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Objective: The ENT Scotland society (formerly known as the Scottish Otolaryngological Society) has two meetings a year and accepts oral presentations from trainees. This study aimed to identify publication rates from these meetings. Methods: Abstracts of the presentations are published in The Journal of Laryngology and Otology. A structured search on PubMed and Google Scholar was undertaken to identify which presentations from the 2005 to 2014 meetings have been published. Results: Of the 145 abstracts found, 60.7 per cent were presenting clinical research and 44.1 per cent were related to the head and neck subspecialty. Seventy-three abstracts (50.3 per cent) were associated with publication as a peer-reviewed article; otology papers were more likely to be published than those focusing on other subspecialties (64.3 per cent, p = 0.036). No correlation was found between publication and other factors. Conclusion: Presentations at the ENT Scotland meetings undergo unbiased peer review and are as likely to be published as those of other conferences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Comments on the need for research papers on human resource development (HRD) for presentation at the Third Conference on HRD Research and Practice Across Europe 2002 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Guidelines for interested authors; Contact information.

Announces the 18th International Symposium on Forecasting, which will be held on June 10 through 13, 1998 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Who the event will be sponsored by; Invitation for papers on any aspect of forecasting to be submitted by January 16, 1998; Contact information.

Reports on the International Symposium on the Conservation and Management of Arctic Charr Salvelinus alpinus in the Scottish Natural Heritage Conference Facility in Battleby, Scotland. Genetic diversity of Arctic charr Salvelinus alpinus; Objectives of the symposium; Main themes of the meeting; Publication of peer-reviewed papers in a volume of "Ecology of Freshwater Fish".

This special section of IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing presents extended versions of papers originally presented as part of the IEEE 33rd International Conference on Microelectronic Test Structures (ICMTS) which was hosted at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Originally planned to take place at the University’s South Hall Complex in April 2020, the impact of the global pandemic led to the difficult decision to move to a fully virtual conference held between 4th – 18th May 2020. The guest editors for this special section, who were honoured to act as the General Chair and Technical Chair of the conference, would like to thank all of those involved in making the virtual conference a success, not least the digital events team from the IEEE who made it possible. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article provides news briefs as of 2012 on education. The 3rd International Symposium on Information Management in a Changing World (IMCW2012), organized by the Department of Information Management of Hacetteepe University, is September 19-21, 2012 in Ankara, Turkey. An Information Management MBA master's degree program was launched at Robert Gordon University (RGU) in Aberdeen, Scotland. The ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries is open to paper submissions.

Focuses on the speakership of physician David Owen in the meeting of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in Scotland. Concentration on the white paper and the reform of the public health services; Dejection of Owen on the modification of the National Health Service; Privatization of the health services.

The 10th UK National Heat Transfer Conference was held in Edinburgh, Scotland, during 10-11 September 2007 under the auspices of the UK Heat Transfer Committee and was co-organized by the University of Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt University. The conference was part of a series of conferences which were initially organized every 4 years but more recently every 2 years in a synchronized manner with the European Thermal Sciences Conference and International Heat Transfer Conference. Thus, the UK heat transfer community, along with the international participants, can get together every year in a national or European or international heat transfer conference. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Annual Scientific Meeting of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland takes place this year at the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre, Glasgow, UK (13th-15th May 2009), under the presidency of Professor Michael Horrocks. To view the abstracts from this meeting, please click the pdf link on this page. Copyright © 2009 British Journal of Surgery Society Ltd. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Annual Scientific Meeting of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland takes place this year at the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre, Glasgow, UK (13th-15th May 2009), under the presidency of Professor Michael Horrocks. To view the abstracts from this meeting, please click the pdf link on this page. Copyright © 2009 British Journal of Surgery Society Ltd. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The 41st Annual Scientific Meeting of the Vascular Society of Great Britain and Ireland was held in Edinburgh, UK 22nd - 24th November 2006. The prize abstracts from this meeting are published in the print edition of BJS (vol 94: issue 2, February 2007). To view all other abstracts from this meeting, please click the pdf link on this page. Copyright © 2007 British Journal of Surgery Society Ltd. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the 38th annual conference and Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Scottish Legal History Group which was held on October 6, 2018 in Edinburgh, Scotland, and it mentions the next conference on October 5, 2019. Abstracts are provided for papers such as "Supplications to the Papacy in Late Medieval Scotland" by Dr. Alan MacQuarrie and "Continuity and Change: the Highland Estate and the Regality Court of Grant" by Charles Fletcher which were presented at the 2018 event.

