It is important to consider discomfort glare in designing comfortable office environment. Architectural Institute of Japan has set UGR and PGSV as design criteria for glare, but those indicators do not completely reflect the needs lighting environments due differences work behavior. For example, when performing a task that requires concentration, worker may prefer environment increase one's lev...

CONSUELO PLATA,1 DAVID B. MOUNT,2 VERENA RUBIO,1 STEVEN C. HEBERT,2 AND GERARDO GAMBA1 1Molecular Physiology Unit, Department of Nephrology and Mineral Metabolism, Instituto Nacional de la Nutrición Salvador Zubirán and Department of Medicine, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas, National University of Mexico, Mexico City CP 14000, Mexico; and 2Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine...

Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute, Bethesda, Maryland 20814-51451; Naval Medical Research Institute, Bethesda, Maryland 20814-50552; Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada V8W 2 Y23; and Department of Infectious Diseases, Instituto Nacional de la Nutricion, Salvador Lubiran, Calle Vasco de Quiroga 15, Delegacion Tlalpan...

M. Lharch , J.-N. Chazalviel , F. Ozanam, M. Aggour, and R. B. Wehrspohn 1 Laboratoire de Physique de la Matière Condensée, Ecole Polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau, France 2 Département de Génie Électrique, ESTA, B.P. 33/S, Agadir, Morocco 3 Laboratoire de Physique de la Matière Condensée, Université Ibn Tofail, 14000 Kénitra, Morocco 4 Max-Planck-Institute of Microstructure Physics, Weinberg 2, 0...

Australian nature-based tourism and ecotourism have become popular forms of recreational activity. Tasmania attracts twice the Australian national average number of nature-based tourists and ecotourists (thirty per cent). The growth of this tourism sector has prompted measures to ensure that experiences are of high quality, and that environmental impacts are adequately managed. ISO 14000 is a c...

Computational Modelling is a resource hungry discipline requiring extensive expertise and large amounts of time. The ISO-STEP (International Standards Organisation Standard for the Exchange of Product Model data) is proposing an integrated product model for CFD applications. This paper presents a specification for a STEP compliant building product model for CFD analysis incorporating IBM’s Open...

The international community, including the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), is currently seeking more granular systems of language identifiers than the widely used tags of ISO 639 parts 1 and 2. There is growing need for the more precise identification and annotation of language-based resources. This paper presents a key response to this need, in which the Linguasphere Regi...