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Timm Haucke, Lauren Harrell, Yunyi Shen, Levente Klein + 3 more
Occupancy models are tools for modeling the relationship between habitat and species occurrence while accounting for the fact that species may still be present even if not detected. The types of environmental variables typically used for characterizing habitats in such ecological models, such as precipitation or tree…
Jamie S. Sanderlin, Jessie D. Golding, Taylor Wilcox, Daniel H. Mason + 3 more
'Daniel H. Mason' 'Kevin S. McKelvey' 'Dean E. Pearson' 'Michael K. Schwartz'] Background We evaluated whether occupancy modeling, an approach developed for detecting rare wildlife species, could overcome inherent accuracy limitations associated with rapid disease tests to generate fast, accurate, and affordable…
Jeffrey W. Doser, Andrew O. Finley, Sarah P. Saunders, Marc Kéry + 2 more
'Aaron S. Weed' 'Elise F. Zipkin'] Department of Integrative Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior Program, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA Department of Forestry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA Department of Statistics and…
Daniel W Linden, Gary J Roloff
Pilot studies are often used to design short-term research projects and long-term ecological monitoring programs, but data are sometimes discarded when they do not match the eventual survey design. Bayesian hierarchical modeling provides a convenient framework for integrating multiple data sources while explicitly…
Malcolm L. McCallum
Occupancy modeling is a valuable tool for managing wildlife populations. Current occupancy models provide estimates of occurrence based on a point estimate for the species detectability and presence-absence. However, detectability can vary based on many variables ranging from weather to personnel. Therefore, I propose…
Timm Haucke, Lauren Harrell, Yunyi Shen, Levente Klein + 3 more
Effective conservation and restoration of species is an increasingly urgent priority. To design management strategies that improve species success, we need a solid understanding of the habitat characteristics that support it. Occupancy models are statistical tools that ecologists use to model these relationships from…
Jacob B. Socolar, Simon C. Mills
Occupancy models are a widespread tool for analyzing biological survey data, but packages for fitting these models offer a limited variety of effects structures. We developed Rpackage flocker to connect occupancy models (single- and multi- species; single- and multi-season) to the uniquely powerful formula syntax of…
Daniel S. Adams, Andrew Zimmer, Joseph Tuccillo, Jessica Moehl + 5 more
Gridded population datasets represent high-resolution distributions of human occupancy, enabling informed decision-making across a broad range of fields. These data products are valuable for assessing environmental risk, urban development, disaster preparedness and resource allocation-areas where accurate population…
Joseph M. Northrup, Brian D. Gerber
Understanding patterns of species occurrence and the processes underlying these patterns is fundamental to the study of ecology. One of the more commonly used approaches to investigate species occurrence patterns is occupancy modeling, which can account for imperfect detection of a species during surveys. In recent…
Alma Rosa Mena, Hector G. Ceballos, Joanna Alvarado-Uribe, Alexander Bergmann
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed our common habits and lifestyle. Occupancy information is valued more now due to the restrictions put in place to reduce the spread of the virus. Over the years, several authors have developed methods and algorithms to detect/estimate occupancy in enclosed spaces. Similarly, different…
Mahsa Pahlavikhah Varnosfaderani, Arsalan Heydarian, Farrokh Jazizadeh
'Farrokh Jazizadeh'] Dynamic models of occupancy patterns have shown to be effective in optimizing building-systems operations. Previous research has relied on CO2 sensors and vision-based techniques to determine occupancy patterns. Vision-based techniques provide highly accurate information; however, they are very…
Justin R. Dobbs, Brandon Hencey
This paper presents an occupancy-predicting control algorithm for heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems in buildings. It incorporates the building's thermal properties, local weather predictions, and a self-tuning stochastic occupancy model to reduce energy consumption while maintaining occupant…
Martín Mosteiro-Romero, Clayton Miller, Adrian Chong, Rudi Stouffs
Before 2020, the way occupants utilized the built environment had been changing slowly towards scenarios in which occupants have more choice and flexibility in where and how they work. The global COVID-19 pandemic accelerated this phenomenon rapidly through lockdowns and hybrid work arrangements. Many occupants and…
Irfanullah Khan, Ouarda Zedadra, Antonio Guerrieri, Giandomenico Spezzano + 1 more
'Giandomenico Spezzano' 'Hossam A. Gabbar'] In today’s world, a significant amount of global energy is used in buildings. Unfortunately, a lot of this energy is wasted, because electrical appliances are not used properly or efficiently. One way to reduce this waste is by detecting, learning, and predicting when people…
Adi Basukriadi, Erwin Nurdin, Andri Wibowo
Amphibians are animal that requires combinations of hydrosphere (riparian vegetation, water body) and vegetation (trees) microhabitats. In urban settings, those microhabitats are scarce and disappearing. One of areas that still have sufficient microhabitats to support amphibian populations is located in an 88.9 Ha…
Clark S. Rushing, J. Andrew Royle, David J. Ziolkowski, Keith L. Pardieck
Species distributions are determined by the interaction of multiple biotic and abiotic factors, which produces complex spatial and temporal patterns of occurrence. As habitats and climate change due to anthropogenic activities, there is a need to develop species distribution models that can quantify these complex range…
Eugénio Rodrigues, Luísa Dias Pereira, Adélio Rodrigues Gaspar, Álvaro Gomes + 1 more
'Álvaro Gomes' 'Manuel Gameiro da Silva'] Abstract This paper presents a multi-layer perceptron model for the estimation of classrooms number of occupants from sensed indoor environmental data–relative humidity, air temperature, and carbon dioxide concentration. The modelling datasets were collected from two classrooms…
Pratiksha Chaudhari, Yang Xiao, Mark Ming-Cheng Cheng, Tieshan Li + 3 more
Smart buildings use advanced technologies to automate building functions. One important function is occupancy detection using Internet of Things (IoT) sensors for smart buildings. Occupancy information is useful information to reduce energy consumption by automating building functions such as lighting, heating…
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Traditional electron-configuration notation (e.g. 1s^2 2s^2 2p^6) compresses multi-electron quantum information into integer occupancies that convey allowed maxima and most-probable arrangements but obscure the underlying probabilistic distribution and the spread of possible measurement outcomes. We present a…
Jianli Chen, R.S. Adhikari, Eric Wilson, Joseph Robertson + 3 more
'Anthony Fontanini' 'Ben Polly' 'Opeoluwa Olawale'] The residential buildings sector is one of the largest electricity consumers worldwide and contributes disproportionally to peak electricity demand in many regions. Strongly driven by occupant activities at home, household energy consumption is stochastic and…
Joshua Gluck, Christian Koehler, Jennifer Mankoff, Anind K. Dey + 1 more
'Yuvraj Agarwal'] Heating, Ventilation, and Cooling (HVAC) systems are often the most significant contributor to the energy usage, and the operational cost, of large office buildings. Therefore, to understand the various factors affecting the energy usage, and to optimize the operational efficiency of building HVAC…
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Identifying the crystallographic positions of dopant ions in doped inorganic materials is a longstanding challenge that has impeded precise control over material properties. To address this, we introduce a robust theoretical framework along with detailed methodologies to evaluate dopant ion occupancy within a host…