Records of The Annual Meeting of The Mammal Society of Japan under COVID-19 pandemic: briefing

Birth Defects Research Part B: Developmental and Reproductive ToxicologyVolume 68, Issue 3 p. 277-287 ProgramFree Access 27th Annual Meeting of the Neurobehavioral Teratology Society (NBTS) & 22nd Annual Meeting of the Behavioral Toxicology Society (BTS) in conjunction with the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Teratology Society First published: 13 May 2003 https://doi.org/10.1002/bdrb.10025AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Volume68, Issue3Special Issue: 43rd Annual Meeting of the Teratology Society, 27th Annual Meeting of the Neurobehavioral Teratology Society, 22nd Annual Meeting of the Behavioral Teratology Society, 16th International Conference of the Organization of Teratology Information ServicesJune 2003Pages 277-287 RelatedInformation

Schunn, Crowley, and Okada (this issue) have documented a situation that naturally concerns all of us, the extent to which the journal Cognitive Science and the annual meetings of the Cognitive Science Society represent the multidisciplinary breadth of the field of cognitive science. As editors of the Society’s journal, organizers of the 1998 meeting of the Society, and members of the committee of the Cognitive Governing Board who are participating in organizing the annual meeting, we agree that the multidisciplinary character of the journal and Society meetings is crucial for the Society’s value to the scientific community—indeed, is its reason for being. We are committed to a policy of including the strongest representation of all of the disciplines of cognitive science in the journal and the Society meetings that we can achieve. Of course, we are not the people who primarily shape the representation of disciplines in the journal and Society meetings. This representativeness is due mainly to the decisions of scientists in their choices of journals and meetings to which they submit their research papers. In our selections of papers for publication and presentation, we consider multidisciplinary representation as a major factor, and of course we are committed to publishing papers that make significant scientific contributions of importance to the multidisciplinary field of cognitive science. We will continue actively to encourage greater multidisciplinarity in the journal and meetings of the Cognitive Science Society. At the 1997 Society meeting, a new format was initiated on a trial basis for the purpose of increasing the representation of researchers working on topics that have not been strongly represented. This format was promising, and it will be used, along with other means, to continue the effort to broaden disciplinary representation at future meetings. The editors of Cognitive Science continuously seek ways to encourage submission of papers from disciplines that have been represented less strongly than others and to give disciplinary representation appropriate consideration in selecting manuscripts for publication.

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Fate of Abstracts Presented at Annual Meetings of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons from 2015 to 2019

In spite of efforts to improve gender diversity in orthopaedic surgery, women remain underrepresented, particularly with increasing academic rank. Opportunities to speak at society meetings are an important component of building a national reputation and achieving academic promotions. However, little is known about the gender diversity of orthopaedic society annual meeting speakers. Data on this topic are needed to determine whether these speaking roles are equitably distributed between men and women, which is fundamental to equalizing professional opportunity in academic orthopaedic surgery. QUESTION/PURPOSES: (1) Is the gender diversity of invited speakers at annual orthopaedic subspecialty society meetings proportional to society membership? (2) Are there differences in the proportion of women invited to speak in technical sessions (defined as sessions on surgical outcomes, surgical technique, nonsurgical musculoskeletal care, or basic science) versus nontechnical sessions (such as sessions on diversity, work-life balance, work environment, social media, education, or peer relationships)? (3) Does the presence of women on the society executive committee and annual meeting program committee correlate with the gender diversity of invited speakers? (4) Do societies with explicit diversity efforts (the presence of a committee, task force, award, or grant designed to promote diversity, or mention of diversity as part of the organization's mission statement) have greater gender diversity in their invited speakers? Seventeen national orthopaedic societies in the United States were included in this cross-sectional study of speakership in 2018. Each society provided the number of men and women members for their society in 2018. The genders of all invited speakers were tabulated using each society's 2018 annual meeting program. Speakers of all credentials and degrees were included. All manuscript/abstract presenters were excluded from all analyses because these sessions are selected by blinded scientific review. A Fisher's exact test was used to compare the proportion of women versus men in nontechnical speaking roles. The relationship between women in society leadership roles and women in all speaking roles was investigated using a linear regression analysis. A chi square test was used to compare the proportion of women in all speaking roles between societies with stated diversity efforts with societies without such initiatives. Overall, women society members were proportionately represented as annual meeting speakers, comprising 13% (4389 of 33,051) of all society members and 14% (535 of 3928) of all annual meeting speakers (% difference 0.6% [95% CI -0.8 to 1.5]; p = 0.60); however, representation of women speakers ranged from 0% to 33% across societies. Women were more likely than men to have nontechnical speaking roles, with 6% (32 of 535) of women's speaking roles being nontechnical, compared with 2% (51 of 3393) of men's speaking roles being nontechnical (OR 4.2 [95% CI 2.7 to 6.5]; p < 0.001). There was a positive correlation between the proportion of women in society leadership roles and the proportion of women in speaking roles (r = 0.73; p < 0.001). Societies with a stated diversity effort had more women as conference speakers; with 19% (375 of 1997) women speakers for societies with a diversity effort compared with 8% (160 of 1931) women speakers in societies without a diversity effort (OR 2.6 [95% CI 2.1 to 3.1]; p < 0.001). Although the percentage of women in speaking roles was proportional to society membership overall, our study identified opportunities to improve gender representation in several societies and in technical versus nontechnical sessions. Positioning more women in leadership roles and developing stated diversity efforts are two interventions that may help societies improve proportional representation; we recommend that all societies monitor the gender representation of speakers at their annual meetings and direct conference organizing committees to create programs with gender equity. Society leadership, national oversight committees, invited speakers, and conference attendees all contribute to the layers of accountability for equitable speakership at annual meetings. National steering committees such as the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Diversity Advisory Board should monitor and report conference speaker diversity data to create systemwide accountability. Conference attendees and speakers should critically examine conference programs and raise concerns if they notice inequities. With these additional layers of accountability, orthopaedic surgery annual meetings may become more representative of their society members.

