Talkers modify their speech production in noisy environments partly as a reflex but also as an intentional communicative strategy to facilitate the transmission of the speech signal to the interlocutor. Previous studies have shown that the characteristics of such modifications vary depending on the type of noise. The current study examined whether speech production (and its interaction with noi...

introduction climate affects, more than any other factors, the type and form of human life, so that many cities that have made or developed regardless of climatic information are suffering from weather-related problems such as air pollution, water supply and flooding etc. by using the meteorological information in designing new cities as well as developing old cities can reduce the mentioned pr...

physiologically thermal comfort condition is a limit of temperature and humidity. ,in which thermal control mechanism of human body is in its least activity . thermal comfort conditions not only have impact on sizes of heating and cooling equipment ,but also affects the thickness of insulation, and .energy, consumption of buildings. it is necessary to define thermal comfort condition for differ...

Background: Most patients experience decreased physical, psychosocial, and spiritual comfort while receiving mechanical ventilation. Regarding the Muslim patients, diminished comfort might be associated with alterations in performing daily rituals, such as saying prayers (salat) and reciting the Holy Qur’an. This pilot study aimed to determine the effects of comfort care integrated with the Hol...

the knowledge about climatic comfort plays an important role in the humans life and her activities. in fact many human activates are directly related with climatic comfort in every region. this paper analyzed the climatic comfort in province kurdistan (sanandaj, saghez, bijar, ghorve, zarine, marivan and bane meteorological stations). rates of climatic comfort analyzed in meteorological station...

Travel by bus with long hours will create discomfort feeling for bus passenger. Long hour travel will create physiological stress and psychological stress on bus passenger. It may due to vibration, noise, as well as seat comfort. Seat comfort is a subjective feeling of bus passenger. In this research, air cushion was used to replace the part of the seat foam. During the development of the integ...

Microclimate in open space affected by the urban layout and spatial forms plays an important role in the outdoor comfort, thus the outdoor activities based on the comfort sensation will directly affected by the spatial forms. An outstanding open space should satisfy different requirements of outdoor activities and create relatively comfortable place.Most studies have been conducted on the...