Conference In London Research Articles

Simple diagnostic signs in those with cognitive impairment-anything to improve detection of cognitive disorders.

With now over 50 million people worldwide with dementia (Prince et al., 2013), there are almost certainly well over 100 million people with cognitive concerns and many of these will attend their health professional keen to know what is going on. We need those without intensive training in this field to be more confident and correct in their diagnosis when such a concerned person turns up. Many simple diagnostic tests have been proposed and some assessed - these include the walk and talk (divided attention) test (those who stop when asked a question while walking may be cognitively impaired) (Lamoth et al., 2011), the clock drawing test (Brodaty and Moore, 1997), the "handbag" sign (those clutching their personal possessions are more likely to be cognitively impaired) and the "hippopotamus sign" (calling the rhinoceros, in those tests that include this, a hippopotamus). Simple screening tests have been extensively validated and are important to the clinician in formulating a diagnosis (Lorentz et al., 2002). The "head-turning" and the "attended with/alone" signs are frequently observed, and many clinicians assessing such individuals would be well aware of them and probably even unknowingly factor them into their diagnosis. In this issue, Pinar Soysal and colleagues (Soysal et al., 2017) have evaluated these signs and, in those older people attending with cognitive concerns, found they had quite good diagnostic value. They were not very specific but showed good sensitivity and negative predictive value. Indeed, at the recent Alzheimer's Association International Conference in London there were several posters evaluating "soft but simple" signs although not all performed as expected - one group found gait actually sped up in those with cognitive impairment that were asked a question.

London Conference on Somalia: Another Missed Opportunity?

In his book, ‘Somalia: the Missed Opportunities’, the former UN Secretary General’s Representative for Somalia, Mohamed Sahnoun, fittingly catalogues a number of missed chances that both the international community and the Somali people failed to utilise to find a lasting solution to the protracted political crisis in Somalia. Sadly, after the publication of the book, numerous other conferences miserably failed to ameliorate the calamitous situation, and hence countless other opportunities had been missed.This note will only discuss three issues raised, directly or indirectly, in the conference communique that have received scant attention from other commentators, namely the end of the transition, inclusion of human rights in the final statement and the military intervention of the neighbouring countries.

The Date of Kanishka since 1960

The 1960 London Conference on the Date of Kanishka involved many leading scholars of Central and South Asian studies and had a profound impact on the field. This article examines the historiography of the central problem posed at the conference: In what year did the era of Kanishka commence? It traces the advances in evidence that led to the solution of AD 127 between 2000 and 2010. The complexity of this process is often omitted in historiographical accounts, which opens the final solution to criticism and also fails to address why the field polarised after 1960 and found it so hard to reconcile new evidence. The article suggests that the eventual solution was a result of the cumulative effect of new data. It also shows that the field as a whole arrived at a solution long before it arrived at a consensus. This suggests that the failure of new evidence to bring about a solution more quickly is a major challenge to South and Central Asian studies in the future.

THE INTERNATIONAL LAW REGARDING SHIP-SOURCE POLLUTION LIABILITY AND COMPENSATION: EVOLUTION AND CURRENT CHALLENGES

THE INTERNATIONAL LAW REGARDING SHIP-SOURCE POLLUTION LIABILITY AND COMPENSATION: EVOLUTION AND CURRENT CHALLENGES

“The Farmers of London Conference will make up their own minds”

“The Farmers of London Conference will make up their own minds”

Accrediting advanced practice: who will benefit?

Last month I attended the 2017 RCN advanced nurse practitioner (ANP) conference in London. The title of the conference referred to 'moving the agenda forward' and there were many examples of ANPs pioneering developments in emergency care, primary care, acute medicine, mental health and other services.

