Comfort Zone Research Articles

Comparative analysis of heating characteristics of convective-radiant systems using various terminal air source heat pumps

The escalating demand for efficient heating solutions in hot summer and cold winter area has directed substantial attention towards convective-radiant combined systems. These systems offer enhanced comfort while conserving energy. In the context of office buildings, it becomes imperative to consider structural attributes. Under identical operational strategies, disparities in energy consumption and thermal comfort arise from variations in water supply temperature and terminal configurations. Here, we have established a dedicated laboratory to examine convective-radiant heating systems utilizing air source heat pumps. The primary objective is to analyze the impact of distinct heating terminal types and water supply temperatures on indoor thermal comfort, energy consumption, and energy efficiency. By analyzing the dynamics of indoor parameter, and interrelations among air temperature, average radiant temperature, operative temperature, and comfort levels, optimal strategies are determined. Empirical findings demonstrate that independently opening the Fan coil convection system (FC) leads to significant fluctuations in air temperature and creates an unstable heat environment. However, the Radiant floor system (RF) and Convective-radiant combined heating systems (FC + RF) exhibit superior stability in maintaining indoor air temperature. Compared among the three systems, while FC displays the lowest energy consumption upon activation, it compromises comfort levels. Remarkably, there is a strong relationship between operative temperature and Predicted Mean Vote (PMV) for the three systems, with high correlation coefficients of 0.998, 0.999, and 0.997, respectively. Conversely, the association between air temperature and PMV proves weak, with correlation coefficients of only 0.415, 0.469, and 0.841. Consequently, it is advised to prioritize operative temperature as the benchmark for winter air temperature control. For sustained adherence to Level II comfort zone criteria during indoor occupancy, it is recommended to employ (FC + RF) or RF for winter heating. Notably, energy savings of 26.87 %, 30.07 %, and 32.86 % are respectively achieved for (FC + RF), FC, and RF configurations when utilizing a water supply temperature of 35℃ as opposed to 45℃. Hence, the adoption of low-temperature water heating during winter is strongly advocated.

Building Communities of Teachers: Stories from the Classroom, How to Scaffold Learning Adventures Through Trust

Education is recognised as a viable pathway to a better future. It is not a linear rite of passage but a meandering recognition of learning along the way. The advocacy of education for all, internationally, has led to education policy implementation across our global citizenship albeit at differing levels of accessibility and quality. It is widely recognised that the seminal work of Freire, Rousseau and Dewey have embedded the importance of active learning and critical pedagogy in our modern society. But have our leaders of education sufficiently recognised the need to promote education as a sustainable, complementary activity to social and caring aspects of our society.
 
 This paper focuses on strategies used to build a sense of community in a classroom of educationalists who through their own learning experiences gain empowerment. Drawing on 3 iterations of delivering a module in synchronous virtual classroom, the strategies adopted are outlined, the overall theme is to enable the building of trustworthy relationships and to teach educationalists to embed beliefs and values into their teaching practice. Aspects of the induction period are designed to foster resilience and wellbeing in the teacher cohort for digital and physical life so that students feel nurtured and gain confidence to grow and empower others within the learning lifecycle.
 
 Following on from the global pandemic, most formal education ecosystems had to temporarily pivot to digital education. Reflection and critical thinking beyond COVID position digital education at a juncture that needs careful consideration to understand the giant leap required to utilise advancements in technology in a classroom. This paper presents a pedagogical approach that tightly couples classroom dialogue with the application of existing technology for teaching and learning at level 9 (Masters) to surmount a sense of uncomfortableness encountered for teachers when faced with moving from a whole group, self-contained classroom approach to a multi-faceted learning ecosystem. Furthermore, the case studies described here address complexity in the classroom, acknowledging the ‘valley of death’ approach used in transitioning research into practice, and furthering our understanding how innovative technologies only make a difference when deployed and used in line with user needs and requirements (Maughan et. al, 2018).
 
 Students describe how they overcome fear from one’s own comfort zone toward recognising the power of teachers as change agents using an array of community communication platforms to equip and enhance their toolkit with engagement tools tailored for their subject expert domain needs. 
 
