The variation of individual life spans, even in highly inbred cohorts of animals and under strictly controlled environmental conditions, is substantial and not well understood. This variation in part could be due to epigenetic variation, which later affects the animal's physiology and ultimately longevity. Identification of the physiological properties that impact health and life span is crucia...

Emergency workers engaged in strenuous work in hot environments risk overheating and mission failure. We describe a real-time application that would reduce these risks in terms of a real-time thermal-work strain index (SI) estimator; and a Markov Decision Process (MDP) to compute optimal work rate policies. We examined the thermo-physiological responses of 14 experienced U.S. Army Ranger studen...

ABSTRACT Introduction: Physical exercise can enhance the body's ability to adapt external environment and improve contractility of heart. At same time, it help blood circulation increase lung capacity. Objective: This article explores critical role sports in prevention cardiovascular diseases. Methods: conducts tests on related physiological indicators such as hemodynamic rheology for students ...

OBJECTIVES This study sought to examine the changes in ventricular function of hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) between the first 2 stages of surgical palliation. BACKGROUND The mortality risk between first and second stages of surgical palliation in HLHS remains high. Right ventricular (RV) dysfunction predicts mortality. Postulated mechanisms include a maladaptive contraction pattern,...

The use of personal protective equipment (PPE) is essential to protect the human body in hazardous environments or where there a risk CBRN agents. However, PPE also poses barrier evaporative heat dissipation, therefore increasing accumulation body. In our research, we investigated applicability thermophysiological models for prediction thermal strain and permissible working time contaminated en...