Some European Contributions to Information Science

EDITOR'S SUMMARYEuropean contributions to the field of information science are often overlooked or forgotten in the popularity and prominence of the Association for Information Science and Technology, previously known as the American Society for Information Science and Technology. Areas covered include information science theory, bibliographical descriptions, documentation theory, library science, classification, information retrieval, bibliometrics and standards. One noteworthy contributor to the field of information science as a whole is Karl Marx, who is credited as a “herald of the information society. Two international conferences, the International Conference on Scientific Information in Washington D.C. in 1958 and the Royal Society Scientific Information Conference in London in 1948, are cited as recognizing the importance of the field. Another conference series highlighted here is the Conceptions of Library and Information Science, which promotes innovations from the European community and is maintained primarily by Europeans.

Comments: How Big a Threat?

Editor's column As the oil industry begins to emerge from one of the worst downturns in decades, some see a new threat on the horizon: the growing use of electrically powered vehicles, which could cut seriously into future oil consumption. Automobile manufacturers and oil companies are trying to estimate the growth potential of these vehicles, which currently make up only 1% of the global transportation market but have surprised automakers with a quick uptake in demand over the past 2 years. There are now more than 1 million electric cars on the road, up 70% from 2014, according to the International Energy Agency. Transportation currently accounts for more than half of oil consumption worldwide. The oil recession of the past 2 years underscored the critical importance of the balance between global supply and demand. As oil supplies swamped consumption with US shale output sky-rocketing, Saudi Arabia increased production to try to drive high-cost producers out of business, and demand in places such as China cooled off. Automakers and many prominent companies in the oil industry apparently see different futures for electric vehicle growth. Both the widely watched ExxonMobil and BP annual energy outlook surveys have paid little attention to potential disruptions from electric vehicles, although both have noted the growing efficiency of the traditional combustion engine as a factor in reduced demand. In a survey of top oil executives attending the Oil and Money Conference in London in November, only 12% saw electric vehicles as a serious threat to the industry, ranking lower than such issues as a potential looming supply shortage, lack of capital investment, and break-even price points for production. “Electric cars, they can grow, but I don’t think that is a problem for us,” ENI Chief Executive Officer Claudio Descalzi said at the conference. Notably, Statoil and BHP Billiton have a different take. Statoil Chief Executive Eldar Saetre said at the same event that global oil demand could peak in the 2020s as the rising use of electric vehicles will “shrink” the industry. And BHP said in a blog on its website that “2017 could be the year when the electric car revolution really gets started.” Automakers believe that as batteries become cheaper and can support longer driving ranges, consumption of electric vehicles will soar. They are also banking on the preferences of millennials and the coming prospect of driverless vehicles to enhance electric transport demand. Executives of Mercedes, BMW, and Ford all recently predicted a strong uptake in electric vehicle use over the next decade. Oil analysts are just starting to put serious research to the question and predictions vary widely. Wood Mackenzie believes that electric vehicle use could take 1–2 mil-lion B/D of oil consumption out of the market within 20 years. IHS Markit is embarking on a major study, predicting that electric vehicles could account for 15% to 35% of all vehicle sales by 2040, which “could bring about the greatest transformation since the dawn of the automotive age.” Others predict that energy efficiency and government regulations pushing a low-carbon future will have the most impact on future demand, but the rapid uptake of technologies that are disrupting long-term business models should bring this issue to the surface in the next couple of years.

Liturgy in the Twenty-First Century: Contemporary Issues and Perspectives by Alcuin Reid

