A Field Study of Thermal Comfort in Outdoor and Semi-outdoor Environments in a Humid Subtropical Climate City
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1346-7581,1347-2852
DOI: 10.3130/jaabe.12.73