In the early months of 1995 Luciano Merlini and I flirted with the idea of forming a new muscle society. There was a general feeling within the neuromuscular fraternity that the 4-yearly muscle congresses organised by the World Federation of Neurology, were too large and too expensive. In addition the whole field was advancing at such a rapid rate that the 4-year interval between meetings was m...

The Legislating for the Future Project is an initiative of New York University’s John Brademas Center for the Study of Congress and the Organizational Performance Initiative, and is co-sponsored by the Brookings Institution and the RAND Corporation. The project will examine the capacity of Congress to address long-term problems facing the nation, probe the public’s attitudes towards Congress’ a...

Among multiple legal challenges to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) is the premise that PPACA's "individual mandate" (requiring all individuals to obtain health insurance by 2014 or face civil penalties) is inviolate of Congress' interstate commerce powers because Congress lacks the power to regulate commercial "inactivity." Several courts initially considering this argume...

In this paper we present imss: IP Multicast Shortcut Service for ATM networks. imss pursues the \short-cut" routing paradigm in order to exploit the underlying ATM QoS and native routing mechanisms in the optimal way. imss is built on top of congress (CONnection oriented Group-address RESolution Service). Congress is an eecient native ATM protocol for resolution and management of multicast grou...

We are very proud to announce that 12th Asian Australasian Federation of Interventional and Therapeutic Neuroradiology (AAFITN 2016) has been successfully held on March 23rd 25th, 2016 at Bali Nusa Dua Convention Center (BNDCC2) BALI, Indonesia in conjunctions with: 5th Annual Scientific Meeting Indonesian Society of Interventional Radiology, with the theme “Current Updates and Complication Man...

Since its opening four years ago, the Lied Library has experienced many challenges, mostly driven by dramatic changes at UNLV. Specifically, new strategic initiatives and tremendous growth of the university’s student population have resulted in an increased number of new academic programs and degrees. These new academic programs have had a significant effect on Lied Library, impacting several a...

Talking about helping others makes a person seem warm and leads to social approval. This work examines the real world consequences of this basic, social-cognitive phenomenon by examining whether record-low levels of public approval of the US Congress may, in part, be a product of declining use of prosocial language during Congressional debates. A text analysis of all 124 million words spoken in...

s of E-Poster Presentations. The electronic posters will be available for viewing in the computer room at the congress and will be provided on the congress DVD.