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8th Philippine Computing Science Congress (PCSC 2008)

8th Philippine Computing Science Congress (PCSC 2008)

13th Animal Science Congress of the Asian-Australasian Association of Animal Production Societies

13th Animal Science Congress of the Asian-Australasian Association of Animal Production Societies

Manufacturing efficiency highlights from the 2006 International Union of Food Science and Technology (IUFoST) World Congress of Food Science and Technology

Manufacturing efficiency highlights from the 2006 International Union of Food Science and Technology (IUFoST) World Congress of Food Science and Technology

Halfway between Chutzpah and Megalomania

My first and only direct encounter with Herman Kahn came in August 1975 in Vancouver in Canada. I was in the process of recording my first Science Show for the ABC (the Australian program) and was keen to snare some big names. Back then, Kahn was big, and together with Thor Heyerdahl, Lord Ritchie Calder, and Scientific American publisher Gerard Piel was attending the Pacific Science Congress at the University of British Columbia. I had taken the trouble to write to Khan in advance at the Hudson Institute where he was based and received a courteous reply. How relaxed and dignified relations between broadcaster and 'talent' were back then in 2007, the target is simply crash-tackled on the way to the limo. The appointed hour came, and I strolled to the Hyatt carrying my immense (by today's standards) Nagra tape recorder. He opened the door, wearing only boxer shorts. With another man that would, perhaps, have been unremarkable. But Khan was immense and spectacularly hirsute. He repaired back to his made-up bed where he had obviously been sitting, eating grapes. He lifted a large bunch and nibbled them like Nero at a Roman banquet. To my great relief, I was not invited to share the feast.

Análise: indicadores de pesquisa do XX Congresso Brasileiro de Ciência e Tecnologia de Alimentos

Em outubro de 2006, a Regional do Parana sediou em Curitiba o XX Congresso Brasileiro de Ciencia e Tecnologia de Alimentos (XX CBCTA) com o tema Alimentos e Agroindustrias Brasileiras no Contexto Internacional. O objetivo deste Congresso foi discutir o desenvolvimento cientifico e tecnologico e a inovacao na industria de alimentos no cenario nacional e internacional. O programa cientifico foi abrangente e diversificado, com Conferencias, Palestras, Mesas-Redondas, Curso de Atualizacao, Clinicas Tecnologicas, Visitas Tecnicas e Apresentacoes de Trabalhos Cientificos em oito areas definidas pelo Congresso. Como resultado da realizacao do XX CBCTA, esta analise visa uma apresentacao e discussao dos indicadores da pesquisa da area de Ciencia e Tecnologia de Alimentos do Pais e contribuicao ao desenvolvimento cientifico e tecnologico da area, bem como subsidios para orgaos de fomento para decisao de investimentos na pesquisa e na formacao de recursos humanos. No XX CBCTA, foi apresentado um total de 2066 trabalhos cientificos de todo o Brasil, com excecao do Estado de Rondonia. Os trabalhos foram registrados no banco de dados e utilizados para esta analise. As inscricoes foram escolhidas de acordo com a area da pesquisa de cada trabalho, sob responsabilidade de cada autor. As areas definidas pela Comissao Cientifica do Congresso foram: Embalagem (EB); Metodo Analitico (MA); Microbiologia, Micotoxicologia e Biotecnologia (MB); Nutricao, Saude e Alimentacao (NA); Processo e Desenvolvimento de Produto (PD); Qualidade de Alimentos (QA); Quimica e Bioquimica (QB); e Residuo Agroindustrial e Meio Ambiente (RM). Foi utilizado o Programa da Microsoft® Office Excel para a composicao dos graficos, versao Windows XP.

Marxism and Science Studies: A Sweep through the Decades

This article outlines the distinctive contribution of Marxism to science studies. It traces the trajectory of Marxist ideas through the decades from the origins of Marxism to the present conjuncture. It looks at certain key episodes, such as the arrival of a Soviet delegation at the International History of Science Congress in London in 1931, as well as subsequent interactions between Marxists and exponents of other positions at later international congresses. It focuses on the impact of several generations of Marxists who have engaged with science in diverse ways. It examines the influence of Marxism on contemporary trends in science studies. It concludes that Marxism survives in circuitous and complex ways. It argues not only for a positive interpretation of its contribution in the past but for its explanatory and ethical power in the present and future.

