Annual Short Course Research Articles

INCF Workshops on Needs for Training in Neuroinformatics: Extended and Short Course Provision

This report summarizes the outcomes of two workshops held in 2009 by INCF - in Pilsen on September 9 and in Edinburgh on October 26-27. In these two workshops, the issues arising in providing extended courses, such as a full time Masters, or short courses, of a few days or a few weeks, were discussed. There was a focus on how the INCF could facilitate training in these types of courses. Influencing the extended provision is a long term goal and requires knowledge of the whole range of skills that are to be acquired and how courses to satisfy these needs would fit in with existing provision. In Workshop 2, delegates concentrated on developing the list of subject areas where neuroinformatics training is needed, an exercise that was initiated in Workshop 1. It is hoped that this exercise can be carried forward as a community project. In Workshop 3, there was discussion on both the stumbling blocks encountered when design-ing and running short courses and what new short courses are required. This led to the view that there is a strong need for an organisation with a coordination function in neuroinformatics training, a role that INCF could adopt. Three ways in which INCF can be involved were identified, which led to specific recommendations on the coordination of existing material, validation of courses and funding of short training work-shops. In all cases the result would be the generation of significant web-based training material that can be used by INCF. Six recommendations were made from Workshops 2 and 3, to add to the seven from Workshop 1. The key recommendation from Workshop 3, reinforcing the key recommendation from Workshop 1, was that a small initiative be established by INCF to fund annual short courses in neuroinformatics.

Senior Lecture, Annual Short Course on Medical and Experimental Mammalian Genetics, Bar Harbor, Maine, 1968.

Senior Lecture, Annual Short Course on Medical and Experimental Mammalian Genetics, Bar Harbor, Maine, 1968.

SLS students build lifelong professional networks

Fifty students from 23 different countries gathered 17–18 October 2015 at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, for an educational and motivational weekend at the SEG/Chevron Student Leadership Symposium (SLS). Sponsored by Chevron, this annual SEG short course brings student leaders together for the weekend preceding the SEG Annual Meeting and International Exposition by providing travel, lodging, and registration.

Observed Variability in Tests of Fresh Concrete Properties from the FHWA Highway Materials Engineering Course

From 1990 to 2008 an integral component of the portland cement concrete module of the annual National Highway Institute Highway Materials Short Course was a series of independent and parallel evaluations of fresh and hardened properties for a single load of concrete. Up to six testing teams independently sampled concrete from the truck and tested the fresh concrete for temperature, slump, and air content by pressure and by volume meter. The experiment was repeated annually to demonstrate test procedures and the variability in test results for concrete from a single load. Results indicate the time dependency in both slump and apparent air content, the relationship between slump and apparent air content, and the difference between air content as indicated by the AASHTO T 152/ASTM C231 pressure air meter and the AASHTO T 196/ASTM C173 volumetric air meter.

RIT Munsell Color Science Laboratory offers annual industrial short course “Essentials of Color Science”

RIT Munsell Color Science Laboratory offers annual industrial short course “Essentials of Color Science”

RIT Munsell Color Science Laboratory offers annual industrial short course

RIT Munsell Color Science Laboratory offers annual industrial short course

32nd Annual Short Course on Advances in Emulsion Polymerization and Latex Technology, 4–8 June 2001, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA

Article 32nd Annual Short Course on Advances in Emulsion Polymerization and Latex Technology, 4–8 June 2001, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA was published on January 1, 2001 in the journal Chemistry International (volume 23, issue 1).

31st Annual Short Course on Advances in Emulsion Polymerization and Latex Technology, 5–9 June 2000, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA

31st Annual Short Course on Advances in Emulsion Polymerization and Latex Technology, 5–9 June 2000, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA

