Ed. note: With the increasing recognition of the value of nature to human health and wellbeing, Parks Victoria will host the first International Healthy Parks Healthy People Congress in 2010. The aim of the congress is to raise awareness of recent research, highlight case studies, and facilitate discussion regarding the advantages of, and opportunities for, future collaboration. The congress wi...

World Congress on Mental Health, 1948 In response to many requests, and after consultation with the International Committee for Mental Hygiene (U.S.A.) and Mental Hygiene Councils in America, Canada and Europe, the Provisional National Council for Mental Health are proposing to arrange a World Congress on Mental Health to be held in London from August 5th-14th, 1948. This will be the third Worl...

Inventory management is an important part of production planning process for enterprises. Decisions for strategies to determine when and how many to buy or make can be made by classifying the inventory items based on their sorts. In this evaluation, ABC inventory classification is one of the most commonly used approaches. In this study, a fuzzy analytic network process approach was proposed to ...

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A defining feature of the modern U.S. Senate is obstruction. Almost all pieces of legislation considered in the Senate are affected either directly or indirectly by obstruction. Obstruction takes many forms in the modern Senate, but one of the most prevalent, yet least studied is the hold. Using a newly created dataset on Republican Senate holds from the 99th through 104th Congresses we cast li...

Template methods have opened up a new way of building C++ libraries. These methods allow the libraries to combine the seemingly contradictory qualities of ease of use and uncompromising e ciency. However, libraries that use these methods are notoriously di cult to develop. This article examines the bene ts reaped and the di culties encountered in using these methods to create a friendly, high p...

A great number of abstracts has been submitted and the Paper Selection Committee, chaired by Dr. Peter Stenvinkel, has worked hard to choose the best abstracts for presentation as oral communications or posters. Compared with previous ERA-EDTA congresses, the number of oral communications will be increased; furthermore morning and afternoon poster sessions will take place without any other para...

The 3rd Annual EULAR Congress, held in Stockholm on 12-15 June 2002, had a turnout of 8300 delegates, almost identical to last year's record attendance level in Prague. The venue was close to ideal, allowing ample space for poster sessions in the exhibition hall. The manned poster sessions were well attended, even on the last day of the Congress. The numerous invited speakers represented the wo...

THE Seventh British Congress on the History of Medicine will be held in Churchill College, Cambridge, from 10-13 September 1969. This will be the third residential congress in the series, and those who attended the sixth congress in the University of Sussex in September 1967 will recall how successful and enjoyable that meeting was. The subject chosen for the Congress theme is an important one,...

THE Seventh British Congress on the History of Medicine will be held in Churchill College, Cambridge, from 10-13 September 1969. This will be the third residential congress in the series, and those who attended the sixth congress in the University of Sussex in September 1967 will recall how successful and enjoyable that meeting was. The subject chosen for the Congress theme is an important one,...