Nat'l Academies Press, Design In The New Millennium (2000) New telecommunications and collaborative capabilities of future locations to engage in inter dependent, cooperative activities using a common http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126
Life And Microgravity Sciences And Applications SUMMARY OFFICE OF LIFE AND MICROGRAVITY SCIENCES resources support more than $5.0 million annually of collaborative activities with the NIH. http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126
American Society For Gravitational And Space Biology Research On Similarly, the International Microgravity Strategic Planning Group has been formed to address collaborative activities in the "Microgravity Sciences http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126
NASA Telemedicine - Current Activities activities in the area of medical education and telemedicine. NASA's collaborative activities Life Support, and Microgravity Sciences. http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126
SOL A COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH EDUCATION EFFORTS TO SUPPORT THE MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER SCIENCE ACTIVITIES interest to assist in collaborative research and education efforts at the Microgravity Science http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126
Lesson Plans Lesson Plans and Activities CoVis Geosiences is an Internet project for learning through collaborative visualization (CoVis) that involves http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126
Nat'l Academies Press, U.S.-European-Japanese Workshop On Space cooperation and scientistto-scientist relations as a fundamental building block in conceiving collaborative activities and in bringing them http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126
MARSBUGS The Electronic Exobiology Newsletter Volume 2, Number 1 and collaborative activities. Awards under this program are exclusively for ground based research. If research requires a microgravity http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126
ESF - International Collaboration Page If you are interested by these joint activities leave us a note USA in space science, Earth sciences from space, and microgravity research and http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126
NASA Quest Space Team Online PART 1 Special backto-school edition PART 2 Online collaborative activities PART 3 Lesson plans about rockets and microgravity PART 4 http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126
NASA Intercenter Activities / BEGIN / Human Health & Performance NASA InterCenter activities. GRC provision of a fluids analysis for ARCs Computational studies and microgravity experiments onboard the KC135 have http://microgravity.grc.nasa.gov/grcbio/collaborative.html
Extractions: GRC is evaluating LMM's potential ability to meet additional cell science requirements, especially the provision of multiple wavelengths and levels of containment. ARC is evaluating the utility of LMM's current capabilities for their fundamental biology program, especially LMM's use of only one wavelength for confocal microscopy, only one level of containment, and laser tweezers. LMM will begin building flight hardware by the end of 2003, and on orbit operation will begin in 2005.
GRC DIRECTORATES Another significant activity of GRCs microgravity Research Program is its number of collaborative activities with the Wright Patterson Air Force Base. http://urban.csuohio.edu/research/pubs/nasa2000/directorates.htm
Extractions: In addition to the activities of the CTO, an important mission of GRCs technical directorates is to research, develop, verify, and transfer advanced aeronautics, space, and related technologies to the private sector. The Directorates activities to accomplish their mission contributed to the local and state economies through technology transfer. Here are few examples: Space Two examples of GRCs impact on the local economy can be drawn from the Space Communication Program. First, GRC has a partnership with Ohio University that investigates communications protocols over a satellite link. The results of this experiment have been incorporated into requests for change with the Internet Engineering Task Force, the governing body that determines the technical operation of the Internet. In summary, the results of this joint experiment are helping to ensure that satellite communications will be an integral part of future communications networks. Another local partnership within Space Communications includes the Cleveland Clinic Foundation and the Ashtabula County Medical Center. Together, these organizations have developed an experiment to investigate transporting mammography imagery over satellites. This experiment has shown that satellites can provide a viable medium for transporting mammography imagery. Moreover, this project has shown that advanced satellite communications can improve health care in rural communities by providing the ability to link to urban medical facilities for consultation with experts in near real time.
NASA Telemedicine - Current Activities conducting research in microgravity and provide commercial access to space . NASA s collaborative activities in telemedicine, Spacebridge to Russia, http://www.quasar.org/21698/nasa/current.html
Extractions: Telemedicine is practiced on a daily basis in the human space flight program. It is a significant adjunct to the systems that are available in flight to address medical issues. Currently there are three operational space flight programs: Space Shuttle, Shuttle/MIR, and International Space Station. The Space Shuttle Program has been flying since the Spring of 1981. The Space Shuttle, which consists of the fleet of Orbiters (Columbia, Discovery, Endeavour, and Atlantis), the external tanks, and the solid rocket boosters, serves as the work horse of the human space flight program. It's primary role in access to space is : As Shuttle flights have changed in complexity and duration, the medical care capability in flight as evolved to support these changes. EMK Telemedicine has been applied and continues to be used everyday humans are in space. Private medical conferences (PMCs) between crew members and their flight surgeons, as well as vital physiological parameters continues to characterize telemedicine in space flight. In addition, video downlink capability can be used to support medical events when they occur. Here is an image of an astronaut examining another astronaut's eye with a fundus scope during a technology demonstration inflight. The image of the retina was down linked to the NASA Johnson Space Center where experts access the astronauts health status.
