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Updating the adaptive relation between climate and comfort indoors; new insights and an extended database
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In this article, the authors developed a method to derive a standard sensitivity to indoor temperatures change, which is used to estimate the comfort temperatures and to establish a curve relating the probability of discomfort to the temperature-difference from the current optimum.About:
This article is published in Building and Environment.The article was published on 2013-05-01. It has received 252 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Thermal comfort & ASHRAE 90.1.read more
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Thermal performance evaluation of school buildings using a children-based adaptive comfort model
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the thermal performance of four school buildings of different ages and characteristics, using current EU overheating criteria and adjusted criteria based on children's lower comfort temperature found in recent research.
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A field investigation on adaptive thermal comfort in school buildings in the temperate climatic region of Nepal
TL;DR: In this article, a survey was conducted on the indoor thermal environment and the associated thermal perception during the middle autumnal season in 2017, where 818 students participated in this survey; they voted three times: at the beginning, in the middle, and at the end of each 45-min lesson.
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A field investigation on the wintry thermal comfort and clothing adjustment of residents in traditional Nepalese houses
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the clothing adaptation of Nepalese residents in traditional houses during the winter and examined indoor thermal conditions during a winter in three regions of Nepal with different climates, including cold, temperate and sub-tropical climatic regions.
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Fuel Poverty Potential Risk Index in the context of climate change in Chile
TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed an index to assist policymakers in the decision-making process during the early stages of social housing allocation, based on the applicability of adaptive comfort, the influence of climate change, the urban context and the building features.
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A field study of thermal sensation and neutrality in free-running aged-care homes in Shanghai
TL;DR: In this paper, a comprehensive field study had been conducted in 19 aged care homes with 1040 subjects aged 70 and above involved from January 2014 to April 2017 in Shanghai, China.
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Developing an adaptive model of thermal comfort and preference - eScholarship
Richard de Dear,Gail Brager +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the semantics of thermal comfort in terms of thermal sensation, acceptability, and preference, as a function of both indoor and outdoor temperature, as predicted by the adaptive hypothesis.
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Developing an adaptive model of thermal comfort and preference
Richard de Dear,Gail Brager +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the adaptive hypothesis predicts that contextual factors and past thermal history modify building occupants' thermal expectations and preferences, which is contrary to static assumptions underlying the current ASHRAE comfort standard 55-92.
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A standard predictive index of human response to the thermal environment
TL;DR: The three rational indices of this type to be considered are ASHRAE's Standard Effective Temperature (SET*) Index, defined as the equivalent dry bulb temperature of an isothermal environment at 50% RH in which a subject, while wearing clothing standardized for activity concerned, would have the same heat stress (skin temperature T/sub sk/) and thermo-regulatory strain (skin wettedness, w) as in the actual test environment; Fanger's Predicted Mean Vote (PMV) index, defined in terms of the heat load that would be required to restore