This paper's main issue is a strong advocacy in favour of an a priori classification of thermal environments that can be really functional to comfort assessment: Class 1, environments where comfort conditions can be established (comfort-prone environments), and Class 2, environments where this is not practically feasible. The former, which are also identified here as 'thermally unconstrained' e...

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Railways as a dimension of transportation infrastructure has been widely welcomed in developed and developing industrial countries because of the ability to carry heavy loads over long distances, more safety, less depreciation, less cost, less pollution, etc. Therefore, knowledge of the dynamic behavior of the railway is essential for designers and builders. It is very important to study the vi...

background: today discussion thermal comfort due to technology advances and equipment application in the workplace for government and non-governmental organizations managers in the industrial and non-industrial environments, especially hospitals staff   due to the diversity of people employed and the type of work they are doing of particular importance. this study was conducted to evaluate the ...

In this research, fire and radiant heat protection and thermal comfort properties of cotton/nylon-Kermel blended woven fabrics, were utilized to predict the thermal comfort and protection limit of this fabric structure based on Woo and Barker developed model. The results showed that the porosity, the air permeability and the thermal resistance increased with Kermel fiber blend ratio. Conversely...

from building design point of view a basic aim of low energy architecture is to create a thermally comfortable internal environment for building occupants whilst consuming the least possible amount of energy. thus, thermal comfort study has an important impact on energy saving. achieving comfort conditions requires an understanding of the interaction between three groups of factors, namely phys...

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...