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Kinds of Conference Terms modified by Conference Selected Abstracts24th ANNUAL MIDWEST ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION CONFERENCEEVOLUTION, Issue 12 2003Article first published online: 9 MAY 200 No abstract is available for this article. [source] NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TEACHING EVOLUTION: EVOLUTION IS GOOD SCIENCEEVOLUTION, Issue 6 2000Irene Eckstrand No abstract is available for this article. [source] 2005 NATIONAL ORAL HEALTH CONFERENCE: MAY 2,4, 2005, PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIAJOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH DENTISTRY, Issue 2005Highlights First page of article [source] AMERICAN ACADEMY OF NURSE PRACTITIONERS 19th NATIONAL CONFERENCE FOR NURSE PRACTITIONERSJOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF NURSE PRACTITIONERS, Issue 8 2003Louisiana June 1, Morial Convention Center New Orleans [source] "BRIGHTON PEERS" A COMMENT ON BACCN'S NATIONAL CONFERENCE 2007NURSING IN CRITICAL CARE, Issue 1 2008Philip Woodrow Southern Region Article first published online: 22 JAN 200 [source] 2007 JNU CONFERENCE ON INSTITUTIONSPACIFIC ECONOMIC REVIEW, Issue 1 2009Manmohan Agarwal No abstract is available for this article. [source] A PERSONAL VIEW OF A CONFERENCE HELD IN MEMORY OF STEPHEN MITCHELLBRITISH JOURNAL OF PSYCHOTHERAPY, Issue 1 2002MARGUERITE VALENTINE PHD No abstract is available for this article. [source] HIGH-DIMENSIONAL LEARNING FRAMEWORK FOR ADAPTIVE DOCUMENT FILTERING,COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE, Issue 1 2003Wai Lam We investigate the unique requirements of the adaptive textual document filtering problem and propose a new high-dimensional on-line learning framework, known as the REPGER (relevant feature pool with good training example retrieval rule) algorithm to tackle this problem. Our algorithm possesses three characteristics. First, it maintains a pool of selective features with potentially high predictive power to predict document relevance. Second, besides retrieving documents according to their predicted relevance, it also retrieves incoming documents that are considered good training examples. Third, it can dynamically adjust the dissemination threshold throughout the filtering process so as to maintain a good filtering performance in a fully interactive environment. We have conducted experiments on three document corpora, namely, Associated Press, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, and Wall Street Journal to compare the performance of our REPGER algorithm with two existing on-line learning algorithms. The results demonstrate that our REPGER algorithm gives better performance most of the time. Comparison with the TREC (Text Retrieval Conference) adaptive text filtering track participants was also made. The result shows that our REPGER algorithm is comparable to them. [source] Introduction To the Special Issue on the 1999 Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics ConferenceCOMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE, Issue 4 2000Nick Cercone No abstract is available for this article. [source] Clinicopathological Conference: Case Report,A Case of Anorexia and Weak ArmACADEMIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE, Issue 1 2007Jennifer L. Wiler MD Abstract The authors present the case of a 49-year-old female who presented to the emergency department with a chief complaint of "not eating well." She was found to have a heart murmur, a focal neurological deficit, and large mitral valve vegetation. The patient was later diagnosed with acute Pseudomonal endocarditis with septic emboli to the brain, liver, spleen, and kidneys. A discussion of the patient presentation, diagnostic evaluation, and outcome are reviewed. [source] Review of the 8th International Conference on Corporate Governance and Board Leadership, Henley Management College, October 2005CORPORATE GOVERNANCE, Issue 6 2006Bernard Taylor No abstract is available for this article. [source] Review of International Corporate Governance Conference held at Birmingham Business School, July 2005CORPORATE GOVERNANCE, Issue 3 2006Chris Mallin No abstract is available for this article. [source] Review of International Corporate Governance Conference held at the Birmingham Business School, June 2004CORPORATE GOVERNANCE, Issue 4 2005Chris Mallin No abstract is available for this article. [source] Review of International Corporate Governance Conference held at the Birmingham Business School, July 2002CORPORATE GOVERNANCE, Issue 1 2004Chris Mallin No abstract is available for this article. [source] Review of International Corporate Governance Conference held at Nottingham Business School, June 1999CORPORATE GOVERNANCE, Issue 2 2000Chris Mallin [source] Executive Summary: