Association International Conference Research Articles

Scientific Program Committee

Alzheimer's & DementiaVolume 8, Issue 4S_Part_1 p. A1-A1 Frontmatter Scientific Program Committee First published: 01 July 2012 https://doi.org/10.1016/S1552-5260(12)02268-6Read the full textAboutPDF 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 No abstract is available for this article. Volume8, Issue4S_Part_1Alzheimer 's Association International Conference 2012July 2012Pages A1-A1 RelatedInformation

Alzheimer's Association International Conference 2012, Vancouver, Canada - July 14-19, 2012

Alzheimer's Association International Conference 2012, Vancouver, Canada - July 14-19, 2012

Alzheimer's Association International Conference 2012, Vancouver, Canada - July 14-19, 2012

Alzheimer's Association International Conference 2012, Vancouver, Canada - July 14-19, 2012

Reflections on the Proposed Ndebele–Shona/Shona–Ndebele Dictionary

This article was presented as a paper at the Eighth International Conference of the African Association for Lexicography, organised by the Department of Germanic and Romance Languages, University of Namibia, Windhoek, Namibia, 7–9 July 2003.

Falls in Elderly May Predict Alzheimer's

Falls in Elderly May Predict Alzheimer's

Alzheimer's Association International Conference (July 16-21, 2011, Paris, France)

Alzheimer's Association International Conference (July 16-21, 2011, Paris, France)

Alzheimer's Association International Conference (July 16-21, 2011, Paris, France)

Alzheimer's Association International Conference (July 16-21, 2011, Paris, France)

A report from the 2011 Alzheimer´s Association International Conference (July 16-21 - Paris, France)

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is indeed a source of sadness weighing on all those who after sharing a full life now depend on each other for the most basic functions. Nevertheless, besides the dramatic impact it imposes on the life of sufferers and their caregivers, AD, as well as other forms of dementia that affect the elderly, but also younger patients, also incurs in substantial healthcare costs for patients, their families and others, including society at large. The progressive aging of the population largely depending on improved preventive and curative healthcare is progressively worsening the situation because of the increasing number of elderly people and the consequent increase in dementia sufferers. Effective and cost-effective treatments are thus required for reversing, improving or preventing these cognitive impairments. Fortunately, research has resulted in therapeutic opportunities that were reviewed during the 2011 Alzheimer's Association International Conference (AAIC) in Paris, and will be briefly reviewed in the following report.

ICAD 2010: detection may hold the key to treatment

The Alzheimer’s Association International Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease was held on July 10–15 in Honolulu (HI, USA). Over 3800 attendees participated, attending sessions that included more than 1700 posters and 200 oral presentations. The meeting, first organized in 1988 by Khalid Iqbal and Bengt Winblad, became an annual event in 2009, and under the current design includes not only well-established themes of interest, but investigator-initiated sessions also. The Alzheimer’s Association started managing the conference in 2000 in partnership with the founders, and abstracts for the meeting are published in the association’s journal, Alzheimer’s & Dementia. Key themes of this year’s conference included validation of biomarkers, drug development, the value of screening for cognitive loss and dementia and the proposal of a new criteria for Alzheimer’s disease.

Book of Abstracts - Sixteenth International Conference of the Inflammation Research Association, Sunday, September 26 – Wednesday, September 29, 2010 Westfields Marriott, Chantilly, VA, USA

Book of Abstracts - Sixteenth International Conference of the Inflammation Research Association, Sunday, September 26 – Wednesday, September 29, 2010 Westfields Marriott, Chantilly, VA, USA

Keyword Index

Alzheimer's & DementiaVolume 6, Issue 4S_Part_1 p. S637-S647 Keyword Index Keyword Index First published: 01 July 2010 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jalz.2010.05.001Read the full textAboutPDF 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 Volume6, Issue4S_Part_1Alzheimer's Association International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease 2010July 2010Pages S637-S647 RelatedInformation

Exploring pupils’ beliefs about designers and designing

The purpose of this paper is to report on an investigation into pupil beliefs about designers and designing conducted as part of a research project focussing on Designerly Activity in Secondary Design and Technology which builds upon a pilot study (Barlex and Trebell in Int J Technol Design Educ, 2007). Four research questions drove this element of the study: (a) What do pupils believe designers do? (b) What do pupils believe about the knowledge and skills designers must possess? (c) What do pupils believe designers are like? (d) What do pupils believe about the design decisions made by the designer of a given product? This paper compliments the work of Welch et al. (Designing the future: The design and technology association international research conference 2006, University of Wolverhampton, Telford, 2006) relating to student beliefs about designers and designing by drawing on some elements of the research design to inform this study. Pupil responses to questions relating to the role of the designer, what designers are like and what designers need to know are in line with the findings of Welch et al. (Designing the future: The design and technology association international research conference 2006, University of Wolverhampton, Telford, 2006) in their study of elementary students beliefs about designers and designing with both studies concluding that the qualities ascribed to the designer are positive and non-stereotypical—they can be young or old, female or male.

