Due to the impact of global warming and extreme weather events, outdoor human thermal comfort conditions become tougher harder mitigate, especially for pedestrian movement exercises. In order better understand environment comfort, sports, 2021 National Intercollegiate Athletic Games held in Tainan, southern Taiwan, May was selected as research target. Both on-site, real-time environmental monit...

Explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) technicians are required to wear protective clothing to protect themselves from the threat of overpressure, fragmentation, impact and heat. The engineering requirements to minimise these threats results in an extremely heavy and cumbersome clothing ensemble that increases the internal heat generation of the wearer, while the clothing's thermal properties reduce...

OBJECTIVES This study compared the thermal, physiological and perceptual responses associated with match-play tennis in HOT (∼34°C wet-bulb-globe temperature (WBGT)) and COOL (∼19°C WBGT) conditions, along with the accompanying alterations in match characteristics. METHODS 12 male tennis players undertook two matches for an effective playing time (ie, ball in play) of 20 min, corresponding to...

BACKGROUND The rise in global temperature is well documented. Changes in temperature lead to increases in heat exposure, which may impact health ranging from mild heat rashes to deadly heat stroke. Heat exposure can also aggravate several chronic diseases including cardiovascular and respiratory disease. OBJECTIVE This study examined the relationship between climate condition and health statu...

conclusions the present study showed that heat stress had a negative effect on job satisfaction; also there were no significant effects on job stress and job performance. results the results showed that job satisfaction had a negative correlation with wbgt index (r = -0.42, p < 0.001) and hssi (r = -0.49, p < 0.001). also, there was no statistical correlation among occupational stress and job p...

The worsening urban heat island (UHI) effect poses a great challenge to the thermal comfort of people outdoors. However, there has not been summary mechanisms by which UHI affects outdoor (OTC). This paper reviews commonly used OTC evaluation indexes, data collection methods, and mitigation measures discusses relationship between OTC. review is limited peer-reviewed journal publications found i...

OBJECTIVE Explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) often requires technicians to wear multiple protective garments in challenging environmental conditions. The accumulative effect of increased metabolic cost coupled with decreased heat dissipation associated with these garments predisposes technicians to high levels of physiological strain. It has been proposed that a perceptual strain index (PeSI) us...

BACKGROUND/AIM Exertional heat stress is common problem in military services. The aim was to exemine changes in serum concentrations of some enzymes in soldiers during exertional heat stress test (EHST) as well as the effects of 10-days passive or active acclimatization in climatic chamber. METHODS Forty male soldiers with high aerobic capacity, performed EHST either in cool (20 degrees C, 16...