Information about several papers at the 28th annual conference sponsored by the Legal Scottish History Group on October 4, 2008 at the Advocates Library in Edinburgh, Scotland on matters regarding the law reports is presented. Topics include the long-term project for publication of Sinclair's "Practicks," the earliest Scottish form of law reports, the parliamentary process in the reign of James VI and a re-analysis of the "duel under the law of Clann Duib."

Focuses on the six papers presented during the International Geographical Union's Spatial Modelling sessions at a conference in Glasgow, Scotland in August 2004 and was published in the 2005 issue of the "Journal of Geographical Systems."

No abstract received. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Executive Committee of the European Academy of Allergology and Clinical Immunology, during its annual meeting in Glasgow, Scotland, in July 1990, decided to transform the Subcommittee on Skin Tests to the Subcommittee on AIlergen Standardization and Skin Tests. Furthermore, the business meeting of this Subcommittee decided to produce a revised version of the 1989 Position Paper on skin tests used in type 1 allergy skin testing and include in the new version a chapter on "Allergen standardization by in vito and in vivo methods," replacing the chapter on "Biologic standardization." The new chapter includes a general description of factors which affect the potency, and composition of allergen extracts and a second part focusing on standardization of allergenic extracts used for skin testing.

In April 2014, a conference in Edinburgh honoring Simon Frith upon his academic retirement featured three days of paper sessions, enjoyable activities, and distinguished guests. For the benefit of colleagues who did not attend it, this article offers some description of and purposefully subjective commentary on the conference Studying Music. Particular attention is given to the themes highlighted in the call-for-papers: Frith's position in music scholarship, writing about music, the current relationship among the various disciplines that claim music as a subject of study, and boundaries between different categories of music (high/low, popular/art). Topics of highlighted papers include the socio-semantics of vocal timbre, the etymology of the term "popular music," historiography of celebrities, sociology of race relations, and a plethora of perspectives on music and technology. Studying Music presented several strengths, especially because its paper and panel sessions encompassed researchers from media, music, and sociology departments. The achievements of Simon Frith and popular music scholarship were duly celebrated, extended, and reconsidered in new ways. Yet, a persistent ideological suspicion of art music scholars and musical analysis among popular music scholars who were present troubled me, as a musicologist who researches French art music. Taking this antagonism as a point of departure, this article concludes with a reflection on both positive and negative social and political implications of art music scholarship based on my own experiences in academic life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Information about several papers discussed during the BILETA 2008 "Law Shaping Technology; Technology Shaping the Law" conference held at the Glasgow Caledonian University in Glasgow, Scotland on February 7, 2008 is presented. The event's speakers include David Flint, an independent expert under the UK Domain Dispute Resolution Procedure, Karen McCullagh and Dan Ritchie.

The article discusses the highlights of the Meeting of Commonwealth Law Ministers in Edinburgh, Scotland, in July 2008. Conference secretary and director Betty Mould-Iddrisu presented a paper on the need to further refine principles underpinning a rule of law framework for the Commonwealth. Professor Christopher H. W. Gane presented a paper which addresses a number of issues and challenges facing the role of the Law Ministers within the Commonwealth.

This article previews the September 2006 issue of "Accounting Education." The issue presents a series of articles that were originally presented at the 2005 British Accounting Association Special Interest Group in Accounting Education's Annual Conference, held in Aberdeen, Scotland. The conference was hosted by college professors Alan Sangster and Elisabeth Gammie.

The article presents information on the thirty-fourth annual conference and annual general meeting of the Scottish Legal History Group which was held on October 4, 2014 at the Advocates Library in Edinburgh, Scotland, and it also provides several abstracts of papers which were delivered at the event. Professor John Finlay's report entitled "Consulting Counsel in Eighteenth-Century Scotland" is mentioned, along with "Walter Scott and Scottish Judicature Reform 1806-10" by Dr. Kathryn Chittick.