A Conversation with Shoutir Kishore Chatterjee

Shoutir Kishore Chatterjee was born in Ranchi, a small hill station in India, on November 6, 1934. He received his B.Sc. in statistics from the Presidency College, Calcutta, in 1954, and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in statistics from the University of Calcutta in 1956 and 1962, respectively. He was appointed a lecturer in the Department of Statistics, University of Calcutta, in 1960 and was a member of its faculty until his retirement as a professor in 1997. Indeed, from the 1970s he steered the teaching and research activities of the department for the next three decades. Professor Chatterjee was the National Lecturer in Statistics (1985–1986) of the University Grants Commission, India, the President of the Section of Statistics of the Indian Science Congress (1989) and an Emeritus Scientist (1997–2000) of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India. Professor Chatterjee, affectionately known as SKC to his students and admirers, is a truly exceptional person who embodies the spirit of eternal India. He firmly believes that “fulfillment in man’s life does not come from amassing a lot of money, after the threshold of what is required for achieving a decent living is crossed. It does not come even from peer recognition for intellectual achievements. Of course, one has to work and toil a lot before one realizes these facts.”

Copernicus and the Hypothetico-Deductive Method of Correspondence Thinking

This article is a development of my earlier papers entitled “Copernicus’ corres-pondence thinking” and “Copernicus’ astronomical works — A remarkable case of applying the methodological idea of correspondence” which were delivered at the XIXth International Congress of History of Science (22-29.08.1993, Zaragoza, Spain) and 10th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science (19-25.08.1995 Florence, Italy). To avoid misunderstandings at the very beginning of this article, let us explain here, that the term the ‘correspondence thinking’ has for us a special, methodological character that is closely connected, among other things, with the process of framing by theorists the theories which are linked by the correspondence principle. Regarding the linguistic form, the term ‘correspondence thinking" is comprehended by us as equivalent to Feyerabend’s German term “Korrespondenzdenken” that denotes the sort of thinking of Bohr, Kramers and Heisenberg, which was centered on Bohr’s correspondence principle (see Feyerabend [1962a] p. 203, p. 254 fn. 2). However, the term the ‘correspondence thinking’ will be comprehended by us in the broader sense on which we will say more below.

Introduction to the symposium on cestode zoonoses in Asia and the Pacific at the21st Pacific Science Congress, 12-18 June, 2007, Okinawa, Japan

Introduction to the symposium on cestode zoonoses in Asia and the Pacific at the21st Pacific Science Congress, 12-18 June, 2007, Okinawa, Japan

Will China Become a Science and Technology Superpower by 2020? An Assessment based on a National Innovation System Framework

innovations / fall 2006 111 Becoming a full-fledged member of the 21 knowledge economy through the absorption and creation of new knowledge, particularly in science and technology (S&T), has become a major national priority for China, comprising an important element of future national development. Since China’s opening up to the outside world in the late 1970’s, government policies have promoted a more liberalized, market economy, and a strengthening of the national innovation system to foster scientific research and technology acquisition. The seriousness of this commitment is evidenced by the new comprehensive plan for S&T development for 20062020 unveiled at the National Science and Technology Congress in January 2006. The plan was prepared under the leadership of Premier Wen Jibao and State Councilor Chen Zhili from 2003 to 2005. Over 3000 experts in natural sciences, engineering, and social sciences participated in the planning process. Reforms over the last few decades have entailed major revamping of S&T Xue Lan and Nancy Forbes

Max Weber's Articles on German Agriculture and Industry in the "Encyclopedia Americana" (1906/1907) and their Political Context

