Acclimation during space flight: effects on human physiology

D Williams, A Kuipers, C Mukai, R Thirsk - Cmaj, 2009 - Can Med Assoc
• Countermeasures before, during and after space flight are essential to reduce health risks.•
Although most physiologic effects resolve shortly after return to earth, bone …

The space-flight environment: the International Space Station and beyond

R Thirsk, A Kuipers, C Mukai, D Williams - Cmaj, 2009 - Can Med Assoc
… Robert Thirsk was getting ready for a 6-month stint on the International Space Station, the …
Thirsk will work as a robotics specialist, operating Canadarm2, and perform experiments on …

An investigation of electrochemical kinetics at constant overvoltage. The behaviour of the lead dioxide electrode. Part 5.—The formation of lead sulphate and the …

M Fleischmann, HR Thirsk - Transactions of the Faraday Society, 1955 - pubs.rsc.org
… From the intercept of the plot of log (BN& against r) (fig. 11) on the log (BN& axis at zero
overvoltage, io may be estimated as 1014 moleculeslcm2 sec. If the nucleation centre is an …

Canadian medical experiments on Shuttle flight 41-G.

DG Watt, KE Money, RL Bondar, RB Thirsk… - … and Space journal …, 1985 - europepmc.org
During the 41-G mission, two payload specialist astronauts took part in six Canadian
medical experiments designed to measure how the human nervous system adapts to …

Kinetics of the electrocrystallization of thin films of calomel

A Bewick, M Fleischmann, HR Thirsk - Transactions of the Faraday …, 1962 - pubs.rsc.org
… The electrocrystallization of calomel has been investigated galvanostatically by Ives et aZ.,6
and Boult and Thirsk 7 have studied the structure of electrodeposits by electron-microscopy …

Long-duration spaceflight increases depth ambiguity of reversible perspective figures

…, AN Kindrat, AN Melinyshyn, T Merali, R Thirsk - PLoS …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
The objective of this study was to investigate depth perception in astronauts during and after
spaceflight by studying their sensitivity to reversible perspective figures in which two-…

Health care for deep space explorers

RB Thirsk - Annals of the ICRP, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
There is a growing desire amongst space-faring nations to venture beyond the Van Allen
radiation belts to a variety of intriguing locations in our inner solar system. Mars is the ultimate …

NEEMO 7 undersea mission

R Thirsk, D Williams, M Anvari - Acta Astronautica, 2007 - Elsevier
The NEEMO 7 mission was the seventh in a series of NASA-coordinated missions utilizing
the Aquarius undersea habitat in Florida as a human space mission analog. The primary …

The AC impedance of complex electrochemical reactions

RD Armstrong, RE Firman, HR Thirsk - Faraday Discussions of the …, 1973 - pubs.rsc.org
… Here Aci, Ar, Act are the amplitudes of the perturbation of the surface concentrations 4, r, c; of
A, B and C respectively, due to the application of the sinusoidal AEexp(jot) (where AE assumed …

The rate-determining step in the electro-deposition of copper on copper from aqueous cupric sulphate solutions

OR Brown, HR Thirsk - Electrochimica Acta, 1965 - Elsevier
Different experimental procedures have been employed to establish the slow step in the
cathodic growth of copper on freshly crystallized copper substrates. The investigation of …