Fire Service Instructor's undergarment choice can minimise physiological and perceptual strain

Learning to Minimise Regret in Route Choice

Reinforcement learning (RL) is a challenging task, especially in highly competitive multiagent scenarios. We consider the route choice problem, in which self-interested drivers aim at choosing routes that minimise their travel times. Employing RL here is challenging because agents must adapt to each others’ decisions. In this paper, we investigate how agents can overcome such condition by minim...

Effects of radiant heat in fire fighting instructors.

Perceptual Biases and Mate Choice

Our view of the evolution of sexually selected traits and preferences was influenced radically in the 1990s by studies that emphasized how signals interact with sensory properties of receivers. Here, twenty-five years later, we review evidence that has accumulated in support of this idea. We replace the term sensory biases with perceptual biases to emphasize the growing knowledge of how cogniti...

Perceptual and physiological heat strain: examination in firefighters in laboratory- and field-based studies.

Firefighting demands performing heavy muscular work under adverse and potentially dangerous conditions. Although the physiological and psychological responses to simulated firefighting activities have been described, the heat strain has not been characterised using standardised indices of exercise-heat strain. The purpose of the study is to describe the physiological and perceptual strain assoc...

Repeated-bout exercise in the heat in young athletes: physiological strain and perceptual responses.

A short recovery period between same-day competitions is common practice in organized youth sports. We hypothesized that young athletes will experience an increase in physiological strain and perceptual discomfort during a second identical exercise bout in the heat, with 1 h (21 degrees C) between bouts, even with ample hydration. Twenty-four athletes (6 boys and 6 girls: 12-13 yr old, 47.7 +/-...