UNLABELLED Cricketers are often required to play in hot/humid environments with little time for heat adaptation. PURPOSE We examined the effect of a short 4-d hot/humid acclimation program on classical physiological indicators of heat acclimation. METHODS Male club cricketers were randomly assigned into heat acclimation (ACC, n = 6) or control (CON, n = 6) groups, and 30 min treadmill trial...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Athletes in Malaysia need to perform in a hot and humid climate. Chronic supplementation of caffeine on endurance performance have been studied extensively in different populations. However, concurrent research on the effects of acute supplementation of caffeine on cardiorespiratory responses during endurance exercise in the Malaysian context especially in a hot and humi...

Castle, Paul C., Adam L. Macdonald, Andrew Philp, Anthony Webborn, Peter W. Watt, and Neil S. Maxwell. Precooling leg muscle improves intermittent sprint exercise performance in hot, humid conditions. J Appl Physiol 100: 1377–1384, 2006. First published December 8, 2005; doi:10.1152/japplphysiol.00822.2005.—We used three techniques of precooling to test the hypothesis that heat strain would be ...

A 27 year old man presented with heat stroke following exposure to a humid, hot environment in the absence of physical exertion. Investigation revealed the presence of generalized anhydrosis without evidence of an associated disease. Although chronic idiopathic anhydrosis is rare, this entity should be considered in cases of unexplained heat intolerance and heat stroke.

Thermal insulation is one of the most effective methods reducing energy consumption in buildings. Therefore, parameters influencing optimum thickness are widely investigated. In this study, obtained using life cycle analysis method and genetic algorithm by considering size heating cooling systems as an optimization variable, which has not been addressed earlier researches. Furthermore, effect c...

Sustainable architecture is known as an important strategy in recent years and all around the world are cooperating to achieve this by use of natural elements. There are many examples of residential buildings in Iran s past and its traditional architecture that the architecture in the interim of paying attention to aesthetic issues and preserving the natural environment acts in a way that meets...

DNA extracted from the kidneys of rodents captured in different urban areas of Palermo, Italy, had been analysed for the presence of pathogenic L. interrogans sensu latu DNA. PCR analysis had shown that in rodents captured close to green areas and small river up to 40 % animals give positive PCR results. Not many cases of human leptospirosis are reported in Sicilian island in which hot season i...

The aim of this study was to investigate the impact climatic variables (minimum temperature, maximum average precipitation, and precipitation deviation) on yields pistachio, banana, mango in cold, hot–arid, hot–humid, temperate–humid climates using Just–Pope function. function is a relatively new approach context. most effective were identified by stepwise regression Feiverson algorithm. Data c...