 Technology is a critical enabler to access knowledge, resources and people and has empowered those unable to engage with traditional educational settings to gain formal and informal knowledge whilst making learning more fun and engaging alongside other life responsibilities. Education as a career has expanded, teachers, tutors, lecturers, instructional designers, social and community enterprises, data analysts, database architects, facilitators all contribute to a complex education ecosystems that aspire to equality, inclusion and diversity. The population in this study includes diverse educationalists contexts and demonstrates the use of ice-breakers (Eggleston and Smith, 2004). This paper details examples of community building over a number of semesters delivering the same module to different cohorts. It illuminates the difficult induction period whilst students gain trust within small groups and overcome challenges that are presented. The results identify mechanisms that foster a sense of urgency to advocate for change, overcome complacency in classroom and introduce experimentation as a lever to learning in a failsafe ecosystem. Fear is identified as a concept that prevents the use of some technology due to its unpredictability and teacher legacy for being the person at the top of the class with all the knowledge. Times have changed, creativity is key and teachers are realising that they must prepare their students for failure in addition to success and that they need to model experimentation and failure to demonstrate that recovery and problem based learning prevails in a knowledge economy. As educator's compliance is a critical factor to meet the quality standards of our trade, meeting learning outcomes is just one part of the learning journey, gaining trust, delivery of engaging content and the realisation that students need an education ecosystem that promotes a nurture environment, self-actualisation and phronesis.

Research on the thermal environment in a climate chamber with different high-temperature combinations

ABSTRACT The ambient summer temperature within the spinning workshop consistently exceeds the upper limit of the comfort zone. This study aims to assess individuals’ thermal responses under various high-temperature combinations resembling those encountered in the spinning workshop. Forty students were recruited as participants and exposed to 112 state points within a controlled climate chamber. These conditions encompassed diverse high-temperature combinations, comprising four temperature levels (29 °C, 32 °C, 35 °C, and 40 °C), seven humidity levels (30%, 40%, 50%, 55%, 60%, 65%, and 70%), and four air velocity levels (0, 0.1, 0.3, and 0.5 m/s). Participants donned single-layer clothing with a thermal resistance of 0.6 clo, and their subjective evaluations were collected via questionnaires. The study confirms that the GB/T 50481 guidelines for workshop temperature appear to be reasonable, considering the low thermal expectation and adaptation of workers. However, nearly 100% of the participants deemed temperatures surpassing 38 °Cwithin the spinning workshop as unacceptable, with approximately 80% of participants categorizing it as distinctly unacceptable. Consequently, it is recommended that the GB/T 50481 standards be extended to explicitly declare temperatures above 38 °C within the spinning workshop as unacceptable. This study lays a robust foundation for forthcoming research concerning high-temperature conditions within spinning workshops.

Implementation of the Independent Learning (Merdeka Belajar) Curriculum in Physical Education Sports and Health Subjects in Public Junior High Schools in Sleman District

The research objectives are to find out: (1) Implementation of Merdeka Belajar Curriculum in Physical Education, Sports and Health subjects at State Junior High Schools in Sleman Regency. (2) Obstacles in the implementation of Merdeka Belajar Curriculum in Physical Education, Sports and Health subjects at State Junior High Schools in Sleman Regency. (3) Solutions made to overcome the obstacles to the implementation of the Merdeka Belajar Curriculum in Physical Education, Sports and Health subjects. The method used mixed research. The subjects of this study were principals and Physical Education, Sports and Health teachers in public junior high schools in Sleman Regency which were taken based on random sampling. The instruments used were interviews and questionnaires. The data analysis techniques used were qualitative and quantitative. Research results: (1) Implementation of Merdeka Belajar Curriculum in Physical Education, Sports and Health subjects in State Junior High Schools in Sleman Regency is in the sufficient and good categories, namely 50.00%. State Junior High Schools in Sleman Regency have implemented the Merdeka Belajar Curriculum in stages, and have implemented Project-Based Learning which is one of the learning activities in the Merdeka Belajar Curriculum. (2) The obstacles in the implementation of the Merdeka Belajar Curriculum in the Physical Education, Sports and Health subject in State Junior High Schools in Sleman Regency are that teachers are still difficult to instill the 6 characters of the Pancasila Student Profile to students with the various characteristics that each student has. In addition, from the observations made by researchers, it can also be seen that teachers have not been able to get out of their comfort zone in teaching, as it can be seen that in teaching they are still comfortable with using the method and the teacher's lack of ability to use learning media, this can be seen when the teacher teaches mostly only explaining the material and then giving assignments to students. (3) The solution carried out in the implementation of the Merdeka Belajar Curriculum in Physical Education, Sports and Health subjects at State Junior High Schools in Sleman Regency is that teachers look for information or references about learning assessments and regularly attend training on the implementation of the Merdeka Belajar Curriculum held.

