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  Heat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Heat flows between regions that are not in thermal equilibrium; in particular, it flows from areas of high temperature to areas of low temperature.
Radiative heat transfer is the only form of heat transfer that can occur in the absence of any form of medium and as such is the only means of heat transfer through a vacuum.
Heat pipe: Using latent heat and capilliary action to move heat, it can carry many times as much heat as a similar sized copper rod and is starting to have applications in laptop personal computers.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Heat   (1619 words)

  
 Heat Stress - effects of heat on your body
Heat Edema is the result of the body not able to dump the salt and water it is ingesting, and usually shows up as ankle swelling.
Heat loss then happens through the mechanisms of direct convection heat transfer from the body to the environment and from the evaporation of moisture from the skin.
Heat lost from the person must equal the heat gained from the environment along with the heat the body produces from work.
www.coolbandanas.com /heatstress.htm   (1205 words)

  
 CDC Extreme Heat | Frequently Asked Questions
Heat exhaustion is a milder form of heat-related illness that can develop after several days of exposure to high temperatures and inadequate or unbalanced replacement of fluids.
Heat cramps are muscle pains or spasms – usually in the abdomen, arms, or legs – that may occur in association with strenuous activity.
Heat rash is a skin irritation caused by excessive sweating during hot, humid weather.
www.bt.cdc.gov /disasters/extremeheat/faq.asp   (1317 words)

  
 body heat --  Encyclopædia Britannica
The small bodies populate the solar system in vast numbers and include the rocky asteroids, or minor planets, the predominantly icy comets, and the fragments of these bodies—commonly called meteoroids—over a continuum of sizes down to microscopic grains known as...
Heat is a form of energy that is transferred from one body to another because of a difference in temperature.
Heat exhaustion is the result of excessive loss of body fluids, leading to profound dehydration and possibly even shock.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9080373?tocId=9080373   (915 words)

  
 How the increase in clothes on a body prevents heat loss.
It also shows that they all loose heat rapidly at first, and then slow down as they become nearer room temperature until they eventually will stop, the steep gradient at the beginning flattening to an almost flat line at the end and the gradient decreasing as the experiment goes on.
The little heat loss at the beginning is the heat being given to the primary water, which got through the layers and since no more water could replace the primary volume there was no major heat loss after that and it seemed to remain quite constant.
Heat from inside the body may leave through a chain of particles, one particle vibrating with the energy (the heat has changed to kinetic energy) will make the particle next to it vibrate.
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 CDC Extreme Heat | A Prevention Guide to Promote Your Personal Health and Safety
Heat stroke occurs when the body is unable to regulate its temperature.
The body's temperature rises rapidly, the sweating mechanism fails, and the body is unable to cool down.
Heat cramps are muscle pains or spasms—usually in the abdomen, arms, or legs—that may occur in association with strenuous activity.
www.bt.cdc.gov /disasters/extremeheat/heat_guide.asp   (2179 words)

  
 NASD: Outdoor Action Guide to Heat-Related Illnesses & Fluid Balance
Heat illnesses are the result of elevated body temperatures due to an inability to dissipate the body's heat and/or a decreased fluid level.
Heat Syncope (fainting) is a mild form of heat illness which results from physical exertion in a hot environment.
Heat Stroke is caused by an increase in the body's core temperature.
www.cdc.gov /nasd/docs/d001201-d001300/d001215/d001215.html   (2375 words)

  
 HEAT WAVE A NATIONAL PROBLEM
Heat disorders generally have to do with a reduction or collapse of the body's ability to shed heat by circulatory changes and sweating, or a chemical (salt) imbalance caused by too much sweating.
When heat gain exceeds the level the body can remove, or when the body cannot compensate for fluids and salt lost through perspiration, the temperature of the body's inner core begins to rise and heat-related illness may develop.
Indications from the 1978 Texas heat wave suggest that some elderly people on fixed incomes, many of them in buildings that could not be ventilated without air conditioning, found the cost too high, turned off their units, and ultimately succumbed to the stresses of heat.
www.aoml.noaa.gov /general/lib/heatw.html   (1378 words)

  
 Sizzling temperatures put heat on body's strength, resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
It is a symptom of heat stroke, the body's breakdown of its own heat-regulating mechanisms.
Heat stroke is often the last stage in the body's losing battle to cope with heat stress.
It occurs after the signals of heat exhaustion--thirst, headache and cramps, among others--are ignored, or after self-help measures are ineffective.
www.usc.edu /student-affairs/dt/V128/N10/05-sizzling.10c.html   (454 words)

