Invited lecture

Invited Lecture: Narrative Summarization

The understanding and summarization of stories remains a challenge, in part because of the inability to adequately capture the ‘aboutness’ of information content. This can result in inappropriate content selection as well as summary incoherence. This talk sketches a general framework for narrative summarization that relies in part on explo itation of temporal information. I will show how this f...

Pactrims Invited Lecture / Ordinary Submission

Invited Lecture An Introduction to Cavitation Fundamentals

In this opening lecture I will summarize some of the fundamentals of cavitation in the hope that this will allow attendees greater insight into the more advanced lectures which follow. Whether your primary interest is in the turbomachinery field or in the biological and bioengineering contexts in which cavitation is important these fundamentals are important in understanding the observed phenom...

Future of atomic spectrometry for environmental analysis† Invited Lecture

Environmental analyses for trace metals are currently being niques possessing multielement capabilities. Although driven by three major factors: the demand for more elements numerous instrumental methods of analysis are currently availat lower concentration levels; the increasing interest in able, measurements undertaken for commercial or regulatory elemental speciation due to the issues of bio...

Transgenic rats: new animal models in hypertension research. Invited lecture.

The challenge in hypertension research is the elucidation of the primary genetic causes of elevated blood pressure. It is common knowledge that the basic information on how a cell, an organ, and the whole body function resides within the chromosomes and the individual genes, that is, their nucleotide DNA sequence. The problem with understanding primary (genetic) hypertension in humans is that s...