Performance, acute health symptoms and physiological responses during exposure to high air temperature and carbon dioxide concentration

Building and Environment

Volumn 114, Issue , 2017, Pages 96-105

  Liu, Weiwei ^a,b   Zhong, Weidi ^a   Wargocki, Pawel ^b  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Acute health symptoms; Carbon dioxide; Physiological responses; Temperature; Work performance

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; HEALTH; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; TEMPERATURE;

ACUTE HEALTH SYMPTOMS; CARBON DIOXIDE CONCENTRATIONS; COGNITIVE PERFORMANCE; OXYGEN SATURATION; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; SKIN TEMPERATURES; SUBJECTIVE RATING; WORK PERFORMANCE;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CARBON DIOXIDE; COGNITION; HEALTH IMPACT; HIGH TEMPERATURE; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; WORKING CONDITIONS;

CHINA;

EID: 85006512207     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2016.12.020     Document Type: Article

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