| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 377 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction to adaptive behaviour -- 2. Adaptive beginnings -- 3. emergence of the adaptive point of view -- 4. Summertime overheating in schools -- 5. first international conference on thermal comfort -- 6. Adapting to enforced changes of temperature -- 7. first meta-analysis -- 8. Clothing outdoors and during sleep -- 9. Meta-analysis 2: relating climate to indoor comfort -- 10. origin of the Oxford Thermal Comfort Unit -- 11. Fieldwork in Pakistan -- 12. Raising awareness of the adaptive approach -- 13. Beginning fieldwork at Oxford Brookes University -- 14. PMV and the results of field studies -- 15. Adaptation and the ASHRAE RP-884 database -- 16. Going international: the SCATS project -- 17. Introducing Part II -- 18. Using the method of successive categories to explore the properties of thermal comfort scales -- 19. Developing, adapting and testing thermal subjective scales -- 20. simple heat exchange model for thermal comfort conditions -- 21. Regression analysis: general features and effects of data-selection and binning -- 22. effects of error in the predictor variable -- 23. Mutual relation between room temperature and subjective warmth -- 24. relation between regression analysis and Probit analysis -- 25. dependence of subjective warmth on within-day changes in room temperature -- 26. Constructing bell-shaped curves for comfort and temperature -- 27. Tolerance of seasonal drift of indoor temperature -- 28. Estimating neutral temperatures from survey data -- 29. adaptive relation between indoor temperatures and the outdoor climate -- 30. Do people like to feel neutral? Semantic offsets and zero-errors -- 31. Clothing and thermal behaviour -- 32. Interactions among environmental variables, adaptation and overall comfort -- 33. Drawing the threads together |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-371 and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Buildings -- Environmental engineering.
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Buildings -- Thermal properties.
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Architecture -- Human factors.
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Architecture and climate.
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Architecture and climate
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Architecture -- Human factors
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Buildings -- Environmental engineering
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Buildings -- Thermal properties
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Nicol, Fergus, 1940- author.
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Roaf, Susan, author.
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| ISBN |
1317658574 |
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9781317658573 |
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9781317658566 |
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1317658566 |
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