Optimal migration theory has been used for three decades to generate predictions of stopover behavior and understand ecology. Yet, date, there have no attempts the impacts thermoregulation on behavior. Though most migrants are homeothermic, a diverse group from bats hummingbirds warblers make use some degree heterothermy. We consider how influences fuel deposition rates, thus alters optimal usi...

Black-box models of thermoregulatory control have gained increasing importance in describing the properties of the biological thermostat and in devising working hypotheses for further experimental analysis. Incorporation of knowledge acquired independently from the systems analysis approach into black-box models of thermoregulation has proven useful in improving their predictive ability. The pi...

14 Abstract Administration of the long form (38 amino acids) 15 of pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide 16 (PACAP38) into the central nervous system causes hyperther17 mia, suggesting that PACAP38 plays a role in the regulation of 18 deep body temperature (Tb). In this study, we investigated the 19 thermoregulatory role of PACAP38 in details. First, we in20 fused PACAP38 intracere...

R ollins et al. (2006) proposed a block-oriented modelling (BOM) approach for obtaining human thermoregulatory models for individual subjects. The objective of this approach is to obtain a library of model structures that map input changes such as humidity, ambient temperature, exercise, and so on, to dynamic thermoregulatory responses such the core temperature, skin temperature, muscle tempera...

Sickness behavior has become a common expression in the description of general symptoms of diseases and regarded as partly or fully advantageous for the patient to combat infection or other disturbance acting on the body. Several components of sickness behavior such as anorexia, sleepiness and inactivity have significant energetic connotations and hence may affect body mass and/or body temperat...