Reviewed by: Liturgy in the Twenty-First Century: Contemporary Issues and Perspectives by Alcuin Reid David Fagerberg Alcuin Reid, ed. Liturgy in the Twenty-First Century: Contemporary Issues and Perspectives New York: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2016 xxvi + 368 pages. Paperback. $24.95. I am swimming upstream in my acquaintanceship with members of the Sacra Liturgia community. I said “up,” not “against”—it is a statement of chronology. I was honored to be invited to present a paper at their third conference in London 2016; this book contains the talks presented at their second conference in New York 2015; and upon completing it I promptly ordered the proceedings of the first conference in Rome 2013 (Sacred Liturgy: The Source and Summit of the Life and Mission of the Church) so that I could explore the headwaters. Based on my two-thirds intelligence, I deduce that under the leadership of Alcuin Reid and Uwe Michael Lang they are opening a new chapter in the ongoing discussion about what happened in the liturgical movement of, say, the past 100 years. I do not need to point out to a general readership that Sacra Liturgia is a conservative body; I do not need to point out to Antiphon’s readership that this is not an automatically disqualifying remark. If something is called conservative—a movement or an outlook or a collection of essays—the appropriate questions to ask are “What does it want to conserve?” and “Why does it feel this thing is worth preserving?” and “What will it profit us to safeguard this thing?” For a while, and in some cases, liturgical conservatism had seemed to stammer instead of argue, because it was nagging about a narrative someone else was setting. It had seemed parasitic in the sense of doing little more than offer a negation: “not this; not that; no, not that way.” This collection of essays feels different. They propose, they do not merely oppose. They remind, they do not primarily reprimand. They seek to find the substance undergirding the liturgy, a substance that shows stability. I think that a review of a monograph can speak more generally because the review is revealing a single mind, but a review of a [End Page 84] collection of essays must speak more specifically in order to give the reader a survey of the contents. Let me try. Cardinal Burke speaks of beauty as a metaphysical and theological notion manifesting in sacred art and liturgy and holy lives; Thomas Kocik suggests we not ask if the liturgical reform was too hasty but rather whether it occurred in substantial continuity, bringing his formidable knowledge of detail to bear; Lauren Pristas reviews what has been a major project (and book) for her, namely, an examination of the treatment of the Roman collects received, complete with comparative columns; Margaret Hughes channels Josef Pieper to give a Thomistic base for beauty and leisure (freedom from effort, ease) that treats the reader to a brilliant description of contemplation, joy, objective good, and a liturgical aesthetic; Jennifer Donelson asks the provocative question whether good intention can overcome bad taste when the last four centuries have stood in such deep iconoclasm; Gregory Glenn gives a detailed explanation of why a choir school succeeded at the Cathedral in Salt Lake City; Archbishop Cordileone provides a bishop’s perspective on liturgy in a secular society where the sacramental principle must be recovered anew; Matthew Menendez describes the resistance he and other young Catholics faced in trying to celebrate the traditional mass; Allan White focuses upon the liturgy of the word by tracing the recovery of homily as mediation and proclamation; Kurt Belsole brings his experience with seminarians to talk about the formation of priests in the spirit and power of the liturgy; Richard Cipolla continues the theme of liturgy as a source of priestly identity, observing causes of our current crisis of identity; Alcuin Reid’s own contribution summarizes work he has been doing on the holy week reforms of Pius XII; Christopher Smith identifies trends in Catholic identity and asks if the reforms have produced vibrant faith and practice; peter Kwasniewski asks questions about the reformed lectionary, from what was omitted...