Recently two lengthy entries by Max Weber on German agriculture and industry were discovered in the Encyclopedia Americana of 1906/1907. They appear to be the only articles Weber wrote for a broad anglophone readership, apart from the poorly translated lecture at the Congress of Arts and Science in St. Louis in 1904. As economic experts Hugo Muensterberg, the organizer of the 23 contributions on Germany, chose two leading advocates of imperialist Weltpolitik, Weber and Ernst von Halle, Admiral Tirpitz's propaganda chief for Imperial Germany's ambitious naval expansion. The proximity of Weber's combative but somber 'social imperialism' to Halle's was recognized in the 1920s by the anti-establishment historian Eckart Kehr, but in recent decades has been overlooked in the Weber literature. Pursuing Weltpolitik in a lower key, Weber restates his long-held view, shared by Halle, that the fast growing German Industriestaat should be integrated into the world economy by a policy of moderate tariffs and trade treaties, in opposition to the conservative policies of high tariffs and autarky and, more recently, to Joseph Chamberlain's Imperial tariff movement. Backed by plenty of statistics, his own and Halle's, he enables the reader to compare the agricultural and industrial developments of Germany and the United States and to some extent also those of England and France. Considering American and German trade barriers ultimately surmountable, he warns of increasing Anglo-German tensions. His line of reasoning fitted Muensterberg's overarching cultural agenda, which aimed at a rapprochement between Germany and the United States by promoting Deutschtum and reducing 'Anglo-Saxon hegemony'. The political context of the Americana story involves the prehistory of the First World War.

Third world congress of science and racket sports

Third world congress of science and racket sports

International Political Science Congress in Japan - “Does Democracy Work?”

International Political Science Congress in Japan - “Does Democracy Work?”

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Max Weber on ‘The Rural Community’: A critical edition of the English text

There is only one original text, which is that published in the proceedings of the Congress of Arts and Science in 1906. However, I have keyed in page numbers from the edition printed by the Max We...

National States and International Science: A Comparative History of International Science Congresses in Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia, and Cold War United States

Prior studies of modern scientific internationalism have been written primarily from the point of view of scientists, with little regard to the influence of the state. This study examines the state's role in international scientific relations. States sometimes encouraged scientific internationalism; in the mid-twentieth century, they often sought to restrict it. The present study examines state involvement in international scientific congresses, the primary intersection between the national and international dimensions of scientists' activities. Here we examine three comparative instances in which such restrictions affected scientific internationalism: an attempt to bring an international aerodynamics congress to Nazi Germany in the late 1930s, unsuccessful efforts by Soviet geneticists to host the Seventh International Genetics Congress in Moscow in 1937, and efforts by U.S. scientists to host international meetings in 1950s cold war America. These case studies challenge the classical ideology of scientific internationalism, wherein participation by a nation in a scientist's fame spares the scientist conflict between advancing his science and advancing the interests of his nation. In the cases we consider, scientists found it difficult to simultaneously support scientific universalism and elitist practices. Interest in these congresses reached the top levels of the state, and access to patronage beyond state control helped determine their outcomes.

Crystalline oxides on semiconductors: a future for the nanotransistor

AbstractThis issue's Editor's Choice [1] is a brief review on promises and advantages of crystalline oxides on semiconductors, especially the role of interfaces, for semiconductor technology.The cover picture shows at the top a Z‐contrast image of the Si:SrSi2:SrO interface, where on the left side the positions of the atoms are highlighted, and on the right side a theoretical simulation of the image is overlayed, using the theoretical equilibrium geometry of the interface as obtained from first principles (bottom, green: Si, blue: O, orange: Sr). Purple isosurfaces show the electron density of the Si–O bonding state, and the arrows give the direction of the microscopic dipoles at the interface.The first author Marco Buongiorno Nardelli is Professor at the Department of Physics of North Carolina State University, where he heads a research group focusing on the application of ab‐initio electronic structure calculation techniques for the study of important aspects of the physics of materials (ERMES).This paper is a presentation from the 5th Motorola Workshop on Computational Materials and Electronics (MWCME 2003), held in Austin, Texas, 13–14 November 2003. The proceedings were guest‐edited, for the fourth time in this journal, by Alex Demkov (now Freescale Semiconductor).This issue of physica status solidi (b) also contains Original Papers presented at the XI Latin American Congress of Surface Science and Its Applications (XI CLACSA), Pucón, Chile, 7–12 December 2003. The Proceedings of this conference are to be continued in phys. stat. sol. (a) 201, No. 10 (2004) and in an online issue of phys. stat. sol. (c) 1, No. S1 (2004). (© 2004 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)

