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_aHumphreys, Michael and others _970147 |
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| 245 | _aAdaptive thermal comfort : foundations and analysis | ||
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_bRoutledge _c2015 _aLondon |
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| 505 | _aContents List of illustrations X Priface XIX Acknowledgements XXI PART I Foundations 1 1 Introduction to adaptive behaviour 3 2 Adaptive beginnings 9 3 The emergence of the adaptive point of view 21 4 Summertime overheating in schools 28 ' 5 The first international conference on thermal comfort 40 6 Adapting to enforced changes of temperature 46 7 The first meta-analysis 49 8 Clothing outdoors and during sleep 54 9 Meta-analysis 2: relating climate to indoor comfort 59 10 The origin of the Oxford Thermal Comfort Unit 66 11 Fieldwork in Pakistan 73 12 Raising awareness of the adaptive approach 85 13 Beginning fieldwork at Oxford Brookes University 96 14 PMV and the results of field studies 102 15 Adaptation and the ASHRAE RP-884 database 114 16 Going international: the SCATs project 121 PART II Ana lysis 131 17 Introducing Part II 133 18 Using the method of successive categories to explore the properties of thermal comfort scales 137 19 Developing, adapting and testing thermal subjective scales 168 20 A simple heat exchange model for thermal comfort conditions 181 21 Regression analysis: general features and effects of data-selection and binning 195 22 The effects of error in the predictor variable 211 23 Mutual relation between room temperature and subjective warmth 222 24 The relation between regression analysis and Probit analysis 233 25 The dependence of subjective warmth on within-day changes in room temperature 245 26 Constructing bell-shaped curves for comfort and temperature 259 27 Tolerance of seasonal drift of indoor temperature 270 28 Estimating neutral temperatures from survey data 284 29 The adaptive relation between indoor temperatures and the outdoor climate 296 30 Do people like to feel neutral? Semantic offsets and zero-errors 319 31 Clothing and thermal behaviour 331 32 Interactions among environmental variables, adaptation and overall comfort 352 33 Drawing the threads together 357 References 361 Index 372 | ||
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