353 Breadth of disciplines attending international CF conferences

Explaining Faculty Members' Experience about the Process of Attending to an International Conferences: A Mixed Methods Research

Introduction: Attendance at conferences is considered as a professional necessity for most of the researchers and scientists. Currently, no study has been conducted in Iran to evaluate the pros and cons of attending to the medical international conferences. The aim of this study was to determine the problems and consequences of attendance at conference, as well as its academic benefits and scie...

The Economics of International Conferences

I deally, an international conference provides a meeting place where the participants can present and discuss new ideas, research topics, and results. Exposure to state-of-the-art work should help to identify interesting research tracks for today and define new directions for the future. While attendees should get an introduction to high-quality research, conferences should give presenters the ...

Making the best of international conferences.

Over the years, I have learnt the importance of networking. This is how we can inspire and support each other in the belief that we are here to build something new, something stronger than our day-to-day individual, academic matters such as publishing and attracting funding. The most important things that happen at big conferences are for me the meetings between colleagues – new colleagues as w...

International Ocean Discovery Program Expedition 353 Preliminary Report

International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) Expedition 353 (29 November 2014–29 January 2015) drilled six sites in the Bay of Bengal, recovering 4280 m of sediments during 32.9 days of on-site drilling. Recovery averaged 97%, including coring with the advanced piston corer, half-length advanced piston corer, and extended core barrel systems. The primary objective of Expedition 353 is to recons...

International conferences: are they any use?