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The article presents a brief introduction of "10th International Symposium in Medical Geography," which was held in Manchester, England in the year of 2003. It represents a selection of papers presented at the Symposium. The conference attracted participants from 23 countries and saw over 100 presentations given over 4 days. The program covered the breadth of contemporary research in medical/health geographies with sessions focusing on issues of health, disease as well as qualitative and quantitative methods. The breadth of papers presented reflected the considerable changes seen in medical geography over the last decade which has, in many ways, reinvigorated our sub-discipline.

Reports that the Fundamental Research Committee has issued a call for papers for the 13th Fundamental Research Symposium to be held at Cambridge, England. Theme of the symposium; Deadline for the submission of abstracts; Criteria for the submitted papers.

The article offers information about paper sessions on urology to be discussed at the BAUS Annual Meeting to be held in Manchester, England from June 23-27, 2008.

This article presents information on the fourth "Work, Employment and Society (WES) Conference," which was held in Manchester, England during September 1-3, 2004. The conference was hosted by the University of Manchester of England. WES 2004 was a lively and international three-day event. Over 200 delegates attended from 20 countries across Europe, North America and Australasia. They came from a variety of disciplines. The papers presented by the delegates represented subjects like anthropology, economics, geography, history and applied psychology.

The article discusses the highlights of third international conference held by the Institute of Paper Conservation in Manchester, England, in 1992. The talk "Old Master Prints and Drawings--An Art-Historical Survey of Collecting and of Preservation Methods," delivered by Carlo James, is drawn from his own book on the subject. Peter Bower's paper discusses the controversial area of current practice and produces evidence that inlaying and overcleaning of papers can destroy historical evidence.

The article presents abstracts of research papers and posters which were presented at the Sixth Congress of the European Society of Endodontology, held in London, Great Britain from November 11 to 13, 1993. Some of the topics discussed are: Modification of a resin bone cement for use as a root canal sealer, comparison between malleability of warm and cold gutta-percha, an alternative method for micro-organism detection in endodontics, reasons for endodontic treatment among Swedish general pracitioners and the incidence of mandibular premolars with more than one root canal.

Presents an article on pressing issues in the dementia and dementia services symposium at the Royal College of Physicians in London, England on January 28 to 29, 1999. Geographical inequities involving care for the elderly; Information on a survey conducted by the Alzheimer's Disease Society on Health Authorities' plans and purchasing intentions for dementia services.

Introduces papers from a mini-symposium on competition in the food industry which was held at Harper Adams University College in Shropshire, England in September 2001. Methodology employed to quantify the extent of market power; Pan-European analysis of food retailing; Supermarket behavior in Great Britain.

This editorial reports on the 2006 MRS (Market Research Society) Annual Conference, held at the London Barbican centre. The conference examined the role of blogs and blogging in market research. The conference also centered on the importance of word of mouth in market research. The article also previews the papers contained in the issue including one by Cramphorn on how to measure advertising effectiveness and another by Johnston and Harris about whether respondents in surveys are statistically different than those people that do not respond.

This article focuses on the 10th Anniversary Conference of the Institute for Paper Conservation in England in April 1986. Session topics centered on several aspects of the conservation of paper. Working papers presented at the seminar on Computer Applications and Information Sources in Paper Conservation include that of Gwyneth Miles of Victoria & Albert Museum.

Urges readers of the 'Journal of Marketing Communications' to submit marketing-related research papers for the Eighth International Conference on Corporate and Marketing Communications to be held on April 7 and 8, 2003 in London, England. Patterns of consumer behavior; Conference fee; Conference accommodation.

This article presents abstracts from papers to be presented at the 2nd International Institute of Consumer Sciences at the Liverpool John Moores University in Liverpool, England. The article "Waisting Away," by E. Mooney, H. Farley and C. Strugnell aims to determine the extent of dieting amongst Irish adolescent females, the methods employed and whether dieting influences food choice. The article "Food Consumption and Sustainable Development," by K. Brunner and M. Jelenko emphasizes that to understand food consumption cultural and social issues should enter consumer theory to give a lifestyle-social-practice paradigm. Plurality of lifestyles and milieus in post-traditional societies must be taken into consideration to identify socially differentiated patterns of environmentally related food consumption, their determinants and consequences. The article "Global Versus Local: A Socio-Ecological Study of the Westernisation of Maltese Children's Diets," by S. Piscopo, shows that differences are evident between food consumed in public and private, between children attending non-fee paying and fee-paying schools, and between children from rural and urban backgrounds.

