Thermal comfort under non-steady-state conditions primarily deals with rapid environmental transients and significant alterations of the meteorological conditions, activity, or clothing pattern within the time scale of some minutes. In such cases, thermal history plays an important role in respect to time, and thus, a dynamic approach is appropriate. The present study aims to investigate the dy...

Tm• paucity of data on the body temperatures of small gallinaceous birds prompts us to report miscellaneous observations which we have made over the past several years on the body temperatures of the California Quail, Lophortyx californicus, a common resident in grassland and chaparral from southern Oregon to southern Baja Cal/fornia, and the Gambel's Quail, L. œambelii, a resident in the deser...

Simultaneous changes in sleep-wakefulness (S-W) and body temperature with 24-hour periodicity were attributed to the evolutionary influence of our environment. The normal body temperature that varies with the time of the day is under the control of a circadian mechanism. The other factor, which has been suggested to bring about this change in body temperature, is the vigilance state itself. Thi...