Retraction Note to: Modelling thermal comfort of visitors at urban squares in hot and arid climate using NN-ARX soft computing method

The Editor-in-Chief has retracted this article [1] because validity of the content of this article cannot be verified. This article showed evidence of peer review and authorship manipulation.

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