Within a given budget, selection of the optimal set of measures for enhancing the energy efficiency of a building is often based on the relative order of the feasible measures, prioritised according to either the life cycle cost saving or the economic benefit–cost ratio of the measures. A...

Effectiveness of SEHRAC (storage-enhanced heat recovery room air-conditioner) for water heating in residential buildings in Hong Kong and elsewhere has been confirmed in previous studies. However, given these studies assumed a theoretical maximum recoverable heat, whether its use is still energy...

Desiccant cooling system for active humidity control and to conserve energy has been in commercial applications for over two decades. However, its use in humid wet markets has never been examined. A gas-fired desiccant cooling system has been installed in a wet market in Hong Kong. In this...

Optimizing system configuration is always an interest of building designers. By statistical analysis of the design data of 50 commercial buildings in Hong Kong and the performance data of 186 chiller models, it is ascertained that the chiller capacity and the fraction of full-load capacity have...

Pharmacists are in an ideal position to assess, monitor and treat adherence-related problems that can adversely affect patients' health outcomes. To accomplish these goals, pharmacists must accept the responsibilities and challenges of a primary care provider. They also must assume an...

type="main" xml:lang="en" <title type="main">Abstract</title> <p>This article uses daily market value data on credit default swap spreads and intraday stock prices to measure systemic risk in the insurance sector. Using the systemic risk measure, we examine the interconnectedness between banks and insurers with Granger...</p>

This paper additionally incorporates the random decision behaviors of the decision-maker, in addiction to the randomness in the risky assets, into the decision-making process. Our work to this point is to investigate a multi-period mean–variance portfolio optimization under the assumption that...

The effects of temporally correlated noise on the conservation growth are studied via the Flory-type approach introduced by Hentschel and Family (Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, (1991) 1982). This phenomenological equation contains the Kardar–Parisi–Zhang, Sun–Guo–Grant, and molecular-beam epitaxy...

In this paper, a detailed mathematical procedure is developed to estimate daily collectible radiation on single tube of all-glass evacuated tube solar collectors based on solar geometry, knowledge of two-dimensional radiation transfer. Results shows that the annual collectible radiation on a...