Interdisciplinary, but how? Anthropological Perspectives from Collaborative Research on Climate and Environmental Change

The aim of this perspective article is to rethink how anthropology can be involved in interdisciplinary research on climate and environmental change, considering wide-spread obstacles for successful collaboration and recommending best practices. Anthropologists complement ”big data“ with “thick data“, which must not be overlooked if the global scientific goal is to have a sustainable and responsible local impact in communities facing environmental change. Anthropologists are used to working with uncertainty, qualified for shifting scales and perspectives, and, perhaps most importantly, pre-occupied with studying the human dimensions of environmental change. However, there are still many practical, ontological and epistemological challenges concerning interdisciplinary research with an environmental focus. After outlining the most recent developments and literature on interdisciplinary research, we share our experience with integrating diverse forms of environmental knowledge including local and indigenous knowledge. Using an inductive approach, we build on and illustrate our conclusions with ethnographic vignettes that stem from a variety of our interdisciplinary projects. Several key themes and suggestions emerge: a) establishment of a joint epistemological framework before the research phase; b) humility and respect for methodologies used by other disciplines, including time spent on studying these with colleagues of different disciplinary backgrounds; c) openness, creativity and flexibility to step out of one’s own disciplinary comfort zone; d) communication within the project team based on trust and without disciplinary hierarchies. Finally, we share some practical suggestions on how to set up interdisciplinary projects.

Physical Exercise and Health, 1: An Overview of Terminology, Guidance, Benefits, and Risks.

Regular physical activity in any form is important for health; nevertheless, more than a quarter of adults and more than four-fifths of adolescents do not meet recommended thresholds for exercise. This article outlines the magnitude of the global problem. It discusses terms such as physical activity, aerobic exercise, muscle strengthening exercise, weight-bearing exercise, sitting time, and sedentariness. It presents and explains current guidance on physical activity, averaged across a week, for adults as well as special populations, including adolescents, the elderly, and pregnant women. It notes that immediate, short-term, and long-term benefits of exercise have been identified in thousands of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and cohort studies, and pooled in hundreds of meta-analyses, for a wide range of neuropsychiatric and medical conditions. It explains the strengths and limitations of the RCT and cohort study data as well as explains how some of the limitations can and have been addressed. It demonstrates how the Bradford Hill criteria can be applied to support the credibility of the research findings. It outlines immediate as well as long-term risks associated with exercise, as well as factors associated with these risks. In summary, the benefits of exercise outweigh the harms, especially when exercise is performed in moderation and within the individual's comfort zone. Although any physical activity is better than none, individuals should attempt to reach the currently recommended thresholds for exercise. There is little additional benefit associated with exceeding the guidance, and there may be immediate as well as long-term risks associated with overexercising. Finally, sitting time and sedentariness are constructs that are independent of physical activity; greater sitting time and greater sedentariness are both associated with poorer health outcomes and should therefore be discouraged at the same time that physical activity is encouraged.

Профилактика стресса среди молодежи

The article analyzes the conditions that contribute to the formation of a healthy lifestyle in universities, as well as the level of stress faced by students in everyday life. The author conducted a survey of students of technical, medical and pedagogical universities in 2022. As part of the research, a testing was conducted on students using the “Inventory of Stress Symptoms” questionnaire by T. Ivanchenko, and the “Determination of Nervous-Mental Stress” questionnaire by T. Nemchin. It was found that one-third of the students (from a medical university) constantly experience psychological and emotional stress, in contrast to students from a technical university, where a gender imbalance is observed. Girls from a technical university are more anxious than young men. At the pedagogical university, young students are more susceptible to anxiety than female students. It was revealed that young men, more than girls, experience constant stress due to material difficulties. Students who are not involved in physical activity and do not systematically play sports tend to have low self-esteem, are not satisfied with themselves or the results of their studies, have high rates of loneliness. It has also been established that girls are less likely than boys to engage in sports. Students who do not lead a healthy lifestyle are more prone to distress and suffer from various psychosomatic illnesses. Most students (not from medical universities) have not developed the habit of taking responsible care of their health. Physically active students seek less direct healthcare services throughout the year. A developed sports infrastructure at universities allows students to relieve stress, expand social networks, and not feel lonely. In universities where walking and cycling among students are encouraged and provided for, there are fewer students with harmful habits. Girls engage in sports to improve their external attractiveness, socializing, and expanding socially significant connections. Events aimed at involving student youth in sports and a healthy lifestyle are proposed. In particular, the use of experience from RUDN university, where coworking spaces (comfort zones) have been created, providing students with the opportunity to relax, gain useful information, socialize with friends, and cope with tension or stress.