Remarks Given at the Annual Melville Society Dinner at MLA 2017

Remarks Given at the Annual Melville Society Dinner at MLA 2017 Arimichi Makino Click for larger view View full resolution Professor Arimichi Makino, President of the Melville Society. Photo courtesy of Rie Makino. First, I would like to express sincere thanks to the good friends of the Melville Society of America for electing me as the President of such a prestigious society. Since I became a member of the Society, I have noticed great Melvilleans as the presidents. [End Page 109] So it is the greatest honor for me to stand with them. As an international president, I will do my best to promote transnational studies, like that of the transpacific resonances between Melville and John Manjiro, a Japanese "Ishmael" who was rescued in 1841 by an American whaling ship, studied English and navigation in Massachusetts, and later participated in the Tokugawa Shogunate's negotiations with Commodore Perry in 1853 as a translator and interpreter. And I will work for the Melvilleans of the world, including, of course, the Japanese Melvilleans. One of the members of the Melville Society of Japan said that the presidential election in America was very unpredictable! This observation would be true for both the President of the Melville Society of America and of the United States of America in 2017. In Japan, my colleagues are very much surprised at the news that I have been elected as President of the Society. But fortunately most of the members of the Melville Society of Japan welcome this development, as it is very encouraging for themselves. As a matter of fact, one of the most active Japanese academic organizations interested in international conferences is the Melville Society of Japan, as shown by the large number of participants in the Tokyo conference in 2015. Most of the participants of the Tokyo conference must remember that the logo-mark of the conference was designed as an overlapping picture of Godzilla and Moby Dick. Generally speaking, most Japanese are subconsciously obsessed with nuclear weapons, symbolized in the shape of the nuclear monster. Representing this idea, Kenzaburō Ōe, a Nobel Prize winner for literature, frequently warns of the danger of nuclear weapons accumulated in America as well as all over the world. He compares their fatal power to the inscrutable power of the white whale. Furthermore, the novelist Natsuki Ikezawa, an Akutagawa Prize winner and a keynote lecturer at the Tokyo conference, also warned of the crisis of mass destruction by nuclear accident even before the Fukushima power plant disaster. If we regard the white whale as an agent of the malicious God, it is not surprising, especially to Japanese, that the white whale and Godzilla—in anagram, Ill-Gods—are closely overlapped. Both are warning symbols to the world. From Melville's works, including Moby-Dick, therefore, we could draw an eschatological symbolism. However, we do not have to foresee a pessimistic view of the future. As Melvilleans, we can bravely face the critical situations of mankind and conquer the danger of the world through international friendship. So, let us get together again at the 2017 conference in London, the very place—somewhere over the rainbow—with the Melvillean hopes. Arigatou gozaimasu—Thank you very much. [End Page 110] Arimichi Makino President of the Melville Society Copyright © 2017 Johns Hopkins University Press and the Melville Society

All Astir

All Astir Mary K. Bercaw Edwards This issue of Leviathan comes with great anticipation for the Eleventh International Melville Society Conference, “Melville’s Crossings,” to be held at King’s College London on June 27–30. If you have not yet registered, please do so soon at <https://melvilleatkings.wordpress.com/registration/>. All speakers must be registered by March 26. One of the Melville Society panels at the January 2017 MLA Convention, “Melville’s Taxonomies,” chaired by Branka Arsić, was selected by Anthony Appiah for inclusion in this year’s presidential theme, “Boundary Conditions.” As Colin Dewey, who recently finished a term as the Melville’s Society’s Associate Secretary for Programs and Conferences and will now serve as Executive Secretary, notes, the Society has now sponsored three presidential sessions in the last three years. Congratulations to Colin and to the members of the Nominating Committees of the last three years: Dawn Coleman, Jennifer Greiman, Maurice Lee, Elizabeth Renker, and Leonora Warren. Abstracts from both MLA sessions will appear in the June issue of Leviathan. There will be two Melville Society sessions at the ALA conference, May 25–28, in Boston: “Melville and the Historical Imagination,” chaired by Hoang Gia Phan, and “Melville and Literary Influence: Reframing Tradition,” chaired by David Greven. More information will appear on the Melville Society web-site: <http://melvillesociety.org/>. The 125th anniversary of Melville’s death was commemorated in “Celebrating Melville: Writer for the World” on September 28, 2016, at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, where he is buried. John Bryant was the featured speaker. The events can be viewed on Woodlawn’s Facebook page under a post for that date. The next day, September 29, the New Bedford Whaling Museum also honored Melville’s death with “Herman Melville’s Afterlife: Revival & Revision,” two illustrated talks given by Mary K. Bercaw Edwards and Wyn Kelley. A “far less ‘grave’ celebration,” in the words of Colin Dewey, observed Melville’s arrival in San Francisco Bay with a Moby-Dick mini-marathon at the Fort Mason Maritime Park Library Reading Room on October 14, 2016. Beth Hader’s show, “Open Attachments: Recent Work Based on Melville’s Moby Dick,” ran at the Theo Ganz Studio in Beacon, New York, from November 12 until December 4, 2016. Hader writes in her artist statement: “The alternative title to Moby-Dick is ‘or the Whale.’ That alone was lure enough to plunge [End Page 120] deeper into this text. All the elements that have always moved me to water, salt sea and swell, are here as well as the time travel to a world both intimately familiar but also completely alien. Connecting through the domestic familiars such as the chowder, the blanket, or the coin flip expression of ‘heads or tails’ become ways into exploring the foreign territory of whaling—the search for light and energy along with its cruel realities.” The show ended with a concert of “whale music” by David Rothenberg, including a performance of Chapter 79, “The Prairie,” which Rothenberg had performed as part of “Moby-Dick: The Big Read”: <http://www.mobydickbigread.com/chapter-79-the-prairie/>. Two Melville sightings in the United Kingdom highlight why so many scholars eagerly await the 2017 London conference. David Ketterer informed us in October 2016 that the house where Melville stayed in November and December 1849, at 25 Craven St., was for sale. Ketterer reports that Melville would have stayed in one of the two attic bedrooms. Referring to this time in London, Philip Hoare, in “White Whale in the Big Smoke: How the Geography of London Inspired Moby-Dick,” argues that Moby-Dick was born in the boarding house on Craven Street, inspired by J. M. W. Turner’s whaling scenes: “Melville’s Anglophilia was the yeast out of which this great American novel emerged.” Hoare’s article (New Statesman, December 2, 2015) can be accessed at <http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2015/12/white-whale-big-smoke-how-geography-london-inspired-moby-dick>. This issue of Extracts includes Dawn Coleman’s review of the two Moby-Dick art shows that opened in Cincinnati in April 2016 (mentioned in “All Astir,” Leviathan 18.3). [End Page...

