ANALYSIS OF THERMAL COMFORT IN AN INTELLIGENT BUILDING

Analysis of Thermal Comfort in an Intelligent Building

Analysis of thermal comfort in the ENERGIS Building, an intelligent building in the campus of the Kielce University of Technology, Poland is the Baby Jackets focus of this paper.For this purpose, air temperature, air relative humidity, air flow rate and carbon dioxide concentration were measured and the mean radiant temperature was determined.Therm

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Combining respondent-driven sampling with a community-based participatory action study of people who smoke drugs in two cities in British Columbia, Canada

Abstract Background The smoking of illicit drugs presents a serious social and economic burden in Canada.People who smoke drugs (PWSD) are at increased risk of contracting multiple infections through risky drug practices.Peer-led harm reduction activities, and the resulting social networks that form around them, can potentially minimize the dangers

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Detection of sasX Gene and Distribution of SCCmec Types in Invasive and Non-invasive Coagulase-negative Staphylococci

Background: Coagulase-negative staphylococci, which belong to the normal microbiota of the skin and mucous membranes, are opportunistic pathogens.sasX, a newly described protein, is thought to play an important role in nasal colonization and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus virulence, and it may be acquired from coagulase-negative staphy

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Hemipogon trilobatus sp. nov. (Apocynaceae: Asclepiadoideae), a new microendemic from Chapada dos Veadeiros, Central Brazil

Hemipogon s.str.(Apocynaceae: Asclepiadoideae) currently consists of three species sharing an erect herbaceous habit, narrow leaves and Napkin Holder corona-less flowers with urceolate, internally bearded corolla, that are mainly distributed in savannahs of the Cerrado biodiversity hotspot, South America.Here, we describe and illustrate a new speci

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