ASEG Technical Standards Committee: Meeting summary

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Nigel Williams' article "Tobacco funding debate smolders" (News & Comment, 4 Oct., p. 28) highlights the disturbing tendency of some philanthropic organizations to politicize science in a way that threatens independent research. The Cancer Research Campaign (CRC) in Britain threatened to halt future funding for Cambridge University scientists because the university accepted a donation from Brit...

COMET V meeting summary

On 20-21 May 2015, more than 150 people with an interest in core outcome sets (COS) gathered at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada for the fifth meeting of the COMET Initiative. This was the first annual COMET meeting in North America, and the COMET Management Group are grateful to Cochrane Canada for facilitating the meeting and an excellent joint session on the second day. As well a...

COMET IV meeting summary

On two sunny days in Rome in November 2014, more than 200 people with an interest in core outcome sets (COS) from around the world gathered at The Pontificia Università Lateranense for the fourth meeting of the COMET Initiative. They came from 14 countries: Austria, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Switzerland, UK and USA. The programme w...

Network mail meeting summary

Michael D. Kudlick MDK (SRI-ARC) NIC 14798 8-MAR-73 Network Mail Meeting Summary Introduction The purpose of this RFC is to briefly summarize, from the NIC’s viewpoint, the principal conclusions reached at the Network Mail Meeting held Friday, February 23 1973, at SRI-ARC. Please refer to RFC #475 (NIC 14919) for Abhay Bhushan’s comprehensive summary of the issues discussed at the meeting. Ther...

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