Shall All International Congresses Be Held Abroad?

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...

What Should be Expected from Medical Congresses?

You Shall Be as Gods

the religious testaments and presentday statements on human personality. The schism is only partly due to the need for specialisation of knowledge, and even as late as the twelfth century Moses Maimonides, living in Spain and writing in Arabic, was physician, philosopher, mathematician, and biblical commentator. The ghettos in Central Europe, in contrast, were created in a culture which separat...

Dissonant Synapses Shall Be Punished

Synaptic activity in the neonatal brain is often locally synchronized. How such clustering comes about is unclear. Winnubst et al. (2015) show that the refinement of synaptic connectivity is driven by the depression of synapses that are asynchronous with their neighbors.

Shall We Stop All Unsolicited Email Messages?

Spam is commonly defined as unsolicited email messages, and the goal of spam filtering is to eliminate these messages. In this paper, we argue that not all unsolicited email messages are useless to recipients, and dropping all unsolicited messages is not optimal for either the recipient or the sender. Increasing the sender’s cost (with stamps, puzzles or tarpits) has been another approach aimed...