Abstract: Abstract This study experimentally examines the effect of a physical partition on the risk of short-distance cross-infection in a densely occupied canteen. A human subject was employed to simulate an infected person and three thermal manikins were used to simulate the exposed persons, who sat around the same dining table. Four influential factors were examined, including the height and the type of physical partition (i.e., cross-partition and linear-partition), and the head posture and the activity (i.e., dining or not) of the infected person. ...
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