3rd European Meeting in Oxizymes. Oeiras, Portugal, 7 - 9 September 2006, 121

The development of veterinary specialization in Europe is described, from its inception in 1989, through the establishment of the European Board for Veterinary Specialisation (EBVS) in 1996, to the establishment of the supervising European Coordinating Committee for Veterinary Training (ECCVT) in 2005. Currently there are about 1,500 European veterinary specialists ...

Poster apresentado no 13th Congress of the Federation of European Societies of Plant Physiology, em 2002, Hersonissos, Creta, Grécia

Poster apresentado no "14th Federation of European Societies of Plant Biology Congress", Cracóvia, Polónia, em 2004.

This report describes the first congress of the Spanish Proteomics Society (SEProt) and the Foundation Meeting of the European Proteomics Association (EuPA), which were held in Cordoba, Spain, February 13-17, 2005. The EuPA meeting joined together thirty European representatives from 17 national European proteomics organisations to discuss the opportunity of ...

Apresentação efectuada no "14th Congress of the Federation of European Societies of Plant Biology", em Cracow, Polland em 2004.

During the first half of the past year, guidelines for hypertension management issued by the Joint National Committee (JNC VII) and by the European Society of Hypertension in conjunction to the European Society of Cardiology (ESH/ESC) have been published in major scientific journals. This article reviews the main features and ...

Proceedings of the 30th European Brewery Convention Congress. Prague, 14-19 May 2005. CD, 64: 580 - 590

Proceedings of the 30th European Brewery Convention Congress. Prague, 14-19 May 2005. CD, 121: 1045 - 1049

INFOBIOMED is an European Network of Excellence (NoE) funded by the Information Society Directorate-General of the European Commission (EC). A consortium of European organizations from ten different countries is involved within the network. Four pilots, all related to linking clinical and genomic information, are being carried out. From an informatics ...

The Eighth International Meeting of the European Laboratory Working Group on Diphtheria (ELWGD) and the Diphtheria Surveillance Network (DIPNET) was held and co-organised with the WHO Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen, Denmark, in June 2004. This article provides an international updated review of progress in clinical, epidemiological and microbiological aspects ...

Pohlia bolanderi (Lesq.) Broth. is reported for the first time for Europe from the south of Spain (Sierra Nevada range). A description from European material is provided and differences from closely related species, with which it has been confused, are discussed. It is also known from alpine regions in western ...

The European Veterinary Immunology Group (EVIG) was founded under the auspices of the European Federation of Immunologic Societies (EFIS) in 2001, and held its first meeting in autumn 2003 in Berlin. Here, we summarize the short history of this group, report on the workshop in Berlin and outline some future ...

The 4th annual European League Against Rheumatism congress, held in Lisbon, 18-21 June 2003, had a record turnout of more than 8600 delegates and the abstract submissions increased to 2600. A heat wave and a somewhat substandard venue hampered some of the activities, notably the poster sessions. The scientific program ...

The Seventh International Meeting of the European Laboratory Working Group on Diphtheria (ELWGD) was held in Vienna, Austria in June 2002 and brought together the microbiologists and epidemiologists responsible for diphtheria in many countries throughout the world. The ELWGD was formed in 1993 in response to the epidemics of diphtheria ...

This article represents the update of 'European Stroke Initiative Recommendations for Stroke Management', first published in this Journal in 2000. The recommendations are endorsed by the 3 European societies which are represented in the European Stroke Initiative: the European Stroke Council, the European Neurological Society and the European Federation of ...

The efforts of the European Commission to create a "European Research Area" in the field of biotechnology are accompanied by a growing demand for an ethical discourse. Cultural differences between the European Union's member states create a vital need to improve bioethical information structures in Europe so as to foster ...

The 10th Anniversary Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music was held at Liège, Belgium, on 5-8 April 2002.

This document is the result of an European Consensus conference which took place in Artimino, Tuscany, Italy, in March 2001 involving 33 experts on nutrition in patients with cystic fibrosis, organised by the European Cystic Fibrosis Society, and sponsored by Axcan-Scandipharm, Baxter, Dr Falk Pharma, Fresenius, Nutricia, SHS International, Solvay ...

13th Congress of the Federation of European Societies of Plant Physiology. Crete, Greece, 2002, 132

The 9th symposium of the European Society of Gene Therapy (ESGT) organized by Murat Tuncer (President of the Meeting), Bernd Gansbacher (President of the ESGT), and Meral Ozguc (Secretary of the Meeting) took place in Antalya, South Turkey, on 2-4 November 2001. Although the international political context made difficult the ...

11th European Respiratory Society Annual Congress, Berlin, Germany

Ethical considerations pertaining to biotechnology have progressively been introduced into European community law, especially with regard to research, the environment, patents, animal welfare and medicine. This article addresses the ethics of biotechnology at the European Union (EU) level. It provides insight into the European Group of Ethics and describes how ...

The European Stroke Initiative (EUSI) is the common body of stroke-related activities within the European Federation of Neurological Societies (EFNS), the European Neurological Society (ENS) and the European Stroke Council (ESC). The Executive committee of the EUSI has authorized the writing committee of the EUSI to create recommendations for stroke ...

This meeting of the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS), hosted by the British Neuroscience Association (BNA), included a diverse range of neuroscience presentations including many of pharmacological relevance. The pharmacological characterization and mode of action of numerous drugs was presented, including IL-1ra, ARL-17477, zVAD-fmk, L-790984, CEP-1347, gacyclidine, NBI-30775, AWD-131-138, ...