The article reports on the international, interdisciplinary conference, Nutrition and Nurture in Infancy and Childhood: Bio-Cultural Perspectives, to be held in Cumbria in June 2017. Topics to be discussed during the conference include illuminate socio-cultural, political and economic ifluences on infant and child feeding practices, nature of relationships within families, and increasing understandings of breastfeeding as a bio-psychosocial activity.

The article reports on the celebration held at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, England in line with the launch of the Artists' Papers Register, an online register of documents relating to designers, artists and craftspeople. The register lists papers or groups of papers relating to artists and organizations in 823 repositories. Morever, by "Artists", the register does not only refer to "fine artists" but also to designers and design groups and studios, organizations, critis and art historians. Also, the register covers a wide range of topics and individuals, from the unexpected to the most prolific and talked about.

Information on the12th International Association for Sediment Water Science (IASWS) Symposium held in Dartington, England in 2011 is presented. It mentions that the symposium discussed 72 oral papers which were grouped into six themes. It says that David Paterson of University of St. Andrews was one of the lecturers at the plenary sessions. It states that papers at the symposium were published at the "Journal of Soils & Sediments: Protection, Risk Assessment, & Remediation."

The author reflects on the 7th International Conference on Computation in Electromagnetics (CEM) held in Brighton, England in April 2008. He thinks that the developments in the field of CEM as applied to the interaction of electromagnetic fields with structures of wide ranging electrical size. He implies that compared to computation fluid dynamics and structural analysis, CEM is relatively immature, the high frequency application only emerging in production form in the 90s.

The article presents several abstracts of papers presented during the "Parapsychological Association's 51st Annual Convention" in Manchester, England which include "A Catch 22: PSI and Explanations", "The Psychology of Spiritualist Mental Mediumship" and "Experimenter Effects in the Ganzfield."

The article focuses on a revised version of a paper on international treaties and British statutes, presented at the Annual Conference of the Statute Law Society, held at the Institute of Advance Legal Studies, London, England on November 1, 2003. According to the article, treaties are important within the system of international law, and statutes are essential in the British legal system. Statutes modify or make new law, while treaties make and contract laws. Several aspects of statutes and treaties are discussed, such as drafting and application.

The article focuses on a revised version of a paper on the enactment of treaties, presented during the Annual Conference of the Statute Law Society at the Institute of Advance Legal Studies, London, England on November 1, 2003. Particular focus is given to examples of modern practices in treaty enactment, including additional protocols to the Geneva Conventions I and II of 1977, enacted by the Geneva Conventions (Amendment) Act 1995. The enactment of the European Convention on Human Rights 1950 is also discussed.

Presents abstracts of platelet-related research papers featured at the Nottingham Platelet Conference on July 28-31, 2002 in Nottingham, England. 'Development of Platelet Inhibition by Prostacyclin During Megakaryocytopoiesis'; 'Number and Morphology of Platelets Incapable of Aggregation.'

The article presents abstracts of various research papers that were presented at the meeting of The Society for Experimental Optometry at Birmingham, England on July 15-16, 1991. Some of the papers presents are "Effects of Different Ocular Fixation Conditions on A-Scan Ultrasound Biometry Measurements," by C.F. Steel, D.P. Crabb and D.F. Edgar, "The Accuracy of Pallor Boundary Tracking in a Computerized Optic Nerve Head Assessment System," by Michael J. Cox and Ivan C.J. Wood, and "Topography of Visual Evoked Magnetic Responses to Pattern Shift, Pattern Onset and Flash Stimuli," by A. Slaven, C. Degg and R.A. Armstrong.

