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Coping with Environmental Fluctuations: Ecological and Evolutionary Perspectives
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Year: 2020 Publisher: Frontiers Media SA

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This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contact


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Thermoregulation. : from basic neuroscience to clinical neurology
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ISBN: 0444639136 0444639128 9780444639134 9780444640758 0444640754 0444640746 9780444640741 9780444639127 Year: 2018 Publisher: Amsterdam : Elsevier,


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Fever
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ISBN: 0691082340 9781400869831 1400869838 9780691608600 9780691082349 0691608601 9780691082349 Year: 2015 Publisher: Princeton, NJ

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Fever has long been recognized as a symptom of disease. Until the past century it was considered a healthy sign; since then this view has changed and the use of drugs to reduce fever has grown quite common. Acting on the revival of interest as to whether the effects of fever are beneficial or harmful, Matthew Kluger and other physiologists began a series of experiments designed to resolve this question. This book synthesizes their research, making a case not only for the beneficial function of fever but also for the re-evaluation of current clinical practices regarding fever.Originally published in 1979.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.


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Temperature.
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ISSN: 23328959 Year: 2014 Publisher: Austin, TX : Philadelphia, PA : Landes Bioscience, Taylor & Francis

Body Heat
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ISBN: 0674023765 9780674023765 9780674007628 067400762X 0674013697 9780674013698 0674262123 9780674262126 Year: 2021 Publisher: Cambridge, MA

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In this illuminating book, biopsychologist Mark Blumberg explores the many ways that temperature rules the lives of all animals. In the process Blumberg tells wonderful stories of evolutionary and scientific ingenuity.

The dinosauria
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ISBN: 1282360450 9786612360459 0520941438 9780520941434 0520242092 9780520242098 Year: 2004 Publisher: Berkeley, Calif. London University of California Press

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When the The Dinosauria was first published more than a decade ago, it was hailed as "the best scholarly reference work available on dinosaurs" and "an historically unparalleled compendium of information." This second, fully revised edition continues in the same vein as the first but encompasses the recent spectacular discoveries that have continued to revolutionize the field. A state-of-the-science view of current world research, the volume includes comprehensive coverage of dinosaur systematics, reproduction, and life history strategies, biogeography, taphonomy, paleoecology, thermoregulation, and extinction. Its internationally renowned authors-forty-four specialists on the various members of the Dinosauria-contribute definitive descriptions and illustrations of these magnificent Mesozoic beasts. The first section of The Dinosauria begins with the origin of the great clade of these fascinating reptiles, followed by separate coverage of each major dinosaur taxon, including the Mesozoic radiation of birds. The second part of the volume navigates through broad areas of interest. Here we find comprehensive documentation of dinosaur distribution through time and space, discussion of the interface between geology and biology, and the paleoecological inferences that can be made through this link. This new edition will be the benchmark reference for everyone who needs authoritative information on dinosaurs.


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Extreme measures
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ISBN: 1280994525 9786613766137 0226561240 9780226561240 9780226561226 0226561224 9780226561233 0226561232 Year: 2012 Publisher: Chicago University of Chicago Press

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Along with reproduction, balancing energy expenditure with the limits of resource acquisition is essential for both a species and a population to survive. But energy is a limited resource, as we know well, so birds and mammals-the most energy-intensive fauna on the planet-must reduce energy expenditures to maintain this balance, some taking small steps, and others extreme measures. Here Brian K. McNab draws on his over sixty years in the field to provide a comprehensive account of the energetics of birds and mammals, one fully integrated with their natural history. McNab begins with an overview of thermal rates-much of our own energy is spent maintaining our 98.6?F temperature-and explains how the basal rate of metabolism drives energy use, especially in extreme environments. He then explores those variables that interact with the basal rate of metabolism, like body size and scale and environments, highlighting their influence on behavior, distribution, and even reproductive output. Successive chapters take up energy and population dynamics and evolution. A critical central theme that runs through the book is how the energetic needs of birds and mammals come up against rapid environmental change and how this is hastening the pace of extinction.


