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Climate classification is essential for buildings because it influences the planning and design of a building, its orientation, building geometry and design of building envelopes such as walls, roofs and openings. In the event of climate change, the existing classifications must be revised or...
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technologies to new sectors and regions. This paper examines the evolution of the temperature-mortality relationship over the … mean temperature exceeding 80° F has declined by about 70%. Almost the entire decline occurred after 1960. There are about … 14,000 fewer fatalities annually than if the pre-1960 impacts of high temperature on mortality still prevailed. Second …
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We analyze the influence of climate change on soybean yields in a multivariate time-series framework for a major soybean producer and exporter-Argentina. Long-run relationships are found in partial systems involving climatic, technological, and economic factors. Automatic model selection...
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Past studies on the relationship between electricity consumption and temperature have primarily focused on individual …, overcoming the data constraint by using grid-level night light and temperature data. Mostly generated by electricity and recorded … is a U-shaped relationship between electricity consumption and temperature; (2) the critical point of temperature for …
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This chapter reviews the empirical literature on the impacts of temperature and climate change on human pregnancies … year-to-year fluctuation in temperature. The insights that emerge from the review highlight that exposure to heat in the …, understanding the relationship between temperature and pregnancy-related outcomes is far from perfect. Importantly, the potential …
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