The 6th International Conference on Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Handbook : Tokyo, Japan - November 8 to 10, 2008 : Conference Proceedings

The 6th International Conference on Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Handbook, Tokyo, Japan - November 8 to 10, 2008. / Jointly organized by International Collaboration division, School of Human Sciences, Osaka University, Japan and by Nonprofit Organization HANDS (Health and Development Service)第6回母子手帳国際会議 TOKYO 2008Day 1: "MCH Handbook in the World" / Day 2: "MCH Handbooks and the Continuity of Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health" / Day 3: Field Visit: Hitachinomiya City, Ibaraki PrefectureProcMCH_day1.pdf contains: Preface / Contents / Conference Report / Conference Program / Day 1 Opening Speech / Panel Discussion.ProcMCH_day2-1.pdf contains: Day2 Country ReportsProcMCH_day2-2.pdf contains: Day2 Plenary Session / Day 3: Field Visit / Appendi

Unproceedings of the Fourth .Astronomy Conference (.Astronomy 4), Heidelberg, Germany, July 9-11 2012

The goal of the .Astronomy conference series is to bring together astronomers, educators, developers and others interested in using the Internet as a medium for astronomy. Attendance at the event is limited to approximately 50 participants, and days are split into mornings of scheduled talks, followed by 'unconference' afternoons, where sessions are defined by participants during the course of the event. Participants in unconference sessions are discouraged from formal presentations, with discussion, workshop-style formats or informal practical tutorials encouraged. The conference also designates one day as a 'hack day', in which attendees collaborate in groups on day-long projects for presentation the following morning. These hacks are often a way of concentrating effort, learning new skills, and exploring ideas in a practical fashion. The emphasis on informal, focused interaction makes recording proceedings more difficult than for a normal meeting. While the first .Astronomy conference is preserved formally in a book, more recent iterations are not documented. We therefore, in the spirit of .Astronomy, report 'unproceedings' from .Astronomy 4, which was held in Heidelberg in July 2012.Comment: 11 pages, 1 figure, .Astronomy 4, #dotastr

Critical Review of Research on Families and Family Policies in Europe Conference Report

This report was produced by FAMILYPLATFORM. FAMILYPLATFORM (SSH-2009-3.2.2 Social platform on research for families and family policies) is funded by the EU’s 7th Framework Programme (€1,400,000) and has a duration of 18 months (October 2009 – March 2011). The consortium consists of the following 12 organisations: 1) Technical University Dortmund (Coordinators); 2) State Institute for Family Research, University of Bamberg; 3) Family Research Centre, University of Jyväskylä; 4) Austrian Institute for Family Studies, University of Vienna; 5) Demographic Research Institute, Budapest; 6) Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon; 7) Department of Sociology and Social research, University of Milan-Bicocca; 8) Institute of International and Social Studies, Tallinn University; 9) London School of Economics; 10) Confederation of Family Organisations in the European Union (COFACE), Brussels; 11) Forum delle Associazioni Familiari, Italy; 12) Mouvement Mondial des Mères, Brussels; Contact [email protected] or visit http://www.familyplatform.eu for more information.The aim of this Critical Review Report is to describe and report on the international conference "Families and Family Policies in Europe - A Critical Review", wich took place in Lisbon, at the Institute for Social Sciences (University of Lisbon), in May 2010. Organized by FAMILYPLATFORM consortium, the main objective of this 3 day conference was to carry out a critical review of existing research on families and family policies in Europe. Drawing on expert reviews of the state of the art, critical statements by stakeholders and policy makers, and debate on the major challenges for research and policies, the conference was organized with a view to providing a major forum for discussing and identifying the design of future family policies and research.FAMILYPLATFORM (SSH 2009.2.2 Social platform on research for families and family  policies):  funded  by  the  European  Unions 7th Framework Programme for 18 months (October 2009 – March 2011)

