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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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Developing an algorithm to illustrate the likelihood of the dissatisfaction rate with relation to the indoor temperature in naturally ventilated classrooms
TL;DR: In this paper, an algorithm has been developed that allows the likely satisfaction rate of children in relation to the indoor temperature in a primary school classroom to be mapped explicitly and provides the basis for comparing differences in satisfaction between adults and children in the same space.
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Comfort temperature and occupant adaptive behavior in offices in Qatar during summer
TL;DR: This paper conducted a thermal comfort survey in Doha, Qatar, for five summer months in 2016 in nine typical randomly selected air-conditioned office buildings, 828 subjects returned 1926 questionnaires and found 241°C as Griffiths comfort temperature.
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An adaptive relationship of thermal comfort for the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Countries: The case of offices in Qatar
TL;DR: In this paper, the mean Griffiths comfort temperature was found to be 24.0°C in 10 typical air-conditioned office buildings in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries in warm desert climate.
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Field survey of the thermal comfort, quality of sleep and typical occupant behaviour in the bedrooms of Japanese houses during the hot and humid season
Hikaru Imagawa,Hom Bahadur Rijal +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the thermal comfort, quality of sleep and behaviour of the occupants of Japanese bedrooms in the hot and humid season, measuring the air temperature and relative humidity in the 26 bedrooms of 10 houses.
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Comparative study of thermal comfort and adaptive actions for modern and traditional multi-storey naturally ventilated hostel buildings during monsoon season in India
Sanjay Kumar,Manoj Kumar Singh,Manoj Kumar Singh,Rajeev Kukreja,Shailendra Kumar Chaurasiya,Varun Gupta +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a questionnaire based thermal comfort study in six naturally ventilated hostel buildings located in Jalandhar city, lies in composite climate of India, during the monsoon season (August-September 2018).
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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