Post-conference Workshop Research Articles

Matters of Life: Human Scapes and Scopes - IASA 10th World Congress 2022

Matters of Life: Human Scapes and Scopes - Call for Contributions to the 10th World Congress 2022 of the International American Studies Association organized in the Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, India, 22nd to 24th November, 2022, and post-conference workshop Matters of Life: Human Shades and Scapes to be held between 25th and 27th November, 2022 in Udaipur, Rajasthan.

Foreword

This special issue on “Environmental Regulation and Innovation in Local Communities” came out of the 2019 Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association's Post-Conference Workshop. The workshop sought to invite a conversation among researchers, think tanks, government agencies, and policy makers to enhance our understanding of (1) how local communities innovate when shaping and responding to environmental regulations, and (2) how these environmental regulations affect rural communities’ economic well-being and environmental quality. This resulting special issue includes two invited pieces from the workshop's keynote speakers, both leading scholars in the area of regulation or innovation and five manuscripts that deal with local environmental issues—issues that highlight geographically distinct environmental problems related to land use, water quality, and energy—each of which require different solutions. In various ways, these papers look at the linkages between economic and environmental objectives that define the location-specificity of the environmental issue at hand and the requisite policy solutions.

Getting Started with COUNTER Statistics

A four hour post-conference workshop was offered on Counting Online Usage of Networked Electronic Resources (COUNTER) statistics with the goal of providing participants with hands-on experience working with and manipulating statistics. Best practices and methods were also discussed.

More than bumps: ASEG-PESA 2015 post conference workshop summary

More than bumps: ASEG-PESA 2015 post conference workshop summary

G2. ‘Health psychology in practice’ Half-day post-conference workshop

G2. ‘Health psychology in practice’ Half-day post-conference workshop

Conference Report: 5th Bioanalysis in Clinical Research

The 5th Annual Bioanalysis in Clinical Research recently held in London, UK, covered a broad spectrum of interesting topics within bioanalytical method validation (BMV) including perspectives from the US FDA and European Medicines Agency (EMA) and implementation relating to method development and validation for small and large molecules. The theme of this year’s meeting, “exploring the latest regulations and techniques in bioanalysis and learning how to practically implement them to improve your clinical trials”, was evident throughout the sessions. The sessions consisted of a preconference workshop, 2 days of presentations along with group discussions and a postconference workshop. Topics included an overview of current EMA and US FDA bioanalysis validation guidelines, an approach to the validation of flow-cytometry methods in the regulatory environment, regulatory aspects in pre- and in-study BMV, regulated bioanalysis in support of clinical studies, regulations to follow in clinical laboratories (GLP and good clinical laboratory practice), crucial information on small-molecule drug metabolites, including metabolites in safety testing, validation of bioanalysis in clinical research, strategies for the analysis of therapeutic peptides in biofluids, the importance of transferring bioanalytical techniques (e.g., flow cytometry and multiplex bioanalysis) from the research laboratory to a regulated environment for use in early clinical trial end points, and development and validation of new technologies for faster analysis. The meeting attracted delegates from all over the world.

Conference report: Second conference of the Middle East and North Africa newborn screening initiative: Partnerships for sustainable newborn screening infrastructure and research opportunities

The second conference of the Middle East and North Africa newborn screening initiative: partnerships for sustainable newborn screening infrastructure and research opportunities was held in Cairo, Arab Republic of Egypt on April 12 to 14, 2008. Policy makers, health ministry representatives, health care providers, and experts from the region, Europe, Asia, and North America participated. The primary outcome was development of country plans of action to implement or expand newborn screening programs. Country representatives were grouped by current levels of national newborn screening activities based on a Needs Assessment Survey for national newborn screening programs and assisted by international technical experts. The Needs Assessment Survey provided information on the level of newborn screening in each country, strengths and barriers to implementation of newborn screening programs, and identified areas for research. Newborn screening programs require an integrated system of laboratories, health care providers, and educators, thus, the infrastructure put in place to screen for one condition should support expansion to other conditions. Congenital hypothyroidism was selected for initiating newborn screening programs because of its high prevalence, availability of screening methods, and cost-effective intervention. To this end, the conference provided technical sessions on screening and treatment of congenital hypothyroidism, performance standards, quality assurance, follow-up interventions, and patient management. In addition, presentations highlighted the value of integrating research into newborn screening programs as they are established and in evaluating outcomes. Research opportunities were identified at a postconference workshop sponsored by the US Civilian Research Development Foundation.

Post-Conference Workshop - Collaborative Health Solutions: Working Across Disciplines, Agencies, & Industries (invitation only)

Post-Conference Workshop - Collaborative Health Solutions: Working Across Disciplines, Agencies, & Industries (invitation only)

Bioinformatics research in the Asia Pacific: a 2007 update.

We provide a 2007 update on the bioinformatics research in the Asia-Pacific from the Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Network (APBioNet), Asia's oldest bioinformatics organisation set up in 1998. From 2002, APBioNet has organized the first International Conference on Bioinformatics (InCoB) bringing together scientists working in the field of bioinformatics in the region. This year, the InCoB2007 Conference was organized as the 6th annual conference of the Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Network, on Aug. 27–30, 2007 at Hong Kong, following a series of successful events in Bangkok (Thailand), Penang (Malaysia), Auckland (New Zealand), Busan (South Korea) and New Delhi (India). Besides a scientific meeting at Hong Kong, satellite events organized are a pre-conference training workshop at Hanoi, Vietnam and a post-conference workshop at Nansha, China. This Introduction provides a brief overview of the peer-reviewed manuscripts accepted for publication in this Supplement. We have organized the papers into thematic areas, highlighting the growing contribution of research excellence from this region, to global bioinformatics endeavours.

