Buildings’ outdoor thermal comfort influences environment quality and human behavior in urban neighborhoods. The Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI) has been broadly applied to the study of buildings’ areas. However, complex environmental conditions climate-sensitive areas can make UTCI assessment complicated ineffective. This paper introduces digital techniques into analysis for improvement...

This study analyzed the thermal comfort in arid-desert climate of United Arab Emirates based on Discomfort Index (DI) and Universal Thermal Climate (UTCI) method. For this purpose, average monthly meteorological data including temperature, wind speed relative humidity were obtained from three stations (Abu Dhabi, Dubai Al Ain) during (1980-2018) period. The result indicated that highest value D...

Forecasting thermal load is a key component for the majority of optimization solutions for controlling district heating and cooling systems. Recent studies have analysed the results of a number of data-driven methods applied to thermal load forecasting, this paper presents the results of combining a collection of these individual methods in an expert system. The expert system will combine multi...

Abstract—This paper presents an adaptive thermal comfort model study in the tropical country of Malaysia. A number of researchers have been interested in applying the adaptive thermal comfort model to different climates throughout the world, but so far no study has been performed in Malaysia. For the use as a thermal comfort model, which better applies to hot and humid climates, the adaptive th...

Because of their good support and easy deployment, wireless ad-hoc networks are currently widely being used for many industrial or military applications. Like other communication networks, environmental conditions can have considerable impact on the performance of wireless ad-hoc networks. Temperature is a good example which results in thermal agitation of the charge carriers. Consequently, we ...

Due to the complexity of built environment, urban design patterns considerably affect the microclimate and outdoor thermal comfort in a given urban morphology. Variables such as building heights and orientations, spaces between buildings, plot coverage alter solar access, wind speed and direction at street level. To improve microclimate and comfort conditions urban design elements including veg...

OBJECTIVE To examine the potential usefulness of a novel thermal imaging technique to evaluate and monitor inflammatory arthritis activity in small joints using rat models, and to determine whether thermal changes can be used to detect preclinical stages of synovitis. METHODS Three different rat strains were studied in a model of inflammatory arthritis of the ankle induced by an intra-articul...