The Science of Surge ConferenceACADEMIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE, Issue 11 2006Kristi L. Koenig MD No abstract is available for this article. [source] Continuous and Discontinuous Innovation: Overcoming the Innovator DilemmaCREATIVITY AND INNOVATION MANAGEMENT, Issue 4 2007Mariano Corso Challenged by competition pressures and unprecedented pace of change, firms can no longer choose whether to concentrate on the needs of today's customers or on the anticipation of those of tomorrow: they must be excellent in both. This requires managing two related balancing acts: on the one side, being excellent in both exploitation and exploration of their capabilities and, on the other side, being excellent in managing both incremental and radical innovation. These balances are critical since exploitation and exploration, on the one side, and incremental and radical innovation, on the other, require different approaches that have traditionally been considered difficult to combine within the same organization. Working on evidence and discussion from the 7th CINet Conference held in Lucca (Italy) in 2006, this Special Section is aimed at contributing to theory and practice on these two complex balancing acts that today represent a hot issue in innovation management. [source] Surge Capacity for Healthcare Systems: A Conceptual FrameworkACADEMIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE, Issue 11 2006Amy Kaji MD This report reflects the proceedings of a breakout session, "Surge Capacity: Defining Concepts," at the 2006 Academic Emergency Medicine Consensus Conference, "Science of Surge Capacity." Although there are several general descriptions of surge capacity in the literature, there is no universally accepted standard definition specifying the various components. Thus, the objectives of this breakout session were to better delineate the components of surge capacity and to outline the key considerations when planning for surge capacity. Participants were from diverse backgrounds and included academic and community emergency physicians, economists, hospital administrators, and experts in mathematical modeling. Three essential components of surge capacity were identified: staff, stuff, and structure. The focus on enhancing surge capacity during a catastrophic event will be to increase patient-care capacity, rather than on increasing things, such as beds and medical supplies. Although there are similarities between daily surge and disaster surge, during a disaster, the goal shifts from the day-to-day operational focus on optimizing outcomes for the individual patient to optimizing those for a population. Other key considerations in defining surge capacity include psychosocial behavioral issues, convergent volunteerism, the need for special expertise and supplies, development of a standard of care appropriate for a specific situation, and standardization of a universal metric for surge capacity. [source] Research Priorities for Surge CapacityACADEMIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE, Issue 11 2006Richard E. Rothman MD The 2006 Academic Emergency Medicine Consensus Conference discussed key concepts within the field of surge capacity. Within the breakout session on research priorities, experts in disaster medicine and other related fields used a structured nominal-group process to delineate five critical areas of research. Of the 14 potential areas of discovery identified by the group, the top five were the following: 1) defining criteria and methods for decision making regarding allocation of scarce resources, 2) determining effective triage protocols, 3) determining key decision makers for surge-capacity planning and means to evaluate response efficacy (e.g., incident command), 4) developing effective communication and information-sharing strategies (situational awareness) for public-health decision support, and 5) developing methods and evaluations for meeting workforce needs. Five working groups were formed to consider the above areas and to devise sample research questions that were refined further by the entire group of participants. [source] Differentiating Large-scale Surge versus Daily SurgeACADEMIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE, Issue 11 2006J. Lee Jenkins MD This breakout session at the Academic Emergency Medicine 2006 Consensus Conference examined how baseline overcrowding impedes the ability of emergency departments to respond to sudden, unexpected surges in demand for patient care. Differences between daily and catastrophic surge were discussed, and the need to invoke a hospital-wide response to surge was explored. [source] Metrics in the Science of SurgeACADEMIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE, Issue 11 2006Jonathan A. Handler MD Metrics are the driver to positive change toward