We are in the process of designing a series of apps for plugin electric vehicles (PEVs) with the goals of raising technology understanding and mitigating range anxiety. We targeted our apps at different moments in the user-car relationship: before, during and after driving. We are designing a study involving a number of PEV drivers to both assess their driving behavior over time, and to test ou...

The Indian Psychiatric Society has embarked upon the task of developing clinical practice guidelines (2003) which culminated in the development of draft proposals following a workshop (2004) at Jaipur which has already been published as a supplement for extensive interaction and review (2004). As a prelude to final acceptance and publication, it is pertinent to look back at the history , its cu...

The purpose of the National Institutes of Health research planning workshops is to assess the research status of clinically important areas. This article reports on a workshop whose meetings were held between May 1995 and November 1996 in Bethesda, Maryland, and Chicago, Illinois. Its specific purpose was to develop standardized and unambiguous definitions for fetal heart rate tracings. The rec...

Meson physics is a very broad field, and this workshop covers a very large part of it, with about 25 plenary and 50 parallel talks. I can not possible attempt to summarize all that. So, I will pick and choose from what was presented, a process which is admittedly very subjective, and add some new and interesting results which were not talked about. I will also update some results which have app...

The objective of the ILSI Europe Workshop held on 14–16 May 2003 in Rome was to look at the scientific information and knowledge related to nutrition in healthy children and adolescents in Europe. Its main purpose was to highlight and understand the discrepancies in dietary recommendations and intake between European countries. The workshop focused on children between 2 years of age and the end...

A report on the status of the development of picosecond photoconductive detectors is presented. The main application of these devices is the single-shot temporal measurement of picosecond X-ray, UV, and visible light pulses. We compare different materials, and describe the X-ray autocorrelator and the single-shot sampler developed in the LETI (Grenoble). Submitted to the 9th International Works...

The UK Food Standards Agency convened a group of expert scientists to review current research investigating factors affecting iron status and the bioavailability of dietary iron. Results presented at the workshop show menstrual blood loss to be the major determinant of body iron stores in premenopausal women. In the presence of abundant and varied food supplies, the health consequences of lower...

The present status of CP violation in decays of neutral kaons is reviewed. In addition selected : rare decays of both 1{ and B mesons are discussed. The emphasis is in particular on observable that can be reliably calculated and thus offer the possibility of clean tests of standard “ model flavor physics. Invited Talk presented at the Workshop on Heavy Quarks at Fixed Target, St. Gear, Germany,...

Recent neutrino oscillation experiments are yielding valuable information on the nature of neutrino masses and mixings even though we are far from a complete understanding of the new physics implied by them. In these lectures, I summarize the current theoretical status of neutrino mass physics. ∗Lectures delivered at the NEUPAST school at the Abdus Salam ICTP, Trieste in October, 2002; parts of...