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ASSISTIVE I.T. FOR VISUALLY IMPAIRED PEOPLE
Bălan, Oana - In: Romanian Economic Business Review 7 (2013) 2, pp. 391-403
According to an international survey performed by the World Health Organization, it was estimated that the number of visually impaired people in the year 2002 rose to about 161 million (2.6% of the world’s population). Therefore, a large number of people are suffering from a visual handicap...
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Energy, comfort and environmental assessment of different building envelope techniques in a Mediterranean climate with a hot dry summer
Stazi, Francesca; Tomassoni, Elisa; Bonfigli, Cecilia; … - In: Applied Energy 134 (2014) C, pp. 176-196
The EU regulations on energy saving have been implemented in Italy with the adoption of the North-European super-insulated model that led to the construction of buildings not much related to their climatic context. The European Directives 2010/31/EU and 2012/27/EU highlighted the importance to...
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Control strategies for intelligent glazed façade and their influence on energy and comfort performance of office buildings in Denmark
Liu, Mingzhe; Wittchen, Kim Bjarne; Heiselberg, Per Kvols - In: Applied Energy 145 (2015) C, pp. 43-51
different control strategies on energy and comfort performance in office buildings. The intelligent glazed façade is capable of … services are designed and controlled holistically to optimize the indoor comfort (thermal, visual comfort and indoor air … utilising a simplified hourly calculation method developed to calculate yearly energy and comfort performance of an office room …
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Scitovsky and the income-happiness paradox
Pugno, Maurizio - Dipartimento di Economia e Giurisprudenzia, Facoltà di … - 2011
‘comfort’, which requires consumption goods, and to their lack in pursuing ‘creative activities’, which instead essentially … require leisure and a skill, called ‘leisure skill’, that people have failed to develop. Since comfort includes comparing …
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Energy efficient museum buildings
Mueller, Helmut F.O. - In: Renewable Energy 49 (2013) C, pp. 232-236
Museum buildings perform ambitious demands for sound conditions of exhibits and comfort of visitors. There is a narrow …
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Towards an alternative paradigm of consumer behavior
Giovinazzo, Viviana Di - Dipartimento di Economia, Metodi Quantitativi e … - 2010
This paper explores Scitovsky’s contribution to behavioral economics and examines in particular the changes his theory based on the findings of human brain psychophysiologists has brought to choice theory. The evidence here gathered points out how Scitovsky was making his suggestions for an...
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Internal audit: the expert in providing comfort to the audit committee. The case of risk management and internal control
SARENS, G.; BEELDE, I. DE - Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Gent - 2006
, and focuses on how internal audit can be the expert in providing comfort in these areas, building upon the sociology of … professions literature. Four case studies reveal that audit committees need comfort with respect to the control environment …, internal audit seems to be the most suitable one to provide comfort and be the ‘guard of the corporate culture’. Furthermore …
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The Solar Office in context
Jones, David Lloyd - In: Renewable Energy 15 (1998) 1, pp. 42-47
The goal of sustainability in buildings can only hope to be realised if buildings are designed to both conserve and generate energy. The Solar Office at Doxford International is designed to minimise the use of energy while its external fabric is designed to replace such energy that is used. The...
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Summer confort solutions in Mediterranean areas
Coch, Helena; Serra, Rafael - In: Renewable Energy 8 (1996) 1, pp. 128-132
The climate of Mediterranean countries is characterized by its complexity. Rapidly changing conditions mean that both cold and heat can be a problem. In architectural practice the design solutions that must be applied in buildings are complex.
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Natural ventilation
Fordham, M - In: Renewable Energy 19 (2000) 1, pp. 17-37
Buildings should be designed with controllable natural ventilation. A very high range of natural ventilation rates is necessary so that the heat transfer rate between inside and outside can be selected to suit conditions. Ventilation rates are selected to control temperature, pollution, and air...
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