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Information about several papers discussed in the 7th International Young Scientists School "Systems Biology and Bioinformatics" held in Novosibirsk, Russia on June 22-25, 2015, is presented. Topics include next generation sequencing (NGS), evolutionary bioinformatics, and systems biology and gene network modeling. The conference featured several research papers which include from A. I. Klimenko, A. V. Bryanskaya and T. M. Khlebodarova.

An index of authors of conference papers presented during the 2015 IEEE Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference (NSREC) is presented.

The XXXIst General Assembly and Scientific Symposium (GASS) of the International Union of Radio Science (Union Radio Scientifique Internationale: URSI) will be in Beijing. The XXXIst GASS will have a scientific program organized around the ten Commissions of URSI, including oral sessions, poster sessions, plenary and public lectures, and tutorials, with both invited and contributed papers. In addition, there will be workshops, short courses, special programs for young scientists, a student paper competition, programs for accompanying persons, and industrial exhibits. More than 1,500 scientists from more than 50 countries are expected to participate. The detailed program, the link to the electronic submission site for papers, the registration form, the application for the Young Scientists program, and hotel information are available on the GASS Web site: http://www.chinaursigass.com [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Collaboration among scientists has a major influence on scientific progress. Such collaboration often results from scientific meetings, where scientists gather to present and discuss their research and to meet potential collaborators. However, most scientific meetings have inherent biases, such as the availability of research funding or the selection bias of professional societies that make it difficult to study the effect of the meeting per se on scientific productivity. To evaluate the effects of scientific meetings on collaboration and progress independent of these biases, we conducted a study of the annual symposia held by the International Milk Genomics Consortium (IMGC) over a 12-year period. In our study, we conducted permutation testing to analyze the effectiveness of the IMGC in facilitating collaboration and productivity in a community of milk scientists who were meeting attendees relative to non-attendees. Using the number of co-authorships on published papers as a measure of collaboration, our analysis revealed that scientists who attended the symposium were associated with more collaboration than were scientists who did not attend. Furthermore, we evaluated the scientific progress of consortium attendees by analyzing publication rate and article impact. We found that IMGC attendees, in addition to being more collaborative, were also more productive and influential than were non-attendees who published in the same field. The results of our study suggest that the annual symposium encouraged interactions among disparate scientists and increased research productivity, exemplifying the positive effect of scientific meetings on both collaboration and progress. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Provides information on the highlights of the 23rd Meeting of the German Association for Stable Isotope Research in Warnemünde, Germany. Objectives of the meeting; Benefits of the meeting to scientists and industrial companies; Awards given to the Doctor-Karleugen-Habfast foundation and scientist Claudia Fellerhoff.

Information on the Asia Pacific Conference of Young Scientist (APCYS) 2012 held in Palangka Raya, Indonesia from September 2-7, 2012 is presented. It discusses the presentation of research work by student participants from 12 countries under physics, computer science, and environmental science categories, cultural sharing to understand culture and idiosyncrasies of culture diversity and lectures from three professors Ramlee Mustapha, David Hutchinson, and Michael Lambrou.

Information about the conference of scientists and scholars titled "Science and Freedom" held from July 23 to 26, 1953 in Germany is presented. Professor Michael Polanyi presented his paper "Pure and Applied Science and Their Appropriate Organization" which set the theme of the conference. Professor Samuel Allison presented "Academic Freedom and State Security," and John R. Baker's paper "Scientific Authority and the System of Scientific Publication."

Information about the International Conference, Welding and Related Technologies: Present and Future in Kiev, Ukraine from November 25-26, 2013. The article mentions that the event was organized by the National Academy of Science of Ukraine and attended by representatives of academic and research institutes as well as industrial enterprises. It also featured various scientists including I. V. Gorynin, Guan Qiao and K. Alaluss.

