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Comfort Habits
<p>The following is a collection of short fiction pieces written from August 2015 to January 2017, when the author was a student at the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi. The stories are unlinked in narrative, but are often approaching similar issues in depth: loneliness, …
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Personalized building comfort control
… These data are used to immediately infer user comfort level, and to control an HVAC system in an attempt to minimize both cost and thermal discomfort. Experimental results are presented from a building under continual usage, modified with a wireless network with multiple sensing and actuating …
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A Treasury of Comfort: A Study of Elite Comfort in the Long Eighteenth Century
This study examines the significance of comfort in elite lives in the long eighteenth century. With a focus on the correspondence of six gentry families from the East Midlands and the aspects of their lives which were most frequently discussed within it, this thesis argues that comfort was an …
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Concrete and Comfort, Urban Firehouse
… cold and harsh, hold a building and its uses in comfort and beauty?
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Thermal Comfort in Naturally Ventilated Schools
… and productive environment. Providing thermal comfort in classrooms is an obvious necessity because students spend up to one-third of the day in school. Elevated air temperature is a common problem in most school classrooms during periods of increased thermal load; however, it could lead to a …
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Anomaly Detection for Mobile Device Comfort
… work is part of Marsh et al.'s Device Comfort paradigm, which is an application of computational trust to mobile device security, where the mobile device is able to have a varying level of "trust" in its user based on behavioural biometrics, and the contexts in which the user interacts …
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Assessing Thermal Comfort in Deep Underground Mines
… importance of workers maintaining relative body comfort in deep hot underground mines is of great significance. This is because productivity, health, safety and the bottom line of mine operations depend on it. Comfort studies have been extensively researched, especially in the built and …
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Asymmetric radiant fields and human thermal comfort
… model for predicting human local thermal comfort responses to asymmetric radiation environments. The research deployed state-of-the-art computer simulation techniques to model in detail inhomogeneous short-wave and long-wave radiative heat exchanges of standing and sedentary humans. …
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Comfort: Voices of adolescents with metastatic cancer
… adolescents own descriptions of their comfort experiences while undergoing treatment for metastatic cancer is limited. Expanded knowledge of how young patients explicate the meaning and significance of their comfort experience would be valuable information that would help bridge the gap …
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Vibration in vehicles: its effect on comfort
… for predicting the effect of vibration on the comfort of vehicle occupants. A three part literature review investigates: parameters of vibration which have been shown to influence comfort; studies in which objective measures of vehicle vibration have been compared with subjective assessments; …
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The evaluation and optimization of sensorial comfort
… to be of prime importance in determining the comfort of garments are thermo-physiological comfort, garment fit and sensorial comfort. The last of these factors is the topic of this thesis. Although these three factors are separated into distinct groups, they are also dependant on one another. …
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Cushion comfort constraint : choreographing infrastructures of mobility
Surface in the city is scarce. As a typical day in the city progresses, the inhabitants' surface demands transform. A children's playground goes unused at night, the valuable surface should be re-adapted for an alternative use, say a parking space for the neighborhoods drivers. This project seeks …
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Thermal Collectives Architectural Imaginaries Beyond Modern Comfort
… and inhabiting our cities. The notion of “comfort” implies practices of consumption that have shaped our cultural and sensorial experience of domesticity. But “modern comfort”, the one we know today, is a recent construct that was shaped in the aftermath of the post-war economic boom. …
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Comfort studies on aircraft interior sound and vibration
… sound and vibration (vibro-acoustics) on comfort sensation in aircraft. In the first study, seven cruising situations were presented in an aircraft mock-up and rated by 117 subjects using 15 polarities of a semantic differential. Principal component analyses proved that evaluations could …
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Outdoor thermal comfort index in Malaysian urban areas
… threefolds. First, to evaluate outdoor thermal comfort by using Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI) associated with regression equation during the hottest daily temperature based on 3 years of hourly climatic data at principal meteorological stations of five selected cities in Malaysia. …
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Transformational Learning Experiences: Changing Relationships and Comfort Zones
… and belonging; 3) stepping outside of comfort zones; and 4) challenging perspectives and avoiding confrontations. The participants noted there was a need to meet again as a group with the other adults from the course to discuss their experiences and reflections, as well as to have an …
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