Training Load Monitoring Algorithms on Highly Sub-Metered Home Electricity Consumption Data

The growing interest in energy-efficient buildings is driving changes in investment, design, and occupant behavior. To better focus cost and resource conservation efforts, electricity consumption feedback can be used to provide motivation, guidance, and verification. Disaggregating by end-use helps both consumers and producers to identify targets for conservation. While hardware-based sub-metering is costly and labor-intensive, non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) is capable of gathering detailed energy-use data with minimal equipment cost and installation time. However, variations in measurements between metering devices complicate the process of compiling the necessary appliance profiles. Future work involves the devel-opment of NILM algorithms using sensor fusion and detailed appliance-level data gathered from a highly-sensed house currently being constructed near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.     

Les tests microbiologiques pour la détermination des vitamines

Summary The qualities required by a microorganism to work as test object are studied, so as the utilized methods to measure development.The different, watersoluble vitamins from the group B: thiamin, riboflavin, nicotinic acid, adermin (pyridoxin), pantothenic acid, -alanin, biotin, p-aminobenzoic acid, mesoinositol, enable the creation of a useful test with a selected microorganism.The problem of the vitaminic factors of the soil is one of those which can only be studied with help of microbiological tests. The presence of vitamins in the soil is proved. Their origin is discussed. Their action and that of vitamins voluntary added to the soil is studied. It is shown that the qualities of soil and manures have a marked influence on the thiamin rate of the studied plant.A cycle is suggested to show how the action of growth factors enable to understand the natural relations existing between the auxo-heterotrophic and the auxo-autotrophic organisms. The growth factors of the soil participate to the biological balance ruling life in and on the soil. The necessity of an ecological vitaminology is being considered.     

Absence of naturally occurring coronary atherosclerosis in squirrel monkeys (Saimiri sciurea) treated with chondroitin sulfate A

Zusammenfassung Die überraschende Atheromatosehemmende Wirkung von Chondroitin-Sulfat konnte nun auch beiSaimiri scurea, einem Primaten mit hoher Inzidenz von Atheromatose, nachgewiesen werden.

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Supported in part by grants from the Heart Institute of the National Institutes of Health, U. S. Public Health Service, John A. Hartford Foundation, Inc., and other donors.     

Chromosomal accumulation of3H-estradiol in dividing ovarial granulosa cells and ovarial squash preparations

Zusammenfassung ³H-Oestradiol wurde Mäusen injiziert und nachher autoradiographisch verfolgt, wobei Ag-Körnchen über den Chromosomen der Granulosazellen des Ovariums festgestellt werden konnten.     

Membrane potential measurement in mouse salivary gland cells

Zusammenfassung Acetylcholin erzeugt auf das Membranpotential von Azinuszellen der Glandula submandibularis der Maus eine diphasische Veränderung des Membranpotentials (rasche Hyperpolarisation und langsame, verzögerte Depolarisation oder rasche Depolarisation und langsame Hyperpolarisation). Hinweise sprechen dafür, dass Acetylcholin die Permeabilität für Na⁺-und K⁺-Ionen erhöht.

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I am grateful to Dr.E. K. Matthews, who placed all necessary facilities in his laboratory at my disposal, for his great interest in this project and for many useful discussions.

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The excellent technical assistance ofG. L. Pedersen is gratefully acknowledged. Financial support came from; the Carlsberg Foundation, The Wellcome Trust and Johann and Hanne Weiman's legacy.