The 3rd Annual EULAR Congress, held in Stockholm on 12-15 June 2002, had a turnout of 8300 delegates, almost identical to last year's record attendance level in Prague. The venue was close to ideal, allowing ample space for poster sessions in the exhibition hall. The manned poster sessions were well ...

Last week, the U.S. Congress approved a 14.2% increase for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to a record $20.3 billion, keeping the agency on track to double its budget by 2003. The 15 December vote essentially upheld a funding deal that lawmakers had sealed on 29 October with a ...

At the occasion of the Georges Brohée Lecture presented at the 10th World Congress of Gastroenterology in Los Angeles (1994), the author makes a brief history of Georges Brohée (1887-1957), Belgian Surgeon and Radiologist who promoted modern Gastroenterology, in particular by founding the Belgian Society of Gastroenterology in 1928 and ...

We held another computer software contest at the 39th Congress of the JSA. The aim and procedure were similar to those for the first contest in 1991. Twenty-four softwares entered the contest; the machines are divided approximately two to one ratio between NEC PC9801 series and Macintosh. We received donations ...

24th Congress of the International Society of Haematology, London, England, 23 - 27 Aug. 1992

International society for photogrammetry and remote sensing, 17th congress, ISPRS, 452 - 456

This issue of Applied Optics features 36 papers on topics related to particle sizing by optical methods. The contributions to this special issue derive primarily, though not exclusively, from papers presented at the Second International Congress on Optical Particle Sizing held in Tempe, Arizona, on 5-9 March 1990. The congress ...

The rate at which Congress passes bills during its legislative session exhibits a fixed-interval pattern: the rate of passage is extremely low three to four months after commencement followed by a positively accelerated growth rate that continues until the time of adjournment. This scalloped configuration appears uniformly in each of ...

More than 155 participants from 25 countries attended the 30th Annual IVAS Congress, September 8–11, 2004 in Oostende, Belgium. The focus was on veterinary acupuncture (AP) and immunology, and the event was sponsored by the International Veterinary Acupuncture Society (IVAS). IVAS is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting excellence in ...

The website for the 4th European Equine Health & Nutrition Congress which will take place at Wageningen University, the Netherlands, from 18th - 19th April 2008. The site provides information on the scientific committee, scientific programme and workshop, invited speakers, call for papers, congress sponsors, and the congress location. Information ...

Book from Project Gutenberg: Green Mansions: a romance of the tropical forest Library of Congress Classification: PR

Book from Project Gutenberg: The Flaming Forest Library of Congress Classification: PS

The Seventh Congress of the International Commission for Optics was held in Paris on 2-7 May 1966. In addition to the business sessions of the congress, attended only by official delegates from the 17 member countries, there was an extensive scientific conference Recent Progress in Physical Optics. A meeting of ...

The experimental establishment by an International Society of a coordinated group of worldwide regional conferences on an annual basis for 4 years, succeeded in the 5th year by a giant congress which is of the nature of a review and which is honestly social, is suggested as an alternative scheme ...

The ninth Pacific Science Congress was incorrectly announced for 18 Nov.-9 Dec. 1956 [Science 124, 334 (17 Aug. 1956)]. The congress is to be held in Bangkok, Thailand, in 1957, not 1956.

The 10th International Congress of Entomology will take place in Montreal, 17-25 Aug. 1956. The preliminary announcement that appeared in the 29 July issue failed to mention the year; Science regrets the omission.

The International and Fourth American Congress on Obstetrics and Gynecology is scheduled to take place May 14-19, 1950 in New York City rather than in 1949 as originally reported in Science, (February 25, pg. 217).

Java was hot and there were other discomforts, but all who were present at the congress returned to their homes appreciative of the charms and manifold subjects of scientific and other kinds of interest of what is perhaps the most fascinating of tropical islands, deeply grateful for the courtesies and ...