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a flavour of the content of the LILAC Conference held in Glasgow, UK, in April 2012. Design/methodology/approach – The paper provides an overview of the themes, content, keynote speakers and selected parallel sessions of the LILAC conference. Findings – The conference held a series of parallel sessions covering six key themes: information literacy and the digital future; information literacy research; supporting the research community; transitions: from school through to higher education; information literacy and employability; active learning and creative pedagogical approaches. Originality/value – The conference provided an insight into emerging trends for information literacy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the special session on the rule of law by Commonwealth Law Ministers and Attorney-General in the Scottish Parliament on July 7 to 10, 2008. Papers presented discussed the enhancement and development of Commonwealth support for the rule of law and the role of Justice Minister. It also discusses the adaptation of the Edinburgh Statement on Enhancing the Rule of Law which requires the member states of commit to the enhancement of the rule of law according to the needs of the member state.

Summarizes papers on urban history presented at the Urban History Group's meeting on March 29-30, 2001, in Glasgow, Scotland. Construction of spatial knowledge in London, England, during the 1930s; Historiography of the relationship between science and urban place in Great Britain; City planning in Cairo, Egypt.

The article discusses the highlights of the International Conferences on Marine Structures (MARSTRUCT) held in Glasgow, Scotland on March 12 to 14, 2007. Topics of papers presented at the event include methods and tools for establishing loads and load effects, methods and tools for strength assessment and experiemntal analaysis of structures. The event reportedly highlighted experiences and advances in marine structures.

The article discusses the highlights of a conference held by Women's History Scotland in Shetland in April 2007. The conference featured not just lectures, but also plays, poetry and story-telling. Participants came from Finland, Norway, Denmark, Canada and Scotland. Papers on women provided comparative perspectives on the experience of women in Shetland from the prehistory to the present.

Offers information on the Symposium of Early English Keyboards held at the University of Aberdeen in April 2005. Celebration of the Festival of Organs and Virginals; Schedule of recitals by international performers; Topics of the lectures.

The article discusses the highlights of Eurocorr 2008 held at the Edinburgh International Congress Centre from September 7 to September 11 in Edinburgh, Scotland. M. Schütze from Dechema EV in Frankfurt, Germany chaired the high temperature corrosion session. S. C. van Lith gave a lecture on deposited-induced chlorine corrosion of superheater materials under biomass-firing conditions. Sessions on the nuclear industries and waste disposal, automotive, and corrosion under insulation workshop and microbial corrosion were also held.

The article discusses the highlights of the Eurocorr 2008: Managing Corrosion for Sustainability held at the Edinburgh International Congress Centre on September 7-11, 2008 in Scotland. The event was attended by 800 delegates from 51 countries. There were sessions on corrosion mechanisms and methods. The Refinery Working Party held a session on refinery process corrosion, ethanol biofuel corrosion and refinery inspection monitoring.

This paper draws from the presentation "Sex Games People Play" before an audience of 80 at the World TA 2005 Summer Conference in Edinburgh, Scotland. Included in this paper are new, unpublished TA theories on sex and intimacy including: the Sexual Winner's and Loser's Loops, the new field of Intimacy Analysis, the Intimacy Winner's and Loser's Loops, and five new versions of the Drama Triangle at the psychological and script levels. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The mouth may be presented and understood in different ways, be subject to judgement by others and, as we age, may intrude on everyday life due to problems that affect oral health. However, research that considers older people's experiences concerning their mouths and teeth is limited. This paper reports on qualitative research with 43 people in England and Scotland, aged 65–91, exploring the significance of the mouth over the lifecourse. It uses the concept of 'mouth talk' to explore narratives of maintaining, losing and replacing teeth. Participants engaged in 'mouth talk' to downplay the impact of the mouth, demonstrate socially appropriate ageing, and distance themselves from 'real' old age by retaining a moral identity and sense of self. They also found means to challenge dominant discourses of ageing in how they spoke about missing teeth. Referring to Leder's notion of 'dys-appearance' and Gilleard and Higgs' work on the social imaginary of the fourth age, the study illustrates the ways in which 'mouth talk' can contribute to sustaining a sense of self in later life, presenting the ageing mouth, with and without teeth, as an absent presence. It also argues for the importance of listening to stories of the mouth in order to expand understanding of people's approaches to oral health in older age. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper, given as a keynote presentation at the third international conference on Ageing and Spirituality 2004 in Adelaide, Australia, offers a perspective on ageing that makes central and fundamental the spiritual journey. Ageing is not confined to the old. We are all ageing all the time and whilst the imperative of ego integration (Erikson, 1986, 1982) is more pressing in old age, the march of time makes no exceptions. The paper starts with a consideration of the Scottish context and the current interest in Scotland in spirituality and health. Borrowing from the human developmental ideas of Frankl, Jung, Erikson, and Klein, the paper takes the view that we are all spiritual beings, and we are all trying to be successful, integrated reconciled and mature individuals. Ageing and spirituality is relevant to every individual. Successful ageing is fundamentally concerned with the successful self. The spiritual journey is bound up with the search for meaning. Ageing is part of the task of being human and it involves decline and loss. The spiritual journey- search for meaning-is unique to each one of us. The spiritual journey is made evident in the search for the ultimate destination of giving up self, transcending self. Remembrance and routine are methods by which the ageing and the spiritual journey can be facilitated. A successful ageing, according to this perspective, is therefore one that embraces and selfconsciously embarks upon a spiritual journey. To take it further-the spiritual journey is bound up with ageing-and further still-ageing is a spiritual journey (Bianchi, 1984). The primary task of ageing is spiritual development. Spiritual development is helped by an appropriate societal context in which ageing as spiritual journey can flourish. This has implications for health and social care services. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

