Articles

The colder is warmer? A pre-study for wear trials of a reference clothing ensemble for EN 342 and EN 14058 for thermal manikin calibration

Authors: Kalev Kuklane, Muhammad Salman Butt, Amitava Halder and Chuansi Gao

The effect of increased ambient temperature on thermoregulatory responses in spinal cord injured people

Authors: Tamae Yoda, Katy E Griggs, Christof A Leicht and Victoria L Goosey-Tolfrey

Sweat and heat production related to air humidity during exercise and inactive recovery - a laboratory study

Authors: Erik U Høye, Mariann Sandsund and Randi Eidsmo Reinertsen

Combined thermal manikin and thermal model predictions of working times in fully encapsulated impermeable suits

Authors: Emiel A DenHartog and A Shawn Deaton

Evaluation of body-mapping shirts design for activities in warm environments

Authors: Li-Yen Lin, Simon Annaheim, Psikuta Agnieszka, Faming Wang, Li-Chu Wang, Robert Jou, Sheng-fu Chiu and René Rossi

Performing in the heat: a new practical midcooling method

Authors: Athanasios Zavvos, Panagiotis Gkrilias, Niki Manolaki, Evgenia Cherouveim, Maria Koskolou and Nikolaos Geladas

Effects of cold air inhalation on body temperature, respiratory and cerebrovascular responses during exercise in the heat

Authors: Bun Tsuji, Yorinobu Chinda, Yasushi Honda, Naoto Fujii, Narihiko Kondo and Takeshi Nishiyasu

The effect of precooling on short term performance

Authors: Panagiotis Gkrilias, Athanasios Zavvos, Niki Manolaki, Nikolaos Geladas, Maria Koskolou and Spyros Athanasopoulos

The effect of heat acclimation or acclimatisation on exercise performance and capacity in the heat: preliminary meta-analysis data

Authors: Tom Reeve, Gary J Hodges, Stephen S Cheung and Christopher J Tyler

The effect of acclimation to the heat on the resting sweat response

Authors: Simon K Delves, John S Kelly, Matthew Gledhill, Rebecca Warke and Joanne L Fallowfield

Do overweight and obese individuals demonstrate impaired thermoregulatory adaptation to six weeks of studio cycling training: A pilot study

Authors: Steve H Faulkner, Kieran Menon, Thomas M Hood, Jamie K Pugh and Myra A Nimmo

Muscle activity during simulated work in the cold

Authors: Julie Renberg, Per Øyvind Stranna Tvetene, Øystein Nordrum Wiggen, Karin Roeleveld, Mireille Van Beekvelt and Hilde Færevik

Hot-water immersion increases popliteal artery shear stress in Peripheral Arterial Disease

Authors: Kate N Thomas, Andre M Van Rij, Samuel JE Lucas and James D Cotter

The influence of short-term heat acclimation with permissive dehydration on temperate exercise performance in highly trained athletes

Authors: Rebecca Neal, Jo Corbett, Heather Massey and Michael J Tipton

Metabolic costs of physiological heat stress responses - Q₁₀ coefficients relating oxygen consumption to body temperature

Authors: Bernhard Kampmann and Peter Bröde

Cutaneous vascular & sudomotor responses to heat-stress in smokers & non-smokers

Authors: Nicole E Moyen, Hannah A Anderson, Jenna M Burchfield, Matthew A Tucker, Melina A Gonzalez, Forrest B Robinson and Matthew S Ganio

Individual and cumulative benefits of making body armour and chemical & biological protective gloves, respirator and overboots from moisture vapour permeable materials

Authors: Christie Garson, Michael Dennis, Michael J Tipton and James R House

Head sweat rate prediction for thermal comfort assessment of bicycle helmets

Authors: Peter Bröde, Guido De Bruyne, Jean-Marie Aerts, Tiago S Mayor and Dusan Fiala

Prescribing workload administration to optimise isothermic heat acclimation

Authors: Oliver R Gibson, Peter W Watt and Neil S Maxwell

Effect of flexing deformations on functional properties of laminated silica aerogel fibrous matting composites for footwear applications

Authors: Polona Kraner Zrim, Igor B Mekjavic and Tatjana Rijavec

Making chemical & biological protective gloves vapour permeable reduces thermoregulatory strain better than making armour, respirator or overboots permeable

Authors: Christie Garson, Michael J Tipton and James R House

Physiological testing of a beverage system designed for long-haul air travel

Authors: James D Cotter, Evelyn B Parr, Patrick Silcock, Fiona Nyhof and Nancy J Rehrer

Evaluation of firefighters' heat strain using heart rate during breaks at work

Authors: Siyeon Kim and Joo-Young Lee

Effect of having floats on cardiorespiratory response during eggbeater kick

Authors: Yosuke Sasaki, Hideki Takagi, Bun Tsuji, Yosuke Murase, Shozo Tsubakimoto and Takeshi Nishiyasu

Work environment and health in the Norwegian fishing fleet - a field study on board deep-sea fishing vessels

Authors: Mariann Sandsund, Erik U Høye, Cecilie T Heidelberg and Lisbeth Aasmoe

Peripheral perfusion and acute mountain sickness: is there a link?

Authors: Adam C McDonnell, Ola Eiken and Igor B Mekjavic

The interaction between cooling and hypoxia on the rate of peripheral and central fatigue development of the knee extensors

Authors: Alex Lloyd, Simon Hodder, Margherita Raccuglia, Yifen Qiu and George Havenith

Brain blood flow and hyperventilation on cold water immersion: can treading water help control these symptoms of cold shock?

