Introduction to the Symposium on Parthenogenesis

Introduction to the symposium.

Forty-five years ago a symposium on the ‘‘Lower Metazoa’’ was held in Pacific Grove, California. The resulting volume (Dougherty et al., 1963) sampled much of the then current study and thought about simple animals—sponges, cnidarians, ctenophores, flatworms, pseudocoelomates, and more. Extensive discussions of homology and phylogeny formed the basis for testing a variety of hypotheses concerni...

Introduction to the Symposium on Echinococcosis

China is one of the world’s most highly endemic countries for the cestode zoonosisechinococcosis. In the northwest of the country, both Echinococcus granulosus and E.multilocularis are transmitted between domestic livestock or wildlife hosts respectively, over vast and relatively remote regions. Traditional pastoralist communities of Tibetan, Kazakh and Mongol ethnic minorities appear to be mos...

Introduction to The Olivieri symposium.

In failing...[her] when she needed them most, it is now clear that some members of the University’s Faculty of Medicine heard her muffled cries of academic freedom from the back room, yet their response was to serve another round of drinks and turn the music up louder. With the bombshell revelations in the...affair, the plug may have been pulled on this business sponsored party, and hopefully a...

Introduction to Symposium on Sports Economics

Introduction to the symposium on nutrition of the preterm infant.

I t has been nearly a decade since the publication of Nutrition of the Preterm Infant, Second Edition. Numerous changes in neonatal care have occurred in the interim, and the need to refine nutritional care of the preterm infant is apparent. The science base indicates gaps in our knowledge of appropriate nutritional support and the need to establish new recommendations have evolved. Thus, we no...