Building thermal performance in Saharan climate

... Comfort in the Saharan regions In the desert climates, providing indoor thermal comfort constitutes a main objective. Among solutions contributing to the improvement of the thermal comfort in these ... a hot and dry climate. The influence of the shape and the orientation of the building are examined as a solution to improve the building s thermal performance. Copyright © 20...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:11

... resulting in rapid swings of internal temperature. Optimized selection of building materials for making the external envelop also plays an important role in achieving thermal comfort in buildings, ... smart buildings with light weight by incorporating the PCMs inside the hollow cavity of brick. Environment Friendly Cooling of building using phase change material inside the convent...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 17:03

... their written informed consent. Handedness was determined using a Chinese translation of the Edinburgh Handedness Inventory 29. Such an inventory has been used in two previous Chinese studies ... in the Western world, indicating a relatively right cere-bral dominance in them (reviewed in Ref 4). None-theless, patients with right hemispheric lesions usually place the subjective midpoin...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 08:57

... energy consumption while maintaining acceptable environmental quality in buildings has been a challenging task for building professionals. In office buildings, artificial lighting systems are a major ... [9], energy consumption in building sectors reached about 76% with about 11% allocated to commercial buildings including office buildings as shown in Figure 1. Office buildings, b...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:10

... of the industry causes instability. Hecker (2005) argues that the inherent instability of the airline industry can be traced to the structure of the industry and its economics, including the ... decrease in air fare results in a 24 percent increase in sales. 6 Several significant factors have contributed to the dramatic changes in the U.S. airline industry. Intense price competition...

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2013, 11:44

Ngày tải lên: 27/10/2013, 07:15

... testing includes multiple mating and unmating, thermal shock, temperature cycling, humidity exposure, and water immersion. Finally, a factory process audit ensures consistency of product and performance ... Connector (APC) Performance in the Outside Plant (OSP) Page 4 Enhancing Angle-Polished Connector (APC) Performance in the Outside Plant (OSP) Page 5 Results are in the Testin...

Ngày tải lên: 10/12/2013, 20:15

... policies in this regard are adversely impacting upon SME efficiency. Finally, innovation, particularly in the form of improving existing products, is a vital ingredient in improving manufacturing ... total money supply, in effect expanding money or contracting the money supply. This involves meeting the demand of base money at the target interest rate by buying and selling governm...

Ngày tải lên: 26/12/2013, 15:19

... counterintu- itive approach to cost cutting. Rolling out new products, for example, intrinsically would appear to be a sound business strat- egy. But, particularly in a weak economy, investing in ... signifi- cant increase in funding costs. Efforts to stem the tide by raising capital and additional dividend cuts haven't entirely succeeded. Increasingly, banks are turning to inter...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 11:20

... harvest. Thawing of permafrost results in habitat changes, sinking buildings, and melting ice cellars, making long term storage of traditional foods more difficult especially in areas of discontinuous ... investigating climatic and environmental change since the intrinsic properties can be nonlinear and abrupt. In the polar regions, there is considerable risk of passing thresholds an...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 19:20