Today, the effects of the indoor environment on occupants' health and comfort represent a
very important topic and requires a holistic approach in which the four main environmental …

Workers in many industries are required to perform arduous work in high heat-stress
conditions, which can lead to rapid increases in body temperature that elevate the risk of …

Thermal stress is an important factor in many industrial situations, athletic events and military
scenarios. It can seriously affect the productivity and the health of the individual and diminish …

The very large number of human thermal climate indices that have been proposed over the
past 100 years or so is a manifestation of the perceived importance within the scientific …

Numerous human thermal climate indices have been proposed. It is a manifestation of the
perceived importance of the thermal environment within the scientific community and a …

A physiological strain index (PSI), based on rectal temperature (Tre) and heart rate (HR),
capable of indicating heat strain online and analyzing existing databases, has been …

ABSTRACT TIKUISIS, P., TM MCLELLAN, and G. SELKIRK. Perceptual versus physiological
heat strain during exercise-heat stress. Med. Sci. Sports Exerc., Vol. 34, No. 9, pp. 1454 …

It has been previously shown that heat acclimation leads to an elevated basal level of 72-
kDa heat shock protein (HSP72). Augmented expression of HSP72 is considered as a …

Safe performance limits of soldiers and athletes have typically relied on predictive work-rest
models of ambient conditions, average work intensity, and characteristics of the population …

The specification of indoor thermal comfort requirements that a building must provide is a
prerequisite for its design, and reliable explicit methods for the assessment of its long-term …