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The author discusses the important relationship betweem academic and clinical neurology. Topics include how academic papers in neurology provide detailed cases of children with neurological problems, the evolution of academic research due to the emergence of new genetic technologies and advancement in molecular medicine, and the academic perspective to child neurology to be discussed at the British Paediatric Neurology Association (BPNA) Annual Conference 2018.

Information about several papers discussed at the 34th Annual Symposium on Nonhuman Primate Models for AIDS held in New Orleans, Louisiana on October 11-14, 2016 is presented. Topics include animal model for study of host-virus relationships, disease, and prevention strategies. The symposium featured speakers Dr. Marcelo Kuroda and Dr. Andrew Lackner.

Information on the 14th Congress of the nonprofit European Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care Society (EVECCS) held in Lyon, France from June 12-14, 2015 is presented. The topics discussed at the conference include the diagnosis and treatment of leptospirosis and the papers "APPLE fast score and fractional excretion of electrolytes in dogs with acute kidney injury" by Dr. Roberta Troia and "An atypical hemoabdomen" by veterinary technician Jo Woodison.

Information about several papers discussed at the 2015 meeting of the Modern Language Association of America held January 8-11 in relation to John Milton is presented. Topics include the Divorcing Marriage Contract from Political Contract: Milton and After, Milton and the Politics of Periodization, and The Age of Shakespeare and the Age of Milton: Bridging the Gaping Gulf. The meeting featured several speakers including Sharon Achinstein, John David Staines, and Lee Morrissey.

The article introduces papers adapted from invited talks at the Mathematics of Finite Elements and Applications (MAFELAP) Conference held in June 2013, including one on the 40th anniversary of the Crouzeiz-Raviart Element, and a lecture on coastal ocean modeling.

This volume is a collection of papers presented at Symposium X 'Materials Research for Group IV Semiconductors: Growth, Characterization, and Technological Developments' at the E-MRS Spring Meeting 2014 held from May 26-30 in Lille, France. Different from the recent past, the major challenges for fundamental research and technological development in microelectronics and photovoltaics are no more confined to bulk silicon and silicon devices but to a variety of options based on silicon alloys, nanocrystalline silicon, silicon nanowires, Ge films on silicon, and graphene. Group IV elements are dominating microelectronics, photovoltaics, and nano-technology in their whole variety and with ongoing innovation potential. The overall development is driven more and more by defect engineering procedures, optimized deposition processes and growth techniques, advanced diagnostics and modeling tools. Basic research on point defects and extended defects remains in the center of interest for both electronic and photovoltaic applications, being still important for solving defect related problems, for improved defect engineering, and to increase the efficiency of gettering processes in photovoltaic and electronic materials. Crystal growth for electronic applications moves towards 450 mm diameter silicon ingots while photovoltaic applications are seeking a tradeoff between high quality of large volumes and cost efficiency. Advanced float-zone processes open new opportunities, and modeling of crystal growth and defect generation for Si, Ge and Si-Ge alloys can help to facilitate these developments. Optimization of epitaxial deposition of nitrides on silicon substrates as well as novel methods for the growth of graphene on silicon are in the center of interest because of their innovation potential for the optoelectronic and microelectronic industry. Selective epitaxy for advanced electronic applications and strain engineering in strained layer epitaxy are still important for the heterogeneous integration of Si or Ge in high-end silicon device technologies. Eventually, nanocrystalline group IV semiconductors in their whole variety from quantum dots, nanowires and superlattices offer a number of novel opportunities for new applications in view of 'more than Moore'. The symposium addressed its interest to all these topics and provided a successful forum for scientists coming from research institutions and industry of Asia, America, Australia, Africa, and Europe to discuss recent results and developments in materials research on group IV elements. In total, 72 oral and 113 poster presentations have made this symposium a fruitful expert meeting, with mutual benefits arising from technical and scientific interactions between academy and industry. (© 2015 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Information about several papers discusses at the 13th Biennial Conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) held at Tallinn University in Estonia on July 31 to August 3, 2014, is presented. Topics include collaborative practices, contemporary art patronage, and common conceptual paradigms. The conference featured several films and arts including from Ernst Karel, Stephanie Spray, and Lidia Rossner.