In two articles by Wolf Singer, published in TINS in 1994 and 1997, brief analyses were presented of the problems faced by the European neuroscience community in its attempt to provide a cohesive response to meet the challenge of the proclamation of the 'Decade of the Brain'. One of the ...

High Technology Finland 2000. Herring, Peter & Jeffreys, Janie, 68

Recently several European Toxicological Societies have established national toxicology registers. Such societies include the British, Dutch, Finnish, French, Hungarian, and Swiss societies of toxicology. The basis for registration in these societies is peer review evaluation of the applicants. A key-criterion for acceptance is theoretical training covering the main areas of ...

On 9-11 May 1997, the second Meeting of the European Progestin Club was held in Turin, Italy. Aspects of progestin use on the breast were discussed, based on the currently available scientific data. The paper covers topics addressed at the meeting and summarizes the recommendations which could be agreed on ...

Proceedings of the 47th Meeting of the European Working Group "Multicriteria Aid for Decision". Thessaloniki, 25 - 26 March 1998

In 1994, TINS published a brief analysis of the problems faced by the European neuroscience community in its attempt to meet the challenges associated with the proclamation of the European 'Decade of the Brain'. Since then numerous initiatives have been taken by national and European neuroscience societies with the common ...

A Consensus Development Conference was organized by the European Menopause Society (EMS) and held from September 8-10, 1995 in Montreux, Switzerland. The consensus was based on public lectures presented by international experts. More than 1300 people interested in the menopause assisted at the presentations, including representatives of the European National ...

The WHO Regional Office for Europe organises meetings on immunisation programmes for national experts from all countries of the European Union (EU)and data on the incidence of diseases and immunisation coverage are regularly submitted to WHO. We have anal

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During the autumn of 1991 a meeting was convened in Brussels by Colgate entitled 'European view of fluoride supplementation'. Throughout Europe, product dosage and age related dose recommendations for fluoride supplements vary widely. With the advent of 1992, different instructions on the same packet would cause considerable confusion in a ...

2nd European Conference on Industrial Furnaces and Boilers, INFUB. Vilamoura, Portugal, 2 - 5 April 1991

11th Meet. of the European Federation of Immunological Societies. Espoo, 9 - 12 June 1991

3rd International Symposium on Environmental Geochemistry and Health and 9th European Meeting of the Society for Environmental Geochemistry and Health, 16 Sept. 1991, Uppsala, Sweden. Selenius, O. (ed.), Rapporter och meddelanden / Sveriges Geologiska Undersökning ; 69

The 1960s meant a historical turn of Western Europe, becoming an immigration area. Net immigration has been concentrated to some of the prosperous Western European countries and has been mainly determined by the demand of their particular national labor regimes. The size of alien employment has been very differently affected ...

A point source outbreak of Salmonella typhi, degraded Vi-strain 22, affecting 32 British visitors to Kos, Greece, in 1983 was attributed by a case-control study to the consumption of a salad at one hotel. This represents the first major outbreak of typhoid fever in which a salad has been identified ...

Halley's comet is the focus of an international scientific enterprise now under way. Ground-based astronomical observations are already yielding new information about the comet's nucleus and atmosphere. In the coming year, remote and in situ investigations from the ground, Earth orbit, Venus orbit, interplanetary space, and within the comet itself ...

Summary The paper deals with the non-European marital pattern and its determinants in an agrarian society before the onset of deliberate fertility decline. A wide range of patterns, from very early and almost universal to late marriage, existed among the populations of European Russia at the end of the nineteenth ...

Continuity of care has been regarded as an essential feature of good general practice. It may be jeopardised by many diverse factors such as the mobility of the population, a shortage of family doctors, and by some forms of group practice. A shorter working week which many doctors enjoy or ...

1. The European rabbit flea Spilopsyllus cuniculi (Dale) bred successfully in wild rabbits on three properties in New South Wales and, within two breeding seasons, almost every rabbit shot within a quarter of a mile of a release site was infested.2. It was demonstrated that the flea transmitted myxoma virus ...

The above society was established in Paris in 1988 and is open to all professionals, students and others interested in the conservation of Europe's mammals. At present their main activity is producing the European Mammal Atlas (EMMA). You can view distribution maps for quite number of mammals; these are held ...

The European Society for Gene Therapy was founded in 1992 as a nonprofit organisation dedicated to the development of gene therapy, cell therapy, and genetic vaccines. The site offers information about the society, its scientific committees, position statements and papers, strategic issues, news items, regulatory issues, and sites of interest. ...

These pages present a series of links to information relating to European and English wildlife. Much of the text concerns Government policy, legislation and conventions affecting the protection of particular habitats and species, but there is also information about particular issues in which Government is involved such as designation of ...

The European Tissue Repair Society was founded in 1988. It aims to promote knowledge and interchange between scientists, health care professionals, industry and other individuals that have an interest in tissue repair of all organs. The website includes useful links to related external organisations, publications, conferences and conference abstracts.

The main aim of COST Action E45 (EUROpean FORest EXternalities, EUROFOREX) is to agree on valuation protocols for investigators to follow when valuing externalities produced by the different types of forest in Europe. The action runs from July 2006 to July 2010. The website gives details of the management committee ...