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In the previous two chapters, we investigated the mutually dependent relationships between indoor climate and human thermal adaptation through comparative online surveys and field studies. However, both the online survey and field study often accompany with complicated cofounding factors which is extremely difficult to clarify the effect of each factor. From this point of view, a large sample size survey is suitable for phenomenon description but cannot explain the underlying reasons. When studying the thermal adapting process, we intuitively noticed that physiological acclimatization may be one of the driving forces behind subjective adaptations. With these considerations, this chapter explores physiological acclimation through climate chamber experiments.
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The carbon dioxide volumetric flow rate produced by human body and the oxygen volumetric flow rate consumed need to be converted into the flow rate under standard conditions (0 °C, 101.3 kPa).
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Luo, M. (2020). Indoor Climate and Physiological Acclimation. In: The Dynamics and Mechanism of Human Thermal Adaptation in Building Environment. Springer Theses. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-1165-3_4
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