  
 General Conduction Theory in Heat Transfer
When there exists a temperature gradient within a body, heat energy will flow from the region of high temperature to the region of low temperature.
This equation determines the heat flux vector q for a given temperature profile T and thermal conductivity k.
The temperature profile within a body depends upon the rate of its internally-generated heat, its capacity to store some of this heat, and its rate of thermal conduction to its boundaries (where the heat is transfered to the surrounding environment).
www.efunda.com /formulae/heat_transfer/conduction/overview_cond.cfm   (232 words)

  
 Understanding Heat Rash -- the Basics
Heat rash -- also called prickly heat or miliaria -- is a common condition in which areas of the skin itch intensely and often feel prickly, or sting, due to overheating.
It usually occurs on clothed parts of the body, such as the back, abdomen, neck, upper chest, groin or armpits and goes away on its own within a few days.
Heat rash occurs most often in hot, humid conditions, but you may develop it in cool weather if you are overdressed.
my.webmd.com /content/article/8/1680_54300   (205 words)

  
 Body Heat
Yeah, heat was worse for Sebaceans than cold, but Peacekeepers were bred for the artificially constant temperatures of the Command Carriers they were born on, and it was colder than H-E-double Texas on this planet, whatever it was….
Her own body heat wasn’t enough to warm the sleeping furs very much, and he didn’t dare move her closer to the fire.
He edged his body closer until he was touching her body with his, then rolled partway over her, draping his leg across her body.
www.jedikatie.com /romance_heat.html   (3232 words)

  
 Floridian: Body Heat
The risk of heat exhaustion and heatstroke increases with a rise in temperature and humidity.
Heat emergencies fall into three categories of increasing severity: heat cramps (caused by loss of salt from heavy sweating), heat exhaustion (caused by dehydration) and heatstroke.
Heat edema is characterized by swelling in the arms and legs because of the heat.
www.sptimes.com /2004/06/08/Floridian/Body_Heat.shtml   (709 words)

  
 Body Heat
The reduced temperature at the location of the heat exchanger would cause the body to restrict blood flow to that area [Gillies (ed.), 1965].
This self-regulation causes the location of the heat pump to become the coolest part of the body, further diminishing the returns of the Carnot engine unless a wetsuit is employed as part of the design.
As a rough estimate, assuming even heat dissipation over the body, a maximum of 0.20-0.32 W could be recovered conveniently by such a neck brace.
web.media.mit.edu /~testarne/TR328/node2.html   (460 words)

  
 Body Heat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Body Heat is a 1981 neo-film noir written and directed by Lawrence Kasdan.
A remake of 1944's Double Indemnity, it stars William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Richard Crenna, Ted Danson, J.
Body Heat may be cited as an example of postmodern pastiche, as its sets are an intentional mix of visual eras.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Body_Heat   (118 words)

  
 Body Heat   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Body Heat is a 1981 film noir written and directed by Lawrence Kasdan.
Body Heat is an introduction to how living things regulate their internal temperature in the face of changing external circumstances.
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www.freeglossary.com /Body_Heat   (271 words)

  
 ANS 331: Body Heat and Temperature Regulation
Chemical Reactions of the body (body functions) depend on body temperature 1.
Hypothermia A. Reduction of deep body temperature below normal in nonhibernating animals B. Result of prolonged exposure to cold, coupled with inability of heat-conserving and heat generating mechanisms to keep pace C. Life threatening unless environmental temperatures improve or external heat is provided 2.
Heat conserving and generating mechanisms are turned on iii.
www.siu.edu /departments/coagr/animal/tw3a/public_html/331temp.htm   (719 words)

  
 Body Temperature Regulation
Conduction is the flow of heat energy from regions of warmer temperature to regions of cooler temperature.
Within the body, blood convection is used to move the heat from the inside of your body to your skin.
Since the specific heat of blood is larger than that of air, we expect the thermal current to be larger for blood, and hence the velocity to be smaller than this estimate.
www.rwc.uc.edu /koehler/biophys/8d.html   (1257 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - NFL teams to use pill to monitor body heat   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Viking's body temperature was over 108 degrees at the time of his death.
But now there is, in the form of a swallowed capsule that measures core body temperature as it passes through the digestive system, and the Vikings — along with a few other NFL teams — are using it.
The Core Temp Ingestible Core Body Temperature Sensor was developed in the late 1980s by HQ Inc., of Palmetto, Fla., as a research tool used for a number of projects, including monitoring how certain pharmaceutical drugs affect the body's core temperature.
www.usatoday.com /tech/science/2005-08-15-pill-heat-nfl_x.htm   (1101 words)

