When ambient temperature is decreased in mammals, autonomic and behavioral heat-gain responses occur to maintain their core temperatures. However, what molecules in cutaneous sensory nerve endings mediate cooling-induced responses is unclear. Recently, transient receptor potential melastatin-8 (TRPM8) has been identified in cell bodies of sensory neurons as low-temperature and menthol-activated...

In internal combustion engines, exhaust valve and its seat gain considerable temperature as the hot gases exit through them. So, the rate of heat transfer should be under control. In this study, the contact heat transfer coefficient has been estimated. An experimental study on an Air-Cooled internal combustion engine cylinder head has been considered. Using the measured temperatures of sensors ...

Commercial broiler males were used to evaluate body temperature response to heat stress and its relationship to gain, feed consumption, and feed conversion ratio. Individual gain, feed consumption, and feed conversion ratio were obtained from 28 to 49 d in a heat stress environment (32 C) and compared to a 21 C environment. Body temperatures were measured at 28, 35, and 42 d, then daily from 43...

This work uses the photodissociation of acetyl chloride to assess the utility of a recently proposed impulsive model when the dissociation occurs on an excited electronic state that is not repulsive in the Franck-Condon region. The impulsive model explicitly includes an average over the vibrational quantum states of acetyl chloride when it calculates an impact parameter for fission of the C-Cl ...

BACKGROUND Empirical tests that link temperature-mediated changes in behaviour (activity and resource selection) to individual fitness or condition are currently lacking for endotherms yet may be critical to understanding the effect of climate change on population dynamics. Moose (Alces alces) are thought to suffer from heat stress in all seasons so provide a good biological model to test wheth...

INTRODUCTION Radiant heat gain to the head has recently been shown to affect sensation in human subjects (Buyan et al., 2006). However, only one published study has been conducted on the influence of radiant heat gain for sports headgear (Ishigaki et al., 2001). One could assume that reducing heat stress by shielding solar radiation using sports headgear would increase thermal comfort, and poss...