SELECTED ORAL COMMUNICATION SESSION, SESSION 54: EARLY PREGNANCY DISORDERS, Tuesday 5 July 2011 17:00 - 18:00

Oral Session 5: Motion Sickness and Pharmacology

Spaceflight is known to induce vestibular and cardiovascular deconditioning. Consequently, astronauts suffer from orthostatic intolerance and spatial disorientation upon return to a gravitational environment. The aim of the current ESA SPIN-D study was to identify the most appropriate pharmacological countermeasure against the aforementioned symptoms. This double blind placebo controlled study ...

2011 SSM Poster Session

1 Sex Differences in Accompaniment and Technology Usage in a Coffee Shop Margaret Diamond, Chloe Kingery, Jessica McAbee, and Jessica Thompson, Department of Psychology Gender differences in accompaniment and technology use were observe in a coffee shop close to a college campus. Young adults (N=232) were observed to see if there was a difference in having accompaniment or sitting along. They w...

Session II-5: Validation of Three Rs alternative methods Session II-5: Oral presentations

Increasing efforts are being directed at finding improved innovative methods for assessing whether chemicals may cause adverse health effects. Collectively referred to as the 21st Century Toxicology Toolbox, these methods includes a wide range of tools that increasingly incorporate understanding and detection of the molecular, genetic, structural, and cellular perturbations of pathways and mech...

AVSS 2011 demo session

Session Track 2011 Overview ∗

This overview is organized as follows: in Section 2 we describe the tasks participants were to perform. In Section 3 we describe the corpus, topics, and sessions that comprise the test collection. Section 4 gives some information about submitted runs. In Section 5 we describe relevance judging and evaluation measures, and Sections 6 and 7 present evaluation results and analysis. We conclude in ...