Editing Out the Embryo

Two conferences on genome editing held in December 2015 offer a lens through which to contrast bioethics policies in the United Kingdom and the United States. The Progress Educational Trust, which has no parallel in the United States, hosted the London conference and illustrates the close collaboration between government departments, scientific bodies, funding organizations, and lobby groups in the United Kingdom. The rhetoric of responsible regulation used in the United Kingdom protects not the embryo, but the practice of embryo destruction, and advocates of embryo experimentation are eager to guide the debate about genome editing. It would be perilous for the international community to allow the United Kingdom to frame the debate in this way.

Wesley's parish and the digital age?

Abstract The following article was delivered as the annual lecture of the Methodist Sacramental Fellowship at the 2016 Methodist Conference in London. Beginning with the original context of John Wesley's well-known phrase, ‘the world as my parish’, this article explores the digital aspects of our global parish today. Putting the digital age on the agenda of the Church's mission is seen as a similar response to Wesley's decision to become ‘more vile’ and enter the world of field preaching. The lecture concludes by offering a fresh approach to Methodist identity magnified by aspects of digital culture, calling for the creation of digital Arminianism, digital field preaching, digital creativity and, ultimately, a digital parish. The article proposes that Methodism embrace a digital social holiness to spread scriptural holiness throughout the geographic and digital landscape.

Should there be quotas for men in medicine?

At its autumn conference in London on 11 November the Medical Women’s Federation held a not entirely serious debate on whether there should be quotas for men entering medicine. Here are some of the arguments

How the biometrics industry can help stop child abuse

October's ‘Biometrics 2016’ conference in London featured an extraordinary session where experts in child protection (see box) appealed for help from the biometrics profession to combat child sexual abuse. The disturbing scale of the task was set out by special agent Jim Cole, head of the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) victim identification programme, who told the conference that a staggering 185,000,000 child abuse images and videos have been seized in the US since 2002, with around 5,000 new files found every week. “It's a shocking number that most people are unaware of,” he says.

Neuroinflammation in liver disease: sessional talks from ISHEN.