Oxygen in-diffusion in LPE thick films of YBCO by electrical resistance relaxation

The cover picture of this issue is an optical microscopy image of an yttrium-barium-copper oxide surface grown by liquid phase epitaxy. It shows the spiral-growth characteristics and the mosaic-like structure of the film. This issue of physica status solidi (a) also contains Original Papers presented at the XI Latin American Congress of Surface Science and Its Applications (XI CLACSA), Pucon, Chile, 7–12 December 2003. The Proceedings of this conference are to be continued in phys. stat. sol. (b) 241, No. 10 (2004) and in an online issue of phys. stat. sol. (c) 1, No. S1 (2004). The issue is completed by a number of papers from the Conference on Photo-responsive Materials, Kariega Game Reserve, South Africa, 25–29 February 2004. Full Proceedings of this meeting are published in phys. stat. sol. (c) 1, No. 9 (2004). The plenary presentation by David C. Look on “The future of ZnO light emitters” [2] appears as Editor's Choice. (© 2004 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)

XIth Latin American Congress of Surface Science and Its Applications (XI CLACSA)

The 2003 “Congreso Latinoamericano de Ciencia de Superficies y sus Aplicaciones” (Latin American Congress of Surface Science and Its Applications) was held in Pucon, Chile, 7–12 December 2003. XI CLACSA is the continuation of a series of events that started in 1980. Until 1992, this series was called “Simposio Latinoamericano de Fisica de Superficies” (SLAFS). In recognition of the interdisciplinary nature of the field, starting in 1994 the meeting became CLACSA. The conference was organized by the Sociedad Latinoamericana de Ciencia de Superficies (SLACS) with the purpose of becoming a forum for the exchange of information associated with scientific research carried out in Latin America in the field of surface physics, systems of low dimensionality and areas related to condensed matter physics and science of materials. This scientific event has enjoyed a large participation from Latin American scientists, and has helped to stimulate the collaboration between researchers from Europe, Latin America and the United States.

Creative Fermentation Technology for the Future

Journal of Food ScienceVolume 69, Issue 2 p. crh31-crh33 Creative Fermentation Technology for the Future CHERL-HO LEE, CHERL-HO LEE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BIOTECHNOLOGY, KOREA UNIV., SEOUL, KOREASearch for more papers by this author CHERL-HO LEE, CHERL-HO LEE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BIOTECHNOLOGY, KOREA UNIV., SEOUL, KOREASearch for more papers by this author First published: 30 June 2006 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2621.2004.tb15485.xCitations: 2 Cherl-Ho Lee has been teaching Food Engineering and Food Preservation at Korea Univ. since 1979. He received his Ph.D. at the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural Univ. of Denmark and postdoctorate training at MIT, U.S.A., under the supervision of Prof. Chokyun Rha and Prof. Anthony Sinskey. He was project coordinator of the Fish Fermentation Technology Network of United Nations Univ., and project director of Industrialization of Lactic Acid Fermentation Technology of Cereals and Its Dissemination to the Developing Countries for UNIDO. He was appointed Secretary General of the 11th IUFoST World Congress of Food Science and Technology which was held in Seoul 2001, and for this occasion he published a book on Fermentation Technology in Korea. Professor Lee has been a member of the National Food Hygiene Advisory Committee of Korea since 1988 and received the National Merit Medal (Seokryujang) for his achievements in national health promotion and activities including writing a book “Food Hygiene Incidences White Paper.” He has published over 200 research papers and 10 books on food science and technology. Edited by Manfred Kroger, Ph.D., Editor of the Proceedings of the 12th World Congress of Food Science and Technology 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 onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article.Citing Literature Volume69, Issue2March 2004Pages crh31-crh33 RelatedInformation