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UNINA9910965064903321 |
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Autore |
Piantadosi Claude A |
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Titolo |
The biology of human survival : life and death in extreme environments / / Claude A. Piantadosi |
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New York, : Oxford University Press, 2003 |
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0-19-773743-9 |
1-280-53383-8 |
9786610533831 |
0-19-974807-1 |
1-4237-8497-9 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (280 p.) |
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Collana |
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Oxford scholarship online |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Extreme environments |
Adaptation (Biology) |
Human physiology |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Formerly CIP. |
Previously issued in print: 2003. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-254) and index. |
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""Contents""; ""1. The Human Environment""; ""The nature of human physical boundaries""; ""The importance of preparation for extreme exposures""; ""Some basic concepts of survival analysis""; ""Characteristics of life-support systems""; ""2. Survival and Adaptation""; ""The science of human physiology""; ""Principles of physiological regulation and adaptation""; ""Defining physiological adaptation to the environment""; ""Acclimatization and acclimation""; ""3. Cross-Acclimation""; ""The complexity of adaptation to environment""; ""Positive and negative cross-acclimation"" |
""Biochemical mediators of physiological adaptation""""Stress proteins and the stress response""; ""4. Food for Thought""; ""A brief overview of human starvation""; ""Starvation: an affliction of the very young and the very old""; ""Assessing the severity of starvation""; ""Why children die of starvation""; ""Other critical factors in human starvation""; ""Starvation and obesity: strange bedfellows""; ""The molecular basis of obesity and hunger""; ""5. Water and Salt""; ""The composition of body water""; |
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""Why do human food and water requirements differ?"" |
""The body�s minimum daily water requirements""""The mechanism of dehydration and the body�s responses""; ""Dehydration and heat tolerance""; ""Survival time without drinking water""; ""6. Water That Makes Men Mad""; ""The composition of seawater""; ""Ingestion of seawater""; ""Survival at sea""; ""Lessons from the USS Indianapolis""; ""A practical approach to salt and water loss at sea""; ""7. Tolerance to Heat""; ""Mammalian homeothermy""; ""Humans as tropical primates""; ""Body heat balance""; ""Heat acclimatization""; ""Heat acclimatization and physical fitness"" |
""The limitations of human tolerance to heat""""Heat illnesses""; ""Death by heatstroke""; ""8. Endless Oceans of Sand""; ""The camel and the Berber""; ""Desert lessons from Pablo and the Haj""; ""Thermal stress and behavior""; ""Importance and regulation of heat-escape activities""; ""9. Hypothermia""; ""The effects of extreme cold on the extremities""; ""Settings for systemic hypothermia""; ""The physiology of hypothermia""; ""Unexpected effects of cold and hypothermia""; ""The subtle effect of winter on human mortality""; ""10. Life and Death on the Crystal Desert""; ""Life in Antarctica"" |
""The race for the South Pole""""Failure to adapt to Antarctic conditions""; ""Engineering out the need to tolerate cold""; ""Human acclimation to cold""; ""Estivation""; ""Hibernation""; ""Hibernation, energy conservation, and suspended animation""; ""11. Survival in Cold Water""; ""The sinking of the Titanic""; ""Water temperature and human survival""; ""Prediction of survival time in cold water""; ""Survival behavior in cold water""; ""Hypothermia in deep sea diving""; ""Respiratory heat losses and slow cooling""; ""12. Air as Good as We Deserve""; ""Life in an oxidizing atmosphere"" |
""Biological oxidations and oxygen toxicity"" |
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This volume identifies the key determinants of life or death in extreme environments from a physiologist's perspective, integrating modern concepts of stress, tolerance, and adaptation into explanations of life under nature's most austere conditions. |
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UNICAMPANIAVAN00246379 |
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Autore |
Ceccarelli, Alberto Fabio |
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Titolo |
Prontuario tecnico urbanistico amministrativo : per la preparazione all'esame di abilitazione alle professioni di architetto, pianificatore, paesaggista, conservatore sez. A - sez. B, ingegnere civile-edile, geometra, perito edile, per concorsi da tecnico negli Enti locali e per la professione, con oltre 160 particolari costruttivi aggiornati alle nuove norme sul risparmio energetico / Alberto Fabio Ceccarelli |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Santarcangelo di Romagna, : Maggioli, 2022 |
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Titolo uniforme |
Prontuario tecnico urbanistico amministrativo |
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Edizione |
[8. ed] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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Materiale a stampa |
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