Endocrine disruption is a specific form of toxicity, where natural and/or anthropogenic chemicals, known as 'endocrine disruptors' (EDs), trigger adverse health effects by disrupting the endogenous hormone system. There is need to harmonize guidance on the regulation of EDs, but this has been hampered by what appeared as a lack of consensus among scientists. This publication provides summary information about a consensus reached by a group of world-leading scientists that can serve as the basis for the development of ED criteria in relevant EU legislation. Twenty-three international scientists from different disciplines discussed principles and open questions on ED identification as outlined in a draft consensus paper at an expert meeting hosted by the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) in Berlin, Germany on 11-12 April 2016. Participants reached a consensus regarding scientific principles for the identification of EDs. The paper discusses the consensus reached on background, definition of an ED and related concepts, sources of uncertainty, scientific principles important for ED identification, and research needs. It highlights the difficulty in retrospectively reconstructing ED exposure, insufficient range of validated test systems for EDs, and some issues impacting on the evaluation of the risk from EDs, such as non-monotonic dose-response and thresholds, modes of action, and exposure assessment. This report provides the consensus statement on EDs agreed among all participating scientists. The meeting facilitated a productive debate and reduced a number of differences in views. It is expected that the consensus reached will serve as an important basis for the development of regulatory ED criteria. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The January 2018 special issue of the IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science (TNS) contains selected papers from the 54th annual IEEE International Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference (NSREC) held on July 17–21, 2017 in New Orleans, LA, USA. The 2017 IEEE NSREC was sponsored by the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society. Eighty four of the ninety three papers presented in New Orleans were submitted for consideration for this year’s special issue. The papers that appear in this special issue successfully completed the review process before the deadline. Several more papers presented in New Orleans are likely to appear in subsequent issues of the Transactions. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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The article cites key findings from various research papers presented during the international "Mechanisms of Exocytosis 2008" meeting at the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Ljubljana, Slovenia from May 22 to 25, 2008. It includes an in-depth analysis of various issues relevant to the physiological process of exocytosis that are discussed by the research papers including intracellular messengers and exocytosis, molecular mechanisms of exocytosis and vesicle dynamics and cell types. Also cited are various leading scientists in the field who presented their research studies during the event.

This paper provides an overview of the highlights of the 2016 NFAIS Annual Conference, Data Sparks Discovery of Tomorrow's Global Knowledge, that was held in Philadelphia, PA from February 21-23, 2016. The goal of the conference was to examine how data has risen in importance and is transforming all aspects of research - from funding policies through to reporting, publication, and archiving policies. Data literacy is an essential skill in today's digital world and even new career paths have emerged - data scientist, data engineer, data librarian, etc. The conference raised both practical and philosophical issues regarding data management, use, and reuse, and provided a glimpse of what information services should look like in the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is a revised version of the Western Regional Science Association Presidential Address, delivered at the 54th annual meetings of the Western Regional Science Association, Tucson, Arizona, February 17, 2015. The paper addresses population aging, an issue that has increasingly become a concern for developed and developing nations. Specifically, it considers aging in the USA and the world along with how, where and why Regional Scientists can be more engaged in this discussion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Information about several papers discussed at the Twentieth Colloquium on High Resolution Molecular Spectroscopy conference that was held in Dijon, France is presented. Topics include the minisymposium on spectroscopy, fundamental physics and the presentation of the brand-new third edition of the green book, which has a tradition for publishing scientific papers in molecular physics. The author says that many of the significant researchers are regularly presented during the conference.

