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Optimized Blind Control Method to Minimize Heating, Cooling and Lighting Energy
AbstractEnergy saving has become a hot issue all over the world. To minimize the energy use in buildings, the cooperative control coupled with heating, cooling, lighting and blind control system was proposed in this study. The blind condition is optimized to minimize the total energy of heating, cooling and lighting.In this study, the control behaviors and energy saving effect of the proposed system were evaluated by field measurement. The results show that the proposed control system reduces the cooling energy demand by about 40.8% and 19.6% of the lighting energy compared to the conventional control system with maintaining the same thermal comfort level. The total energy saving rate reached 29.7%
Probing the messenger of supersymmetry breaking by the muon anomalous magnetic moment
Motivated by the recently measured muon's anomalous magnetic moment
, we examine the supersymmetry contribution to in various
mediation models of supersymmetry breaking which lead to predictive flavor
conserving soft parameters at high energy scale. The studied models include
dilaton/modulus-mediated models in heterotic string/ theory, gauge-mediated
model, no-scale or gaugino-mediated model, and also the minimal and deflected
anomaly-mediated models. For each model, the range of allowed
by other experimental constraints, e.g. b --> s\gamma and the collider bounds
on superparticle masses, is obtained together with the corresponding parameter
region of the model. Gauge-mediated models with low messenger scale can give
any within the bound. In many other models, b -->
s\gamma favors smaller than either the value
() or the central value ().Comment: RevTeX, 29 pages, 14 eps figures, figure for deflected anomaly
mediation is corrected, reference adde
Ferromagnetically coupled magnetic impurities in a quantum point contact
We investigate the ground and excited states of interacting electrons in a
quantum point contact using exact diagonalization method. We find that strongly
localized states in the point contact appear when a new conductance channel
opens due to momentum mismatch. These localized states form magnetic impurity
states which are stable in a finite regime of chemical potential and excitation
energy. Interestingly, these magnetic impurities have ferromagnetic coupling,
which shed light on the experimentally observed puzzling coexistence of Kondo
correlation and spin filtering in a quantum point contact
The CDF dijet excess and Z'_{cs} coupled to the second generation quarks
Recently the CDF collaboration has reported the excess in the dijet
invariant-mass distribution of the Wjj events, corresponding to a significance
of 3.2 standard deviations. Considering the lack of similar excesses in the
and events yet, we propose a new Z' model: Z' couples only
to the second generation quarks. Single production of \zsc as well as
associated production with are mainly from the sea quarks. Only
production has additional contribution from one valence quark and one
sea quark, which is allowed by CKM mixing. We found that if the new gauge
coupling is large enough, marginally permitted by perturbativity, this new
model can explain the observed CDF anomaly as well as the lack of \gm
jj and anomalies. Vanishing coupling of Z'-b-b protects this model from
the constraint of p pbar ->WH -> l\nu b \bar{b}.Comment: references adde
Combining Local Appearance and Holistic View: Dual-Source Deep Neural Networks for Human Pose Estimation
We propose a new learning-based method for estimating 2D human pose from a
single image, using Dual-Source Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DS-CNN).
Recently, many methods have been developed to estimate human pose by using pose
priors that are estimated from physiologically inspired graphical models or
learned from a holistic perspective. In this paper, we propose to integrate
both the local (body) part appearance and the holistic view of each local part
for more accurate human pose estimation. Specifically, the proposed DS-CNN
takes a set of image patches (category-independent object proposals for
training and multi-scale sliding windows for testing) as the input and then
learns the appearance of each local part by considering their holistic views in
the full body. Using DS-CNN, we achieve both joint detection, which determines
whether an image patch contains a body joint, and joint localization, which
finds the exact location of the joint in the image patch. Finally, we develop
an algorithm to combine these joint detection/localization results from all the
image patches for estimating the human pose. The experimental results show the
effectiveness of the proposed method by comparing to the state-of-the-art
human-pose estimation methods based on pose priors that are estimated from
physiologically inspired graphical models or learned from a holistic
perspective.Comment: CVPR 201
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