better patient care. However, the research into the metrics of the science of surge is incomplete, research funding is inadequate, and we lack a criterion standard metric for identifying and quantifying surge capacity. Therefore, a consensus working group was formed through a "viral invitation" process. With a combination of online discussion through a group e-mail list and in-person discussion at a breakout session of the Academic Emergency Medicine 2006 Consensus Conference, "The Science of Surge," seven consensus statements were generated. These statements emphasize the importance of funded research in the area of surge capacity metrics; the utility of an emergency medicine research registry; the need to make the data available to clinicians, administrators, public health officials, and internal and external systems; the importance of real-time data, data standards, and electronic transmission; seamless integration of data capture into the care process; the value of having data available from a single point of access through which data mining, forecasting, and modeling can be performed; and the basic necessity of a criterion standard metric for quantifying surge capacity. Further consensus work is needed to select a criterion standard metric for quantifying surge capacity. These consensus statements cover the future research needs, the infrastructure needs, and the data that are needed for a state-of-the-art approach to surge and surge capacity. [source] Should an obsessive,compulsive spectrum grouping of disorders be included in DSM-V?,DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY, Issue 6 2010Katharine A. Phillips M.D. Abstract The obsessive,compulsive (OC) spectrum has been discussed in the literature for two decades. Proponents of this concept propose that certain disorders characterized by repetitive thoughts and/or behaviors are related to obsessive,compulsive disorder (OCD), and suggest that such disorders be grouped together in the same category (i.e. grouping, or "chapter") in DSM. This article addresses this topic and presents options and preliminary recommendations to be considered for DSM-V. The article builds upon and extends prior reviews of this topic that were prepared for and discussed at a DSM-V Research Planning Conference on Obsessive,Compulsive Spectrum Disorders held in 2006. Our preliminary recommendation is that an OC-spectrum grouping of disorders be included in DSM-V. Furthermore, we preliminarily recommend that consideration be given to including this group of disorders within a larger supraordinate category of "Anxiety and Obsessive,Compulsive Spectrum Disorders." These preliminary recommendations must be evaluated in light of recommendations for, and constraints upon, the overall structure of DSM-V. Depression and Anxiety, 2010. © 2010 Wiley-Liss, Inc. [source] Beijing Plus Ten: An Ambivalent Record on Gender JusticeDEVELOPMENT AND CHANGE, Issue 6 2005Maxine Molyneux The 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women (the ,Beijing Conference') was a landmark in policy terms, setting a global policy framework to advance gender equality. Ten years after Beijing, in March 2005, the UN's Commission on the Status of Women presided over an intergovernmental meeting in New York to review the progress achieved on the commitments made in the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. This ,Plus 10' event was decidedly low key. Its aim was not agenda setting but agenda confirming; not policy formulation but policy affirmation. Whether it proves to be part of an ongoing worldwide movement in support of gender equality, or whether it marks the decline of that process, is a question that many in international women's movements are asking. This article, drawing on research undertaken for the UNRISD report, Gender Equality: Striving for Justice in an Unequal World, reflects on the ambivalent record of progress achieved by women over the last decades and considers how the policy environment has changed over the period since the high point of global women's movements. It examines how the changing international policy and political climate over this period has given rise to new issues and challenges for those active in global women's movements. [source] 4th European Stanley Conference on Bipolar DisordersACTA PSYCHIATRICA SCANDINAVICA, Issue 2004Article first published online: 27 AUG 200 First page of article [source] 4th European Stanley Conference on Bipolar DisordersACTA PSYCHIATRICA SCANDINAVICA, Issue 2004Article first published online: 27 AUG 200 First page of article [source] Update on the Diabetic Foot from Malvern Foot Conference 2002DIABETIC MEDICINE, Issue 3 2003C. N. Dang No abstract is available for this article. [source] Implications of the proposed thyroid fine-needle aspiration category of "follicular lesion of