Venue: Osaka International Convention centor (Osaka)Date: 15–16 October 2007President: Professor Yoshio Morita(Department of Psychiatry, Hyogo College of Medicine)The 22nd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Psychogeriatric Society (JPS) was held in Osaka under Professor Yoshio Morita (Department of Psychiatry, Hyogo College of Medicine). This Meeting was co‐organized with the 13th Congress of International Psychogeriatric Association chaired by Professor Masatoshi Takeda (Department of Psychiatry, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine) and the 26th Meeting of the Japanese Society for Dementia Research chaired by Professor Akira Honma (Depaartment of Dementia Intervention, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology). The total program included eight plenary lectures, 38 symposia and approximately 700 oral and poster presentations. The JPS program had two symposia and four educational lectures. More than 2000 participants had the opportunity to discuss multidisciplinary and comprehensive strategies for the mental health of the elderly. Mutual understanding of the recent situation of dementia care all over the world and the progress of dementia research was facilitated by this meeting.In the JPS program, Symposium I entitled “Behavioral and psychological symptoms with dementia and its related problems”, was chaired by Professor Takashi Asada (Tsukuba University), and serious problems induced by demented patients were reviewed and discussed. Symposium II entitled “Mood disorder in late life”, was chaired by Professor Kiyoshi Maeda (Kobe University), and its causes and risk factors were reviewed and points of pharmacotherapy to notice were discussed.The next annual meeting will be held on 27–28 June 2008 in Kobe and will be chaired by Professor Kiyoshi Maeda (Department of Psychiatry, Kobe University).

Venue: Toshi Center Hotel (Tokyo)Date: 30 June–1 July 2006President: Professor Hiroo Kasahara (Department of Psychiatry, Jikei University School of Medicine, Kashiwa Hospital)Thema: Achievements in psychogeriatrics and its challenges in the near futureThe 21st Annual Meeting of the Japanese Psychogeriatric Society was held in Tokyo. The program included two special lectures, three symposiums, four educational lectures, 87 oral presentations, and 44 poster presentations.In the special Lecture I entitled ‘Mild cognitive impairment: update 2006’, Professor Ronald C. Petersen presented the recent understanding of MCI not only for midstream of Alzheimer disease, but also for midstream of frontotemporal dementia or Lewy body disease. In the special Lecture II entitled ‘Adaptation depression and late life: an integrated view’, Professor Joel Sadavoy demonstrated the importance of depression in late life. Symposium I: ‘Review of 100 years of studies on Alzheimer disease and further challenges” was chaired by Professor Masaaki Matsushita and Professor Masatoshi Takeda; Symposium II: “Field study of MCI in our country” was chaired by Professor Akira Hommma and Professor Yoshio Morita; Symposium III: “Biological treatment and non‐biological intervention for dementia” was chaired by Professor Haruo Kashima and Professor Ryo Fukatsu. All three symposiums were fruitful with exciting discussions by the active audience.The next annual meeting will be held 14–18 October 2007 in Osaka, under Professor Yoshio Morita (Department of Psychiatry, Hyogo Medical School) and will be co‐organized with the 13th Congress of International Psychogeriatric Association chaired by Professor Masatoshi Takeda (Department of Psychiatry, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine) and the 26th Meeting of Japanese Society for Dementia Research chaired by Professor Akira Honma (Department of Dementia Intervention, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology).

