Peoples and Places

The Esplanade Hotel, Fremantle, Western Australia September 9-12, 2010

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• FINAL CONFERENCE PROGRAMME BOOKLET - Including poster schedule (PDF FILE) *updated 31/8/2010

  
  

Summary

All Congress sessions and functions are in The Esplanade Hotel, Fremantle

Congress Registration will commence in the Island Suite Foyer of the Hotel from 03.00pm on Thursday, September 9.

The Plenary Lectures and Oral sessions are scheduled for the Rottnest Room, and the Poster sessions will be held in the adjoining Abrolhos Room.

Posters will be available for mounting and viewing from 9am on Friday, September 10 to 1.00pm on Sunday, September 12

Thursday, September 09

03.00 – 05.30 pm Congress Registration

06.00 – 08.00 pm Welcome Reception

08.00 – 09.00 pm Meeting of the IAPA Council

Friday, September 10

08.30 am Congress Registration

09.00 am Welcome to Western Australia – Prof. Alan Bittles

09.15 am Congress Opening - Prof. Nick Mascie-Taylor, President of IAPA

Session 1 Human adaptability and health

Chairs: Prof N Mascie-Taylor and Prof T Katsura

09.30 am Plenary 1 Professor Cynthia Beall

Updating the human adaptability model: considerations arising from studies of high-altitude hypoxia

10.30 – 11.00 am Refreshments

11.00 am O1: Yan Y-X, Wang W,

Beijing

Measuring Suboptimal Health Status in urban Chinese

Session 2 Physiological responses to temperature

Chairs: Prof T Maeda & Dr P Roberts

11.30 am O2: Wakabayashi H, Barwood M, Tipton M,

Portsmouth and Fukuoka

The contributions of reductions in skin and deep body temperature to the habituation of shivering

11.50 am O3: Lee J-Y, Nakao K, Tochihara Y,

Fukuoka

O3: Subjective skin wetness map to evaluate heat strain

12.10 pm O4: Yokoyama S, Kato A, Hirasawa Y, Kubo T. ,Sugano S, Sato H , Takahashi N, Yamazaki M, Kuramae M, Maeda T,

Hokkaido

Improvement of thermal physiological and psychological prediction system and its application

12.30 – 01.30 pm Lunch

Session 3 Physiological sensing techniques

Chairs: Prof Y Shimomura & Dr D Judge

01.30 pm O5: Jűrgens HW.

Kiel

Monitoring of chosen vital signs for the evaluation of physical performances

02.10 pm O6: Okada S, Shiozawa N, Makikawa M.

Kusatsu

Proposed non-contact body movement monitor method during sleep using video imaging

02.30 pm O7: Shimomura Y, Saito T, Katsuura T.

Chiba

O7: Visualization of surface electromyogram to evaluate coordinated muscular activities on forearm while using hand tools

02.50 pm O8: Koga S, Fukuoka Y, Kondo N, Fukuba Y, Ohmae E, Inoue Y.

Kobe

Evaluation of aerobic work capacity during a non-steady state following exercise onset

03.10 – 03.40 pm Refreshments

Session 4 Younger Researchers’ Colloquium and IAPA General Assembly

03.40 pm Younger Reserachers Colloquim

Coordinator: H Wakabayashi

Presenters:

Wakabayashi H, Portsmouth and Fukuoka

Habituation of shivering

Takahashi T, Osaka

The realities of fall accident in Japan

Nishimura T, Fukuoka

Mitochondrial genome and cold adaptation

Muensri B, Mahidol

An exploratory study of physical restraint for Thai elderly patients

Dye D, Perth

Regeneration in aging and damaged muscle: role of the extracellular matrix

Black M, Perth

The profile of β-thalassaemia mutations across South Asia

and

03.40 pm IAPA General Assembly

05.10 pm Poster viewing

06.00 pm Close of session

Saturday, September 11

Session 5 Genetics and human variation

Chairs: Prof L Scmitt & Dr Y Tsunetsugu

09.00 am

Plenary 2: Genes, puberty and menopause - Dr K McElreavy, Paris

09.40 am O9: Tsunetsugu Y Miyazaki Y,

Chiba

Individual variations in baseline levels of salivary biomarkers

10.10 am O10: Higuchi S, Aritake S, Enomoto M, Hida A, Mishima K,

Fukuoka and Tokyo

Study on physiological factors related to delay of circadian rhythms in Japanese university students

10.40 – 11.00 am Refreshments

Session 6 Sleep and human comfort

Chairs: Prof K Kotani & Dr E Glasson

11.00 am O11: Ishibashi K, Arikura S, Kozaki T, Higuchi S, Yasukouchi A,

Kukuokas and Chiba

Relationship between endogenous melatonin and body temperature regulation during sleep in a cold environment

11.20 am O12: Gransitzki K.

