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Evaluating the perception of thermal environment in naturally ventilated schools in a warm and humid climate in Nigeria [PDF]
Field study was conducted in naturally ventilated primary school buildings in a warm and humid environment in Imo State, Nigeria to determine the thermal comfort perception of young children (aged 7–12 years) and to understand the thermal conditions in ...
Ji, Y, Munonye, CC
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Thermal comfort is linked to our health, well-being, and productivity. The thermal environment is one of the main factors that influence thermal comfort and, consequently, the productivity of occupants inside buildings.
Fadly Syah Arsad +4 more
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Thermal alliesthesia under whole-body step-change transients [PDF]
A better understanding of the psycho-physiological mechanisms driving human thermal perception during dynamic conditions is important to improve physiological-based thermal comfort models. During thermal transients, the two phenomena of thermal overshoot
Vellei Marika +3 more
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A Review on the Impacts of Urban Heat Islands on Outdoor Thermal Comfort
The worsening urban heat island (UHI) effect poses a great challenge to the thermal comfort of people outdoors. However, there has not been a summary of the mechanisms by which UHI affects outdoor thermal comfort (OTC).
Jianlin Ren +4 more
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A Review on Adaptive Thermal Comfort of Office Building for Energy-Saving Building Design
The thermal environment quality of office buildings has an important role because thermal comfort is directly related to human productivity. Thermal comfort conditions are influenced by climate, location, and the built environment; hence, comfort ...
P. Lamsal, S. Bajracharya, H. Rijal
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Proposal of Relative Thermal Sensation: Another Dimension of Thermal Comfort and Its Investigation
Real-time thermal comfort evaluation is not only essential in constructing the control module of Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems in residential buildings but also rather critical in energy conservation.
Ziyang Wang +2 more
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Thermal comfort is fundamental to indoor environmental design and operation as well as indoor thermal environment evaluation. This paper has reviewed the historic evolution of thermal comfort research during the last century using a systematic approach ...
R. Yao +11 more
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Comparisons of the Urbanization Effect on Heat Stress Changes in Guangdong during Different Periods
While rapid urbanization promotes social and economic development, it exacerbates human outdoor thermal comfort, which increases the risks to human health.
Wen Li +4 more
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Energy efficient control of thermal comfort has been already an important part of residential heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems. However, the optimisation of energy saving control for thermal comfort is not an easy task due to the
Zheng-Kai Ding +5 more
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Passive thermal comfort has been widely used to test the thermal performance of a building. The science of active thermal comfort is important to be connected with the science of architecture.
Hermawan Hermawan, Jozef Švajlenka
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