At the recent ISHEN ('International Symposium of Hepatic Encephalopathy & Nitrogen Metabolism') conference in London, a whole session was dedicated to our increasing awareness of the importance of inflammation in the brain - termed 'neuroinflammation', in the development of Hepatic Encephalopathy (HE) - the neurological manifestations of advanced liver disease. In this review our ISHEN speakers further discuss the content of their sessional presentations and more broadly we discuss our understanding of the role of neuroinflammation in HE pathogenesis.

Should the advanced measurement approach be replaced with the standardized measurement approach for operational risk?

Recently, Basel Committee for Banking Supervision proposed to replace all approaches, including Advanced Measurement Approach (AMA), for operational risk capital with a simple formula referred to as the Standardised Measurement Approach (SMA). This paper discusses and studies the weaknesses and pitfalls of SMA such as instability, risk insensitivity, super-additivity and the implicit relationship between SMA capital model and systemic risk in the banking sector. We also discuss the issues with closely related operational risk Capital-at-Risk (OpCar) Basel Committee proposed model which is the precursor to the SMA. In conclusion, we advocate to maintain the AMA internal model framework and suggest as an alternative a number of standardization recommendations that could be considered to unify internal modelling of operational risk. The findings and views presented in this paper have been discussed with and supported by many OpRisk practitioners and academics in Australia, Europe, UK and USA, and recently at OpRisk Europe 2016 conference in London.

Nutrition science – past, present and future

AbstractOn 26 April 2016, the British Nutrition Foundation (BNF) held a half‐day conference in London on ‘Nutrition science – past, present and future’. This began by considering the dramatic changes that have influenced diets over the past 25 years in relation to government policy, the food supply, food in schools and communications. Dietary surveys, particularly the National Diet and Nutrition Survey, have allowed the nation's dietary intake to be monitored over this period. These surveys have played an important role in supporting science and policy, and highlighted changes and trends in nutrient intakes and status of the UK population over the past 25 years. In terms of health, there has been a dramatic increase in average life expectancy globally during the 20th century and the conference considered recent advances in understanding of the ageing process, epigenetics and nutrition across the life‐course. A number of lifestyle factors are recognised to influence risk of chronic diseases in later life. For example, dietary recommendations reflect the link between fat, particularly saturated fatty acids, and cardiovascular disease, although this has been widely debated in recent years. The conference concluded with considerations to what the future might hold for nutrition, as we grapple with decisions about what to grow and produce to ensure sustainability of the food supply in the face of likely climate change and a growing and more prosperous global population.

Italy, Secret Treaty of London and the Albanian Issue

Through this work we aim to analyze the Italian attitude towards the Albanian state at the beginning of the XX century, based on the treatment of the Secret Treaty of London in May 1915. This treaty synthesised the Italian policy towards the newly established Albanian state, during one of the most difficult periods of Europe, the First World War. Newly established Albanian state with its truncated borders of the London Conference in 1913, deserved to have at least the support of the overseas neighbor, Italy, and this would bring friendship and mutual interest. But Italy although an affirmed world power, failed to rise beyond an shortsighted and imperialist interest versus Albania, aiming through this treaty to divide Albanian lands with other treacherous neighbors, and eventually disappear the descendants of the great Skanderbeg, of Pyrrhu, Ali Pasha, the Great Kostandin, the ancient Pellazgo- Illyrians. DOI: 10.5901/ajis.2016.v5n2p219

Introduction

The 2011 Historical Materialism Conference in London saw the launch of a Marxist-Feminist set of panels. This issue is inspired by the success of those panels, and the remarkably sustained interest in reviving and moving beyond older debates and discussions. The special issue’s focus, Social-Reproduction Feminism, reflects and contextualises the ongoing work and engagement with that thematic that has threaded through the conferences in the 2010s. This Introduction provides a summary overview of the Social-Reproduction Feminism framework, situating it within Marxist-Feminist thinking and politics more generally, and calls on readers to consider its promise and potential as an historical-materialist approach to understanding capitalist social relations in terms of an integrated totality.