Gender difference regarding thermal comfort in Japanese residential building during free running mode

When experiencing a similar indoor environment, people's thermal comfort and sensation may differ, making it more difficult to create an appropriate thermal environment for each person who living in the same building or residence. In both shared and single-occupant constructed environments, personal or individual comfort models have been proven to more precisely forecast particular thermal comfort requirements than aggregated models, raising occupant tolerance and related energy advantages. Dealing with these issues can result in more balanced datasets and the expansion of personalized model applications into new environments. Therefore, from November 2015 to November 2017, a field measurement was carried out in a Japanese condominium. 53 selected houses with measured indoor air temperature and 21,502 thermal sensation votes (TSV) from thermal comfort survey for each participant during free running mode (FR) were gathered. The results showed that 98% of male and 96% of female voted within comfort band. The thermal comfort zone starts from 18 to 26 °C as 90% of the occupant voted 3, 4 and 5 for TSV (comfort zone). The mean comfort temperature for males was found to be significantly higher than females during summer at which males has 1.2 °C (June), 2.1 °C (July) and 2.2 °C (August) higher comfort temperatures. Clothing insulation for each gender proved to be an important role on how they choose their TSV and thus impacted the comfort temperature. The results can help the researchers in providing information when designing passive building system while contributing to improve the occupant behavior and thermal comfort.

Stepping outside the comfort zone may be key to improving HIV prevention in vulnerable communities.

Stepping outside the comfort zone may be key to improving HIV prevention in vulnerable communities.

ALL WORK AND NO PLAY MAKES JACK A DULL BOY: THE SLOGAN FOR A SPARKLING TODAY

Living in an era of “Parhoge lihoge banoge nawab, kheloge kudoge tau hogay khrab”(Literacy make a person a leader while sports spoils a person)it is learnt with experience that sports spoils a person’s comfort zone, opens a person up to challenges, challenging a person to meet them. A person engaged in sports is not only physically healthy but is mentally sound too. Sports mentally engage a person into positivity, distracting all physically active competitors away from conflict and negativity.

Establishing resilience in times of climate change—a perspective on humans and buildings

With a contribution of 40% to the annual global CO2-emissions, the built environment needs to drastically reduce its impact, while also providing pleasant and healthy indoor spaces and protecting people from weather extremes. Over time, particularly in western and industrialized countries, buildings have evolved to shield occupants almost completely from outdoor conditions. As a consequence, humans have become so used to a constant, comfortable indoor environment that we struggle to cope with thermal fluctuations. The time has come to shift perspective, as the very protective character of buildings and provision of omnipresent comfort are neither feasible nor desirable any longer. An enormous amount of energy and resources are spent to provide tightly controlled thermal environments, often with the same target temperature all year round. However, being mostly exposed to constant, comfortable indoor temperatures can have negative impacts on health and deteriorate our human capability to deal with thermal challenges. Importantly, spending time outside the thermal comfort zone is known to enhance human thermoregulatory capacities and thermal resilience, while also improving metabolic and cardiovascular health. This perspective essay aims to draw attention to novel and yet underrepresented avenues of coping with climate challenges, both with respect to the built environment and humans. Allowing more thermal variation indoors will save precious resources, decrease the negative impact of building CO2-footprints, and stimulate physiological and psychological adaptation in humans, which can lead to improved resilience and health.

Load countervail access for spectrum management in wireless sensor networks following Industry 4.0

Attention to the utmost spectrum administration is to ease interference between different operators and to eliminate potential blockings possibility and occupy time slots for the spectrum users of wireless sensor networks. To stop the difficulties, the load countervail access (LCA) algorithm is a given idea that can simply resolve the reciprocal intervention. The effective and efficient practice of the attained frequency spectrum to be smooth and equal dispensation in a reallocation manner, given their specific QoS basics, is agile by the application (LCA). It lets us find the initially licensed spectrum which is unused and released as soon as required. The authors’ aim following the paper, is the total allocation of the estimated resources of the curse wireless spectrum among more intrusive operators that function in a similar comfortable zone of environment coverage to create equality with the given application (LCA) from the water-filling model. Bangladesh J. Sci. Ind. Res. 58(3), 173-178, 2023

