Background and Aim: Climate change on the earth is changing faster than ever before in the history. Cities are highly vulnerable to this climate change. Therefore, the present study aimed to investigate climate change in the metropolis of Tehran during the period 1991-2020 and help understand the limitations that cities may have in confronting climate change. Materials and Methods: This descri...

Abstract The conventional building design provides static solutions for the envelope, although climatic characteristics are variable parameters, which leads to a discrepancy between and environment, hence an uncomfortable thermal environment occupants. Accordingly, external facades of many buildings have become burden on their occupants, necessitating mechanical achieve comfort, negatively affe...

Despite the concerted efforts of scientific community and politicians to contain greenhouse gas emissions, CO 2 level in atmosphere continues increase monotonically. This raises question whether representations related knowledge claims used inform energy policy have been incomplete or incorrect. Are there alternative relevant that overlooked ignored discussion policies if so, why? We answer the...

This paper proposes the use of an autonomous assistant mobile robot in order to monitor the environmental conditions of a large indoor area and develop an ambient intelligence application. The mobile robot uses single high performance embedded sensors in order to collect and geo-reference environmental information such as ambient temperature, air velocity and orientation and gas concentration. ...

Human health, energy and comfort are determined by the climate that remains in physical environment. Regarding urban climate, few studies assess heat island effect, stress, public health as geographical representations. This study seeks to fill this gap selecting Colombo, Sri Lanka, Shenzhen, China, comparatively, two coastal cities with different conditions. We quantified compared effects of w...

What's the Problem, and How Do You Diagnose It? Many HIV+ people develop problems with gas and bloating. Diagnosis is simple: ask yourself if you are experiencing more than the usual gas (flatulence, farting) or feeling an uncomfortable pressure in your abdominal area that comes and goes. Know that it is considered normal for the average person to expel a reasonable amount of gas approximately ...

conclusions based on of this study, management has an important role in creating a positive safety climate. individual characteristics can influence thee safety climate. management commitment to safety is an important factor in the success of safety programs. results final scoring was done on a scale of one through ten. the highest scores were achieved in personal values (mean score, 8.7 ± 1.36...