Cold Entropy: Assessing Individual Differences in Cognitive Adaptability during Cold Stress

Cold stress and the cold pressor test.

Temperature and other environmental stressors are known to affect blood pressure and heart rate. In this activity, students perform the cold pressor test, demonstrating increased blood pressure during a 1- to 2-min immersion of one hand in ice water. The cold pressor test is used clinically to evaluate autonomic and left ventricular function. This activity is easily adapted to an inquiry format...

Lasting consistency of cold adaptability in rats reared in cold for many generations.

Wistar rats were successively reared in cold at 5 degrees C from 1969 to 1984. The historical changes observed in these rats were reported. The cold-adapted rats reared in cold for 8 to 11 successive generations (C8-11G) were examined on their cold tolerance and non-shivering thermogenesis. C8-11G rats showed greater nonshivering thermogenesis than that of the warm-adapted control group (W), an...

Individual Differences in Multitasking Ability and Adaptability

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to identify the cognitive factors that predictability and adaptability during multitasking with a flight simulator. BACKGROUND Multitasking has become increasingly prevalent as most professions require individuals to perform multiple tasks simultaneously. Considerable research has been undertaken to identify the characteristics of people (i.e., individual d...

-Dependent and -Independent Mechanisms Contribute to Transcription of Listeria monocytogenes Cold Stress Genes during Cold Shock and Cold Growth †

Kinetics of individual grains during recrystallization of cold-rolled copper

The formation of a recrystallization texture is closely related to the nucleation and growth of recrystallizing grains, which may vary from grain to grain. Cube texture is a commonly observed recrystallization texture in face centered cubic metals of medium to high stacking fault energy after heavy cold-rolling and annealing. In this work, recrystallization of pure copper cold-rolled to a von M...