More and more people will experience thermal stress in the future as the global temperature
is increasing at an alarming rate and the risk for extreme weather events is growing. The …

The main objective of the present work is the assessment of the thermal insulation of
clothing ensembles, both in static conditions and considering the effect of body movements …

The present work is dedicated to a comparative analysis of calculation methods about
clothing insulation with a thermal manikin operating under the thermal comfort regulation …

Working in freezing chambers involves alternating between very cold and warm
environments, posing health and safety risks. Despite this, human thermophysiological …

This paper has been devoted to the difficulties that practitioners, skilled ergonomists or
occupational health experts could find in the assessment of cold environments by means of …

Current thermal comfort constructs are perceptional, and their relationships to the
physiological responses are not fully understood. The latter are very important, not only to …

The present work is dedicated to the study of occupational cold environments in food
distribution industrial units. Field measurements and a subjective assessment based on an …

The time-varying data of air temperatures experienced by people in their daily lives is an
important basis for studying human thermal sensation, adaptation, comfort, and health. It is …

Background One of the challenges of physical training in extreme condition is frostbite,
especially in Northeast China. In this study, we aimed to construct a risk prediction model for …

Background Cardiovascular (CV) and thermal responses to metabolically demanding multi-
day military operations in extreme cold-weather environments are not well described …