An introduction is presented in which the editors discuss various reports within the issue on topics including child protection in Europe, resilience and burnout in child protection social work, and evidence-based practice in social work.

The article provides information on Historical Perspectives' 2006 conference, Interpreting Relationships of Power, held in May 2006 at the University of Strathclyde in Scotland. The conference offered postgraduates from across Great Britain the opportunity to present their research in a friendly and stimulating environment. The event was attended by 64 people over the course of two days. The conference theme is also cited.

This paper is based on a lecture to the symposium on 'apprenticeship to life long learning: dental education through the centuries', Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Glasgow. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Information about several papers discussed at a symposium sponsored by the Scottish Law Commission on reform proposals in Succession laws is presented. Topics include the outline of the proposed reforms, assessment of proposals from the viewpoint of legal practice, and apprehensions related to inheritance rights of children. The symposium featured several legal experts including David Nichols, Alan Barr, and Roger Kerridge.

The article discusses the highlights of Eurocorr 2008 held at the Edinburgh International Congress Center in Edinburgh, Scotland from September 7 to 11, 2008. A workshop about the application of computer modelling in corrosion was conducted by B. Cottis of Manchester University and M. Vankeerberghen of Belgium. The lecturers were Paula Ferreira Gorjao of Katholieke University and Stuart Croll of North Dakota State University.

The article discusses the highlights of the Meeting of Commonwealth Law Ministers in Edinburgh, Scotland, in July 2008. The meeting was opened at a ceremony in the Scottish Parliament. The meeting's speakers included Presiding Officer Alex Fergusson, Deputy First Minister of Scotland and Cabinet Minister for Health and Wellbeing Nicola Sturgeon and Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma.

The article discusses the highlights of the 2008 European Corrosion Congress (Eurocorr) held at the Edinburgh International Congress Centre in Scotland from September 7-11. Ifinkor's Gunter Schmitt led the corrosion inhibition session, as well as a joint session on corrosion inhibition in oil and gas production. Particular focus is given to a session entitled "Development and Validation of a Fast Scanning Technique for Corrosion Inhibitor Selection." The event also featured a presentation by Schmitt on wavelet diagnosis of electrochemical current noise.

Information about the 46th annual conference of the British Institute of Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) which was held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Glasgow, Scotland is presented. The event was simultaneous with the 2007 Material Testing Exhibition, attended by several delegates between equipment manufacturers, engineers, industrialists, academics and other researchers. The events include the lecture of the president on the harmonization of standards of NDT, presentations of research and awards.

This article presents information on several congresses and conventions related to software testing to be held during the year 1995. COMPASS '95: The 10th Annual Conference on Computer Assurance to be held in Gaithersburg, Maryland during June 26-30. The Fourth Software Quality Conference will be organized in Dundee, Scotland from July 4 to 5. The conference is sponsored by the University of Abertay, Dundee and Napier University, Edinburgh.

