This book focuses on human adaptive thermal comfort in the building environment and the balance between reducing building air conditioning energy and improving occupants’ thermal comfort. It examines the mechanism of human thermal adaptation using a newly developed adaptive heat balance model, and presents pioneering findings based on an on online survey, real building investigation, climate chamber experiments, and theoretical models. The book investigates three critical issues related to human thermal adaptation: (i) the dynamics of human thermal adaptation in the building environment; (ii) the basic rules and effects of human physiological acclimatization and psychological adaptation; and (iii) a new, adaptive, heat balance model describing behavioral adjustment, physiological acclimatization, psychological adaptation, and physical improvement effects. Providing the basis for establishing a more reasonable adaptive thermal comfort model, the book is a valuable reference resource for anyone interested in future building thermal environment evaluation criteria.
This book focuses on human adaptive thermal comfort in the building environment and the balance between reducing building air conditioning energy and improving occupants thermal comfort.
... thermal responses of people accustomed to different thermal indoor environments. PhD Thesis, Shanghai, Donghua University 51. Luo M (2017) The dynamics and mechanism of human thermal adaptation in building environment. PhD Thesis ...
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... 2004); Nicholas Low and Brendan Gleeson, Justice, Society and Nature: An Exploration of Political Ecology (Routledge, 1998); Susan Paulson and L.L. Gezon, eds., Political Ecology Across Spaces, Scales, and Social Groups (Rutgers ...
(ISBN-13: 978-1-85573-925 3; ISBN-10: 1-85573-925-9) Clothing biosensory engineering is a systematic and integrative way of translating consumers' biological and sensory responses and psychological feelings and preferences about ...
He is a Chief Investigator on the international interdisciplinary research project “The Coal Rush and Beyond: Coal reliance, climate change and contested futures in Australia, India and Germany,” and reporter/producer of the ...
This book continues to be the standard text for the design of environments for humans to live and work safely, comfortably and effectively, and for the design of materials which help the same people cope with their environments.
This book provides information on the latest research findings that are useful in the context of designing sustainable houses and living in rapidly growing Asian cities.
... building coral. PLoS One 7:e34659 Kenkel CD, Aglyamova G, Alamaru A et al (2011) Development of gene expression markers of acute heat-light stress in reef-building corals of the genus Porites. PLoS One 6:e26914 Kenkel CD, Matz MV (2016) ...
It will be recalled that grouping raises the variance of a set of data by h2 /12, where h is the grouping interval. ... can be calculated from them and the usual bell curve for the proportion in thermal comfort can be constructed.