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Thermal comfort of Frail People under dynamic and non-uniform thermal environments using a thermal manikin with thermoregulatory control: An experimental study

open access: yesEnergy and Built Environment, 2023
The thermal comfort of frail people has to be considered carefully, mainly because of the high thermal sensitivity of this population and the negative influences that unsatisfactory thermal conditions have on their health.
Zoubayre El akili   +4 more
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The Effect of Length of Service in a Thermal Environment on Thermal Comfort and Mental Stress

open access: yesBuildings, 2023
An inappropriate thermal environment negatively impacts workers, causing mental stress and safety accidents. Unskilled workers are more vulnerable to industrial accidents and thermal stress compared with skilled workers due to suboptimal and unfamiliar ...
Young-Sub Shin   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Data on verbal expressions for thermal sensation and comfort in the Greek language

open access: yesData in Brief, 2020
This article presents data collected during a web-based survey on expressions used to describe thermal sensation and comfort in the Greek language. The survey used a structured questionnaire and delivered through Google Forms.
Katerina Pantavou   +5 more
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Predicting education building occupants’ thermal sensation through CatBoost-DF algorithm

open access: yesApplied Artificial Intelligence, 2023
A novel machine learning method, named CatBoost-DF (CatBoost deep forest), is proposed to solve this existing problem of low accuracy and lack of practicality in thermal sensation prediction.
Jianji Ren   +4 more
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Enhancing cooling performance via airflow temperature fluctuations [PDF]

open access: yesE3S Web of Conferences, 2019
In ventilated and air-conditioned indoor environment, air movement substantially impacts thermal sensation and comfort of occupants from the point of view of whole body and local thermal sensation.
Lampret Žiga   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The response of human thermal sensation and its prediction to temperature step-change (cool-neutral-cool). [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2014
This paper reports on studies of the effect of temperature step-change (between a cool and a neutral environment) on human thermal sensation and skin temperature.
Xiuyuan Du   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Correlations among Firing Rates of Tactile, Thermal, Gustatory, Olfactory, and Auditory Sensations Mimicked by Artificial Hybrid Fluid (HF) Rubber Mechanoreceptors

open access: yesSensors, 2023
In order to advance the development of sensors fabricated with monofunctional sensation systems capable of a versatile response to tactile, thermal, gustatory, olfactory, and auditory sensations, mechanoreceptors fabricated as a single platform with an ...
Kunio Shimada
doaj   +1 more source

Estimation of Thermal Sensation Based on Wrist Skin Temperatures

open access: yesSensors, 2016
Thermal comfort is an essential environmental factor related to quality of life and work effectiveness. We assessed the feasibility of wrist skin temperature monitoring for estimating subjective thermal sensation.
Soo Young Sim   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Building Thermal Comfort Research Based on Energy-Saving Concept

open access: yesAdvances in Materials Science and Engineering, 2021
Under the trend of building green and comfortable development, effective control of building energy consumption has become one of the problems that countries are actively facing to solve.
Feiran Xue, Jingyuan Zhao
doaj   +1 more source

SENSATION ON FEET COOLING WITH THERMAL COMFORT IN A PORUS WALLED ROOM [PDF]

open access: yesJournal CleanWAS, 2023
Comfort for users is the goal of a arsitectural design. This study aims to propose a new innovations in the meeting room consept design with cases in the Faculty of Engineering meeting room, Udayana University in Jimbaran – Bali.
A. A. Ayu Oka Saraswati   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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