On 25-26 March 2013, 52 early career scientists and engineers, studying various aspects of coastal science, met at the University of Aberdeen for the ninth Young Coastal Scientists and Engineers Conference. The conference was jointly organised by the School of Engineering, University of Aberdeen, and Marine Scotland Science. Early-career scientists, researchers and practitioners presented 23 oral and 17 poster presentations over the 2-day meeting. The papers all had a coastal theme with a large diversity in the subjects covered, including waves, currents, tidal energy, coastal erosion, sediment transport, fluid mechanics and particle tracking. This briefing paper reports on the conference, and presents the keynote lecture and four papers voted to be of especially high quality by the panel of judges. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 1962, Peter M. Millman was elected President of the Meteoritical Society. He used his office to help revitalize the nearly moribund society by healing personal divisions, re-establishing the society's journal, Meteoritics, and encouraging international membership. In 1963, he held the society's annual meeting in Ottawa, the first time it had met outside the U.S. A highlight of the meeting was a special symposium he organized on Current Research on Terrestrial Meteorite Craters. The symposium played an important role in showcasing the contributions being made by Canadian scientists in the search for Canadian impact structures and the development of criteria for their authentication. Millman himself played a key role in this development. At present, 30 meteorite craters have been authenticated in Canada. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The assessment of quality in scientific research is a complex problem. The use of more objective scientometric indices in research evaluation emerged in the 1960s and 1970s. These scientometric indicators, among which the most common one is probably the journal impact factor (IF), are increasingly employed to evaluate the quality of scientific research performed by individual scientists, research groups, or institutes. In China, the IF is used not only to measure a journal's scientific influence, but has become increasingly important as a basis for recruitment or promotion, awards of research funding, grants, and authors' academic advancement. But in fact, the assessment of research mainly based on the IF will cause much academic 'froth', so it is necessary for universities and research institutions to reset the academic assessment system in China. In the assessment of scientific research, more research activities, like the organization of conferences and seminars, the coordination of research groups, and the participation to conferences, should be considered. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents one of the papers discussed at the convocation of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, on the impact of science on human activity held on April 1, 1949. It is said that because of science, the western world no longer possesses the sense of common values which gave coherence to human activities in earlier ages. In this paper, the author examines some of the spiritual implications of the commitment of the scientist on his program of dealing with the universe and considers some of the consequences of the new insights which have been acquired in carrying out the program thus far.

This article serves as the preface to the May 2007 issue of "Concurrency & Computation: Practice & Experience," a special issued dedicated to the concept of science gateways that stemmed from presentations at the Global Grid Forum GGF14 Science Gateways Workshop that was held in Chicago, Illinois in June 2005. The concept of a science gateway is introduced--a portal or application by which computational resources are accessed and integrated--with particular focus on the how the gateways interact with a Grid resource. An overview of the types of science gateways is provided and discussed, which includes science portals, generic resource-access portals, and enabling technologies.

The article reports on the International Evidence-Based Librarianship conference held in Brisbane between October 16-19, 2005. Nearly 200 participants attended the conference, from many countries around the world. The Great Britain, Canada, U.S., Australia and New Zealand were all represented, with a very stimulating mix of practitioners and researchers/academics. The focus was on developments in evidence: linking research with practice. A range of workshops and presentations throughout the event elicited much greater interaction and questioning than generally occurs in U.S. conferences. At the conference a \vide range of research projects in library and information science were reported and discussed. During the conference the emphasis was led on the point that libraries have a very active interest in understanding what their users needs are, what services they should be delivering and how they should be developing their services to better meet these needs. Workshops included case studies of generalised library activities and services to develop research questions which were not limited to the health sectors.

In a developing country the fields of manufacturing and economics should not be considered distinctively. Based on teaching and research experience on the fields of economic engineering and manufacturing systems, the members of the Economic Engineering and Manufacturing Systems Department decided, in 2001, to organize the first Conference focused on these fields. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents news from the Productivity Analysis Research Network. The EURO Data Envelopment Analysis and Performance Measurement Working Group is organizing a EURO Summer Institute (ESI) in DEA. EURO institutes are organized to encourage good social and working relationships among promising young or scientists in Europe. The main purpose of an ESI is to establish in each or field a network of outstanding people who will continue to work together in the future. The ESI will take place between 16 and 26 August 1998 at the University of Warwick and up to twenty young researchers will be invited to attend. These will be drawn from applicants throughout Europe, recommended by their National OR Societies. Participation can be considered as an honour as it is limited to a group of about 20 people, who can only participate once in their career.

The article presents news briefs related to life sciences. Botanist Henry Marc Cathey has been named director of the U.S. National Arboretum in Washington, D.C. The Eastern Spruce Budworm Research Work Conference invites papers for presentation during its seven sessions scheduled for the week of January 4, 1982, at the University of Maine, Orono. The American Oil Chemists' Society has given its Alton E. Bailey Award to Hans Kaunitz.