Presents various political and economic news from Ecuador, Canada, Brazil and Sweden, the research review on the behavioral economics of addiction published in Drug and Alcohol Dependence and schedule of some 1994 conferences in Scotland. General political development in Canada; Alcohol and tobacco policy development in Canada; Information about the abuse of anticholinergic drugs in Brazil; Strengthening of the Tobacco Control Act in Sweden; More information.

The article announces the winners of student paper awards presented at the Ocean Optics XXI Conference in Glasgow, Scotland on October 11, 2012, including Jianwei Wei, Justin M. Haag and Amir Ibrahim.

The importance of folate during pregnancy was established more than 80 years ago by Lucy Wills’ ground-breaking studies of tropical macrocytic anaemia. More recently, it has become apparent that the adverse consequences of inadequate nutrient supply during early developmental may be exacerbated by over-nutrition postnatally. The present paper aims to review recent evidence that maternal methyl donor (notably folate) supply peri-conceptually and during pregnancy has long-term effects on offspring (metabolic) health. In addition, we propose the hypothesis that epigenetic mechanisms, especially DNA methylation, may mediate the effects of these early life nutritional insults. We discuss evidence from a natural experiment in human subjects which provides proof of principle for the hypothesis. We describe an attempt to test this hypothesis using a mouse model in which female C57Bl/6 mice were randomised to low or normal folate diets prior to, and during, pregnancy and lactation. Low maternal folate supply resulted in offspring that were more susceptible to detrimental metabolic effects of a high-fat diet fed from weaning, manifested as increased circulating TAG concentration. Interestingly, this metabolic phenotype in adult offspring occurred without any detectable change in adiposity, suggesting a different aetiological origin from the more commonly reported observation that maternal undernutrition leads to increased offspring adiposity and to symptoms of the Metabolic Syndrome. The widespread prevalence of overweight and obesity and of folate deficiency among women of child-bearing age highlights the possibility that this double nutritional insult may exacerbate the risk of metabolic disease in their offspring. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This article presents the author's experience and reflection on the Mobile HCI 2004 conference, which was held in Glasgow, Scotland from September 13-16. Mobile HCI is rapidly becoming one of the prime conferences on human-computer interaction (HCI) with mobile technology. The conference, chaired by Mark Dunlop of the University of Strathclyde and Stephen Brewster of Glasgow University, gathered a heterogeneous group of academic and practitioners that has acquired a unique identity over the past five years. While still smaller than other related conferences such as Interact or Ubicomp, Mobile HCI has grown significantly. The 2004 conference hosted 67 contributions, including full papers, short papers, and posters, and more than 220 participants. The growth of attendee and submission numbers shows both that mobile computing research is becoming increasingly accessible to a broader range of academics and that industrial players, especially manufacturers, are increasingly integrating HCI into their design processes. The most represented regions were Great Britain and Ireland, Scandinavia, German-speaking countries, North America, and East Asia. This confirms that the conference's character is eminently European, yet open to contributions from all over the world.

This illustrated essay discusses the creative practice of 'live drawing' at an annual conference which brings together Scotland's community heritage practitioners. It discusses the application of drawing as documentation whilst people are giving talks about their projects, and critically explores the use of drawing as a 'way of seeing' events that are tied to the past. It develops the idea that the format of the conferences, just like the composition and content of the illustrations, applies framing devices that contain and constrain our creativity, but that can also enable imaginary opportunities when considering the past in the present. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Highlights the Fourth International Seminar on Environmental Impact Assessment held in Aberdeen, Scotland. Sponsors of the conference; Speakers; Topics discussed.

This paper is a shortened and revised version of the Closing Plenary given to the World Congress of the Association of Social Economics, and Cairncross Lecture, University of Glasgow, June 2012. Mainstream economics is seen as unfit for purpose because of deficiencies that have long been criticised by a marginalised heterodoxy. These include the taking out of the historical and social even if bringing them back in on the basis of a technical apparatus and architecture that is sorely inappropriate. These observations are illustrated in passing reference to social capital but are particularly appropriate for understanding the weakness of ethics within mainstream economics. An alternative is offered through taking various “entanglements” (such as facts and values) as critical point of departure, leading to the suggestion that ethical systems are subject to the 10 Cs—Constructed, Construed, Conforming, Commodified, Contextual, Contradictory, Closed, Contested, Collective and Chaotic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]