Effect of quilt thermal resistance on bedding system and sleep thermal comfort

Ambient temperature and the bedding thermal resistance are two key factors affecting sleepers' thermal comfort. Six duvets with thermal resistance of 3.81, 5.12, 6.19, 7.81, 8.75 and 8.93 clo were included to investigate the effects of duvet thermal resistance on the sleep thermal comfort zone. Six males and six females were enrolled in a whole night sleep experiment, and the ambient temperature of the sleep room was adjusted to be thermally comfortable. Skin temperature, bed climate temperature and sleep stages were all acquired. Subjective evaluations including thermal perception and sleep quality were also assessed through questionnaires. The results indicated that increasing the thermal resistance of duvets widened the thermal comfort zone of ambient temperature, with the highest thermal resistance ranging from 8.2 to 17.7 °C and the lowest from 16.4 to 22.2 °C. The upper and lower temperature limits of the comfort zone did not significantly differ in their effect on sleep quality. The recommended bed climate temperature for comfortable sleep would be in the small range of 30–33 °C, and a good quality of sleep can be guaranteed in the scenario.

Ten challenges in reconfiguring African Studies

SUMMARY African Studies is characterised by intellectual contestations and epistemic struggles. These have become accentuated in the context of the current resurgent and insurgent decolonisation of the twenty-first century. This article delineates and reflects on 10 challenges confronting reconfiguring African Studies, namely genealogical, epistemic, linguistic, chronological, theoretical, spatial (area studies, country studies), androcentric, disciplinary, canonical issues and resilience of colonial library. These challenges are posed as part of comfort zones (asserted and reasserted truth/common notions) in doing African Studies that have to be changed in accordance with demands for a decolonised African Studies.

O.4.3-2 Teaching movement and physical activity in Early Childhood Education and Care, an obvious and important objective, or a challenging and provocative task for educators?

Abstract Movement and physical activity (MoPA) are critical to children’s health and development. Most children aged 1-5 years are enrolled in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) in Sweden. High expectations are placed on educators to deliver education of sufficient quality to support children’s development. Purpose The aim of the 18-month-long action-based study was to investigate how 88 ECEC educators in five preschools experienced their MoPA-teaching. Methods The educators planned and implemented MoPA sessions in a trial-and-error manner among children. They filmed sequences from the sessions, which were shown in focus groups led by the researcher. The film sequences were the starting point for the collegial discussions. Results Content analysis of the transcribed focus group discussions revealed three themes with each two subcategories (in brackets): 1. Teaching aspects (educator’s competence; educator’s role modeling);2. Educational aspects (children’s development; children’s health and wellbeing); 3. Structural aspects (curriculum; environment). Most educators perceived their competence to teach MoPA as insufficient, which was perceived as a troublesome barrier. The teaching sessions were often replaced with free play. During the project the educators became aware of children’s different MoPA-levels and that free play did not always increase the children’s motor skills. Despite this awareness, most of the educators were not prepared to leave their comfort zones, to invest time, work, or effort to improve the MoPA-education. Most of the educators felt it was difficult to assume the role of a physically active role model for the children. They demonstrated the need for continuous education to enhance the pedagogic content knowledge for adequate MoPA-teaching. Many educators demonstrated that teaching MoPA was seen as an arduous task, although they were aware of the importance of children’s motor skill learning and physical activity for a healthy development. They thought it was difficult to keep moving children in order and they preferred sedentary activities where their leadership was perceived as sufficient. Conclusions The pedagogical content knowledge in MoPA is low among ECEC-educators and the MoPA-teaching is often seen as difficult to implement and is therefore unfavorably treated in ECEC, which may have negative implications for children’s actual and future health.

Research on practical teaching of Ideology and politics in higher education institutions based on VR technology in the information age

Abstract The application of VR technology to the teaching of college Ideology and politics classes not only brings new opportunities for college education innovation but also innovates the Ideology and politics teaching mode. This paper first introduces the principle of image acquisition and the presentation of virtual reality technology. After determining the parameters of left and right viewpoints, the scene images are acquired through graphic rendering technology, and then the final synthesis of left and right images is carried out. Then the determination of the comfort zone of the stereo display is introduced, using the correspondence between stereo depth and γ to determine the comfort zone. Finally, the effect of virtual reality devices in practical teaching of Ideology and politics is analyzed in terms of student performance, students’ perceived usefulness, satisfaction, and classroom acceptance of VR devices. Regarding perceived usefulness, 41% of students strongly agreed, and 30% agreed with the question, “I think the technology provides a better virtual learning scene”. The integration of VR technology into the practical teaching of Ideology and politics in higher education institutions has broken through the traditional teaching mode of Ideology and politics in higher education and improved the experience of Ideology and politics in higher education.

