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The Latin American Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry (CLAFQO) is a significant event in the field, bringing together researchers from various countries to discuss cutting-edge topics. CLAFQO-15, held in Santa Catarina, Brazil, in November 2022, featured presentations on a wide range of subjects, including catalysis, electrochemistry, and nanotechnology. The conference included plenary lectures, invited lectures, and poster sessions, providing a platform for scientific exchange and collaboration. A special session honored the late Professor Faruk Nome, who made significant contributions to the field. The conference also recognized outstanding poster presentations and awarded researchers for their contributions. This special issue of the Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry includes seven peer-reviewed papers based on works presented at CLAFQO-15, showcasing the high quality of research presented at the conference. The next edition, CLAFQO-16, will be held in Florianópolis in November 2024. [Extracted from the article]

The article presents abstracts on medical topics which include the care of dementia patients, physical activity, and obesity.

Abstracts of plenary papers are presented including "New Dietetic Competency Standards and Their Impact On The Profession" by Claire Palermo, "Cardiovascular Health Future Directions and Opportunities" by Dr. Karen J. Murphy and "Research Translation and Primary Care" by Margaret Allman-Farinelli.

This document is a symposium from the International Journal of Psychology that explores the theme of caring for individuals in psychology beyond the scope of individuality. The symposium includes five papers that discuss various aspects of caring, such as home-based palliative care, the sacrifice of the family of body donors, hometown experiences in rural areas, rural education, and transgenerational trauma in Taiwan. The papers highlight the cultural and social perspectives on caring and emphasize the importance of ethicality, relational understanding, and holistic development. The symposium aims to provide a diverse and inclusive perspective on caring practices in psychology. [Extracted from the article]

The article announces that William M. Jones Award for the Best Graduate Student Paper to be presented at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the American Culture Association.

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.

Cover:This issue of Macromolecular Symposia contains selected papers presented at the 3rd National Conference on Materials and Devices (3rd NCMD 2022) which was held virtual and in physical mode. The cover is taken from article 202300083 by Apoorva Dwivedi and coworkers.And selected papers presented at 5th International Conference on Soft Materials (ICSM 2022), The cover is taken from article 202300055 by Harsh Pandey and coworkers.. [Extracted from the article]

The same group of authors expanding the SID-sponsored conference paper to a JSID article can come up against charges of dual publication if there is not enough new material in the expanded journal submission. Authors are eligible to use part or all of the contents from the SID-sponsored conference proceeding written by the same authors when preparing an extended version of the manuscript for JSID. [Extracted from the article]

The article offers information on the 145th Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society to be held in Portland, Oregon from August 16-20, 2015.

In the last administration, the IAAP initiated a new series of conferences under the category of "Joint Conferences IAAP/University". Professor Grazina Gudaite was the first to submit a proposal for a joint conference of the IAAP with the University of Vilnius. A second "Joint Conference IAAP/University" was held in October 2018 at the University of Basel, together with Professor Christian Roesler, who holds a teaching position in Analytical Psychology at the University of Basel, and Dr. Harald Atmanspacher from the ETH Zürich/Collegium Helveticum. [Extracted from the article]

The 10th International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management is a gathering for researchers and practitioners to discuss the latest challenges in geospatial data sensing, processing, visualization, and management. The conference welcomes original papers on both practical and theoretical topics, addressing various aspects of geographic information systems and technologies. The conference will take place from May 2-4, 2024, in Angers, France, and interested individuals can contact gistam.secretariat@insticc.org for more information. [Extracted from the article]

Persönliches Klaus Stiglat 90 Jahre – ein Leben für die Baukultur Wieland Ramm 85 Jahre Rolf Breitenbücher 65 Jahre In memoriam Alfred Pauser – der Baukulturingenieur Nachrichten Großforschungszentrum LAB Symposium Ingenieurbaukunst Call for Papers [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An academic career in aging research is filled with the incredible highs of important discoveries that improve the lives of older adults and repeated lows when papers and grants are rejected or studies are negative. To normalize the experience of setbacks and failures in aging research, we invited three senior investigators to share their journeys of persistence and resilience as they have navigated their research careers. This career development symposium was presented at the 2021 Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Geriatrics Society, which was held virtually. We aimed to connect researchers in aging, especially trainees and junior investigators, through personal stories of persistence and shared strategies to build resilience and respond to setbacks with a growth mindset. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article announces that submissions for the William M. Jones Award for the Best Graduate Student Paper in American Culture Studies, which will be presented at the annual meeting of the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, must be submitted by January 1, 2017.

