngineeringCivil EngineeringEconomic Growth
Mitochondria are particularly vulnerable to oxidative stress, and mitochondrial swelling and vacuolization are among the earliest pathologic features found in two strains of transgenic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) mice with SOD1... more
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      Skeletal muscle biologyMotor neuronEnergy ConsumptionCreatine
Clustering provides an effective way for prolonging the lifetime of a wireless sensor network. Current clustering algorithms usually utilize two techniques, selecting cluster heads with more residual energy and rotating cluster heads... more
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      Wireless Sensor NetworksEnergy ConsumptionRouting protocolsClustered Data
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      Electrical EngineeringDistributed ComputingEnergy ConservationWireless Sensor Networks
In wireless ad hoc networks, nodes communicate with far off destinations using intermediate nodes as relays. Since wireless nodes are energy constrained, it may not be in the best interest of a node to always accept relay requests. On the... more
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      Game TheoryEnergy ConsumptionSystem DesignNash Equilibrium