Authors: Martin Barwood, Holly Burrows, Jess Cessford, Liz Fraser, Stuart Goodall and Scott Griffiths

Cold water swimming and upper respiratory tract infections

Authors: Naomi Collier, Heather C Massey, Mitch Lomax, Mark Harper and Michael J Tipton

Response patterns in finger and central body skin temperatures under mild whole body cooling in an elderly and in a young male - a pre-study

Authors: Kalev Kuklane, Leif Vanggaard, Juhani Smolander, Amitava Halder, Karin Lundgren, Chuansi Gao, Jari Viik and Jarmo Alametsä

Heat stress and strain limits applicable to military helicopter aircrew

Authors: Andy Weller, Jonathan Boyd and Ken Puxley

Summer heat stress and strain during outdoor running in Aotearoa New Zealand

Authors: Toby Mündel, Melissa Black, Nicole E Moyen and Blake Perry

The use of human thermal modelling to assess performance during extreme exposures

Authors: Marshall Nuckols, Eugene Wissler, Pratibha Sinha and Gary N Proulx

Height, mass, and body fat percentage as functions of bmi, gender and age for PSDA from the NHANES 1999-2004 data sets

Authors: Arthur Allen and Xiaojiang Xu

The effect of ice slurry ingestion on intermittent activity and a run to exhaustion in the heat

Authors: Sarah Jackson and Nicola Gerrett

Cranial cooling during firefighting recovery effects on physiological and perceptual strain

Authors: Stephen S Cheung, Phillip J Wallace, Anais Masbou and Stewart R Petersen

Three years of Extreme Physiology & Medicine

Authors: Michael P. W. Grocott and Hugh M. Montgomery

In conversation with…Jim Sibree Milledge

Whilst attending a conference last year, I was fortunate enough to be seated at lunch next to a very eminent octogenarian academic. Conversation ensued, and I was instantly captivated by ...

Authors: Ned Gilbert-Kawai

Reliability of a new test battery for fitness assessment of the European Astronaut corps

To optimise health for space missions, European astronauts follow specific conditioning programs before, during and after their flights. To evaluate the effectiveness of these programs, the European Space Agen...

Authors: Nora Petersen, Lutz Thieschäfer, Lori Ploutz-Snyder, Volker Damann and Joachim Mester

Myocardial functional responses do not contribute to maximal exercise performance in the heat

Authors: Denise L Smith, Jacob P DeBlois, Margaret Wharton and Thomas Rowland

In conversation with…John Burnard West

Authors: Ned Gilbert-Kawai

In conversation with…John Wendell Severinghaus

Authors: Ned Gilbert-Kawai

Getting the most from venous occlusion plethysmography: proposed methods for the analysis of data with a rest/exercise protocol

Venous occlusion plethysmography is a simple yet powerful technique for the non-invasive measurement of blood flow. It has been used extensively in both the experimental and clinical settings. The underlying r...

Authors: Stephen Wythe, Thomas Davies, Daniel Martin, Martin Feelisch and Edward Gilbert-Kawai

Mitochondrial responses to extreme environments: insights from metabolomics

Humans are capable of survival in a remarkable range of environments, including the extremes of temperature and altitude as well as zero gravity. Investigation into physiological function in response to such e...

Authors: Katie A O’Brien, Julian L Griffin, Andrew J Murray and Lindsay M Edwards

Career perspective: Charles M Tipton

This invited autobiographical article pertains to 52 years as an exercise physiologist of which 16 years were devoted to being an active emeriti. Although the career pathway was circuitous in nature, once reso...

Authors: Charles M Tipton

Operational evaluation of the earlobe arterialized blood collector in critically ill patients

The new Earlobe Arterialized Blood Collector (EABC®) is a minimally invasive prototype system able to perform capillary blood collection from the earlobe (EL) with minimal training and risk. This system could ...

Authors: Sergi Vaquer, Jordi Masip, Gisela Gili, Gemma Gomà, Joan Carles Oliva, Alexandre Frechette, Simon Evetts, Thais Russomano and Antonio Artigas

Career perspective: Alf O. Brubakk—looking back to see ahead

The following describes my professional life up till today, but it also describes what I think lies ahead. I have led an interesting professional life and been lucky enough to be at the centre of some of the i...

Authors: Alf O Brubakk

A case study evaluation of competitors undertaking an antarctic ultra-endurance event: nutrition, hydration and body composition variables

The nutritional demands of ultra-endurance racing are well documented. However, the relationship between nutritional consumption and performance measures are less obvious for athletes competing in Polar condit...

Authors: Scott Paulin, Justin Roberts, Michael Roberts and Ian Davis

The physiological effects of hypobaric hypoxia versus normobaric hypoxia: a systematic review of crossover trials

Much hypoxia research has been carried out at high altitude in a hypobaric hypoxia (HH) environment. Many research teams seek to replicate high-altitude conditions at lower altitudes in either hypobaric hypoxi...

Authors: Jonny Coppel, Philip Hennis, Edward Gilbert-Kawai and Michael PW Grocott

Moving in extreme environments: inert gas narcosis and underwater activities

Exposure to the underwater environment for pleasure or work poses many challenges on the human body including thermal stress, barotraumas, decompression sickness as well as the acute effects of breathing gases...

Authors: James E Clark