Social History Conference

Business History and Europe Conference

In this article this dialectical approach is adopted in re-analysing of four European case studies. They are (i) the alliance of Rover and Honda (UK), which involved contrasting political and cultural value priorities; (ii) the drug donation programs of the German company Boehringer-Ingelheim, which can be interpreted from different commercial and ethical perspectives; (iii) the experiences of ...

Social Neuroendocrinology Pre - Conference

Message Understanding Conference- 6: A Brief History

We have recently completed the sixth in a series of "Message Understanding Conferences" which are designed to promote and evaluate research in information extraction. MUC-6 introduced several innovations over prior MUCs, most notably in the range of different tasks for which evaluations were conducted. We describe some of the motivations for the new format and briefly discuss some of the result...

Conference Navigator 3: An online social conference support system

In this poster we introduce Conference Navigator 3, an online social system that helps conference attendees in selecting the talks most relevant to their interests, and it also supports them in exploring and building their research contacts’ network. In particular, we show how some features that we have progressively incorporated in different conferences have significantly increased user partic...

Rethinking the social history.

R has established that social environments affect human health.1 Acknowledged social determinants of health — including racial or ethnic background, occupation, and the use of alcohol and tobacco2 — also influence the effectiveness of health care delivery.3 But other social factors, such as the ability to afford medications, access to transportation, available time, and competing priorities, ma...