This paper presents a contribution to the study of bibliographic corpora through science mapping. From a graph representation of documents and their textual dimension, stochastic block models can provide a simultaneous clustering of documents and words that we call a domain‐topic model. Previous work investigated the resulting topics, or word clusters, while ours focuses on the study of the document clusters we call domains. To enable the description and interactive navigation of domains, we introduce measures and interfaces that consider the structure of the model to relate both types of clusters. We then present a procedure that extends the block model to cluster metadata attributes of documents, which we call a domain‐chained model, noting that our measures and interfaces transpose to metadata clusters. We provide an example application to a corpus relevant to current science, technology and society (STS) research and an interesting case for our approach: the abstracts presented between 1995 and 2017 at the American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting, the major oncology research conference. Through a sequence of domain‐topic and domain‐chained models, we identify and describe a group of domains that have notably grown through the last decades and which we relate to the establishment of "oncopolicy" as a major concern in oncology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Advance directives are intended to extend patient autonomy by enabling patients to prospectively direct the care of their future incapacitated selves. There has been much discussion about issues such as whether the future incompetent self is identical to the agent who issues the advance directive or whether advance directives can legitimately secure patient autonomy. However, there is another important question to ask: to what extent and in what conditions is it ethically appropriate for one to limit the liberty or agency of one's future incompetent self by issuing an advance directive? In this paper, I use a virtue‐ethical approach to explore this question, focusing on the case of an advance directive for the future self with moderate dementia. First, I examine virtuous attitudes with regard to autonomy and argue that one can manifest vices or ethically undesirable character traits in trying to intervene in the future self's life. In particular, I argue that this case can manifest vices such as disdainfulness, intellectual arrogance, and self‐dictatorship, which is the vice of trying to control one's life to an excessive degree, and that a self‐dictator fails to give due moral consideration to the future self's liberty or agency. I then introduce the Daoist idea of wu‐wei, which recommends embracement of what happens in one's life, as one of the possible remedies for the overemphasis on the value of autonomy and control. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper adds to the limited evidence base around documentary representation of the wishes, feelings and views of children and young people involved in the child protection system. It presents the findings of a critical discourse analysis of 114 documents relating to 28 children and young people in the North of England who were the subject of a child protection conference (CPC) due to having experienced significant harm or the high likelihood of significant harm occurring. Three dominant and interlayering discourses were identified: a discourse of childhood, a discourse of participation and a discourse of professional social work practice. While some children and young people came to life in the reports and were afforded a unique identity, others were invisible and their views were marginalized. The findings support a dominant discourse of the unseen and unheard child, with participation normally mediated by power relationships between adults and children, and which marginalizes the experiences of children through a structurally constructed lens of risk and vulnerability. The findings signify the need to establish assessment practices and case reporting systems in which children are heard themselves as well as reported on by others. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers information on the 2016 Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society which will be held at the Sheraton Crown Center in Kansas City, Missouri on August 21-25.

The article discusses the highlights of the 13th International Milton Symposium held at Victoria College, University of Toronto, Ontario. The event featured presentations of papers related to the life and works of poet John Milton, as well as the British Milton Seminar, roundtable sessions and panels.

The article discusses the highlights of the 13th International Milton Symposium held at Victoria College, University of Toronto, Ontario. The event featured a roundtable on the life and work of poet John Milton and presentations of papers by graduate students on "Empire and Slavery in the Late Poems" panel.

