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Air Conditioning

"Air Conditioning" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

The maintenance of certain aspects of the environment within a defined space to facilitate the function of that space; aspects controlled include air temperature and motion, radiant heat level, moisture, and concentration of pollutants such as dust, microorganisms, and gases. (McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 4th ed)


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Air Conditioning" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Air Conditioning" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 31 publications over 18 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 2009
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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.