Conflicting Dates of International Congresses

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...

Heritable variation and mutagenesis at early International Congresses of Genetics.

I encountered one John Walter Drake, known to ble researcher in a highly competitive field, is a challenge that few can handle. As Editor of Genetics he inmost everyone as “Jan,” 35 years ago in the Journal of Molecular Biology. It was in this once most fashduced a macromutation in its appearance and general quality which has made it the leading international jourionable journal of avant garde ...

The International Mycological Association: its history in brief with summaries of its International Mycological Congresses and diverse international relationships

This history presents a review of International Mycological Association activities, its international congresses, and its relationships with regional mycological associations as well as with international organizations of other scientific disciplines. The IMA was organized in 1971 during the First Mycological Congress (IMC-1) convened at Exeter, U.K. In the period 1971 to 2010, nine internation...

Progress in the chemotherapy of leprosy as reflected in the International Congresses.

International phonetic congresses: The shift in research practices and areas of interest over 44 years

There is no doubt that phonetics is nowadays a wellestablished research discipline with a long history of its existence. The success of the first phonetic congress held in 1932 in Amsterdam gave rise to a regular series of creative meetings of phoneticians and speech scientists from across various disciplines, presenting an opportunity for fruitful discussion. The current paper addresses the de...