International Shoulder Group

Dear Friends,

It is with great pleasure that I can inform you that the international journal "Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing" (Springer) has just published a Special Issue on Shoulder Biomechanics (Vol. 47, No. 5), gathering some of the works presented at our last meeting in Bologna. Among the papers,

Blana D et al "Combined feedforward and feedback control of a redundant, non-linear, dynamic musculoskeletal system"

and

Steenbrink F et al "Arm load magnitude affects selective shoulder muscle activation"

have been awarded with the two Young Investigator Awards sponsored by the Biomedical Engineering Group of the University of Bologna and Springer Verlag, and are "Open Access".

Kindest Regards,

Andrea G. Cutti

We are pleased to be able to announce that the next conference of the International Shoulder Group will be held at the University of Minnesota in July of 2010. Exact dates and further details will be made available in due course.

The ISG Constitution distributed after the Bologna meeting has been accepted by the members. The result was unanimous, albeit with a rather low turnout (12-0!). The document can be found here.

Dear Friends,

In case:

1. your research activity has been financed by U.S. NIH, and
2. you are about to submit a paper for the issue of Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing (MBEC) dedicated to the conference

you may be interested to know the position of Springer regarding the NIH request to deposit the final manuscript of your journal articles in PubMed Central (http://publicaccess.nih.gov/).

Here (pdf) you can find the details of Springer’s position, which appears very positive, with two possible options!

Kind Regards,

Andrea G. Cutti

Dear friends,

We are pleased to inform you that a selection of the proceedings of the ISG 2008 will be published as full papers
in "Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing" (MBEC). In addition, among the papers selected for publication, two awards will be assigned to the:

a) Young investigator best fundamental research paper
b) Young investigator best applied research paper.

The two winners will receive a cheque of 500€ (sponsored by the University of Bologna) and will have their papers freely downloadable from the MBEC website by everyone (with the sponsorship of Springer). All first authors under the age of 32 will be eligible.

For further information about the deadline and terms of participation, visit http://www.inail-starter.org/ISG2008.html

Lorenzo Chiari (University of Bologna)
Andrea Giovanni Cutti (Starter Lab - INAIL Prosthesis Centre)

Posted on behalf of Andrea Cutti:

Following the decision of the Board, it is a great pleasure for me to announce that the next meeting of the ISG will be held in Bologna (Italy), hosted by the Motion Analysis Laboratory of the INAIL Prosthesis Centre, in the framework of the StartER project.

The meeting will last two days and it is preliminarily scheduled for the first half of July 2008. The specific date will be chosen in order to: 1) easily combine the participation to the meeting with the participation to the meeting of the European Society of Biomechanics (6-9 July, Lucerne, Switzerland); 2) to continue the visit to Italy after the two days of work. To this regard, an original program is under development for the accompanying persons while staying in Bologna.

Special registration fees will be reserved for ISB members and students. In order to have all you coming to Bologna hosted in the same hotel where we are organizing the conference (Bologna downtown), discounted rates for rooms will be available and even cheaper for students.

With the help of the ISG Board it is our intention to have a selection of abstracts published in an international journal. Further details will follow in the next few months on this web-site. If you want to stay up-to-date, send an email to isg2008@inail-starter.org.

Useful links:

Bologna: http://iat.comune.bologna.it/IAT/IAT.nsf/HomePageE?openpage
StartER Project: http://www.starter-project.com
ESB meeting: http://www.esb2008.org

Andrea Giovanni Cutti
INAIL Prosthesis Centre
agcutti@inail-starter.org

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The ISB has invited me to organise a special topic on the Upper Extremity for ISB 2007. A topic can consist of maximally four sessions of up to six papers each. Deadline for submission for the topic and sessions is 15-2-2007. I have not yet decided yet on the specific topic and separate sessions. I am considering the topic "Upper extremity: measurements, models and motor control".

Should you want to go to Taipei and also would like to participate in a session, could you please let me know and possibly inform me on what you are considering for presentation?

DirkJan

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The deadline for (email) voting in the ISG board member elections has been extended to Monday the 9th October. If you haven't already voted, please do so by Monday. This will allow us to present the results of the ballot at the meeting in Chicago on Tuesday. Your vote must be sent by email to ludew001@umn.edu or phadk002@umn.edu. If you haven't already voted, you will have a final chance at the meeting.

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