Honorable chief guest, guests of honor, distinguished dignitaries on the dias, guest speakers, delegates from India and abroad, respected teachers, past presidents of IAP, members of APSSEAR, MCI, WHO, UNICEF, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, organizers of the 8th Asian Congress of Pediatrics and XXXI National Conference of IAP, fellow delegates, media persons, friends, ladies and gentlemen.

On the eve of World War I, western peripheries Russian Empire were home to diasporas officials, military men and their families. Being isolated from local communities but at same time highly hierarchically organised, they functioned solely within own circle. Everyone knew one another most intimate detail. Nevertheless, private lives often failed meet requirements imposed on officials residing i...

The conference started with musical audio on Dhanvantari Archana prepared by Dr. Shrikant Wagh and enchanting Ayats from Holy Quran were read. Dr. Mandar Bedekar was the master of ceremony of the inaugural function. Dato Dr. Lim, President and CEO DXN Company (Malaysia) inaugurated the conference. Other dignitaries present were President of the conference Dr. Jose Rugue of Sao Paulo, Brazil, Gu...

The second part of this paper is dedicated to the ktetor portraits church dignitaries in Serbian Post-Byzantine painting. It focuses on monastic (hegoumenoi, hieromonks and monks), their vestments, discussing state communities during sixteenth seventeenth centuries introduction. concluding remarks summarise placement ktetorial portraits, corporal rhetoric (proskynesis), insignia, haloes portrai...

The paper aims to elucidate the place and role, i.e., real power of functionaries lower-ranking units in Byzantine theme system. Their status bureaucratic aristocratic society was essentially determined by honorary dignities their commanding staff, which accompanied precisely defined powers army administration. Military or, more specifically, access military resources, were one main factors pro...

Abstract This article addresses the beginnings of twinning relationship between Coventry and Kiel to introduce exemplify idea ‘urban internationalism’ as a new lens onto urban histories town initiatives contribution historiography British twinning. Focusing on paradiplomatic by municipal officials, religious dignitaries other citizens in Kiel, examines role that cities played British–German rec...

Spatiotemporal social network analysis can show relationships among people at a particular time and location. This paper presents an algorithm that mines text for person and location words and creates connections among words. It shows how this algorithm output, when chunked by time intervals, may be visualized by third-party social network analysis software in the form of standard network pin d...