The author discusses the 2014 Society for the Study of Behavioural Phenotypes (SSBP) conference in New York and introduces papers presented in this issue, with topics that include neonatal diagnosis of Down syndrome, mental health issues associated with 22q.II.2 deletion syndrome, and the development of a stranger awareness training programmes for people with Williams syndrome.

The article presents an abstract by A. A. Salamat and colleagues on the development of Surgihoney to be used as an adjunctive biofilm-targeted therapy in Staphylococcus aureus chronic rhinosinusitis, and mentions the other papers presented at the 2016 British Rhinological Society 14th Annual Meeting.

The article offers news briefs related to Royal Meteorological Society (RMS). Topics mentioned include the announcement of the award winners for best presentation at the Student & Early Career Professional's Conference, the publish of the paper entitled "How is sea ice in the Arctic and Antarctic changing?" by the Climate Science Communication Group (CSCG) Committee, and the need for volunteers in the Into the Blue exhibition.

This section presents abstracts of research papers related to internal medicine, including "Development of a Disease Damage Index in Systemic Sclerosis Using Consensus and Data Driven Methods," by Huq Molla et al., "Survival in Systemic Sclerosis-Related Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension in the Modern Treatment Era," by Stevens Wendy et al. and "Effect of Vitamin D Supplementation on Effusion-Synovitis in Knee Osteoarthritis: A Randomised Controlled Trial," by Wang Xia et al.

Information about several papers discussed at the Veterinary Vaccinology Network conference held January 2016 in Manchester, England on collaboration and public engagement is presented. Topics include the value of a One Health approach to developing vaccines, challenges of developing vaccines, and difficulties of developing a differentiating infected from vaccinated animals test for bovine TB. The conference featured several speakers including George Warimwe, Oriol Sunyer, and Johnjoe McFadden.

The article discusses the highlights of the Evidence-Based Veterinary Medicine (EBVM) Network skills day which was organized by the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons Knowledge group in 2015. These include talks from Rachel Dean, a clinical associate professor in feline medicine, on some typical marketing material received by veterinary practice in Great Britain, and Tim Mair of the Bell Equine Veterinary Clinic on the difficulty of appraising published research papers.

The author presents a personal narrative of his experiences as a presenter at the Microscience Microscopy Congress (MMC) 2015. Topics discussed are generation of aberration corrected Transmission Electron Microscopes (TEM), presenting paper on chiral crystallography, and socializing opportunities.

An index is presented of authors whose papers will be featured at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Clinical Oncology Society of Australia to be held at The Federation Conference and Exhibition Centre of Hotel Grand Chancellor in Hobart, Tasmania on November 17-19, 2015.

An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses various reports within the issue, including research papers presented in the World Congress of the International Association of Bioethics, articles related to clinical ethics and bioethics methods.

The article discusses the highlights of 2014 International Conference on Soft Materials held in Jaipur, India from October 6 to 10. Topics discussed include the research papers presented at the conference on topics like biological soft matter, and colloids and interface, the invited speakers include Alexander Boker from Germany and Emilie Roger from France, the sponsors of the conference, and the benefits promoted by networking.

Information about several papers discussed at the meeting conducted by the Royal Meteorological Society held at the University of Reading on January 21, 2015, is presented. Topics include the importance of the stratosphere for weather and climate, impact of stratosphere in surface variability and predictability, and climate and seasonal forecasting. The meeting featured notable speakers including Peter Haynes, Amanda Maycock, and Adam Scaife.

The article discusses papers taken from the 12th Conference on High-Resolution X-ray Diffraction and Imaging (XTOP) held in Grenoble, France in September 2014, including laboratory and synchrotron studies of semiconductors, software for fast data analysis and microtomography of bone structure.

The article invites submissions for papers, posters, symposia or workshops at the annual conference of the European Society for the History of Human Sciences to be held at University of Angers, France from July 7-10, 2015.

Information about several papers discussed at the conference of Dynamics of Religions in Southeast Asia (DORISEA) organized by the Institute of Asian and African Studies held at Humbodlt-Universität Berlin on January 23-24, 2015, is presented. Topics include religion, religious identities in the Philippines, and conspiracy theories in the aftermath of the Malaysia Airlines MH370 tragedy. The conference featured notable speakers including Michael Lambek, Guido Sprenger, and Boike Rehbein.

