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Environmental comfort in school buildings - A case study of awareness and participation of users
(Sage Publications IncThousand OaksEUA, 2006)
The influence of thermal comfort conditions on user’s exposure time in open spaces
(2019-01-01)
This paper discusses the influence of the user thermal comfort conditions on the time spent in open spaces through a case study performed in Bauru, Sao Paulo, Brazil. The study was carried out in two subspaces of a zoo, ...
Suitability of different comfort indices for the prediction of thermal conditions in tree-covered outdoor spaces in arid citie
(Springer Wien, 2014-09-21)
Thermal comfort of people in outdoor environments is one of the most influential factors in the habitability of spaces. The comfort level is determined not only by climate variables but also by the adaptation of people to ...
Comfort perception assessment in persons with transfemoral amputation
(Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Sede Medellín). Facultad de Minas., 2015-05-01)
Historically, the design and fitting of prostheses had to rely on a slow process of trial and error, depending on the expertise of the prosthetist. Therefore, a clear definition of the concept of comfort and clear knowledge ...
Comfort and religious-spiritual coping of intensive care patients’ relatives
(2020-06-01)
Objectives: To identify the level of comfort and religious-spiritual coping of family members of intensive care unit patients and to analyse the sociodemographic/clinical variables that influence this association. Methods: ...
Comfort of formal and informal caregivers to palliative care patients in primary health care
(Univ Federal Ceara, Dept Enfermagem, 2016-11-01)
Objective: to analyze the comfort of formal and informal caregivers to palliative care patients, identifying the variables associated with the difficulties for home care. Methods: cross-sectional study involving 50 caregivers ...
Scale-integrated atmospheric simulations to assess thermal comfort in different urban tissues in the warm humid summer of São Paulo, Brazil
(ElsevierPhiladelphia, 2013)
The microclimate of six different urban tissues was simulated on a
typical summer day in São Paulo using a combination of the mesoscale
model BRAMS and the micro-scale model ENVI-met. The simulated
air temperature and ...
Human thermal comfort: an irreversibility-based approach emulating empirical clothed-body correlations and the conceptual energy balance equation
(Associação Brasileira de Engenharia e Ciências Mecânicas - ABCM, 2012)
Exergetic analysis can provide useful information as it enables the identification of irreversible phenomena bringing about entropy generation and, therefore, exergy losses (also referred to as irreversibilities). As far ...
INFLUENCE OF ROOF MATERIAL ON THERMAL COMFORT IN BROILER HOUSINGS IN THE STATE OF SAO PAULO
(SOC BRASIL ENGENHARIA AGRICOLA, 2010)
This paper presents a different roof tiles influence study on the thermal comfort for broiler housings. The research was conducted at UNESP`s Experimental Campus at Dracena, state of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Four prototypes in ...