Presents a report on the conference `Paper Landscapes' at the Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, London, England, on July 18-19 1997. Information on the original planners of the conference; Identification of central issues of the conference; Details on papers presented at the conference.

The article discusses the highlights of the Choice-Equity Dilemma in Special Educational Provision seminar held at the Clore Management Centre, Birkbeck College in London, England on May 19, 2010. The objective of the seminar was to discuss issues about tensions between the principles of equity and choice in special educational provision. An overview of the role of the SEN Policy Options Steering Group is presented.

The article presents information about the University of Brighton's third annual conference on Human Resource Management (HRM) in the Hospitality Industry, held in London, England on February 10, 1994. The focus of the conference was "Changing Structures and Changing Responsibilities." Gill Maxwell of Glasgow Caledonian University talked of "Competitiveness and Human Resource Management in the UK Hotel Industry." Her paper examined the case for a central role for HRM in the industry against the background of the general organisational status and structure of HRM. It discussed the structures and responsibilities of the HRM function in two units of international hotel chains where HRM is, untypically for the industry as a whole, viewed as centrally important. Sandra Watson and Norma D'Annunzio-Green of Napier University, Edinburgh, in their paper, "The Influence of Organisational Structure on Personnel Management: A Move to Human Resource Management," investigated the implications of organisational restructuring on labour management within the industry.

Information about several papers discussed at the 15th European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) Colloquium in Warwick, England is presented. One research being presented during the event is on fads and fashions in organizations. The rules set by the organizers to present are also presented. Organizers decided to wear informal clothes during the forum to foster a relaxed environment.

The article calls for papers for the 18th Annual Conference of the Women's History Network at St. Hilda's College in Oxford, England from September 11-13, 2009. Papers are encouraged to focus on gender and institutional politics, women's movements and identity politics, and community and neighbourhood empowerment.

The article calls for papers or panel discussions about slavery to be presented at an interdisciplinary conference on July 11 to 13, 2007 in Coventry, England. The conference is in commemoration of the bicentennial anniversary of the end of the British Atlantic slave trade. Suggested panels or topics include public and collective memory and commemoration, religion, literary and cultural presentations of freedoms.

Reports on the prize awarded to Lieutenant Colonel Neil MacKenzie of the Royal Army Dental Corps at the 2004 Armed Forces Oral and Maxillofacial Tri-service Annual Conference in Catterick Garrison, North Yorkshire. Recognition of research paper on recurrent neck node metastases.

The Annual Scientific Meeting of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland takes place this year at Bournemouth International Centre, Bournemouth, UK (14th - 16th May 2008), under the presidency of Professor Brian J Rowlands. To view all abstracts of oral presentations from this meeting, please click the pdf link on this page. Copyright © 2008 British Journal of Surgery Society Ltd. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Annual Scientific Meeting of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland takes place this year at Bournemouth International Centre, Bournemouth, UK (14th - 16th May 2008), under the presidency of Professor Brian J Rowlands. To view all abstracts of poster presentations from this meeting, please click the pdf link on this page. Copyright © 2008 British Journal of Surgery Society Ltd. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the 4th Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Accounting Conference. Going to Manchester for the Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Accounting Conference is a nice experience. One receives all of the session papers well in advance at home. Papers are not actually presented by the authors themselves. Instead, they are introduced by discussants who summarize and comment on them after which the authors have the opportunity to answer, before the audience is given the chance to participate. In this conference about sixty papers were presented in parallel sessions and thirty in workshops. Five sessions run throughout the conference. Environmental accounting received considerable attention, too. Gender issues were also addressed in such papers as one by Christine Cooper on the deconstruction of sex in accounting, a paper by Sara Reiter on feminist economics, and a paper by Jane Broadbent and Richard Laughlin on the prospect of women's participation in an ideal speech situation within accounting.