This paper is the sequel to the previous paper [Nelson, Abh. Math. Semin. Univ. Hambg. 85 (2015) 125-179], which showed that sufficient regularity exists to define cylindrical contact homology in dimension three for nondegenerate dynamically separated contact forms, a subclass of dynamically convex contact forms. The Reeb orbits of these so-called dynamically separated contact forms satisfy a uniform growth condition on their Conley-Zehnder indices with respect to a free homotopy class. Given a contact form which is dynamically separated up to large action, we demonstrate a filtration by action on the chain complex and show how to obtain the desired cylindrical contact homology by taking direct limits. We give a direct proof of invariance of cylindrical contact homology within the class of dynamically separated contact forms, and elucidate the independence of the filtered cylindrical contact homology with respect to the choice of the dynamically separated contact form and almost complex structure. We also show that these regularity results are compatible with geometric methods of computing cylindrical contact homology of prequantization bundles, proving a conjecture of Eliashberg [Symplectic field theory and its applications, International Congress of Mathematicians I (European Mathematical Society, Zurich, 2007) 217-246] in dimension three. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to show the development of regional and urban studies in Spain, pointing out the main factors that have influenced such development, the topics analysed by the Spanish researchers and why Spain has today a remarkable position in the field of regional science. Regional problems have always taken up a very important place among the concerns of the Spanish society. This has been closely linked to longstanding historical and internal political conflicts. But, leaving aside some very interesting contributions and territorial projects developed in the past, the research on regional issues emerged really in the 1960s and the consolidation phase took place from 1975 to 2000, as explained in Sections 2 and 3. From the beginning of this century the field has received a clear thrust, supported by a new generation of economists and geographers. The increasing presence of Spanish researchers in international congresses, workshops and specialized journals enable to state that Spain has reached a similar level as in more advanced countries. Section 4 collects the most outstanding topics and innovative contributions made from 2000 to now. A short final note (section 5) points out some final remarks and why a positive continuity of the progress observed can be expected. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents abstracts on nutrition and dietetics topics including the role of nits in glycaemia and weight management, the use of technology to improve practice in clinical dietetics, and the evolutionary influences in nutrition, diet, and metabolism.

The article offers information on the 145th Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society (AFS) to be held in Portland, Oregon on August 16-20, 2015.

The article offers information on the 145th Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society to be held in Portland, Oregon on August 16-20, 2015.

The article offers information on the 145th annual meeting of the American Fisheries Society (AFS) to be held in Portland, Oregon in August 2015.

Persönliches Harald S. Müller wird 70 Jahre Nachrichten Baukultur als Schlüsselfaktor für die ländliche Entwicklung Vorstand der Bayerischen Ingenieurekammer‐Bau mit großer Mehrheit wiedergewählt Call for papers für den 13. CCC‐Kongress in Zakopane (PL) Der neue BKI Kostenplaner 2022 Wettbewerbe Deutscher Nachhaltigkeitspreis Architektur 2021 für „Einfach Bauen" Veranstaltungen 3. Symposium Ingenieurbaukunst – Wie bauen wir zirkulär? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Twelve papers presented at the 7 SP th sp MS Food Day conference, covering different areas of food science and using different MS approaches and methodologies, are included in this special JMS Issue. In all these fields, mass spectrometry plays a key role, offering a plethora of highly sensitive, specific, fast, robust and validated methods, applications and a wide choice of instrumentation for food science and technology. [Extracted from the article]

