Varicocele is frequent but correctable cause of male infertility. Varicocelectomy is the most commonly performed operative procedure for varicocele. Majority of varicocele patients do not have fertility problem, therefore surgical correction is not recommended in all prevalent cases. On the other hand, varicocele is a progressive condition in some cases and individual with varicocele is at risk...

In order to better understand the thermomechanical behavior of the skin and its direct environment, we present an experimental study using infrared thermography. This experimental study aims to highlight quantitatively some effects of blood flow on the heat diffusion. The originality of this research is to change the blood flow by using effects of gravity and to quantify the temperature changes...

A three-dimensional unsteady inverse model has been developed in order to compute heat fluxes and surface temperature in various configurations. Temperature measurements are taken backside using infrared thermography. The number of unknown parameters is reduced using a discrete cosine transform analysis and by canceling values lower than a prescribed level. The efficiency of the method is prove...

Infrared thermography was used to measure heat transfer by radiation and the surface temperature of starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) (N=4) flying in a wind tunnel at 6-14 m s-1 and at 15-25 degrees C. Heat transfer by forced convection was calculated from bird surface temperature and biophysical modelling of convective heat transfer coefficients. The legs, head and ventral brachial areas (under the...

A key challenge for ecologists is to quantify, explain and predict the ecology and behaviour of animals from knowledge of their basic physiology. Compared to our knowledge of many other types of distribution and behaviour, and how these are linked to individual function, we have a poor level of understanding of the causal basis for orientation behaviours. Most explanations for patterns of anima...

Arial, 9pt, bold) A method based on infrared thermography for fast estimation of the phase diagram of solid-liquid binary systems has been developed. The method involves heating simultaneously a set of small crystals of a system A/B, with compositions ranging from 0%B/(A+B) to 100%B/(A+B), and to observe their thermal behavior with an infrared camera. Recorded data are then analyzed by Singular...

The data described here relate to the article entitled "The effect of pleasant touch on nose skin temperature, heart rate and heart rate variability: preliminary results in a male laboratory rhesus monkey" (Grandi and Heinzl, 2016) [1]. The cited paper and article here present additional material which represents the first evidence of the effect of pleasant touch in non-human primates in terms ...

To investigate the mechanism involved in the reduction of body core temperature (T(core)) during fasting in rats, which is selective in the light phase, we measured T(core), surface temperature, and oxygen consumption rate in fed control animals and in fasted animals on day 3 of fasting and day 4 of recovery at an ambient temperature (T(a)) of 23 degrees C by biotelemetry, infrared thermography...

A modification of the Angstroem's method for measurement of thermal diffusivity is presented. The Angstroem's method relies upon the steady-periodic propagation of temperature waves along the specimen. The diffusivity is recovered from combination of phase shift and amplitude decay of the waves, measured by infrared thermography, under the hypothesis of virtually semi-infinite specimen, that is...