Topical Teams In ESA's Microgravity Programme Recently, ESA s microgravity Advisory Committee (MAC) has made an as a meansto stimulate collaborative interactions in the groundbased activities by http://esapub.esrin.esa.it/microgra/micrv8n2/walv8n2.htm
Extractions: Recently, ESA's Microgravity Advisory Committee (MAC) has made an analysis of research accomplishments of the past and has made recommendations on the research topics to be given priority in the future. The MAC furthermore specifically recommended that Topical Teams (TT's) be instituted to foster European cooperation, to conduct pilot studies, to evaluate critical aspects of new scientific projects and - if necessary - to define facilities for the future. ESA is therefore soliciting proposals for TT s; these new working groups should be seen in the following context: See Microgravity News, Vol. 6, 3, Dec. 1993: Focused Sciences Interim Report: Focused Research in the Microgravity Programme Part 1: Physics, Materials, and Fluid Science and see ESA/PB-MG(94)16, rev. 2, November 1994: Focused Research in the Microgravity Programme . It should be noted that the recommendations by the MAC with regard to future research priorities are based, on the one hand, on past experience and the experiments approved for flight in the future; on the other hand, they are based on the proposals received in response to the call for proposals for COLUMBUS precursor flights in 1991/92. This call for proposals represents the latest and most complete survey of the European user community's interest and these proposals were subject to a careful peer evaluation.
Extractions: Research Manager, ISS Program In an earlier ASGSB Newsletter How is the sequence and timing of this research outfitting determined? Given the complexity of the assembly sequence and the lead-time required to develop research facilities and hardware, a strategic long-term plan for research has been developed. The annual update of this strategic plan begins with a definition of the research capabilities of the International Space Station as a function of time. The assembly sequence is used to develop a more detailed description of the research capabilities; the capabilities defined include the available payload upmass, on-orbit space, power, crew time and communications capacity for each year. This year-by-year capability definition is then used by each International Space Station partner to develop a five-year strategic plan, called the Partner Utilization Plan. Each of the five partner agencies (NASA, the Science and Technology Agency of Japan, the European Space Agency, the Canadian Space Agency, and the Russian Space Agency) develops its own Partner Utilization Plan similar to the U.S. Plan. These plans, however, are not developed independently. Careful coordination takes place among the agencies at the research discipline level, which ensures that the plans are not only compatible, but are synergistic and thus produce higher research return.
ISTE | Dec/Jan (No. 4) This is only one example of the many types of collaborative activities and projectsin Recent hot topics include the brains functioning in microgravity http://www.iste.org/inhouse/publications/ll/27/4/06g/index.cfm?Section=LL_27_4
Natl. Aeronautics And Space Administration expand its biomedical research activities, these collaborative ventures willbecome NASA Office of Life and microgravity Sciences and Applications, http://www.faseb.org/opa/consensus99/nasa.html
Extractions: Historically, the FASEB consensus conference has primarily made recommendations concerning the Life Sciences Division, which is responsible for most of NASA's research on gravitational biology and biomedical topics involving both ground-based and flight-based programs. This division is mainly concerned with our understanding of the role of gravity in the evolution and development of biological processes and with enabling human exploration and development of space. However, other NASA programs are attracting high levels of interest among life scientists, especially the questions that the new astrobiology initiative intends to address. Consequently, this year's report includes recommendations on this initiative as well. Several long-standing research areas have benefited from research funded by NASA including remote-sensing maps to detect global epidemics (e.g., malaria and Lyme Disease); use of digital imaging expertise for biomedical purposes (e.g., breast cancer detection); and new insights into cardiovascular, pulmonary and musculoskeletal problems caused by space flight and bed rest. A few examples of recent advances highlight both the fundamental and applied aspects of NASA research. "But science is about more than material wealth or the acquisition of knowledge. Fundamentally, it is about our dreams. America is a nation always becoming, always defined by the great goals we set, the great dreams we dream. We are restless, questing people. We have always believed, with President Thomas Jefferson, that `freedom is the first born daughter of science.' With that belief and with willpower, resources and great national effort, we have always reached our far horizons and set out for new ones."
AGENCIES FORM JOINT PROGRAM IN PLANT BIOLOGY (94-213) research training in multidisciplinary and collaborative activities. If research requires a microgravity environment for concept verification it http://www.islandone.org/Settlements/NASA94-213.html
Taskbook 2003 We have engaged in productive collaborative activities with other members of the Since the initial insult, microgravity, is fundamentally mechanical and http://peer1.nasaprs.com/search2003/index.cfm?action=public_query_taskbook_conte
Results Of Data Collection the Space Shuttle, and Life and microgravity Science. Accordingly, all ofNIH s international collaborative activities are not represented in the http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR900/MR900.ch3.html
Extractions: The U.S. federal government spent approximately $3.3 billion on projects involving international cooperation in research and development in fiscal year 1995. This chapter presents the results of our data collection and analysis. The analysis focuses on Collaborative research is by far the largest single ICRD category being funded by U.S. government agencies. Figure 3.1 shows the breakdown by the character of the activity classified for the purposes of this analysis. Figure 3.1Spending by Nature of Activity The overwhelming majority of activities: 73 percent, were judged to be collaborative in nature, where U.S. scientists and foreign scientists work together on a common research program, project or research problem. Funds are spent in the United States, in foreign countries, or in both places. Technical support, where the U.S. government funds the application of our own scientific or technical know-how to aid a foreign country with domestic problems, was 13 percent of activities. Much of this funding is spent outside of the United States.