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Water Intake, Body Water Regulation and Health
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ISBN: 3039286579 3039286560 Year: 2020 Publisher: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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The purpose of this Special Issue, “Water Intake, Body Water Regulation, and Health”, is to present novel reviews and experimental data regarding hydration physiology and its implication in overall health. Water has previously been dubbed the forgotten nutrient due to humans’ and animals’ ability to subsist seemingly unchanged across a wide range of daily water intakes. However, with the introduction of stressors such as exercise, diseased states, and/or chronic high or low water intake, the homeostatic signals related to body water regulation can influence organ and whole-body health. This Special Issue will discuss water intake, the scientific rationale surrounding the U.S. and European water intake guidelines, homeostatic mechanisms, diseases related to dysfunction of water regulation, and differences in the volume and the vehicle in which the water is contained (i.e., plain water versus mixed beverages) on water intake during and following exercise. The aim is to continue discussion surrounding water, the previously forgotten nutrient, and highlight the importance of water in daily life.


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Indoor Thermal Comfort
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Year: 2020 Publisher: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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As the century begins, natural resources are under increasing pressure, threatening public health and development. As a result, the balance between man and nature has been disrupted, with climatic changes whose effects are starting to be irreversible. Due to the relationship between the quality of the indoor built environment and its energy demand, thermal comfort issues are still relevant in the disciplinary debate. This is also because the indoor environment has a potential impact on occupants' health and productivity, affecting their physical and psychological conditions. To achieve a sustainable compromise in terms of comfort and energy requirements, several challenging questions must be answered with regard to design, technical, engineering, psychological, and physiological issues and, finally, potential interactions with other IEQ issues that require a holistic way to conceive the building envelope design. This Special Issue collected original research and review articles on innovative designs, systems, and/or control domains that can enhance thermal comfort, work productivity, and wellbeing in a built environment, along with works considering the integration of human factors in buildings’ energy performance.


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Bioprocess Monitoring and Control
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Year: 2020 Publisher: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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Process monitoring and control are fundamental to all processes; this holds especially for bioprocesses, due to their complex nature. Usually, bioprocesses deal with living cells, which have their own regulatory systems. It helps to adjust the cell to its environmental condition. This must not be the optimal condition that the cell needs to produce whatever is desired. Therefore, a close monitoring of the cell and its environment is essential to provide optimal conditions for production. Without measurement, no information of the current process state is obtained. In this book, methods and techniques are provided for the monitoring and control of bioprocesses. From new developments for sensors, the application of spectroscopy and modelling approaches, the estimation and observer implementation for ethanol production and the development and scale-up of various bioprocesses and their closed loop control information are presented. The processes discussed here are very diverse. The major applications are cultivation processes, where microorganisms were grown, but also an incubation process of bird’s eggs, as well as an indoor climate control for humans, will be discussed. Altogether, in 12 chapters, nine original research papers and three reviews are presented.

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bioenvironmental control --- model-predictive controller --- zonal controlling --- dynamic modelling --- flotation --- bioleaching --- frother --- mixed culture --- machine learning --- Raman spectroscopy --- downstream processing --- chromatography --- flow cell --- extended Kalman filter --- biotechnological processes --- bioreactor control --- specific growth rate control --- batch-to-batch reproducibility --- thermal sensation --- thermal comfort --- machine-learning --- prediction --- adaptive controlling --- thermal growth curve --- temperature modeling --- thermoregulation --- monitoring and control --- bioprocess engineering --- calorimetry --- biocontrol agent --- Bacillus subtilis natto --- isolation --- molecular identification --- medium optimization --- antimicrobial activity --- bactericides --- spectral analyses --- biological selenate reduction --- electron donor competition --- nitrate --- perchlorate --- sequencing batch --- Pseudomonas --- siderophores --- antagonism --- batch fermentation --- exponential fed-batch fermentation --- bio-friendly formulations --- biocontrol --- nonlinear state estimation --- geometric observer --- bioreactor --- continuous system --- model-based sensor --- well-defined macromolecules --- sequence-defined macromolecules --- sequence-defined polymers --- conjugated oligomers --- oligo(arylene ethynylene)s --- biosensors --- sensors --- process monitoring --- bioprocess monitoring and control --- signal noise management --- dielectric spectroscopy --- PAT --- microbial bioprocessing --- n/a

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