Environments are assessed and environmental limits defined often only in terms of air temperature, which is insufficient; in most situations the interaction of air temperature with five other factors - radiant temperature; humidity; air movement; activity-generated metabolic heat; and clothing is central to that environment's evaluation.; In this book, Ken Parsons focuses on the principles and practice of human response to thermal environments. He incorporates psychology, physiology and environmental physics with an applied ergonomic approach. The book details important new developments in determining the thermal properties of clothing, computer modelling and computer-aided environmental design, and offers practical applications and case studies.
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Air temperature, radiant temperature, humidity and air movement are the four basic environmental parameters which affect human response to thermal environments. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
thermal penetration coefficient, wind decrement, plane radiant temperature, dry thermal insulation, human thermal environments, heated domestic equipment, cold stress index, effective clothing insulation, radiant temperature asymmetry, prescriptive zone, required sweat rate, required clothing insulation, thermal comfort index, heat stress indices, exposed flesh freezes, six basic parameters, local thermal discomfort, skin wettedness, radiation increment, small plane element, water vapour resistance, clothing insulation values, human thermoregulation, evaporative resistance, mean radiant temperature Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Air temperature, radiant temperature, humidity and air movement are the four basic environmental parameters which affect human response to thermal environments. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
thermal penetration coefficient, wind decrement, plane radiant temperature, dry thermal insulation, human thermal environments, heated domestic equipment, cold stress index, effective clothing insulation, radiant temperature asymmetry, prescriptive zone, required sweat rate, required clothing insulation, thermal comfort index, heat stress indices, exposed flesh freezes, six basic parameters, local thermal discomfort, skin wettedness, radiation increment, small plane element, water vapour resistance, clothing insulation values, human thermoregulation, evaporative resistance, mean radiant temperature Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Heat Transfer in Medicine and Biology by R.C. Eberhart in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Practical Human Biology by Author Unknown in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Human Biology by Jane B. Taylor in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Thermal Environment by British Occupational Hygiene Society in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking on page 287, and Back Matter
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- Engineering Physiology: Bases of Human Factors/Ergonomics, 3rd Edition by K. H. E. Kroemer on page 263, and page 264
- Human Thermal Environments: The Effects of Hot, Moderate, and Cold Environments on Human Health, Comfort and Performance, Second Edition by Ken Parsons on page 231, and page 251
- Introduction to Environmental Physics: Planet Earth, Life and Climate by Peter Hughes on page 51, and Back Matter
- Occupational Hygiene by J. M. Harrington on page 226, and page 275
- Environmental Ergonomics - The Ergonomics of Human Comfort, Health, and Performance in the Thermal Environment (Elsevier Ergonomics Book Series) by Yutaka Tochihara on page 95, and page 306
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