AESS MEETINGS & CONFERENCES

CONFERENCES AND MEETINGS Tropical Splenomegaly Syndrome

A one-day symposium was held at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School in London on 17 November. The participants comprised experts in tropical medicine, parasitology, pathology, immunology, and haematology, most of whom had had personal experience with splenomegaly in the tropics. They met to review the present state of knowledge and to define those areas where further research was likely to be...

REPORTS ON RECENT IPU SPECIALIZED CONFERENCES AND MEETINGS (d) ANNUAL PARLIAMENTARY HEARING AT THE UNITED NATIONS

The 2013 Parliamentary Hearing was held at United Nations Headquarters on 14 and 15 November. It was organized jointly by the Inter-Parliamentary Union, the President of the General Assembly, and the President of the Economic and Social Council, and brought together close to 200 parliamentarians from a range of countries to discuss the theme “Re-thinking sustainable development: the quest for a...

UAV System Architecture – Missouri S & T AESS UAV Team

The development and final system architecture of the Missouri S&T AESS UAV Team UAV is described. The project follows the guidelines for the 2008 UAV Challenge – Outback Rescue which is an international aerospace competition held in Kingaroy, Australia. The design of the electrical subsystems and the overall architecture of the UAV is described. The selected systems are integrated into a standa...

RECENT MEETINGS Summary of the Evolution and Human Behavior Conferences : Ann Arbor , Michigan , April and October 1988

I t was Einstein who noted that theory determines what we can see. Today is an exciting time for the study of evolution and human behavior because important shifts in theory have generated new questions and new hypotheses-literally changing what we can see. Twenty-five years ago, the evolutionary theory taught in colleges emphasized the dry bones of history. Worse yet, it seemed unconnected to ...

Past Conferences