  
 Lawrence Kasdan's Body Heat
The grass widow of a shady businessman who only comes home on the weekend, her elegant body unmarred by children or bad diet, her restlessness is the classic signature of the neglected woman.
Somewhere in here Mary Ann is supposedly murdered by Matty and her body stashed in the boathouse in anticipation of her lover Racine's death by boobytrap bomb -- the same type as Racine used to dispose of Edmund Walker.
The performances in Body Heat are superb, from the principals to the secondaries.
www.culturecourt.com /F/Noir/BodyHeat.htm   (1765 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Body Heat (1981) : Video   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
I have to point out that the scene in which Matty is in the tub with Ned and he dumps more ice cubes in to cool her off is a little on the contrived side since they surely had air conditioning.
She claims to a natural body temperature of 100, reminding me of the classic rock lyric, "I'm hot-blooded, check it and see/I've got a temperature of a hundred and three." Also Matty's seduction of Ned was a little too fortuitous.
Body Heat made a lot of money on the bases of THAT poster and the fact that people could buy VCRs and rent films for the first time.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6302816653?v=glance   (2139 words)

  
 Harvard University Press/Body Heat/Reviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The need to maintain body temperature within a narrow range is the biggest single influence on physiology and behaviour, as Mark Blumberg explains in this little gem of a book, Body Heat...Blumberg describes the exquisite mechanisms developed by different species to generate, conserve or lose body heat.
Body Heat is great reading, certain to produce an enlightened appreciation for how body temperature control is critical for all organisms.
In Body Heat, biophysicist Mark Blumberg's exploration of temperature in the world considers the many ways temperature rules the lives of animals, from how penguins survive Antarctic winters to why people survive drowning accidents in winter, but not in summer.
www.hup.harvard.edu /reviews/BLUBOD_R.html   (589 words)

  
 Body Heat -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Body Heat is a 1981 neo- (Click link for more info and facts about film noir) film noir written and directed by (Click link for more info and facts about Lawrence Kasdan) Lawrence Kasdan.
Racine's best friend, tap-dancing (An official prosecutor for a judicial district) District Attorney Peter Lowenstein (Danson) is hot on the couple's trail.
Body Heat may be cited as an example of (Click link for more info and facts about postmodern) postmodern pastiche, as its sets are an intentional mix of visual eras.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/bo/body_heat.htm   (94 words)

  
 Animal Planet :: Ferocious Crocs
Mammals and birds are called "endotherms" because they produce their own body heat internally (hence "endo" for inside, and "therm" for heat).
They don't need to eat regularly to warm their bodies, and so they save an enormous amount of energy that can be put to other use or stored for a later date.
They have a preferred body temperature, which in crocodiles is normally around 86 to 89 degrees F. When they're too cool, they move into warmer areas, such as a sunlit bank or warm water.
animal.discovery.com /convergence/safari/crocs/expert/expert12.html   (551 words)

  
 Body Heat fabric links US   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Body Heat fabric links US Body Heat fabric links US or references to body heat...
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Body Heat fabric links US or references to the subject of body heat...
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 Wired News: Pill Monitors Athletes' Body Heat   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
But now there is, in the form of a swallowed capsule that measures core body temperature as it passes through the digestive system, and the Vikings -- along with a few other NFL teams -- are using it.
The Core Temp Ingestible Core Body Temperature Sensor was developed in the late 1980s by HQ, of Palmetto, Florida, as a research tool used for a number of projects, including monitoring how certain pharmaceutical drugs affect the body's core temperature.
The Vikings, Jacksonville Jaguars and Philadelphia Eagles are using the device to gauge the effect of suffocating heat on huge athletes going through intense August workouts in pads and a helmet.
www.wired.com /news/medtech/0,1286,68522,00.html?tw=newsletter_topstories_html   (1157 words)

  
 First World War.com - Encyclopedia - Body Lice
Lice infestation was the norm in the trenches - it is estimated that up to 97% of officers and men who worked and lived in the trenches were afflicted with lice.
Of the three types of lice - head, pubic and body - the latter was far and away the most common.
Lice could only thrive in warm conditions - which was provided by body heat and clothing.
www.firstworldwar.com /atoz/bodylice.htm   (393 words)

  
 Oceanography Lesson Plans for Science; Whale's Body Heat   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Teachers: Students need to understand how whales maintain their body heat in the near freezing water temperatures of the Arctic Ocean.
It would loose its body heat like the glove, and quickly cool in the ocean.
There is less blubber on the whale's flipper, and it can conduct body heat to the surrounding cooler ocean better than the rest of its body.
pao.cnmoc.navy.mil /educate/neptune/lesson/science/heat.htm   (713 words)

  
 OpinionJournal - Scene & Heard
I use the word with deliberate irony: Apparently a woman has the right to do anything she wants with her body, except drink wine, smoke cigarettes or now have milk with her cereal.
She can abort her unwanted child if she wants, but in the meantime the Institute of Medicine plans to strike whole food groups from the national menu in case she doesn't.
There's a case to be made that pregnant women are simply easy targets for those whose real goal is to eliminate pleasures or attack industries of which they disapprove for their own neurotic reasons.
www.opinionjournal.com /columnists/clevey/?id=110003699   (994 words)

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