Air-conditioned deployable force infrastructure as a strategy to combat sleep deprivation among troops in hot countries

Building Services Engineering Research and Technology

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 327-339

  van Hoof, Joost ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c Faculty of Health Care   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR CONDITIONING; HOUSING; MILITARY APPLICATIONS; PERSONNEL;

AIR-CONDITIONING SYSTEMS; AMBIENT TEMPERATURES; BUILDING SERVICES; DELETERIOUS EFFECTS; DEPLOYABLE FORCES; DISPATCHING; FUTURE TRENDS; HIGH TEMPERATURES; HIGH-TECH; HOT CLIMATES; IN FIELDS; INFRA-STRUCTURE; LARGE RANGES; MILITARY FIELDS; MILITARY PERSONNELS; OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENTS; OPERATIONAL PERFORMANCES; PRACTICAL; SLEEP DEPRIVATIONS;

SLEEP RESEARCH;

EID: 54249118205     PISSN: 01436244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0143624408094630     Document Type: Article

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