An invitation to the Cincinnati Conference

An invitation to the 2nd Cancer Cachexia Conference, Montréal, Canada

The National Cancer Institute in the USA has recently placed greater emphasis on cancer cachexia research by identifying this syndrome as a provocative question needing to be addressed in order to drive progress against cancer. Such funding mechanisms are expected to stimulate cutting edge approaches at both the basic and clinical science levels to advance our understanding of the underlying ca...

An invitation to the 7th Cachexia Conference, Kobe, Japan

Dear colleagues and friends, On behalf of the organizing committee, I would like to personally invite you to join us at the 7th Cachexia Conference of the Society on Sarcopenia, Cachexia, and Wasting Disorders from December 9th through December 11th, 2013. This conference will be a great opportunity to meet and discuss in person all issues concerning cachexia, sarcopenia, and body wasting disor...

An Invitation to Play

Parity games and their subclasses and variants pop up in various contexts: μ-calculus, tree automata, program verification [3, 1, 8]. Such games provide only binary information indicating the winning player. However, in classical games theory [12] the emphasis is rather on how much we win or lose. Can we incorporate the information about the profits and losses into parity games?

An Invitation to Topology

An Invitation to

* The author is an Associate Professor of Accounting on the faculty of the Tepper School of Business of Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. The essay is written based on a few lectures on accounting theory given at various universities. The author thanks the audience at these lectures. In preparing the written manuscript, comments by Xijia Su of City University of Hong Ko...