The International Conference of Bridges Seoul 2014 was the seventeenth annual conference in the Bridges series, which was held at the Gwacheon National Science Museum, Seoul, Korea, 14-19 August 2014. This year's conference brought approximately three hundred mathematicians, architects, scientists, artists, educators, musicians, writers, computer scientists, sculptures, dancers, weavers, and model builders together. In addition, for this year, thanks to the 2014 International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in Seoul, many participants from this congress attended Bridges. The list of participants also included about one thousand Korean students and their families, who were invited by the Gwacheon National Science Museum. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Information about several papers discussed at a symposium on the Science and Man in the Americas, a second discovery of America is presented. Among the topics mentioned are the innovation in science and technology to the problems and prospects of the people in the Western Hemisphere. A forum for warnings about the rising competition of coastal nations for control of ocean resources is provided. The conference featured several scientists, scholars, medical and public health experts and engineers.

The article presents an interview with Dr. Mark Shepherd, Senior Scientist in the Land and Environment Group at New Zealand's AgResearch; and Professor Andrew Waterhouse, Professor of enology at University of California, Davis. It features news briefs regarding Society of Chemical Industry (SCI) nominations, the Organic Materials: New Opportunities for Synthetic Chemists event, and the 31st SCI Process Development Symposium. It also announces the deadline for submission of SCI membership.

The ninth edition of the 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Medical Measurements and Applications (MeMeA 2014) was held on June 11 and 12, 2014, in Lisbon, the lovely capital of Portugal. Started in 2006, MeMeA has become a successful international annual meeting for all scientists interested in measurements for medicine, coming from academia, industry and research institutions from all over the world, offering them the opportunity to work together toward the development of feasible and effective solutions for real-world problems related to patient healthcare. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The theme of the 2012 International Conference on Bioinformatics (InCoB) in Bangkok, Thailand was "From Biological Data to Knowledge to Technological Breakthroughs." Besides providing a forum for life scientists and bioinformatics researchers in the Asia-Pacific region to meet and interact, the conference also hosted thematic sessions on the Pan-Asian Pacific Genome Initiative and immunoinformatics. Over the seven years of conference papers published in BMC Bioinformatics and four years in BMC Genomics, we note that there is increasing interest in the applications of -omics technologies to the understanding of diseases, as a forerunner to personalized genomic medicine. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Focuses on the agenda of the 2004 Applications of High Field and Short Wavelength Sources X Conference in Biarritz, France. Presentation of recent experimental and theoretical works; Number of scientists attending the event; Compilation of carefully peer-reviewed research papers.

The article presents information on the contribution of scientist Bonifatii Mikhailovich Kedrov to the international philosophical community from the 1950s to the 1980s. From 1962 to the end of his life, Kedrov was president of the Soviet National Association for the History and Philosophy of Natural Science and Technology and actively participated in the work of the Division of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science. In the early postwar years, international activity related to the philosophy of science was organized by the International Union of the Philosophy of Science. This association held two international congresses at the end of the 1940s and in the 1950s, in which Kedrov took part.

Information about several papers discussed at the "17th Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs" is presented. Some 200 scientists attended the conference to discuss and evaluate past activities for world peace. Several issues are presented including the nuclear nonproliferation treaty, cooperative education programs, world food supply problem and international scientific projects.

