Himself: Talks with Men concerning Themselves

How to Help Men with LUTS Help Themselves - Executive Summary

Dr. Robert Star welcomed participants and introduced the theme of the meeting. Lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) is a condition that affects the physical and mental well-being of a substantial percentage of the male population, especially those in their middle and later years. Although traditional treatments have focused on the association of LUTS with benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), newe...

Behaviors used by men to protect themselves against prostate cancer.

This paper reports on behaviors men use to protect themselves against prostate cancer. Data were collected via a telephone or mailed survey from 353 men enrolled in two studies of prostate cancer screening. Respondents reported behaviors they used to protect themselves against prostate cancer, and responses were coded as conventional care, self-care, or nothing. Men who reported using both conv...

Negotiating with a Dis-United Kingdom. The EU’s Options Concerning Scotland and Northern Ireland in the Brexit Talks

As if the process or withdrawal from the European Union were not already complex enough in itself, the Brexit vote has also reopened constitutional questions for the United Kingdom. Scotland’s devolved government is calling for a new independence referendum and seeking a special arrangement with the EU. Northern Ireland has drawn less attention but is politically at least as significant: Brexit...

Plenary Talks

Invited Talks

In 2009, Peter Cameron introduced a common generalization of various classes of combinatorial designs such as balanced incomplete block designs, resolvable designs and orthogonal arrays. Generalized covering and packing designs can be defined in analogous way. These objects bring into this framework further classes of designs, including covering and packing arrays, Howell designs, monogamous cy...