Nine well-trained, unacclimatized female hockey players performed the Loughborough Intermittent Shuttle Test (LIST) interspersed with three field hockey skill tests in hot (30 degrees C, 38% relative humidity) and moderate (19 degrees C, 51% relative humidity) environmental conditions. Field hockey skill performance declined in both the hot and moderate conditions following 30 and 60 min of the...

BACKGROUND Hot flushes are the most frequent climacteric symptom and a major cause of suffering among menopausal women. The condition negatively influences many aspects of women's lives. To date, conventional hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is considered the most effective treatment for hot flushes. However, HRT is associated with a host of negative side effects. Complementary and alternative...

The objectives of this study were to (1) assess the effect of passive heating upon attention and memory task performance, and (2) evaluate the effectiveness of the application of cold packs to the head on preserving these functions. Using a counter-balance design 16 subjects underwent three trials: a control (CON, 20°C, 40% rH), hot (HOT, 50°C, 50% rH) and hot with the head kept cool (HHC). In ...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of changes in oxidative stress and antioxidant status in response to playing tennis in HOT (∼36°C and 35% relative humidity (RH)) and COOL (∼22°C and 70% RH) conditions. METHODS 10 male tennis players undertook two matches for an effective playing time (ie, ball in play) of 20 min, corresponding to ∼122 and ∼107 min of total pla...

The hot deformation behavior and microstructural evolution of Ti-44Al-5V-1Cr alloy were investigated by hot compression tests at temperatures of 1000–1250 ◦C and strain rates of 0.001–1 s−1. It was indicated that the dependence of peak stress on deformation temperature and strain rate could be accurately described by a hyperbolic sine type equation. The activation energy, Q, was estimated to be...

We generate the statistical ensembles in equilibrium with fixed temperature and chemical potential by imposing periodic boundary condition to the simulation of URASiMA(Ultra-Relativistic AA collision Simulator based on Multiple Scattering Algorithm). By using the generated ensembles, we investigate the temperature dependence and the chemical potential dependence of the nucleon diffusion constan...

In this paper we determine the momentum distribution and drift velocity of hot carriers in silicon under the condition of finite supply energy. We show that the momentum distribution varies between the nearly isotropic in high field to strongly anisotropic when the carrier's energy is comparable to the supply energy.