Vernacular architecture has been an inspiration for innovations in environmental and socio-economically sustainable design and planning. Especially in traditional housing, the intended climatic and environmental solutions within sustainable design have already been achieved by local implementations. In this sense, as the important examples on vernacular architecture, traditional Erzurum houses ...

This study aims to identify the correlation between the Predicted Mean Vote (PMV) with the thermal sensation (S) of 55 employees, establishing a linear multiple regression equation. The measurement of environmental variables followed established standards. The survey was conducted in a metal industry located in Ponta Grossa of the State of Parana in Brazil. It was applied the physical model of ...

In the wake of the greenhouse effect and global energy crisis, finding sources of clean, alternative energy and developing everyday life applications have become urgent tasks. This study proposes the development of an "autonomous house" emphasizing the use of modern green energy technology to reduce environmental load, achieve energy autonomy and use energy intelligently in order to create a su...

Forty crossbreed gilts were kept in an environment of thermal comfort (22.7 1.568C) and another 40 in a heat stress environment (31.7 1.408C), with average initial weights of 15.2 0.87 and 15.3 1.14 kg, respectively. The aim of the trial was to evaluate the influence of environmental temperature on performance, accretion rates of carcass protein and fat and physiological and hormonal parameters...

Current existing thermal control systems are operated based on thermal comfort models generated by regression formulas averaging the thermal responses over data collected during extensive experiments involving panels of human subjects. These models may not be appropriate for an individual whose physiological characteristics happen to be located outside of the main stream from the experimental s...

Abstract. The challenges of recent years lead to the development greener aircraft. However, concept environmental sustainability cannot be declined on its own; economic is also required by increasing services provided passenger, particularly comfort. This work aims propose a design process for new sustainable aircraft that takes into account both sustainability, reducing aircraft's emissions wi...

This paper examines the role of policy in coordination environments such as currency crises and bank runs by introducing signaling in a global game. While exogenous asymmetric information has been shown to select a unique equilibrium, we show that the endogenous information generated by policy interventions leads to multiple equilibria. Multiplicity obtains even in environments where the policy...