The Photogrammetric Society existed as an independent learned society for some 50 years, from the 1950s to 2001. This period coincided with the growth of photogrammetry in the UK to become a well‐recognised and widely adopted methodology. A detailed history of the Society during that period was published by Atkinson and Newton in 2002. This paper attempts to give a more personalised view of the role and achievements of the Society through the eyes of a number of Society members. It focuses on the period from the 1970s to the 1990s – the heyday of the Society? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Despite technological innovations and continuous improvement in evidence‐based treatments, mortality in the intensive care unit (ICU) remains high. Consequently, a large group of family members may be in need of, and could benefit from, bereavement follow‐up support. Aims and Objectives: To explore the elements, organization, and evaluation of ICU bereavement services in European countries. Specific objectives were to investigate: (a) the model of bereavement follow‐up services (elements of support), (b) the workforce model (organization of staff), and (c) the evaluation model (evaluation strategies). Design: This was a cross‐sectional survey of conference delegates. Methods: A paper‐and‐pen questionnaire, including a cover letter assuring the respondents of anonymity and confidentiality, was distributed to 250 delegates during the opening ceremony of the 2017 European federation of Critical Care Nurses associations Congress in Belfast. The questionnaire was developed from a previously validated tool describing bereavement care practices in ICUs, including questions about the content and organization of bereavement follow‐up services. Frequencies were calculated using yes/no questions, and content analysis was applied in additional free‐text comments. Results: We received 85 responses from publicly employed nurses, mainly in mixed adult ICUs. Respondents were 48 (56.5%) bedside nurses, and the remaining respondents represented clinical nurse specialists, researchers, managers, or academic nurses. Bereavement follow up had existed for about 1 to 15 years. Important follow‐up elements were: viewing the deceased in the unit, 77 (90.6%); providing follow‐up information, 67 (79.8%); sending a letter of sympathy, 17 (20%); and calling the family to arrange a meeting, 27 (31%). Conclusions: Bereavement follow up is common but variable in European ICUs. We recommend the development, implementation, and evaluation of evidence‐based, but culture‐specific, bereavement follow‐up guidelines for European ICUs. Relevance to Clinical Practice: More critical care nurses are realizing the need for bereavement follow‐up guidelines. This paper provides an overview of common elements that might be considered. WHAT IS KNOWN ABOUT THIS TOPICMany families experience the death of a loved one in intensive care unit (ICU).Bereavement services are offered at some ICUs.WHAT THIS PAPER ADDSBereavement services are not systematically offered in European ICUs.Culture‐specific guidelines are needed for bereavement follow up in ICUs.Common elements of bereavement services have been identified, for example, viewing the deceased in the unit, providing follow‐up information, sending a letter of sympathy, and calling the family to arrange a meeting.Consequences of bereavement in ICU have been discussed, for example, prolonged or complicated grief and lack of closure in the bereaved. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objectives: To determine the frequency of use of the core outcome domains published by the Initiative on Methods, Measurement, and Pain Assessment in Clinical Trials (IMMPACT) in burning mouth syndrome (BMS) randomized controlled trials (RCTs). Methods: This systematic review, conducted as part of the World Workshop on Oral Medicine VII (WWOM VII), was performed by searching the literature for studies published in PubMed, Web of Science, PsycINFO, Cochrane Database/Cochrane Central, and Google Scholar from January 1994 (when the first BMS definition came out) through October 2017. Results: A total of 36 RCTs (n = 2,175 study participants) were included and analyzed. The overall reporting of the IMMPACT core and supplemental outcome domains was low even after the publication of the IMMPACT consensus papers in 2003 and 2005 (mean before IMMPACT consensus publication = 2.6 out of 6; mean after IMMPACT publication = 3.8 out of 6). Use of validated assessment tools recommended by the IMMPACT consensus was scarce (1.9 out of 6). None of the RCTs reviewed cited the IMMPACT consensus papers. Conclusions: The underreporting of IMMPACT outcome domains in BMS RCTs is significant. Raising awareness regarding the existence of standardized outcome domains in chronic pain research is essential to ensure more accurate, comparable, and consistent interpretation of RCT findings that can be clinically translatable. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: This paper reports findings from the first longitudinal study on the evolution of the physical phenotypes of fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) and partial FAS (PFAS) from early childhood through adolescence. Methods: The sample consisted of 155 children (78 males and 77 females) born to women recruited at an antenatal clinic serving a Cape Coloured (mixed ancestry) population in Cape Town, South Africa. Two expert FASD dysmorphologists, blind regarding prenatal alcohol exposure, independently evaluated each child's growth and dysmorphology at 4 clinics conducted over an 11‐year period. Case conferences were held to reach consensus regarding which children had FAS or PFAS growth and physical features using the Revised Institute of Medicine (2005) guidelines. Results: The prevalence of the physical phenotype was stable across the 4 ages for about half of the children with FAS and about one‐third of those with PFAS but more variable for the others. Test–retest reliability was substantial for the FAS phenotype, but poorer for PFAS. Two distinct patterns were seen: a "strong phenotype" that was consistently identified and a less consistent one in which dysmorphic features and/or anthropometric deficits fluctuated or diminished with age. The physical phenotype was most apparent during early childhood and least apparent during puberty, due to differences in timing of the growth spurt and the evolving adult face. Short palpebral features and small head circumference diminished with age, flat philtrum fluctuated, while thin vermilion and weight and height restriction were stable. Conclusions: Key facial features that characterize FASD in early childhood diminish or evolve in some individuals, making diagnostic examinations that rely on these characteristics most sensitive during early childhood and school age. Moreover, puberty poses classification problems due to variability in timing of the growth spurt. Given that several features and small head circumference diminished with age, many individuals would be misdiagnosed if only examined at a later age. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Mathematics Education for the Future Project is organizing a Symposium on New Ways of Teaching and Learning in Bologna, Italy, from August 6-10, 2024. This symposium follows successful international meetings held in 2022 at King's College, Cambridge, and in 2023 at The Queen's College, Oxford. Teachers and math educators from all over the world and from all six continents attended these meetings. The project welcomes attendees and also invites proposals for papers and workshops to be published in the Symposium Proceedings. The organizing committee includes Alan Rogerson, Jasia Morska, and Chiara Chiarini, and the project is in cooperation with various organizations and institutions. [Extracted from the article]

