This research aims to investigate human thermal responses to air humidity in warm and hot environments and to evaluate the effect of humidity on human thermal comfort. 20 subjects were involved in 12 exposure experiments in a well-controlled climate ...
This article works through the relationship between silence, childhood, textuality and sexuality in a short story by Rudyard Kipling.
Groisman, Pavel;Shugart, Herman;Kicklighter, David;Henebry, Geoffrey;Tchebakova, Nadezhda;Maksyutov, Shamil;Monier, Erwan;Gutman, Garik;Gulev, Sergey;Qi, Jiaguo;Prishchepov, Alexander;Kukavskaya, Elena;Porfiriev, Boris;Shiklomanov, Alexander;Loboda, Tatiana;Shiklomanov, Nikolay;Nghiem, Son;Bergen, Kathleen;Albrechtová, Jana;Chen, Jiiquan;Shahgedanova, Maria;Shvidenko, Anatoly;Speranskaya, Nina;Soja, Amber;de Beurs, Kirsten;Bulygina, Olga;McCarty, Jessica;Zhuang, Qianlai;Zolina, O. During the past several decades, the Earth system has changed significantly, especially across Northern Eurasia. Changes in the socio-economic conditions of the larger countries in the region have also resulted in a variety of regional environmental ...
We report the synthesis and characterization of a kinetically controlled, thermoreversible supramolecular polyurethane whose mechanical properties depend unusually strongly on the processing history. Materials were prepared by solution casting, quenc...
A salesperson wishes to visit a number of cities before returning home using the shortest possible route, whilst only visiting each city once. This optimization problem, called the Travelling Salesman Problem, is difficult to solve using exhaustive a...
In this paper, solar heat gain through glass daylighting roof is deeply studied by theoretical calculation method, taking Guangzhou in the Hot Summer and Warm Winter (HSWW) zone as an example. The direct solar radiation is calculated by Bouguer formu...
Fences are utilized throughout the world to restrict the movements of wildlife, protecting them from threats and reducing human-wildlife conflict. In South Africa the number of privately-owned fenced game reserves has greatly increased in recent year...
The distribution of creative economic activity over space has been viewed from three distinct perspectives. International business focuses on the multinational enterprise and the location of activities across national borders; economic geography stud...
A rapeseed supplement trial at Nafferton Farm (Newcastle University) with organic and conventional dairy cows, allowed us to assess the impact of feeding rapeseeds on the fat soluble antioxidant (AO) and trace element (TE) content of the milk during ...
This article explores cremation and disposal practices in the Netherlands, focusing on the attitudes and experiences of bereaved Dutch people in relation to cremated remains. In academic and professional narratives, human ashes are commonly described...