Enriched Education of Nordic-Baltic Plant Breeders

Education of plant breeders in the USA includes formal courses and a relevant thesis project. Similarly, plant breeding education and training of each new generation of students in the Nordic Region follows a format of courses, teacher‐student discussions, and field research with a dissertation. What is unique is how their program has been supplemented with annual short courses jointly supported by the Nordic countries. For the past 23 yr, graduate students and faculty from across the region have come together to share the latest perspectives and methods used to improve crop productivity, stability, and quality. The goals of the 1-wk courses have been (i) to explore current topics in plant breeding, (ii) to give graduate students an opportunity to present review papers on priority topics, (iii) to provide students access to current literature and to personally meet plant breeders working in priority areas, and (iv) to catalyze the formation of a network of plant breeders within the region. This paper describes the Nordic‐Baltic network courses in plant breeding, using a recent course in Jogeva, Estonia, as an example of this type of educational enrichment. The group represented 18 countries, reflecting the international trend in research and education in the region. We conclude that this annual workshop is a critical component of graduate education for the region, and the model could be used to foster learning and exchange in other regions with similar climate and soil resources. With limited faculty and research support, it is increasingly difficult in the USA to offer the range of needed courses and experiences to our current graduate students. The special topic courses used in the Nordic‐Baltic region offer one potential solution.

Taphonomic approaches to time resolution in fossil assemblages: Introduction

Since their inception in 1978, the annual short courses sponsored by the Paleontological Society have aimed to broaden and to enhance the professional education of paleontologists, including students new to the field. The 1993 short course continues in that tradition, but differs from many previous courses in focussing not on a taxonomic group but on a broader aspect of the fossil record, namely the time resolution of fossil assemblages. This seemed an especially good topic for a short course because questions of absolute and relative time – how old? how fast? how synchronously? – pervade paleontology and historical geology in general.

14th annual short course on fundamentals of grouting

14th annual short course on fundamentals of grouting

14th Annual short course on fundamentals of grouting

14th Annual short course on fundamentals of grouting

16th Annual short course on embankment dams soils, including safety of existing dams

16th Annual short course on embankment dams soils, including safety of existing dams

18th Annual short course on quality geotechnical lab testing

18th Annual short course on quality geotechnical lab testing

SENSORY QUALITY AND THE CONSUMER: VIEWPOINTS AND DIRECTIONS1

Journal of Sensory StudiesVolume 5, Issue 3 p. 203-209 SENSORY QUALITY AND THE CONSUMER: VIEWPOINTS AND DIRECTIONS1 DAVID. FISHKEN, DAVID. FISHKEN Sensory Resources 450 Washington Street Dedham, Massachusetts 02026Search for more papers by this author DAVID. FISHKEN, DAVID. FISHKEN Sensory Resources 450 Washington Street Dedham, Massachusetts 02026Search for more papers by this author First published: December 1990 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-459X.1990.tb00490.xCitations: 15 1 A Presentation To Citrus Processing Outlook, 30th Annual Short Course for the Food Industry, Institute of Food Technologists Florida Section, September 1990. AboutPDF 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 Volume5, Issue3December 1990Pages 203-209 RelatedInformation

SIAM 1990 Annual Meeting and Short Course 15–20 July 1990 Hyatt Regency Hotel, Chicago, IL

SIAM 1990 Annual Meeting and Short Course 15–20 July 1990 Hyatt Regency Hotel, Chicago, IL

Source Apparently As Important As Content of Some Genes

WHETHER MOM OR DAD was responsible for a patient's blue eyes may not matter, but the identity of the parent who passed on a defective gene may drastically affect the course of the resultant disease. That was the word from investigators who reported on the effects of genetic imprinting at the recent annual short course in medical and mammalian genetics in Bar Harbor, Maine. The course was sponsored by Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Md, and the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor. Genetic imprinting is defined as "the differential modification of parental contributions to the zygote, resulting in differential expression of information inherited from those parents." In other words, a gene inherited from the mother may be expressed differently from an identical gene inherited from the father. The imprinting paradigm is providing an explanation for many heretofore unexplained phenomena seen in both laboratory experiments and in clinical genetics. Said Judith

Announcement: 29th Annual Short Course in Medical and Experimental Mammallan Genetics

Clinical GeneticsVolume 33, Issue 4 p. 320-320 Announcement: 29th Annual Short Course in Medical and Experimental Mammallan Genetics First published: April 1988 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1399-0004.1988.tb03457.xAboutPDF 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 No abstract is available for this article. Volume33, Issue4April 1988Pages 320-320 RelatedInformation

25th Annual short summer course in x-ray spectrometry

25th Annual short summer course in x-ray spectrometry

Annual short course on surface science and technological applications

Annual short course on surface science and technological applications