SALT Equalizer, Vol. 2010, Issue 1

Contents of This Issue: Raquel Aldana & Steven W. Bender, Co-Presidents’ Column, at 1. Hazel Weiser, Executive Director’s Colum, at 1. Ngai Pindell, December SALT Teaching Conference Promises Exciting Visions of the Law School of the Future, at 4. Ruben Garcia, New Law Teachers Pipeline Committee Launches with San Francisco Event, at 4. Angela Onwuachi-Willig, The New SALT Blog: SALT Members Speak Out, at 5. Doug Colbert, SALT Forms New Access to Justice Committee, at 6. Karla McKanders, Human Rights Committee Report, at 7. Jackie Gardina, LGBT Committee Report, at 8. Bryan Adamson, Affirmative Action Committee Report, at 9. Robert Dinerstein, Judicial/Governmental Nominations Committee Report, at 9. Andi Curcio, Issues in Legal Education Committee Report, at 10. Deborah Waire Post, Academic Freedom Committee Report: “Qualified Immunity…Is Not a Parachute to be Deployed Only When the Plane Has Run Out of Fuel,” at 11. Imran Siddiqui, 2010 Cover Retreat Inspires, Encourages, at 12. Steven W. Bender, 2010 Trino Grillo Retreat Reminds Participants: “Happiness is Living in Alliance With Your Own Principles,” at 12. Ruben Garcia, Annual Dinner in New Orleans a Rousing Success; On to San Francisco, at 14. Olympia Duhart, Membership Makes It Possible for Us to Meet Our Mission, at 14. Hazel Weiser, “Sowing the Seeds of Justice:” Thanks for a Great Sneak Preview!, at 16. Nancy Cook, SALT Members and Friends Provide a Day of Service in New Orleans, at 18. About SALT, at 19

ACUTA eNews April 2013 Vol. 42, No. 4

In this issue,,, 1 ACUTA Face-to-Face Events 2 ACUTA Alert: FCC Accessibility Rule Certification Requirements 3 News You Can Use- on the Website 4 Sunday Workshops at the Conference 5 Info Links 6 Ten SIP Trunk Equipment License Issues that Can Ruin Your Day (or Month) 8 Board Report 9 Welcome New Members 9 Check It Ou

What One Can Learn From the Cloud Condensation Nuclei (CCN) Size Distributions as Monitored by the BEO Moussala?

In this proceeding we report initial studies into the big data set acquired by the Cloud Condensation Nuclei (CCN) counter of the Basic Environmental Observatory (BEO) Moussala over the whole 2016 year at a frequency of 1 Hz. First, we attempt to reveal correlations between the results for CCN number concentrations on the timescale of a whole year (2016) as averaged over 12 month periods with the meteorological parameters for the same period and with the same time step. Then, we zoom into these data and repeat the study on the timescale of a month for two months from 2016, January and July, with a day time step. For the same two months we show the CCN size distributions averaged over day periods. Finally, we arrive at our main result: typical, in terms of maximal and minimal number concentrations, CCN size distributions for chosen hours, one hour for each month of the year, hence 24 distributions in total. These data show a steady pattern of peaks and valleys independent of the concrete number concentration which moves up and down the number concentrations (y-axis) without significant shifts along the sizes (x-axis).Comment: 6 pages, 4 figure, The 10th Jubilee Conference of the Balkan Physical Union (BPU10), 26-30 August, Sofia, Bulgari

Shark Research Present Status and Future Direction

In the summer of 1974, during the three day period 30 July through 1 August, a conference on shark research was held at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. Convened by the Oceanic Biology Program (Code 484) of the Office of Naval Research, the conference brought together a number of people concerned with sharks and shark research including scientists and representatives of the Air Force, Army, Coast Guard and a variety of Navy commands.In the summer of 1974, a three day workshop was convened by the Office of Naval Research. Purpose of the workshop was to access the present status of shark research and to discuss areas of potential future research. The results of these discussions constitute the main portion of this report and include the following recommendations :Office of Naval Research (Code 484) Arlington, VA 2221