Post-Conference Workshop - Motivational Interviewing

Post-Conference Workshop - Motivational Interviewing

Contact surfaces to be discussed at post-conference workshop

Contact surfaces to be discussed at post-conference workshop

EBLIG Report: Interest Group Meets in Atlantic Canada and New Co-convenors are Chosen

May was a month of travel for many Evidence-Based Librarianship Interest Group (EBLIG) members. From May 6 – 11, the 4th International Evidence Based Library and Information Practice conference was held in Durham-Chapel Hill, North Carolina. From May 22 – 26, EBLIG members attended the Canadian Library Association (CLA) conference in St. John’s, Newfoundland. As the second anniversary of the formation of EBLIG has come around, the inaugural co-conveners, Lyn Currie and Virginia Wilson, are wrapping up their two-year term. Congratulations to Sue Fahey of Memorial University of Newfoundland and Renée deGannes, Canadian Dental Association, Ottawa, who have taken over the reins and accepted a two-year term as EBLIG’s new co-conveners.
 
 EBLIG has been active this past year, mainly in the area of conference workshops and sessions. At the organizers’ invitation, we successfully submitted and presented a half-day post-conference workshop for the 4th International Evidence Based Librarianship Conference. How to Assess the Evidence: A Critical Appraisal Tool for Library and Information Research, facilitated by Lindsay Glynn, of Memorial University of Newfoundland, was an extremely well-received session with nearly 30 participants in attendance.
 
 Virginia Wilson and Stephanie Hall created a practical toolkit on evidence-based library and information practice specifically for public librarians: http://ebltoolkit.pbwiki.com/. This toolkit was unveiled at the 2007 CLA conference in St. John’s by Stephanie Hall. 
 
 A wiki was launched in 2007 entitled eblibrarianship: the Wiki of the Evidence Based Librarianship Interest Group (EBLIG) to facilitate interest group collaboration, sharing, and information access, as well as a means of communication: http://eblibrarianship.pbwiki.com/ 
 
 EBLIG members are active in the EBLIP community and beyond: 
 
 EBLIG members edited and contributed to an EBL-themed issue of Feliciter.
 EBLIG members are participating as editors, on the editorial advisory board, and on the evidence summary team of the open access journal, Evidence Based Library and Information Practice.
 As a result of a posting on the eblibrarianship wiki for the CLA conference session, Evidence-Based Librarianship: A Toolkit for Public Libraries, Virginia Wilson and Stephanie Hall have been invited to present a 1-hour audio conference for the Education Institute in the fall of 2007. 
 
 International membership to the interest group is available without having to become a full member of CLA. For only $30 CAD, people residing outside of Canada can join EBLIG and take advantage of networking and continuing education opportunities. More information on international membership is available at http://www.cla.ca/about/igroups/evidence_based.htm. 
 
 The past two years have been challenging and exciting. An active and engaged membership goes a long way in making this interest group vital and productive.

International classification criteria for antiphospholipid syndrome: synopsis of a post-conference workshop held at the Ninth International (Tours) aPL Symposium.

An international workshop on classification criteria for antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) was held on 16 September 2000 in Tours, France, following the Ninth International APS Symposium. The workshop addressed issues that were not resolved by the previous (1998) international workshop on the classification criteria. Participants at the workshop agreed that no changes should be made to the international (Sapporo) criteria at the present time. However, to improve the criteria, future efforts should be focused on the following: (1) further evaluation of the international (Sapporo) criteria for definite APS; (2) definition of other categories of APS such as 'probable' and 'possible' APS; (3) guidelines for the clinical diagnosis as distinct from classification of APS; (4) strategies to improve the compliance of laboratories worldwide, with recommended procedures for Lupus anticoagulant (LA) and anticardiolipin (aCL) assays; (5) development of monoclonal antibody standard reagents for aCL and LA assays; and (6) refinement and subsequent evaluation of antibeta2GPI assays for use in idenfitication of APS.

A Therapist's Induced Recall of Sinatra Singing “My Way”

What song reminds you of patient x and the stated problem? Your answer may illuminate transference-countertransference dynamics active at that moment in the therapy dyad. A brief supervision at a post-conference workshop is illustrative.

ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID (HUGHES) SYNDROME IN SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS

APS is found in 20% to 35% of patients with SLE. PAPS and secondary APS have similar features and aPL specificities. The clinical course of the secondary syndrome is independent of the activity and severity of lupus, but the presence of APS worsens the prognosis of patients with lupus. Some features of SLE may result from thrombosis in patients with APS; thus, these patients require anticoagulation rather than corticosteroids. Novel preliminary classification criteria for APS were formulated during a postconference workshop held in Sapporo, Japan, following the Eight International Symposium on Antiphospholipid Antibodies. Treatment of APS remains empirical because of limited controlled prospective data. There is strong evidence that patients with aPL-associated thrombosis are subject to recurrences and require prophylactic therapy. APS is a treatable cause of recurrent fetal loss in women with SLE. The treatment of choice is anticoagulation with heparin, either standard unfractionated heparin or LMWH. One of the main reasons for the improving outcomes in APS pregnancies is closer obstetric surveillance.

DOOD'95 Post-Conference Workshop on Temporal Reasoning in Deductive and Object-Oriented Databases

For the first time, post-conference workshops were organised for the International Conference on Deductive and Object-Oriented Databases (DOOD). There were two workshops focusing on knowledge discovery and temporal reasoning. This report is dedicated to one dealing with temporal reasoning.

International Conference [and Post-Conference Workshop] on Soil Erosion and Conservation, ‘Mālama Āina’ 83, held in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, during 16–27 January 1983

International Conference [and Post-Conference Workshop] on Soil Erosion and Conservation, ‘Mālama Āina’ 83, held in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, during 16–27 January 1983