Meeting report: the Leprosy Research Initiative Spring Meeting

Time in Geographic Space: Report on the Specialist Meeting of Research Initiative 10

s of Papers, NCGIA Research Initiative 10 Psychological Time and the Processing of Spatial Information

Meeting report: innovations in prostate cancer research.

The incidence of prostate cancer has increased with serum prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening. Although organ-confined prostate cancer can be cured by surgery and/or radiation therapy, metastatic disease cannot. Androgen ablation in this setting has long been recognized as effective, but tumors almost invariably relapse over time; unfortunately, outcome of patients with metastatic androge...

Meeting the Challenge of Diabetes in China

China’s estimated 114 million people with diabetes pose a massive challenge for China’s health policy-makers who have significantly extended health insurance coverage over the past decade. What China is doing now, what it has achieved, and what remains to be done should be of interest to health policy-makers, worldwide. We identify the challenges posed by China’s two pr...

Meeting report

Meeting Report

exhibited their new instruments in 1400 booths. Of the 900 papers presented at the conference, the following from the symposium on 'Process analysers' dealt with automated stream analysis for process control. Gibbon and Hackett [1] described the use of automated research-quality gas chromatographs to analyse the effluents from bench-scale coal gasification or liquefaction equipment. The high sp...