Conference Overview

Conference Overview

An Overview of the Conference

An eminent solar physicist has been quoted as saying that \despite exquisite images we have of the Sun's surface, we know almost nothing about its interior" (Browne 1995). The conference ooered an excellent opportunity to test this statement. It left at least the present author with an impression that our current knowledge about the solar interior is not quite as limited as indicated, although ...

International Conference on Environmental Cadmium: an overview.

The International Conference on Environmental Cadmium was held June 7-9, 1978 on the NIH Campus in Bethesda, Maryland, to summarize the current level of scientific knowledge about cadmium as an environmental agent and to identify needed areas of research. The meeting was sponsored by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the Department of Environmental Hygiene, Karolinska ...

International conference on environmental arsenic: an overview.

The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the Department of Environmental Hygiene, Karolinska Institute, as Cooperating World Health Organization Centers in collaboration with the Scientific Commitee on the Toxicology of Metals under the Permanent Commission and International Association on Occupational Health, sponsored an International Conference on Arsenic October 5-8, 1976...

Evaluating comprehensive family service programs: Conference overview

Since 1986 a number of federal agencies have initiated large-scale demonstration programs designed to relieve the deprivation of parents and children in impoverished families. The evaluation of such programs formed the subject of a conference held in Washington on November 14-15, 199 1. The conference was one of a series jointly sponsored by the Institute and the Office of the Assistant Secreta...