considering high population and hot and arid climate in most cities in iran, creating optimum thermal comfort during the hot periods is necessary. an experiment was conducted to examine the effect of percentage vegetation and hard surfaces on changes of temperature, humidity and thermal comfort of in three urban sites and mashhad weather station was investigated. climate and recorded data from ...

The article discusses the e ect of context on customer engagement and presents propensity to engage as an attitudinal antecedent of loyalty behaviors. We argue that customers may hold di erent propensity to engage depending on the speci!c service context, which in turnwill in"uencemore or less favorable behaviors. Data were collected through a convenience sample of 516 consumers in two settings...

Received signal strength indicator plays a very important role in many WLAN applications. However wireless signal strength will be greatly affected by noise and disturbance. It is critical to remove the abnormal data in order to provide a reliable estimation of the received signal strength indicator. Conventional mean value based approaches require large amount of data which would lead to unrel...

We investigate strategic information transmission with communication error, or noise. Our main finding is that adding noise can improve welfare. With quadratic preferences and a uniform type distribution, welfare can be raised for almost every bias level by introducing a sufficiently small amount of noise. Furthermore, there exists a level of noise that makes it possible to achieve the best pay...

Microclimate in open space affected by the urban layout and spatial forms plays an important role in the outdoor comfort, thus the outdoor activities based on the comfort sensation will directly affected by the spatial forms. An outstanding open space should satisfy different requirements of outdoor activities and create relatively comfortable place.Most studies have been conducted on the...

The measurement of blood oxygen saturation in the prefrontal cortex (PFC), especially during sleep, is great significance for clinical research. Herein, we present a wearable PFC system using dual-wavelength functional near-infrared spectroscopy. well designed user-friendly donning and has advantages comfort, convenience, portability, affordability. performance proposed investigated by calibrat...

Vegetation moderates a microclimate by casting shadows, increasing light reflection, evaporation and perspiration; and correcting wind patterns. The present study aims to investigate the microclimatic role of vegetated surfaces and bodies in improving thermal comfort in outdoor spaces between buildings. The main research question is which of the green system modes, that is, horizontal vegetatio...