Whereas natural ventilation design in hot climates is intended to mitigate discomfort effect of thermal transmission into building interiors, the uncertainty of the aggregate effect of the strategy on interior air temperature in hot dry climates has been expressed. This study investigated how air temperature in rooms of a residential building in a hot dry climate is affected by some natural ven...

An increasing number of companies and organisations have started to outsource their data storage. Although the potential of future investments in data centers is prosperous, sustainability is an increasingly important factor. It is important to make sure that the server racks in data centers are sufficiently cooled whereas too much forced cooling leads to economical losses and a waste of energy...

the aim of this study was investigation of the effects of pretreatments (hot water blanching and chemical treatments) by hot air and sun drying methods on mass transfer kinetics during red chili pepper rehydration phenomenon. for these purposes fick's second law and peleg model were applied for modeling of red chili pepper rehydration phenomenon. the results revealed that, peleg model coul...

The present study tested the hypothesis that inhalation rewarming provides a thermal increment to central neural structures adjacent to the nasopharyngeal region. Auditory-evoked brain stem responses of 14 subjects (7 men and 7 women) were monitored for 25 min while they inspired room air (24 degrees C) followed by hot air (41 degrees C) saturated with water vapor and cold dry air (-1 degrees C...

Air conditioning contributes significantly to building energy consumption in hot climate regions. In addition to greater cooling requirements in hot climates, cooling equipment efficiency decreases with increasing outdoor temperature. Therefore, it is advantageous to develop improved technologies that can achieve higher efficiency at high ambient conditions. In this paper, two novel compression...

BACKGROUND The association between temperature and mortality has been examined mainly in North America and Europe. However, less evidence is available in developing countries, especially in Thailand. In this study, we examined the relationship between temperature and mortality in Chiang Mai city, Thailand, during 1999-2008. METHOD A time series model was used to examine the effects of tempera...

roasting is the common shape of pistachio nuts processing and the purpose of this process is to increase the total acceptability of products. the aim of this study was the effects of hot air roasting temperatures (90, 120 and 150°c), times (20, 35 and 50 min) and air velocities (0.5, 1.5 and 2.5 m/s) on textural attributes (fracture force, hardness, apparent modulus of elasticity and compressio...

Sun et al. (Reports, 19 October 2012, p. 366) reconstructed Permian to Middle Triassic equatorial seawater temperatures. After correct temporal positioning of their data points, their presumed trends of temperature changes, and hence their assumption of a one-to-one relationship between putative "lethally hot" seawater temperatures and a disputable equatorial "eclipse" of some organisms, are no...