Purpose To identify the effect size regarding glabrous skin foot cooling on core temperature, cognitive performance, and physical work capacity (PWC) during mild simulated occupational heat stress. Methods A pilot sample of twelve healthy adults (5 women) completed experimental visits in a 38.7 ± 0.7 ℃ and 46 ± 9% relative humidity environment that consisted of 60-minutes of steady-state upper body ergometry exercise followed...

Floating offshore wind turbine (FOWT) platforms are subject to a wide range of hydrodynamic loading and dynamic movement, making hydrodynamic force evaluation difficult. Amongst various floating platforms, submersible platforms are structurally complex, with multiple members held together by cross-braces. The influence of these members on hydrodynamic loading is poorly understood. An investigation of the effect of these member...

Recognizing the imperative to evaluate species recovery and conservation impact, in 2012 the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) called for development of a “Green List of Species” (now the IUCN Green Status of Species). A draft Green Status framework for assessing species’ progress toward recovery, published in 2018, proposed 2 separate but interlinked components: a standardized method (i.e., measurement aga...

We develop a potentially widely applicable framework for analysing the vulnerability, resilience risk and exposure of chondrichthyan species to all types of anthropogenic stressors in the marine environment. The approach combines the three components of widely applied vulnerability analysis (exposure, sensitivity and adaptability) (ESA) with three components (exposure, susceptibility and productivity) (ESP) of our adaptation o...

Estimated declines in shark and ray populations worldwide have raised major, widespread concern about the impacts of global fisheries on elasmobranchs. The mechanisms causing elasmobranch mortality during fisheries’ capture are not fully understood, but we must gain greater clarity on this topic for fisheries managers to develop effective conservation plans to mitigate further population declines. To evaluate how two important...