Kiel

Patterns of sleeping behavior as a factor for the ergonomical design of economy class aircraft seats

11:40 am O13: Kotani K, Yamada T, Asao T, Kato M, Hara N,

Kansai

Physiological and behavioral effects of windows on occupant comfort

12.00 pm O14: Ina M, Torigoe H, Kozaki T, Yasukouchi A,

Fukuoka

The effects of bright light in the morning on nocturnal light-induced melatonin suppression and rectal temperature rhythm during sleep

12.20 pm O15: Edwards K,

Perth

An osteoarchaeological investigation into the functional adaptation of the foot to shoes

12.40 – 01.40 pm Lunch

Session 7 Aspects of ageing

Chairs: Prof HW Jűrgens & Prof Y Tochihara

01.40 pm 016: Brightwell RF,

Perth

Paramedic assessment and referral to access medical care at home: providing a cost-effective solution to the unnecessary transport of ageing patients

02.00 pm 017: Harada N, Okada S,

Kobe

Age-related differences in a serial stepping stability under dual task

02.20 pm 018: Tochihara Y, Kumamoto T, Lee JY, Hashiguchi N,

Fukuoka

Age-related difference in cutaneous warm sensation thresholds at the air temperatures of 28 and 22oC

02.40 pm 019: Glasson, EJ

Perth

Ageing and intellectual disability: where to from here?

03.00 – 03.30 pm Refreshments

Session 8 Melatonin and responses to light

Chairs: Prof T Morita & Dr B Floyd

03.30 pm O20: Fukuda Y, Tsujimura S, Higuchi S, Yasukouchi A ,Morita T,

Fukuoka and Kagoshima

The response of melanopsin-expressing retinal ganglion cells to light stimuli with frequency changes

03:50 pm O21: Kakitsuba N, Mekjavic IB, Shimomura Y, Katsuura T,

Meijo, Ljubliana and Chiba

Seasonal differences in the core interthreshold zone as related to lighting conditions

04.10 pm O22: Katsuura T, Liu X, Shi L, Shimomura Y, Kakitsuba N,

Chiba and Meijo

Effects of color temperature and illuminance of lighting on physiological responses under different stress conditions

04.30 pm 023: Tsujimura S,

Kagoshima

Contribution of human melanopsin ganglion cells to the non-image forming pathway

05.00 pm Poster viewing

06.00 pm Close of session

07.00 pm Congress Barbeque at the Resort Pool

Sunday, September 12

Session 9 The human condition

Chair: Prof C Beall & Prof S Koga

09.00 am 024: Coall DA, Chisholm JS

Perth

Developmental stress, reproductive development and adult body size: a life history perspective

09.20 am 025: Floyd, B,

Auckland

Rapid intergenerational change in developmental environments in Taiwan, an opportunity to further evaluate maternal epigenetic effects.

09.40 am 026: Walters M, Claes P, Norquay M, Gillett D,

Perth and Melbourne

Defining population facial variations: The Perth Face-Space Project

10.00 am 027: Muensri B, Sirapo-ngam Y, Strumpf NE), Malathum P,

Mahidol and Philadelphia

An exploratory study of physical restraint use for Thai hospitalized elderly patients

10.30 – 11.00 am Refreshments

Session 10: Health and health status

Chair: Prof Y Sone & Dr K McElreavey

11.00 am 028: Mascie-Taylor CGN,

Cambridge

Is there a link between graduation of extreme poor Bangladeshi families out of poverty and improvement in adult and child food security, nutrition and health status?

11.30 am 029: Nishimura T, Motoi M Kim YK, Hoshi Y, Kondo R, Watanuki S,

Fukuoka and Tokai

Relationship between mitochondrial haplogroup and psychophysiological responses during cold exposure in Japanese

12.00 pm 030: Tanaka M, Kanno S, Honda S, Satoh T, Okada T, Satoh K,

Fukushima

Cold water hand immersion test for health examination of forestry workers

12.20 pm Close of Congress

01.00 – 1.45 pm Lunch

02.00 – 05.30 pm Congress Excursion