The 63rd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Respiratory Society (JRS) was held in Tokyo on 28–30 April 2023. To reduce the risk of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection, the meeting was held in a hybrid format, with approximately 1200 registered abstracts and more than 9700 participants attending the meeting. Many more local participants attended compared with the previous year, encouraged by the Japanese government's decision to downgrade the status of COVID-19 infection from category three to category five in May 2023. Participants were able to attend lectures regarding the latest findings from various fields, including basic research and clinical research, in accord with the conference theme, ‘Future of pulmonology pioneered by the fusion of knowledge’. Participants actively engaged in a face-to-face question-and-answer session after the lecture, and the venue was full of enthusiasm. I presented in two oral sessions and one poster presentation. It was a stimulating experience, and I exchanged ideas with many researchers and received helpful tips for my research. As editor-in-chief of Respirology Case Reports, the official case reports journal of the Asian Pacific Society of Respirology (APSR), I also took part in promotional activities at the APSR booth, informing participants that JRS members received 50% off the article publication charge for Respirology Case Reports and encouraging them to submit articles. After the conference, young respiratory physicians involved in allergy research across Japan gathered for dinner together. The group is named Kinkira-kai, meaning shining and sparkling. Around 30 researchers participated, talking about their daily practice and research over beer and wine. Some researchers discussed potential collaborations and decided to undertake joint research. The COVID-19 outbreak is now largely behind us, and we were able to hold a large gathering for the first time in 3 years. We have pledged to meet again at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Allergology in October 2023. It will be exciting to see how the membership of this group grows in the next 5 or 10 years. Unfortunately, the number of foreign participants at the Annual Meeting of JRS was still limited. We expect that the influence of COVID-19 on the conference will disappear over time, and that next year's Annual Meeting in Yokohama will attract many participants from Japan and abroad. I am writing this column while watching the on-demand streaming of the meeting. I hope that this excellent on-demand system will continue after the COVID-19 pandemic has subsided. None declared.

Abstracts of the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Bone Metabolism Research

In our last IUPS editorial ([1][1]), we promised to report on the outcome of the IUPS Council and International Scientific Program Committee (ISPC) meetings held in December 2007 in Kyoto. Here we shall first describe the progress with regard to the generation of the scientific program for the 2009

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The Journal of ProtozoologyVolume 37, Issue 6 p. 593-604 The Dance of Electrons Entices Protists to Reveal Their Innermost Secrets JEROME J. PAULIN, Corresponding Author JEROME J. PAULIN The Department of Zoology and The Center for Advanced Ultrastructural Research The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia USAPast-President's address delivered at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Society of Protozoologists, 28 June 1990, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA. The micrographs illustrated are essentially unpublished, some are in short papers such as the proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Electron Microscopy Society of America or Scanning Electron Microscopy, Inc.Search for more papers by this author JEROME J. PAULIN, Corresponding Author JEROME J. PAULIN The Department of Zoology and The Center for Advanced Ultrastructural Research The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia USAPast-President's address delivered at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Society of Protozoologists, 28 June 1990, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA. The micrographs illustrated are essentially unpublished, some are in short papers such as the proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Electron Microscopy Society of America or Scanning Electron Microscopy, Inc.Search for more papers by this author First published: November 1990 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1550-7408.1990.tb01271.xCitations: 1AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume37, Issue6November 1990Pages 593-604 RelatedInformation

58th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Teratology Society: Congenital anomalies as variants

The 10th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Pharmaceutical Palliative Care and Sciences was held at Act City Hamamatsu, Japan, with a total of 2634 participants in attendance. The theme of the meeting was realized through a number of new concepts, such as a debate symposium, information sessions, nurses' workshops, and so on. The results obtained from the participation questionnaire (n=438), which were aggregated up to 1 month following the end of this year's meeting, revealed that 89% of the participants at considered it to have been appealing. In particular, 63% of the participants favored the adoption of a debate symposium whereby it was possible to ask and respond to questions in real time. In the free comments section of the questionnaire, the participants expressed how they felt the debate symposium made it easy to give their opinions, and that this element might be further developed in the future. They also stated that they found the introduction of the Clica system effective in terms of making the annual meeting an active learning place. One issue that was highlighted concerned the observation that the hall used to host the symposium was designed as a concert venue, which meant it was highly shielded from the outside environment, in addition to access to the internet being blocked. I hope that many of the projects from this Annual Meeting will serve to guide the future style of the Society's Annual Meetings.

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