ICAMMS 2022 was an international conference focused on advancements in Manufacturing and Material Science. The conference aimed to benefit the scientific community and promote interdisciplinary collaboration. It showcased the latest developments in material science and manufacturing, with key topics including Additive Manufacturing, Sustainable Manufacturing Technologies, and Biomaterials. The conference received abstracts from various participants, and 58 papers were accepted after a rigorous review process. The three-day virtual conference provided valuable insights and networking opportunities for the advancement of material science and manufacturing. [Extracted from the article]

Cover:This issue of Macromolecular Symposia contains selected papers presented at the 2nd International conference on advances in manufacturing and material science 2022 (ICAMMS 2022), The cover is taken from article 22001168 by P. Sarath Chandran and coworkers.. [Extracted from the article]

The 10th International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management is a gathering for researchers and practitioners to discuss the latest challenges in geospatial data sensing, processing, visualization, and management. The conference welcomes original papers on both practical and theoretical topics, addressing various aspects of geographic information systems and technologies. The conference will cover areas such as data acquisition and processing, remote sensing, spatial data mining, climate change, and domain applications. The conference will take place from May 2-4, 2024, in Angers, France. For more information, interested individuals can visit the conference website or contact the organizers at gistam.secretariat@insticc.org. [Extracted from the article]

An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses selected papers in the issue presented at the 10th conference on Classification and Data Analysis Group of Italian Statistical Society (CLADAG) on topics including a fast algorithm, functional data analysis, and temporal network data.

