1.1 Historical Overview of Natural Ventilation in High-Rise Office Buildings The 19th century marked the emergence of the office building typology as we know it today. Controlling the indoor environment in these early office buildings was achieved by…
The book seeks new methods to inform debates about the value of neuroeconomic methods. Somewhat as the field of epidemiology has categorized medical experiments, it describes the different methods of study
and the levels of evidence they provide.…
Neuroergonomics is the study of brain and behavior at work (Parasuraman, 2003). This interdisciplinary area of research and practice merges the
disciplines of neuroscience and ergonomics (or
human factors) in order to maximize the benefits
of…
While, formerly, there existed such fundamental differ-
ences in style as the clay architecture of Central Africa
and Chinese wooden edifices that they could not pos-
sibly be considered as comparable forms of artistic ex-pression, the criteria of…
Economic and psychology share common intellectual roots. At least as they are practised in the English-speaking world, both have their origins in the philosophy of the 'British empiricist' school of the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. But as…
We are extremely grateful to the New Perspectives Office 2013 advisory board members and the
New Perspectives on Microsoft Excel 2013 textbook reviewers listed below, and would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge them for their…
The New Perspectives Series’ critical-thinking, problem-solving approach is the ideal way
to prepare students to transcend point-and-click skills and take advantage of all that
Microsoft Office 2013 has to offer.
as we left the twentieth century and welcomed the beginning
of the twenty - fi rst, the world economy appeared to be in
greater shape than ever before. Things were probably going
well for you, too. You had an enjoyable job, working for a fi rst…
The Leiden University Press series on Law, Governance, and
Development brings together an interdisciplinary body of work about
the formation and functioning of legal systems in developing
countries, and about interventions to strengthen them. The…