J Kass
Dr. James Kass holds a B.Sc. in Physics and Math (Montreal) and an MS in Physics (Ann Arbor, Michigan). He completed his Ph.D. in physics in Leeds, England, before joining the Max-Planck Institute to research in Nuclear Physics. He then joined the department of medicine at Joh.-Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany, where he researched in Neuro-physiology and space medicine for eight years, working on two Spacelab missions. He coordinated the European SpaceSled experimenters teams and was responsible for crew training, crew procedures, and ground operations, communicating directly with the space crew.Following this he worked for the aerospace industry in Bremen and Munich in the sectors of space operations, tele-medical research, artificial intelligence, and human behaviour, performing pilot experiments under-water, in parabolic flight, and testing and validating procedures, experiments and telemedical equipment running on the MIR station during the MIR97 mission. He has worked intimately with cosmonauts of the Russian Salyut and MIR space stations, as well as with astronauts on the Apollo programme, Skylab, Shuttle, and ISS. In addition, he was involved in several space simulation isolation studies in Cologne (Germany) Moscow (Russia), and Toronto (Canada).Over the years he has taught at various academic institutions: he has been Adjunct Associate Professor at Concordia University, Montreal, dept. of Applied Human Sciences, where he lectured and carries out research in human behaviour
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November/December , 1983, pre-, in-, and postflight. These experiments covered various aspects of the functions of the vestibular system, the inflight tests comprising threshold measurements for linear movements in three orthogonal axes, optokinetic stimulation, vestibulo-ocular reflexes under linear and angular accelerations, caloric stimulation with and without linear accelerations; pre-and post-flight tests repeated the inflight protocol with the addition of subjective vertical and eye counter-rotation measurements using a tilt table. One of the most surprising and significant results was the caloric test: strong caloric nystagmus on the two subjects tested was recorded inflight; this was contrary to what was expected from Barany ' s convection hypothesis for caloric nystagmus.
November/December , 1983, pre-, in-, and postflight. These experiments covered various aspects of the functions of the vestibular system, the inflight tests comprising threshold measurements for linear movements in three orthogonal axes, optokinetic stimulation, vestibulo-ocular reflexes under linear and angular accelerations, caloric stimulation with and without linear accelerations; pre-and post-flight tests repeated the inflight protocol with the addition of subjective vertical and eye counter-rotation measurements using a tilt table. One of the most surprising and significant results was the caloric test: strong caloric nystagmus on the two subjects tested was recorded inflight; this was contrary to what was expected from Barany ' s convection hypothesis for caloric nystagmus.
This chapter is a small window of the domain workgroups providing illustrations of the challenges of workgroups in the area human spaceflight and international organizations related to space flight, scientific research and industrial work in this domain.
services accessible to the whole transport community and helping them to continue improving their activities.
ESA's new Integrated Applications Promotion Programme (IAP) is currently working in several areas related to transport, where combining space and terrestrial assets are adding value to existing services or facilitating new innovative concepts in Europe. As an example, transport of
hazardous goods is one domain of work where space assets can play a significant role.
Effective solutions, however, require a holistic and broad approach spanning diverse disciplines and utilising several space assets, which, integrated together can provide far greater added value. This paper provides an overview of how space can and does contribute to health, how ESA’s new Integrated Applications Promotion (IAP) Programme brings together these space assets to facilitate an holistic approach, and presents some current examples that demonstrate this approach.
programme dedicated to facilitating the creation of innovative applications and sustainable services that integrate space assets with terrestrial infrastructure and technologies meeting the needs of different user
communities, as yet otherwise not possible.
In summary, this planned project involved simultaneous training and gathering data. This means crew are given training skills pertinent to maximising team effectiveness while at the same time various training methods are tested under these special conditions.
during MEP and MPC performances as well as during moderate cyclo-ergometric exercises.
Investigations carried out by various authors ill the past indicate that training or detraining of a skeletal muscle may change the characteristics of its electromyographic signal recorded during phases of well-defined isometric or isokinetic force development. No systematic investigations of this effect as to its possible use for the development of an electromyographic muscle training control method in manned spaceflight have been carried out as yet however.
With the project described in this paper, we shall start a systematic investigation of computerized electromyographic signal analysis methods as to their applicability to the documentation of changes in the training state of the most important skeletal muscles of the lower extremity. The experimental program will include a complete analysis of the amplitude and frequency characteristics of the electromyographic signals generated by selected skeletal muscles of astronauts during controlled exercise sessions on an isokinetic bicycle ergometer at constant power levels before, during, and after the MlR '96 space mission.