Adaptive thermal comfort : foundations and analysis (Record no. 55559)
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| fixed length control field | 02408 a2200169 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780415691611 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 697 |
| Item number | HUM |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Humphreys, Michael and others |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Adaptive thermal comfort : foundations and analysis |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | Routledge |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 2015 |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | London |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xxii,377,ip. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Contents<br/>List of illustrations X<br/>Priface XIX<br/>Acknowledgements XXI<br/>PART I Foundations 1<br/>1 Introduction to adaptive behaviour 3<br/>2 Adaptive beginnings 9<br/>3 The emergence of the adaptive point of view 21<br/>4 Summertime overheating in schools 28 '<br/>5 The first international conference on thermal comfort 40<br/>6 Adapting to enforced changes of temperature 46<br/>7 The first meta-analysis 49<br/>8 Clothing outdoors and during sleep 54<br/>9 Meta-analysis 2: relating climate to indoor comfort 59<br/>10 The origin of the Oxford Thermal Comfort Unit 66<br/>11 Fieldwork in Pakistan 73<br/>12 Raising awareness of the adaptive approach 85<br/>13 Beginning fieldwork at Oxford Brookes University 96<br/>14 PMV and the results of field studies 102<br/>15 Adaptation and the ASHRAE RP-884 database 114<br/>16 Going international: the SCATs project 121<br/>PART II Ana lysis 131<br/>17 Introducing Part II 133<br/>18 Using the method of successive categories to explore the properties of thermal comfort scales 137<br/>19 Developing, adapting and testing thermal subjective scales 168<br/>20 A simple heat exchange model for thermal comfort conditions 181<br/>21 Regression analysis: general features and effects of data-selection and binning 195<br/>22 The effects of error in the predictor variable 211<br/>23 Mutual relation between room temperature and subjective warmth 222<br/>24 The relation between regression analysis and Probit analysis 233<br/>25 The dependence of subjective warmth on within-day changes in room temperature 245<br/>26 Constructing bell-shaped curves for comfort and temperature 259<br/>27 Tolerance of seasonal drift of indoor temperature 270<br/>28 Estimating neutral temperatures from survey data 284<br/>29 The adaptive relation between indoor temperatures and the outdoor climate 296<br/>30 Do people like to feel neutral? Semantic offsets and zero-errors 319<br/>31 Clothing and thermal behaviour 331<br/>32 Interactions among environmental variables, adaptation and overall comfort 352<br/>33 Drawing the threads together 357<br/>References 361<br/>Index 372<br/> |
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| 9 (RLIN) | 65745 |
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| Country | UK |
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| Topic | FT |
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