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Jou-Man Huang and Liang-Chun Chen
With the global warming effect and the rapid growth of global urbanization, the concept of urban heat islands (UHIs) has become one of the most important environmental issues in the world. Early studies on UHIs mostly focused on highly developed, large c...
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Kun Du and Bo Chen
Wind tunnel tests and large eddy simulations were conducted to investigate the dependency of wind forces and flow patterns on the spacing (S) for three tandem prisms with a small height?width ratio H/W = 0.4. At the spacing ratio S/W = 0.7, mean and root...
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Lina Yang, Jiying Liu and Shengwei Zhu
A lack of consideration of outdoor spaces of universities has resulted in lower outdoor thermal comfort in summer. This study investigates the thermal comfort of outdoor spaces of a university in summer and proposes the model?s accuracy and optimization ...
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Mahmood Ahmad, Naser A. Al-Shayea, Xiao-Wei Tang, Arshad Jamal, Hasan M. Al-Ahmadi and Feezan Ahmad
Predicting pillar stability in underground mines is a critical problem because the instability of the pillar can cause large-scale collapse hazards. To predict the pillar stability for underground coal and stone mines, two new models (random tree and C4....
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Sergio Andrés Venegas Quintulén, María Beatriz Piderit Moreno, Dra.
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El presente estudio tiene por objetivo evaluar la influencia de los materiales en las envolventes verticales sobre la disponibilidad de luz natural, en escenarios urbanos representativos de la ciudad de Concepción, con el fin de conocer el potencial de l...
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Jian Zhao, Chang Su, Huijun Wang, Zhihong Wang and Bing Zhang
The obesity rate in China has risen significantly in the past few decades. While a number of causes for the rise in obesity have been explored, little attention has been paid to the role of health insurance per se. This study aims to investigate the impa...
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Pamela Smith and Cristián Henríquez
This paper presents research carried out in the city of Chillán, a medium size city located on the southern limit of the Chilean Mediterranean domain, at 36°36's south latitude. Chillán provides a good representative example of warm summers in central an...
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Imr?n Arshad
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In ?r?s?nt r?s??r?h w?rk ? sl?v? ?r?gr?m (S???/W) ?f ? G??-Sl??? S?ftw?r?, w?s us?d t? ??m?ut? th? s????g? flux ?nd ?xit gr?di?nt und?r Jinn?h b?rr?g? w?ir f?und?ti?n. 2-D F? m?del w?s g?n?r?t?d by using f?ur ty?es ?f ?l?m?nts, i.?. tri?ngul?r, squ?r?, r...
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Jiyoon Kim, Jaemyeong Kim, Sunmi Park, Jongchul Kim, Seocheol Kim
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Multi-purpose bathymetry is the system to make decision for marine and harbor policy through the bathymetric data. Since this system should process the large size of depth information, H/W and S/W infrastructures should be built and expanded continuously...
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Shahab Kariminia
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Computer simulations were performed by ENVI-met model along with physical measurements in two urban squares under hot summer conditions in Isfahan, central Iran. Each scenario concentrated on adding or extending galleries in each square. The result...
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