undetermined significance": A five-year multi-institutional analysisDIAGNOSTIC CYTOPATHOLOGY, Issue 10 2009Lester J. Layfield M.D. Abstract National Cancer Institute State of the Science Conference on thyroid fine-needle aspiration (FNA) summarized diagnostic terminology. Six diagnostic categories were proposed including "follicular lesion of undetermined significance" (FLUS). FLUS was defined as findings neither convincingly benign nor sufficiently atypical for a diagnosis of "follicular neoplasm" or "suspicious for malignancy." It was proposed that this category represent less than 7% of thyroid FNAs. A search of the cytology records at three University Hospitals was performed for the term FLUS or older equivalent terms. Usage of FLUS was compared between institutions and among pathologists. Surgical pathology outcome for FLUS cases was determined. Twenty-eight pathologists evaluated 6,872 cases at the three institutions. Use of FLUS varied among pathologists (2.5 to 28.6%). Frequency of use of FLUS among institutions varied from 3.3 to 14.9%. FLUS cases [127 of 673 (18.9%)] underwent surgical exploration with malignancy identified in 36 cases (28.3%) undergoing resection. Use of FLUS varied substantially among pathologists and institutions. FLUS category requires more rigorously defined morphologic criteria for it to become a useful guide in clinical management. Diagn. Cytopathol. 2009. © 2009 Wiley-Liss, Inc. [source] Utilization of ancillary studies in thyroid fine needle aspirates: A synopsis of the National Cancer Institute Thyroid Fine Needle Aspiration State of the Science Conference,,DIAGNOSTIC CYTOPATHOLOGY, Issue 6 2008Armando C. Filie M.D. Abstract The National Cancer Institute (NCI) sponsored the NCI Thyroid Fine Needle Aspiration (FNA) State of the Science Conference on October 22,23, 2007 in Bethesda, MD. The 2-day meeting was accompanied by a permanent informational website and several on-line discussion periods between May 1 and December 15, 2007 (http://thyroidfna.cancer.gov). This document summarizes matters regarding the utilization of ancillary studies in thyroid FNA (http://thyroidfna.cancer.gov/pages/info/agenda/). Diagn. Cytopathol. 2008;36:438,441. © 2008 Wiley-Liss, Inc. [source] Post-thyroid FNA testing and treatment options: A synopsis of the National Cancer Institute Thyroid Fine Needle Aspiration State of the Science Conference,,DIAGNOSTIC CYTOPATHOLOGY, Issue 6 2008Lester J. Layfield M.D. Abstract The National Cancer Institute (NCI) sponsored the NCI Thyroid Fine Needle Aspiration (FNA) State of the Science Conference on October 22,23, 2007 in Bethesda, MD. The 2-day meeting was accompanied by a permanent informational Web site and several on-line discussion periods between May 1 and December 15, 2007 (http://thyroidfna.cancer.gov). This document addresses follow-up procedures and therapeutic options for suggested diagnostic categories. Follow-up options for "nondiagnostic" and "benign" thyroid aspirates are given. The value of ultrasound examination in the follow-up of "nondiagnostic" and "benign" thyroid aspirates is discussed. Ultrasound findings requiring reaspiration or surgical resection are described as are the timing and length of clinical and ultrasonographic surveillance for cytologically "benign" nodules. Options for surgical intervention are given for the diagnostic categories of "atypical/borderline," "follicular neoplasm," "suspicious for malignancy" and "malignant" (http://thyroidfna.cancer.gov/pages/info/agenda/). Diagn. Cytopathol. 2008;36:442,448. © 2008 Wiley-Liss, Inc. [source] Simulation-based Morbidity and Mortality Conference: New Technologies Augmenting Traditional Case-based PresentationsACADEMIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE, Issue 1 2006John Vozenilek MD Abstract The authors describe the use of a high-fidelity simulation laboratory to re-create a patient encounter for the purposes of enhancing a morbidity and mortality conference. The use of two separate technologies were enlisted: a METI high-fidelity patient simulator to re-create the case in a more lifelike fashion, and an audience response system to collect clinical impressions throughout the case presentation and survey data at the end of the presentation. The re-creation of the patient encounter with all relevant physical findings displayed in high fidelity, with relevant laboratory data, nursing notes, and imaging as it occurred in the actual case, provides a more engaging format for the resident,learner. This technological enhancement was deployed at a morbidity and mortality conference, and the authors report the impressions collected via the audience response system. Guidelines for those who wish to re-create this type of educational experience are presented in the discussion. [source] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||