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Fenestration of today is continuously being developed into the fenestration of tomorrow, hence offering a steadily increase of daylight and solar energy utilization and control, and at the same time providing a necessary climate screen with a satisfactory thermal comfort. Within this work a state-of-the-art market...

...personal and social media forms have blossomed online, attracting ever more users. Newsgroups, mailing lists, and MUDS (multiuser dungeons) in the 1980s and early 1990s were populated by a narrow segment of technologically interested Internet users. But email, instant messaging, blogs, photo- and video-sharing...

The recent AIDS and Disability Partners Forum at the UN General Assembly High Level Meetings on AIDS in New York in June 2011 and the International AIDS Conference in Washington, DC in July 2012 underscores the growing attention to the impact of HIV and AIDS on persons with disabilities. However, research...

...research initiatives and projects addressing climate adaption in management operation and maintenance (MOM) and upgrade of existing buildings. The aim was to identify knowledge needs and research demand necessary for decision makers to address climate adaptation in their MOM and upgrade plans. Climate...

...temperature (Trec) and mean skin temperature, and perceptual variables rate of perceived exertion, thermal sensation and time to exhaustion, were measured at submaximal and maximal intensities during graded exercise on a treadmill to exhaustion in 12 firefighters wearing protective clothing and extra mass at...

...groups and to compare the results with computational results. The experiments were conducted using a fluidized cylindrical cold bed with uniform air distribution. The three particulate materials use were zirconia, bronze, and steel, classified as Geldart A, B and D particles, respectively, and the minimum...

...two approaches to achieving this; the modular super cube-concept for school buildings and conventional building conducted in series (repetition of design and floor plans between buildings). We study the methods and evaluate the degree of success in quick project delivery, while also looking into sustainability-aspects...