'Crystals are like people, it is the defects in them which tend to make them interesting!' said Cambridge Professor Sir Colin Humphrey once upon a time. Today, this statement still rings true. Defects govern the properties of nanostructures to the same or even to a greater extent as they do in bulk solids. Any surface or interface is already a perturbation of an ideal solid, and the role of interfaces increases with decreasing dimensionality of objects. However, the research field of defects in nanostructures extends much farther, encompassing doping, diffusion, radiation effects, phase transitions - virtually all fields of solid-state science and technology. A burst of research activity in two-dimensional materials has been brought about by the isolation of graphene from bulk graphite in 2004 by Geim and Novoselov (Nobel prize in Physics 2010). The invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes crowned with the very recent Nobel prize in Physics awarded to Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura goes hand-in-hand with the defect engineering in semiconductors. The first EMRS symposium on defects in nanomaterials was held during the 2012 Fall meeting in Warsaw, and the success of the event was a motivation to organize a follow-up symposium during the 2014 Spring Meeting in Lille. The Symposium E entitled 'Defect-induced effects in nanomaterials' attracted even more participants from all over the world, and this volume includes 36 papers based on presentations from the five days of oral and poster sessions, from May 26 to 30. The program of the symposium comprised 15 invited and 47 oral talks, as well as 98 poster presentations. The presenters came from 44 countries located on five continents: Africa, North and South America, Asia, Australia, and Europe. The following topics have been covered: - Swift heavy ion irradiation as the means to tailor nanomaterials; - Effects of grain boundaries and interfaces on diffusion and transport processes in nanomaterials; - Electronic structure of defects in nanostructures; consequences for carrier transport, magnetism, optical and electronic properties, as well as device parameters; - Creation, evolution and properties of radiation defects in nanosize materials and heterostructures; the role of interfaces, nonstoichiometry, strain and adjacent layers; - Defects in two-dimensional materials; - Use of defects as microprobes; - Multiscale computer modeling of defect creation in nanomaterials; - Novel technological processes of micro-, nano- and optoelectronics using defects and radiation effects in nanostructures. The latest achievements in theory and experiment as well as technological applications have been presented and discussed by academic and industrial researchers. We are deeply grateful to all participants who, through their valuable contributions, friendly and open discussions, turned the symposium into an exciting event. We also greatly acknowledge the financial and administrative support of the E-MRS Headquarters which allowed the organization of the symposium. Last but not least, our thank goes to Wiley-VCH that took over the publication of the symposium proceedings. (© 2015 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers information on an online forum regarding a research paper entitled "Prevention of preterm delivery with vaginal progesterone in women with preterm labour (4P): randomised double-blind placebo-controlled trial" in 2014.

The article offers information on an online forum regarding a research paper entitled "Effectiveness of progestogens to improve perinatal outcome in twin pregnancies: an individual participant data meta-analysis" in 2014.

The article offers information on an online forum regarding a research paper entitled "A randomised controlled trial of outpatient compared with inpatient cervical ripening with prostaglandin E2 (OPRA study)" in 2014.

The article offers information on the 2015 conference of the European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics (ENBIS) in Prague, Czech Republic and announces a call for papers on conference session topics such as experiment design, process modeling and control, and machine learning.

Information about several papers discussed at the meting of the Eurasian Congress of Rheumatologists with Global Arthritis Research Network (GARN) and Bio Rheumatology International Congress (BRIC) held in Moscow, Russia on June 5-7, 2014 is presented. Topics include intellectual stimulus to emerging young scientists and direction of the Asia Pacific League of Associations for Rheumatology (APLAR). The meeting featured several speakers including Kusuki Nishioka, Chen Shunle, and Rohini Handa.

The article offers information regarding the Research Network on Language Teacher Education and Professional Development's (ReN's) Fifth National Symposium on Foreign Language Teacher Education and Development in China, which took place December 6-8, 2013 at the Guandong University of Foreign Studies in China. Topics include research papers presented on topics such as teacher identity, teacher culture, and teacher learning, local seminars and workshops for language teachers, and AILA2014.

The article offers information regarding the International Association of Applied Linguistics (AILA) Research Network (ReN) 2014 Symposium in Brisbane, Australia concerning the relationship between interlocutor and instructor differences in cognition and second language acquisition. Details related to the symposium's introduction, papers delivered by researchers, such as Laura Gurzynski-Weiss, Kimi Nakatsukasa, and Avizia Yim Long, and questions from the audience are provided.