Presentations


Harold E. Bedell
Bedell, H. E. and S. S. Patel. "Comparison of Letter and Vernier Acuities with Diotropic Blur," College of Optometry, Univ. of Houston, Houston, TX; Am. Acad. of Optometry, Ann. Mtg., San Antonio, TX, 1997; Optometry & Vision Science 74 (1997).
Patel, S. S. "Vernier Threshold as a Potential Indicator of Post-Space Flight Gaze Instability," Graduate General Seminar, College of Optometry, Univ. of Houston, Houston, TX, Fall 1996.
Patel, S. S., H. E. Bedell, and M. T. Ukwade. "Vernier Judgements for Targets of Arbitrary Shape," College of Optometry, Univ. of Houston, Houston, TX; Assoc. for Research in Vision & Ophthalmology Ann. Mtg., Ft. Lauderdale, FL, 1997; Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science 38 (1997): S634.
Patel, S. S., H. E. Bedell, M. F. Reschke, D. L. Harm, D. Gasaway, and J. Cerisano. "Vernier Threshold as a Potential Indicator of Post-Space Flight Gaze Instability," Houston Conf. on Biomedical Engineering Research, Houston, TX, Feb. 1997.
Ukwade, M. T., H. E. Bedell, and S. S. Patel. "Stereothresholds with Relative and Absolute Disparity Noise," College of Optometry, Univ. of Houston, Houston, TX; Am. Acad. of Optometry, Ann. Mtg., San Antonio, TX, 1997; Optometry & Vision Science 74 (1997).

Raj S. Chhikara
Chhikara, R. S. "Certain Modeling Issues in Environmental Physiology," 8th Environmetrics Conf., Innsbruck, Austria, Aug. 4-8, 1997.
*Chhikara, R. S. "On the Goodness-of-Fit Tests for Randomly Censored Data," Proc., ASA Statistical Computing Section, Anaheim, CA, Aug. 10-14, 1997.
Chhikara, R. S. "Statistical Modeling and Analysis of Altitude Decompression Sickness Onset Times," 51st Session of the Int'l Statistical Institute, Istanbul, Turkey, Aug. 18-26, 1997.

Wei-Kan Chu
Chu, W. -K. "Superconducting Bearings for Space Applications," Nat'l Science Foundation Civil and Mechanical Systems Workshop, Arlington, VA, Sept. 23-26, 1997.
Yu, J. H., W. -K. Chu, K. Ma, and T. Wilson. "Vibration Damping and Isolation Under Space Station Microgravity Using High Temperature Superconductor and Magnet Interaction," Proc., Science, Engineering & Technology Seminars, Assoc. of Am.-Chinese Professionals Foundation, CD-ROM version, 1997.
Yu, J. H. "Large Amplitude Radial Oscillation of Viscoelastic Cylindrical Shells," Proc., ASME 16th Biennial Conf. on Mechanical Vibration and Noise, Sacramento, CA, CD-ROM version, 1997.

George E. Fox
Fox, G. E. "The Use of 16S rRNA in Microbial Monitoring," 2 lectures, graduate course, Bioremediation, Univ. of Houston, Houston, TX, Oct. 1997.
Willson, R. C. "Boronate Affinity Absorption of RNA," Engineering Foundation Conference on Recovery of Biological Products, Tucson, AZ, Oct. 1996.
Fox, G. E. "Microbial Monitoring in Space Environments," National Space Biomedical Research Institute, Rice Univ., Houston, TX, Sept. 1997.

Carlos H. Pedemonte
Riggs, P. K. "Biodosimetry and Biological Effects of Space Radiation," 10th Nat'l Am. Colloquium on Cytogenetics and Gene Mapping of Humans and Domestic Species, Apalachicola, FL, July 14, 1997.
Riggs, P. K. "Use of Membrane Transepithelial Resistance Measurements as a System to Assess Radiation-Induced Damage and Efficacy of Radiation Protection Methods," Nat'l Space Biomedical Research Institute, Space Radiation Team Mtg., JSC, Houston, TX, May 12, 1997.
Riggs, P. K. "Genetics and Space Radiation," Genetics Program Seminar Series, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX, April 24, 1997.

Clinton L. Rappole
Vodovotz, Y. and C. L. Rappole. "Food Service Systems of Future Space Habitats," Soc. for the Advancement of Food Service Research, Cleveland, OH, April 6-9, 1997.
Vodovotz, Y., C. T. Bourland and C. L. Rappole. "Advanced Life Support Food Development: A New Challenge," 27th ICES Conf., paper no. 972363.
Vodovotz, Y., C. T. Bourland and C. L. Rappole. "Menu Planning and Equipment Engineering for CELSS Crops Intended for Long Duration Space Missions," Institute of Food Technologist Mtg., 1997.

Sharon A. White
Lemus, C. "Software Architecture and Software Design," Int'l Symp. of Computer Systems Conf., Monterrey Institute of Technology, Monterrey, Mexico, March 8, 1997.
White, S. A. "RBSE and ROSE," A NASA Focus on Software Reuse, George Mason Univ., Fairfax, VA, Sept. 24-27, 1996.
*White, S. A. and C. Lemus. "Architecture Reuse Through a Domain Specific Language Generator," 8th Ann. Workshop on Software Reuse, Columbus, OH, March 23-26, 1997.

Larry C. Witte
Witte, L. C., L. B. Fore, and J. McQuillen. "Microgravity Heat Transfer and Pressure Drop in Gas-Liquid Mixtures: Slug and Annular Flow," 1996 Nat'l Heat Transfer Conf., Houston, TX, Aug. 1996.

David C. Zimmerman
Abdallah, M. O., K. Grigoriadis, and D. C. Zimmerman. "Enhanced Damage Detection Using Alternating Projections," 15th Int'l Modal Analysis Conf., Orlando, FL, Feb. 1997. 1325-31.
Cao, T. and D. C. Zimmerman. "Application of Load Dependent Ritz Vectors in Structural Damage Detection," 15th Int'l Modal Analysis Conf., Orlando, FL, Feb. 1997. 1319-24.
Cao, T. and D. C. Zimmerman. "A Procedure to Extract Ritz Vectors from Dynamic Testing Data," 15th Int'l Modal Analysis Conf., Orlando, FL, Feb. 1997.1036-42.
Simmermacher, T. and D. C. Zimmerman. "Model Refinement and Damage Detection Using Nearfield Acoustic Holography," 15th Int'l Modal Analysis Conf., Orlando, FL, Feb. 1997.
Simmermacher, T., M. Kaouk, and D. C. Zimmerman. "Exploiting Aliasing Effects in the Eigensystem Realization Algorithm," 15th Int'l Modal Analysis Conf., Orlando, FL, Feb. 1997. 1758-64.
Smith, S. W., D. C. Zimmerman, H. -M. Kim, and T. J. Bartkowicz. "Damage Detection in Damped Structures," 15th Int'l Modal Analysis Conf., Orlando, FL, Feb. 1997.
Yap, K., D. C. Zimmerman, and T. Hasselman. "Evolutionary Approach for Model Correlation," 15th Int'l Modal Analysis Conf., Orlando, FL, Feb. 1997.


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ISSO -- Institute for Space Systems Operations
1996-1997 Annual Report

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