"The symposium was convened by the Baromedical and Environmental Physiology Group of Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway, on 18-19 December 2008"-- Verso t.p. Co-sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and the Office of Naval Research. Shipping list no.: 2009-0460-P. Includes a reprint of "The Prevention of Compressed-Air Illness" by A.E. Boycott, G.C.C. Damant, and J.S. Haldane from the Journal of Hygiene, v. 8, no. 3 (June 1908), p. 342-443. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
J.S. Haldane, the first environmental physiologist / Alf O. Brubakk and Michael A. Lang -- Environmental physiology of the future / Richard E. Moon -- An introduction to clinical aspects of decompression illness (DCI) / Costantino Balestra -- Haldane still rules! / David J. Doolette -- Biochemical approach to decompression / Susan R. Kayar -- Exercise and decompression / Russell S. Richardson -- Diving medicine and the cellular stress response / George A. Perdrizet -- Individual risk of decompression sickness : possible effects of genomic or epigenomic variation altering gene expression / Andreas Møllerløkken and Ingrid Eftedal -- Inducing HSP for protection against DCS : heat exposure before diving reduces bubble formation in man / Jean-Eric Blatteau ... [et al.] -- Lack of signs of brain injury in rats on MRI after decompression / Marianne B. Havnes ... [et al.] -- Exercise, endothelium, and diving physiology / Željko Dujić -- Animal experiments for evaluating decompression : development of the modern submarine escape method / Mikael Gennser -- Ultrasound for eva1uating decompression / Olav S. Eftedal -- Current trends in ultrasound imaging technology, SURF imaging, and decompression induced microbubbles / Lasse Løvstakken, Andreas Møllerløkken, and Svein-Erik Måsøy -- The future of dive computers / Michael A. Lang and Sergio Angelini -- Breeding diving scientists : cloning, spawning, or cultivation? / Øyvind Ellingsen -- National Centre for Hyperbaric and Diving Medicine / Marit Grønning -- Baromedical and Environmental Physiology Group (BAREN) / Alf O. Brubakk -- Physiopathology of decompression (PHYPODE) network / Francois Guerrero ... [et al.] -- International cooperation in diving research / Matthew Swiergosz -- How do marine mammals avoid DCS? / Andreas Fahlman -- Does diving destroy the brain? / Stephen Daniels -- Effects of diving on the lung / Einar Thorsen -- The limits of breath-hold diving / Peter Lindholm -- Parameters of extreme environment diving / Michael A. Lang -- Creativity and improvisation as phenomena and acting potential in different contexts / Bjørn Alterhaug.
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