A device to improve the Schleger and Turner method for sweating rate measurements

International Journal of Biometeorology

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 37-43

  Pereira, Alfredo Manuel Franco ^a   Alves, Alexandre ^a   Infante, Paulo ^a   Titto, Evaldo A L ^b   Baccari Jr , Flávio ^c   Almeida, J A Afonso ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ÉVORA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cattle; Evaporative thermolysis; Sweating rate

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CHEMISTRY; COLORIMETRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; INSTRUMENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SWEAT; SWEATING;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; COLORIMETRY; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SWEAT; SWEATING;

ANIMALIA; BOS;

EID: 74349129173     PISSN: 00207128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00484-009-0250-3     Document Type: Article

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