This paper from CILIP's Health Libraries Group (HLG) committee is written by the previous International Officer who worked in partnership with Shane Godbolt. It outlines Shane's contribution to the Health Libraries Group over several decades and focuses on the collaborative work on international visits. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the work that Shane Godbolt did in Africa in strengthening health information networks. It focuses on th role she played in supporting the Association for Health Information and Libraries in Africa (AHILA) and working with the Information Training Outreach Centre for Africa (ITOCA) to provide capacity building linkages. Some examples of such linkages extending beyond Africa to the United Kingdom are explored. It then concludes with reflections from authors on their own experiences of working with Shane Godbolt. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Within the global context, Eastern Europe has been repeatedly identified as the area with the highest levels of alcohol-related health harms. Although the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, and the Soviet Union collapsed soon afterwards, alcohol-related mortality in Eastern Europe remains far higher than in Western Europe. However, despite the high burden of alcohol harm and mortality in Eastern Europe, with the partial exception of Russia, relatively little is known about the country-specific impact of alcohol on health and mortality and the various policy responses to it. In response to this, an international symposium was held in Vilnius, Lithuania in June 2017 entitled Persisting burden of alcohol in Central and Eastern Europe: recent evidence and measurement issues. This special section of Drug and Alcohol Review is based on a selection of the papers presented at this symposium, providing for the first time a broad overview of the problem of alcohol-related mortality in a diverse range of Eastern European countries linked to a description and analysis of alcohol control initiatives that have been developed. While there is strong evidence of the influence of history, culture and education across European countries having a profound and persistent effect on differences in drinking patterns and preferences, there is, nevertheless, evidence that effective policy responses have been mounted in a range of countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: A classification scheme for periodontal and peri‐implant diseases and conditions is necessary for clinicians to properly diagnose and treat patients as well as for scientists to investigate etiology, pathogenesis, natural history, and treatment of the diseases and conditions. This paper summarizes the proceedings of the World Workshop on the Classification of Periodontal and Peri‐implant Diseases and Conditions. The workshop was co‐sponsored by the American Academy of Periodontology (AAP) and the European Federation of Periodontology (EFP) and included expert participants from all over the world. Planning for the conference, which was held in Chicago on November 9 to 11, 2017, began in early 2015. An organizing committee from the AAP and EFP commissioned 19 review papers and four consensus reports covering relevant areas in periodontology and implant dentistry. The authors were charged with updating the 1999 classification of periodontal diseases and conditions and developing a similar scheme for peri‐implant diseases and conditions. Reviewers and workgroups were also asked to establish pertinent case definitions and to provide diagnostic criteria to aid clinicians in the use of the new classification. All findings and recommendations of the workshop were agreed to by consensus. This introductory paper presents an overview for the new classification of periodontal and peri‐implant diseases and conditions, along with a condensed scheme for each of four workgroup sections, but readers are directed to the pertinent consensus reports and review papers for a thorough discussion of the rationale, criteria, and interpretation of the proposed classification. Changes to the 1999 classification are highlighted and discussed. Although the intent of the workshop was to base classification on the strongest available scientific evidence, lower level evidence and expert opinion were inevitably used whenever sufficient research data were unavailable. The scope of this workshop was to align and update the classification scheme to the current understanding of periodontal and peri‐implant diseases and conditions. This introductory overview presents the schematic tables for the new classification of periodontal and peri‐implant diseases and conditions and briefly highlights changes made to the 1999 classification. It cannot present the wealth of information included in the reviews, case definition papers, and consensus reports that has guided the development of the new classification, and reference to the consensus and case definition papers is necessary to provide a thorough understanding of its use for either case management or scientific investigation. Therefore, it is strongly recommended that the reader use this overview as an introduction to these subjects. Accessing this publication online will allow the reader to use the links in this overview and the tables to view the source papers (Table  ). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author describes his personal and professional journey in relation to the subject of the AJA 40th anniversary conference, 'Who is my Jung?' The first part of the paper covers his early life and his attempt to bring together two opposing parts within him: valuation of a scientific approach, and an interest in the inner world, dreams and the paranormal. Discussion of his professional life follows, including his relationship with Gerhard Adler, past problems and splits within the Jungian community and the author's attempts to heal these. The value of both remembering and forgetting is questioned. This leads onto ideas that bring value and meaning to his work and life, and which bridge the inner divisions he felt in his early life: notably Jung's focus on applying scientific theory to the mystery of the psyche, his relational attitude (exemplified by the dialectical process and his interest in countertransference) and his theory of synchronicity. Recent discussion in Jungian writing has questioned the nature of synchronistic experiences and explored how they may emerge naturally from complex systems. The paper ends the author's continuing journey with two personal vignettes describing how meaning may emerge from the unconscious. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An introduction to the periodical "Nutrition and Dietetics" is presented in which editor discusses articles within this issue including oral papers, plenary papers, and dieticians.

Globally, only 52% of children aged 6-23 months meet the minimum meal frequency and a mere 29% meet the minimum dietary diversity, with large disparities across and within regions. With most of the stunting occurring during the first thousand days-from conception to age 2 years-improving complementary feeding in children 6-23 months old is an urgent priority. With this evidence in mind, UNICEF collaborated with the governments of India and Maharashtra to convene a global meeting in Mumbai, India, under the theme: First Foods: A Global Meeting to Accelerate Progress on Complementary Feeding in Young Children (November 17-18, 2015). The global meeting provided a platform that aimed to (a) synthesize the biological and implementation science on complementary feeding; (b) review the practice and experience in improving access to nutritious complementary foods and good complementary feeding practices; and (c) consolidate a strong evidence base that can inform the development of strategies and approaches to improve complementary feeding that are fit to context. This overview paper summarizes the rationale on why improving complementary foods and feeding for infants and young children matters and what it takes to improve them. It builds on the papers presented at the First Foods Global Meeting and those commissioned as a follow on to it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]