Body segment differences in surface area, skin temperature and 3D displacement and the estimation of heat balance during locomotion in hominins

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Cross, Alan ^a   Collard, Mark ^a   Nelson, Andrew ^b  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; BODY SURFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; HEAT LOSS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; SKIN TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; THERMOREGULATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREADMILL EXERCISE; WALKING; ANIMAL; HEAT; HOMINID; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; HEAT; HOMINIDAE; LOCOMOTION; SKIN TEMPERATURE;

EID: 49249107839     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002464     Document Type: Article

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