The hydrophobic effect is the major force driving protein folding. Around room temperature, small organic solutes and hydrophobic amino acids have low solubilities in water and the hydrophobic effect is the strongest. These facts suggest that globular proteins should be maximally stable around room temperature. While this fundamental paradigm has been expected, it has not actually been shown to...

Recently1 there has been a growing interest in human augmented mapping[1, 2]. That is: a mobile robot builds a low level spatial representation of the environment based on its sensor readings while a human provides labels for human concepts, such as rooms, which are then augmented or anchored to this representation or map [3]. Given such an augmented map the robot has the ability to communicate...

The article explores and reveals the most important aspects of designing an interior living environment using example a children's room, taking into account ergonomic, anthropometric, aesthetic, psychophysiological standards requirements to create safe developmental space for preschool child. problem influence on child's development is highlighted, peculiarities formation modern child are syste...

Thermal conditions in the bathroom and physiological responses were examined during winter and summer. The subjects were 22 male and 20 female elderly people, between 65 and 88 years old living in 25 houses in Gunma Prefecture, Japan. Heart rate, blood pressure, skin temperature and thermal sensation were measured during bathing. Changes in thermal sensation due to bathing were assessed in the ...

Occupants’ use of windows can influence the building energy demand, thermal conditions and indoor air quality. Researchers have made substantial efforts to develop probabilistic models predict window open/closed state. However, hierarchical data structure heterogeneity in occupant behaviour been generally neglected previous modelling efforts. Multilevel provide an appropriate framework handle t...

Culture and social relations play a significant role in the formation of the structure of vernacular housing of any region, especially in the Islamic countries where privacy has a considerable effect on the vernacular culture, and consequently, on the house’s structure. Among the house spaces, the kitchen is more affected than other spaces by such issues so that its relations pattern with other...