SALT Equalizer, Vol. 2009, Issue 2

Contents of This Issue: Deborah Waire Post & Margaret Martin Barry, Co-Presidents\u27 Column, at 1. Hazel Weiser, Executive Director\u27s Column, at 1. Tayyab Mahmud, SALT Board of Governors Elections: Meet the Candidates, at 4. Roberg Chang, Second Biennial Law School Leadership Workshop, at 6. Ruben Garcia, SALT-LatCrit Junior Faculty Development Workshop, at 6. Nancy Cook, Service Day in New Orleans, at 7. Ruben Garcia, 2010 SALT Annual Dinner to Honor Professor Frank Valdes, at 7. Hazel Weiser, Poverty Law Teaching Conference, at 7. Ngai Pindell, SALT Teaching Conference, at 8. Marjorie Cohn, Panel on Lawyer Liability for Torture Memos, at 8. Deborah Waire Post, 2009 Cover Workshop, at 9. Deborah Waire Post, 2009 SALT Annual Dinner, at 10. Susan Feathers, 2009 Grillo Retreat, at 11. Deborah Waire Post, 2009 Cover Retreat, at 12. Hazel Weiser, Teaching in the Moment Workshop, at 14. Jane Dolkart, SALT’s LGBT Committee Report, at 15. Deborah Waire Post, Human Rights Committee Report, at 15. Judicial/Governmental Nominations Committee Report, at 16. Deborah Waire Post, Issues in Legal Education Committee Report, at 17. Hazel Weiser, Salt Staff News, at 18. New Salt Equalizer Schedule, at 19

A study of the long term variability of RX J1856.5-3754 with XMM-Newton

We report on a detailed spectral analysis of all the available XMM-Newton data of RX J1856.5-3754, the brightest and most extensively observed nearby, thermally emitting neutron star. Very small variations (~1-2%) in the single-blackbody temperature are detected, but are probably due to an instrumental effect, since they correlate with the position of the source on the detector. Restricting the analysis to a homogeneous subset of observations, with the source at the same detector position, we place strong limits on possible spectral or flux variations from March 2005 to present-day. A slightly higher temperature (kT~61.5 eV, compared to the average value kT~61 eV) was instead measured in April 2002. If this difference is not of instrumental origin, it implies a rate of variation of about 0.15 eV/yr between April 2002 and March 2005. The high-statistics spectrum from the selected observations is well fit by the sum of two blackbody models, which extrapolate to an optical flux level in agreement with the observed value.Comment: 4 pages, to appear in the proceedings of the ERPM conference, Zielona Gora, April 201

Wading in before Diving in: Preparing Library Students for Professional Participation

Presentation at the Michigan Academic Library Association Annual Conference at Central Michigan University in Mt. Pleasant, MI.Library and information science (LIS) students have little opportunity to become familiar with the standards and expectations of a professional conference other than attending an actual conference, which can be intimidating and mysterious. The American Library Association student chapter at the University of Michigan School of Information hosts an annual student-led conference, QuasiCon, which fulfills this unmet need. Started as an ‘unconference’ five years ago, QuasiCon has evolved into a day-long conference that gives LIS students the full conference experience, from submitting a proposal to the student selection committee to networking, all in a supportive environment. By volunteering to serve on the QuasiCon planning committee, LIS students can also develop valuable fundraising, event planning, and project management skills. The whole QuasiCon experience prepares LIS students to immediately participate in the professional library community upon graduation, which advances the entire library profession. Information professionals also benefit by attending QuasiCon because they can scout future talent, recruit for professional organizations, and shepherd budding professionals into the field. This poster will describe QuasiCon’s professional impact for LIS students, such as learning how to compose an engaging conference proposal, as well as for information professionals. At QuasiCon 2016 in early February, attendees will be asked to evaluate the conference, including how it has professional value for themselves. The poster will report this feedback and impart best practices for planning and attending a student-led conference. Visual elements on the poster will include photographs of this year’s conference and anonymous quotes from the evaluation.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/118063/1/MI-ALA_poster2016-5-10 (1).pdfDescription of MI-ALA_poster2016-5-10 (1).pdf : Poste