This work presents a new approach to increase the efficiency of the heuristics methods applied to the optimal design of water distribution systems. The approach is based on reducing the search space by bounding the ...

The growing need to improve the environmental and energy sustainability of buildings involves the use of solar radiation incident on their surfaces. However, in cities, this task is complicated due to the constructive ...

Concern about everything related to energy is increasingly latent in the world and therefore the use of energy saving concepts has been increasing over the past several years. The interest in the subject has allowed a ...

A solar collector market is most European countries is at the stage of continuous development, however its expansion rate differs. It shows that much more factors than only the local solar radiation is important, including ...

Las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación (TICs) ejercen actualmente una influencia cada vez mayor en la educación científica, tanto en la enseñanza secundaria como en la universitaria, no sólo en lo que respecta ...

Golf courses can be considered as precision agriculture, as being a playing surface, their appearance is of vital importance. Areas with good weather tend to have low rainfall. Therefore, the water management of golf courses ...

A mediados de los noventa, algunos profetas anunciaron la muerte del libro a manos de Internet. La aparición de un nuevo medio de acceso al conocimiento no sólo no liquida los anteriores, sino que ayuda a perfeccionarlos. ...

The world’s population continues to grow at a high rate, such that today’s population is twice that of 1960, and is projected to increase further to 9 billion by 2050. This situation has brought about a situation in which ...

Human health is dependent on the Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) of residential and public buildings, where people spend a substantial amount of time. Part of IAQ parameters, like temperature or humidity influence the thermal ...