emphasisedl the difficulties which hadl to be met in producinig such a report. Ihc recommen(latioins of the Royal College of Obstetricians and(l Gyvncologists had been a help in this respect. anld tilc report tolloWe(l thc plal suggested by their committee. The speaker sumnmiiarised the mainl features ol the} report, and compared them wvith similar reports fromii teni other hospitals in Great 1...

Requirements engineering is communication intensive. It requires the collaboration of many stakeholders representing different positions. The early stages of requirements are characterized by many informal interactions, often face-to-face, whose aim is to clarify, brainstorm, or negotiate requirements. Misunderstandings and mistakes introduced during requirements are costly, as they impact all ...

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u 20 and 21 Magna Græcia AORtic Interventional Project® (MAORI) 5th Symposium Complex Diseases of Thoracic and Thoraco-Abdominal Aorta Catanzaro, Italy Informations: Prof.Pasquale Phone: +39 09613695851 E-mail: [email protected] Site: maori.unicz.it/ u 21 to 24 WTSA 43rd Annual Meeting Colorado Springs, United States Informations: Heather Nutter E-mail: [email protected] Site: meetin...

Group meetings are frequent business events aimed to develop and conduct project work, such as Big Room design and construction project meetings. To be effective in these meetings, participants need to have an engaged mental state. The mental state of participants however, is hidden from other participants, and thereby difficult to evaluate. Mental state is understood as an inner process of thi...

Do 1. Emphasize that the meeting quality belongs to everyone 2. Have clear meeting objectives (e.g., share info, make a decision) 3. Insist on meeting discipline 4. Stay on topic 5. Define the meeting process 6. Offer creative solutions 7. Let others lead the discussion at times 8. Define & uphold shared values 9. Be open, humble, vulnerable 10. Be "present," engaged 11. Listen deeply 12. Recog...

How many teams meetings do you go to regularly? If you give a quick answer you may say one or two, but if you stop to count them up you may be surprised at the number. They may include meetings involved with clinical service, training, audit, management and several other aspects of your work. When I worked as a full time general practitioner, for example, I belonged to a partnership, a medical ...

We present the results of two trials testing procedures for the annotation of emotion and mental state of the AMI corpus. The first procedure is an adaptation of the FeelTrace method, focusing on a continuous labelling of emotion dimensions. The second method is centered around more discrete labeling of segments using categorical labels. The results reported are promising for this hard task.

In this report we will discuss implications for researchers of variability in estrogenic activity in animal feed and provide examples of a number of end points that are sensitive to estrogenic components in rodent diets. Importantly, we will report how research is impacted by variability in estrogenic components in soy-based and casein-based diets. We also describe control procedures to address...