Human cold stress / Ken Parsons.
"This book provides an up-to-date, accessible, and comprehensive coverage of human cold stress from principles and theory to practical application. It defines cold stress and how people respond to it. It describes how to assess a cold environment to predict when discomfort, wind-chill, hypother...
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| Language: | English |
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Boca Raton :
CRC Press,
2021.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | CRC focus series.
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Table of Contents:
- Human cold stress
- The body heat equation
- Human thermoregulation in the cold
- Human metabolic heat in the cold
- Clothing in the cold
- Selection of clothing for cold environments
- Wind chill
- Required clothing insulation
- A computer model of human response to cold including torso, limbs, head, hands and feet
- Human performance and productivity in the cold
- Diverse cold environments
- Diverse populations in the cold
- Hypothermia, freezing and non-freezing cold injuries and death
- Skin contact with cold surfaces
- Practical assessment of cold environments.