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Indoor environmental quality of classrooms and occupants' comfort in a special education school in Slovak Republic
Silvia Vilčeková,Ludmila Meciarova,Eva Krídlová Burdová,Jana Katunská,Danica Košičanová,Saeed Doroudiani +5 more
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In this paper, the indoor environmental quality of five classrooms in a school special for students diagnosed with learning challenges and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, located in Kosice, Slovak Republic was investigated.About:
This article is published in Building and Environment.The article was published on 2017-08-01. It has received 100 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Sick building syndrome.read more
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Minimizing energy consumption for artificial lighting in a typical classroom of a Hellenic public school aiming for near Zero Energy Building using LED DC luminaires and daylight harvesting systems
Lambros T. Doulos,Lambros T. Doulos,Lambros T. Doulos,A. Kontadakis,E.N. Madias,M. Sinou,Aris Tsangrassoulis +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, a typical classroom of a Greek public school was examined using a number of lighting technologies (with AC and DC supply) together with two daylight harvesting systems, in an effort to calculate energy savings and light adequacy.
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Building energy audit, thermal comfort, and IAQ assessment of a school building: A case study
TL;DR: In this paper, a long-term post-occupancy study was conducted on a two-story educational building with a total floor area of 3200m2 located in Troyes, France.
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A method to assess lighting quality in educational rooms using analytic hierarchy process
TL;DR: An original lighting quality assessment method is proposed for the evaluation of lighting in educational rooms, aimed at analysing all the main aspects and at defining a ranking of the critical issues, in order to consider improvements.
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A systematic review of human perceptual dimensions of sound: Meta-analysis of semantic differential method applications to indoor and outdoor sounds
TL;DR: A systematic review of the studies analyzing the human perceptual dimensions of sound provided insights into the selection of the suitable perceptions, the suggestions on the SDM applications, and the acoustics index development for the quantification of the psychological impacts of sound on the occupants in the indoor and outdoor environment.
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Thermal comfort and energy-saving potential in university classrooms during the heating season
TL;DR: In this article, a field survey conducted in a classroom during the heating season in Taiyuan, China was conducted to study the university students' general and local thermal comfort, and the results indicated that PMV overestimated the thermal sensation of students.
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TL;DR: The first ASHRAE conference was held at the University of Ingenieria Mecanica y Electrica (UANL) in Mexico as mentioned in this paper, with the participation of the Asesor de Capitulo Monterrey, Carlos Huerta, who was the first presidente to be elected without being Americano.
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Comparison of Values of Pearson's and Spearman's Correlation Coefficients on the Same Sets of Data
Jan Hauke,Tomasz Kossowski +1 more
TL;DR: Spearman's rank correlation coecient (RS) as mentioned in this paper is a nonparametric (distribution-free) rank statistic proposed by Charles Spearman as a measure of the strength of the associations between two variables.
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Do indoor pollutants and thermal conditions in schools influence student performance? A critical review of the literature
Mark J. Mendell,Garvin Heath +1 more
TL;DR: Overall, evidence suggests that poor IEQ in schools is common and adversely influences the performance and attendance of students, primarily through health effects from indoor pollutants.