Indian Library Association International Conference 2008: a report

Indian Library Association International Conference 2008: a report

Introduction

The idea for this special issue, exploring the history of cities and urbanism within the emerging transnational paradigm, originated in a discussion among the members of the North American Editorial Board ofUrban Historyabout what it means for cities to be global. Veering in many directions, spanning multiple centuries and stretching into much of the world, the conversation touched on the movement of people and ideas, the relationship of urban areas with their hinterlands and with each other, the importance of given technologies and industries for particular forms of urban development, the critical role of politics – at all levels – in that development and the ongoing and evolving role of global capital on those cities. Using the global Internet, members of the North American Editorial Board located in Montreal (Michèle Dagenais), Rochester (Victoria Wolcott), Irvine (Jeffrey Wasserstrom), Philadelphia (Lynn Hollen Lees), Miami (Robin Bachin), Mexico City (Hira de Gortari Rabiela), Hamilton (Richard Harris), Los Angeles (Philip Ethington and Janice Reiff), Amherst (Max Page) and Ann Arbor (Matthew Lassiter) generated a plan to issue a global call for papers for the IXth International Conference of the European Association for Urban History in Lyon, France in August of 2008. Nine scholars from Canada, the United States, France and Mexico pre-circulated their papers for a special bilingual double-long session, co-chaired by Michèle Dagenais and Phil Ethington.

Editor's Memo

A few years after I began to work in the field of PH with my mentor, Dr. Bruce Brundage, I missed what would have been my 1st International PHA conference in 1998: my son was born 2 days before the meeting started. At the time I did not know what I would be missing. At the following PHA conference, I found out what all the fuss was about. In 2000, over 700 patients, caregivers, practitioners and researchers converged on a sold-out hotel in suburban Chicago, and everyone poured their hearts (and minds) out to better the PH community. Children wearing backpacks with IV pumps inside, patients parading on stage showing off the latest pump-concealing fashions, and PH experts volunteering their time and expense to inform, teach and learn about PH were among the many highlights of that and each subsequent meeting I attended. To say that the biennial International Conferences and Scientific Sessions of the Pulmonary Hypertension Association are one of the most emotionally draining yet inspirational and uplifting events in the lives of anyone involved in PH would be a major understatement. This issue's coverage of the most recent PHA meeting, the 8th International Conference and Scientific Sessions of the Pulmonary Hyper-tension Association thus holds a special place in my heart. Dr. Karen Fagan, Guest Editor of this issue and Chair of the PHA Scientific Sessions held in Houston last June, did a fantastic job putting together an entire issue devoted to the Conference, in which over 1100 people from 17 different countries attended. From original scientific contributions to an expert Roundtable, all focused on the Scientific Sessions, plus an international commentary on PH and connective tissue disease issues covered in the last Summer issue of Advances, I am sure you too will learn and hopefully be inspired to attend the next International Conference.

New spatial econometric techniques and applications in regional science

The papers appearing in this special issue of Papers in Regional Science, which is devoted to spatial econometrics, come from the First International Conference of the Spatial Econometrics Association held in Cambridge (UK) 12-14 July 2008. This conference was the first official meeting of the new association, which was established in May 2006 in Rome and which has already attracted more than 150 members from around the world. At the Cambridge conference there were close to 120 delegates and more than 100 papers were presented. With regard to the eight papers appearing in this special issue, we would particularly like to thank the authors and the referees for their contribution to what we believe is an interesting and lively selection. Recent years have seen a real explosion in the application of spatial statistical models in all branches of social sciences and in particular in economics. Spatial econometrics models have been used to analyse different topics (see for example Anselin et al. 2004 for a review) and as a matter of fact spatial regression techniques are now becoming an established component in the applied econometrics toolbox, as witnessed by the increasing attention given to this topic in standard econometrics textbooks (Maddala 2001; Woolridge 2002; Gujarati 2003; Kennedy 2003; Baltagi 2008).

