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Cancer registration in the Peoples Republic of China.

The current situation of cancer registration in China was systematically reviewed. So far, cancer registration in China has been making a great progress in the following aspects: the number of cancer registries and covered population have increased dramatically; a registration network has been established and completed gradually; regulations and rules improved remarkably; more attention is bein...

Clinical chemistry in the Peoples Republic of China today.

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...

Indigenous Peoples and Biodiversity*

Indigenous people number over 300 million. They are inhabitants of practically each main biome of the earth and especially of the least disturbed terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems of the world. Based on an exhaustive review of recently published data, this chapter stresses the strategic importance of indigenous peoples in the maintenance and conservation of world's biodiversity. Four main link...