The Annual Scientific Meeting of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland takes place this year at Manchester Central (18th - 20th April 2007), under the presidency of Professor Brian J Rowlands. To view all abstracts of poster presentations from this meeting, please click the pdf link on this page. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Annual Scientific Meeting of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland takes place this year at Manchester Central (18th - 20th April 2007), under the presidency of Professor Brian J Rowlands. To view all abstracts of oral presentations from this meeting, please click the pdf link on this page. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Vascular Society AGM was held at the Bournemouth International Centre, Bournemouth, UK 23rd - 25th November 2005. To view all abstracts from this meeting, please click the pdf link on this page. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents information on some conferences related to social psychology that would be held in 1992. The Third European Conference of Law and Psychology that will be held at Trinity and Wardham Colleges of the University of Oxford in England from September 16-19, 1992. Key topics that would be covered during the conference are, aggression and violence, family and children's law, crime and personality and gender issues in the justice system. The International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies is holding a World Conference in Amsterdam, The Netherlands from June 21-26, 1992 with the theme "Trauma and Tragedy: The Origins, Management and Prevention of Traumatic Stress in Today's World."

Presents a preface of the papers from the 14th National Quantum Electronics Conference in Manchester, England. Organizer of the conference; Foundation of the Quantum Electronic (QE) conferences; History of the QE conferences.

Information about the papers discussed at the 4th International Corporate Governance Conference of the Centre for Corporate Governance Research that was held at the Birmingham Business School in England in July 2006 is presented. The event was titled "Global Developments in Corporate Governance." Interest in corporate governance and corporate responsibility continues to grow across the globe. The countries from which the delegates came were enumerated.

In 2018, the University of Birmingham, UK, hosted a weekend of events for the Association for Environmental Archaeology (AEA)'s spring conference 'Pests of Society'. The event was organised in collaboration with Historic England – the publicly-funded 'Arms-Length Body' with statutory responsibility for the historic environment in England. During the course of the one day conference and workshop the following day, multiple aspects were covered of how pests have interacted, and continue to interact, with humans and their day-to-day activities, as well as their presence in the wider landscape. This paper outlines and describes the meeting, introducing the range of topics covered, and summarises the papers that have been published in the resulting special issue. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents abstracts of papers presented at City University Centenary Conference, in London, England on June 1, 1994. All the speakers at the conference were former undergraduate or postgraduate students of the Department of Optometry and Visual Science at the university. One of the papers focused on the correction of presbyopia. According to researcher M.H. Freeman, any corrective device for presbyopia must provide acceptable optical quality over the corrective effect required. Another paper talked about the ocular response to sustained visual tasks. Various other topics on which papers were presented included retinoscopy, corneal regeneration and glaucoma.

The article discusses the Millennium Development Goal 5 (MDG 5), an initiative taken at the Women Deliver conference held in London, England in 2007 to make investment towards improving global maternal health. It informs that globally maternal deaths have reduced 543000 to 287000 which differ by country and by region. The organization Women Deliver that works for the improvement of health and wellbeing of girls and women.

Announces the holding of the first Water and Wastewater Pumping Station Design conference in Kensington, in London, England from February 28 to 29, 2000. Importance of the pumping station in all water systems; Challenges facing pumping station designers; Call for papers for the conference; Contact information.

Information about the topics discussed at the fifteenth biennial International Conference on Baroque Music held at the University of Southampton in England on July 11-15, 2012 is presented. The event featured several papers including "Sources and Performance," "Bach and the Magnificat" and "Approaches to Bach." The Music Department of the University of Southampton hosted the said event.

Focuses on the international conference on Religion and Locality at Leeds University in England on September 8-10, 1998. Range of issues discussed at the conference; Discussion on `Religious localization in sacred and secular space,' a paper presented by Michael Pye of the University of Marburg, Germany; Sessions on Islamic and other fair traditions.

The article offers information on the "Human Relations" 75th Anniversary Conference to be held in London, England on April 19-21, 2023.

The papers collected here are based on those presented at a colloquium entitled interac- tion in Complementary School Contexts: Developing Identities of Choice at the Sociolinguistics Symposium 15 in Newcastle, April 2004. The colloquium was convened by the editors of this volume and Arvind Bhatt. The genesis for bringing together papers on complementary schools, a much under-researched area, was a project sponsored by the ESRC on Complementari1j Schools and their Commuiiities in Leicester (Bhatt et al., 2004; Martinet al., 2004a, b). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]