Author Index

Alzheimer's & DementiaVolume 4, Issue 4S_Part_24 p. T795-T861 Article Author Index First published: 01 July 2008 https://doi.org/10.1016/S1552-5260(08)02680-0AboutPDF 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 Volume4, Issue4S_Part_24Alzheimer's Association International Conference on Alzheimer's DiseaseJuly 2008Pages T795-T861 RelatedInformation

Uncovering Southeast Asia's Past: Selected Papers from the 10th International Conference of the European Association of Southeast Asian Archaeologists edited by Elisabeth A. Bacus, Ian C. Glover, and Vincent C. Pigott

American AnthropologistVolume 110, Issue 1 p. 84-85 Uncovering Southeast Asia's Past: Selected Papers from the 10th International Conference of the European Association of Southeast Asian Archaeologists edited by Elisabeth A. Bacus, Ian C. Glover, and Vincent C. Pigott DOUGLAS D. ANDERSON, DOUGLAS D. ANDERSON Brown UniversitySearch for more papers by this author DOUGLAS D. ANDERSON, DOUGLAS D. ANDERSON Brown UniversitySearch for more papers by this author First published: 29 April 2008 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1433.2008.00018_5.xRead the full textAboutPDF ToolsExport 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 Volume110, Issue1March 2008Pages 84-85 RelatedInformation

Highlighting Current and Future Perspectives in the Journal

The recent increase in awareness and recognition of pulmonary hypertension is in part related to the efforts of Rheumatologists who are now screening many of their patients for this deadly disease. This issue, guest edited by Dr Kristin Highland, focuses on the spectrum of connective tissue diseases and their relation to pulmonary hypertension. While there is still much to learn about how and why patients with connective tissue diseases develop pulmonary hypertension, the benefits of treatment for many of these patients are apparent. This issue also spotlights rheumatologist, Dr Virginia Steen, whose efforts in the world of pulmonary hypertension, particularly on screening and early diagnosis, are close to my heart. For our new International Corner, Dr Nick Morrell provides commentary on combination therapy issues covered in the previous issue of Advances, with an international perspective.I am pleased to preview important content to be published in Advances in Pulmonary Hypertension in the next 2 issues. The journal will be focusing on 2 meetings held earlier this year that provided relevant and timely updates on pulmonary hypertension. First, physicians who were unable to attend the World Health Organization 4th World Symposium on Pulmonary Hypertension will be pleased to see the next issue and its comprehensive discussion of key findings from this meeting. Among the topics to be covered are: current perspectives on pathophysiology, diagnosis and assessment of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), interventional and surgical modalities, endpoints and clinical trial design in PAH, as well as inflammation, growth factors, and pulmonary vascular remodeling.In the following issue, the journal will feature content from another important meeting, this year's 8th International Conference and Scientific Sessions of the Pulmonary Hypertension Association. The information from this meeting will be gleaned from physicians who led the sessions and who are among the leading investigators in the field. We look forward to providing articles on these important issues and welcome your feedback. Please send your comments and suggestions to our executive editor at Stulink@aol.com.

SOME REFLECTIONS ON ANCIENT ISLAMIC TOMBSTONES KNOWN AS BATU ACEH IN THE MALAY WORLD1

Among ancient Islamic tombstones in the Malay world, the style known as batu Aceh is an unique source for the regional history of Islam because of its sophistication and wide distribution, from southern Thailand to south Sulawesi, as well as the richness of its epigraphical data. Systematic studies initiated a century ago have yielded several typologies, including one by the author based on five basic shapes. Several indications point seemingly to the appearance of this style at the beginning of the 15th century in the Lhokseumawe area, the former centre of the Pasai sultanate. Batu Aceh, which were made of sandstone, appear to represent a break with other contemporary or older traditions observed locally. Yet similarities have been identified with architectural features in Central Java dating to the 9th century, and with Siamese funerary monuments. Batu Aceh were intended mostly for sultans, high ranking individuals, their relatives, and probably high profile merchants. After a sharp decline and disappearance in some areas between the second quarter of the 18th century and mid-19th century, probably in connection with the emergence of orthodox movements, batu Aceh experienced a revival still visible in north Sumatra (Barus), Kedah, Pahang, and Penang. 1This is a revised version of a paper presented at the 11th International Conference of the European Association of Southeast Asian Archaeologists, Bougon (France), 25–30 September 2006. I am very grateful to Wayne Bougas for the editing of the language.