In this report, we discuss the four standard energy conditions of General Relativity (null, weak, dominant, and strong) and investigate their cosmological consequences. We note that these energy conditions can be compatible ...

The intent of this report is to recommend a process for legislation that can be used to identify commercial buildings that have the greatest potential to reduce energy consumption. A point-based evaluation is completed of ...

Although the latest and most powerful supercomputer today, Tianhe-2 in China, can finish 33.86 quadrillion floating-point operations per second (www.top500.org), it is still a big challenge to simulate the simplest ...

The evolution of the World Wide Web has resulted in extremely large amounts of information. As a consequence, users are faced with the problem of information overload: they have difficulty in identifying and selecting items ...

The diplomatic corps employed by Oliver Cromwell and Charles II from 1649 to 1660 differed greatly. This study will focus on the top three diplomatic ranks: ambassador, envoys and residents and will exclude agents and ...

Peridynamics is a non-local continuum theory that formulates problems in terms of integration of interactions between the material points. Because the governing equation of motion in the peridynamic theory involves only ...

The cement industry is an important component in the quest to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions because of vast amounts of cement used annually. Incorporating supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) into concrete ...

Milk proteins are excellent sources of sulfur-containing amino acids methionine and cysteine, in particular whey proteins. Cysteine is synthesized from methionine by γ-cystathionase. However, cysteine has to be included ...

In recent years, the price volatility in agricultural commodity prices, as well as agricultural input costs, has drastically increased. Today’s famer is faced with difficult decisions concerning when to market their crop, ...

As today's networks are no longer individual networks, networks are less robust towards failures and attacks. For example, computer networks and power networks are interdependent. Computer networks provide smart control ...