Evaluating the disposable diaper microclimate utilising an infant thermal manikin: an exploratory study

ABSTRACT Diaper testing poses unique testing challenges including a multi-layered composited structure and evaluation of a closed microclimate system. This work evaluated the microclimate of daytime and nighttime diapers, with and without a garment assembly. Results indicated that the addition of a garment further affected temperature and humidity and restricted water vapour transmission, although the nighttime garment had a greater impact on the microclimate. The study also explored the relationship between thermal comfort and microclimate conditions. A significant increase in time spent in the thermal comfortable zone was found in the daytime diaper and garment system compared to diaper only. In comparison, the nighttime diaper only and diaper garment system spent more time in the thermal discomfort zone. In sum, parents need to try to find a balance between the insulation level of garments donned over the diaper and the thickness of the diaper itself.

Catalyst for co-construction: the role of AI-directed speech recognition technology in the self-organization of knowledge

The purpose of this study was to analyze knowledge co-construction as a self-organization process and the role of technology as its catalyst. Novel AI-directed speech recognition technology and the artifacts it generates were deployed to scaffold the knowledge co-construction process in two groups of pre-service teachers in a science education context. Throughout the lesson, the focus of the learning tasks was on pedagogical content knowledge and students' preconceptions. Analysis was conducted through the key characteristics of the social system's self-organization theory. The process of self-organization refers to the system's capacity to diverge from familiar structures, perspectives, and operations. Through the lenses of system theories, the active role of artifacts in co-construction was grasped and the role of technology in the self-organization of knowledge was analyzed. The pedagogical design of knowledge co-construction followed the principles of student-engaging learning. The technology used in co-construction was novel speech recognition AI software, which produced visual and editable word cloud artifacts from oral discussions on the large-format screen to edit. The data included videos and audio recordings. In this qualitative study, a content analysis and interaction analysis were used with descriptive analysis. The results showed that when technology became visible, as an active component of the system, artifacts triggered key signs of the social system's self-organization in co-construction. Exchange of information, “entropy levels,” were rapidly increased, and different viewpoints were expressed. Also, “chaos zones,” far-from-equilibrium states, were reached in both groups. Editable artifacts on the screen represented bifurcation spaces where groups' discussions were crystallized for the first time. Information was further categorized and evaluated through artifacts and this demonstrated how the groups processed communication into learning insights. Based on the results, the role played by this kind of technology was significant in the self-organization of knowledge. Materialized artifacts pushed the groups from small group conversation phases, comfort zones, toward uncertainty and confusion, which are central in self-organization. Technology in the system is seen not only as an interactor but also as an active agent that can facilitate epistemic emotions and support the group in the self-organization of knowledge.

Thermal environment evaluation and thermal comfort zone deviation ——a case study of Chinese seaweed house in summer

Renewing the vitality of traditional ecological dwellings in the context of global carbon peaking and carbon neutrality targets has become one of the important topics in today's building sustainability research, and the evaluation of thermal comfort in traditional dwellings is the key to it. In this paper, one of the most representative ecological dwellings in the world, the “Seaweed House”, was selected as the research object. Firstly, the physical environment of a seaweed house in Dazhuang Xujia Village was measured from July 29 to August 3, 2022. Secondly, a thermal comfort questionnaire was conducted to grasp the current information of the thermal comfort in seaweed house. The results show that:1. The humidity of seaweed houses in summer is too high. 2. Residents have a thermally neutral temperature of 26.9 °C, an acceptable temperature region of (24.8–29.1 °C), and a thermally desired temperature of 25.8 °C. 3. The adaptive predicted mean vote (APMV) model suitable for thermal comfort evaluation of seaweed houses was developed. The results of the study provide a precise theoretical guide for the study of thermal comfort evaluation models in this region, and a useful reference for the study of the renewal and renovation of the seaweed houses.

THE NEW ZEALAND EXPERIENCE OF THE TRANSITION TO THE INFLATION TARGETING REGIME AND ITS FEATURES

The article examines the New Zealand experience of the transition to inflation targeting. In particular, the necessity and reasons for New Zealand’s transition to this regime were analyzed. When adjusting inflation expectations, the Reserve Bank’s activities in cooperation with the government were taken into account. The influence of the official cash rate on market rates was also studied. In addition, the exchange rate of the “Comfort zone” and the “Trade Weighted Index” were studied as part of the monetary policy. As part of open market operations, the Reserve Bank’s “Quantitative easing” instruments were analyzed.