Coincident Congresses

Congresses: what do you crave?

© 2017 Dental Press Journal of Orthodontics Dental Press J Orthod. 2017 Sept-Oct;22(5):9-10 9 The word congress (from the Latin congressus) means a meeting of people with the purpose of discussing a topic of interest to all. Every October in odd-numbered years, the Brazilian Association of Orthodontics and Facial Orthopedics (ABOR) holds its Congress. Its purpose is to bring together researcher...

How International Are International Congresses?

Our study pursues two goals: to present a new method for the analysis of weighted bimodal networks and to show that world congresses lead to fewer international contacts among the contributors than is generally assumed. The study shows that this tendency to endogamy can be observed in the contributors of international congresses. For this purpose two world congresses in the field of sociology a...

What Should be Expected from Medical Congresses?

Mutation Rate Distribution Inferred from Coincident SNPs and Coincident Substitutions

Mutation rate variation has the potential to bias evolutionary inference, particularly when rates become much higher than the mean. We first confirm prior work that inferred the existence of cryptic, site-specific rate variation on the basis of coincident polymorphisms-sites that are segregating in both humans and chimpanzees. Then we extend this observation to a longer evolutionary timescale b...

[Brazilian geography congresses from 1909 to 1944].

This analysis of the Brazilian geography congresses sponsored by the Geography Society of Rio de Janeiro between 1909 and 1944 identifies commonalities as well as differences over the years. Given how these scientific events focused on both the state of the art within the field as well as on its overall development, such an analysis serves as a good thermometer for measuring the social, economi...