Abstract: Medical scientists have expressed scepticism about whether philosophy is relevant to medicine. We challenged this in a conference on the topic of “too much medicine” (TMM) held in Oxford in April 2017. The topic of TMM provided an opportunity to bring the two disciplines together because of its history both in philosophy and in medicine. We found that the collaboration between the two disciplines was fruitful when two conditions were met. First, both disciplines had to avoid discipline‐specific jargon. Second, each discipline had to engage with the other. Specifically, medical scientists had to engage with some philosophical literature, and philosophers had to “get their hands dirty with data.” In this conference report, we provide an overview of our discussions and summarize the other papers in the series. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We present an annual international Young Scientists Conference (YSC) on computational science http://ysc.escience.ifmo.ru/ , which brings together renowned experts and young researchers working in high-performance computing, data-driven modeling, and simulation of large-scale complex systems. The first YSC event was organized in 2012 by the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands and ITMO University, Russia with the goal of opening a dialogue on the present and the future of computational science and its applications. We believe that the YSC conferences will strengthen the ties between young scientists in different countries, thus promoting future collaboration. In this paper we briefly introduce the challenges the millennial generation is facing; describe the YSC conference history and topics; and list the keynote speakers and program committee members. This volume of Procedia Computer Science presents selected papers from the 4th International Young Scientists Conference on Computational Science held on 25 June − 3 July 2015 in Athens, Greece. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Highlights the events at the Second Open Science Meeting of GLOBEC held in China. Presentation of collection of paper works on fishery oceanography; Attendance of scientists at the convention; Primary goals of the GLOBEC.

The 54th IEEE Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference (NSREC) was held on July 17–21, 2017 at the New Orleans Marriott Hotel, New Orleans, LA, USA. The NSREC is recognized as one of the premier international conferences on radiation effects in electronic materials, devices, and systems. The 2017 conference continued this tradition with a strong technical program, a one day tutorial short course, the radiation effects data workshop, industrial exhibit, and meetings for the IEEE Women in Engineering and Young Professionals organizations. The conference was sponsored by the Radiation Effects Committee of the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society (NPSS), and supported by 3D Plus, BAE Systems, Boeing, Cobham Semiconductor Solutions, European Space Agency, Freebird Semiconductor, Honeywell, International Rectifier, Intersil Corporation, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Southwest Research Institute, and VPT Rad. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Information on the 156th Acoustical Society of America (ASA) conference held on November 10-14, 2008 at the Doral Golf Resort and Spa in Miami, Florida is presented. It mentions that the event has attracted 851 participants worldwide for a total of 660 papers which covers the areas of interest of the 13 Technical Committees. Mark Hamilton, President of ASA expresses his gratitude for the excellent performance of the local organizing committee. Additionally, it mentions the awards' recipients.

Information about several papers discussed at the symposium entitled Mitochondrial DNA Sequences in Plant Phylogenetics and Evolution in Vienna, Austria on July 17-23, 2005 is presented. The symposium featured seven papers including the studies by H. Ong, C. de Pamphilis and J. D. Palmer. The ability of land plant mitochondrial genomes to export or import DNA is discoursed. The topics also involved RNA editing.

PNIRS formed a PNIRS China affiliate in 2012; transformed into Asia-Pacific in 2017. • Goal is to advance discoveries in psychoneuroimmunology with Asian scientists. • Promotes collaborations with scientists world-wide (https://pnirs.ansc.illinois.edu/#). • Symposia organized in China, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand. • 69 expert speakers have represented PNIRS Asia-Pacific at 16 different symposia in Asia. The Psychoneuroimmunology Research Society (PNIRS) created an official Chinese regional affiliate in 2012, designated PNIRS China. Now, just eight years later, the program has been so successful in advancing the science of psychoneuroimmunology that it has expanded to the whole of Asia-Oceania. In 2017, PNIRS China became PNIRS Asia-Pacific. Between 2012 and 2019, this outreach affiliate of PNIRS organized seven symposia at major scientific meetings in China as well as nine others in Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand. This paper summarizes the remarkable growth of PNIRS Asia-Pacific. Here, regional experts who have been instrumental in organizing these PNIRS Asia-Pacific symposia briefly review and share their views about the past, present and future state of psychoneuroimmunology research in China, Taiwan, Australia and Japan. The newest initiative of PNIRS Asia-Pacific is connecting Asia-Pacific laboratories with those in Western countries through a simple web-based registration system. These efforts not only contribute to the efforts of PNIRS to serve a truly global scientific society but also to answer the imperative call of increasing diversity in our science. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]