North American Serials Interest Group Second Annual Conference– Denison University, June 1987

North American perception of the prestige of biomechanics serials.

Biomechanics is a discipline with many applications and sub-areas so scholars often publish their work in journals in different subject categories used in the ISI Journal Citation Reports (JCR). It is not known whether the quality/prestige of journals in the discipline of biomechanics matches the ISI Impact Factor (IF) ratings reported in JCR. A survey of the membership of the American Society ...

Meeting report: American Aging Association 40th Annual Meeting, Raleigh, North Carolina, June 3-6, 2011.

The focus of the 2011 American Aging Association meeting was emerging concepts in the mechanisms of aging. Many of the usual topics in aging were covered, such as dietary restriction (DR), inflammation, stress resistance, homeostasis and proteasome activity, sarcopenia, and neural degeneration. There was also discussion of newer methods, such as microRNAs and genome sequencing, that have been e...

North American Brain Injury Society’s Eighth Annual Conference on Brain Injury

NABIS and NASHIA are looking forward to a wonderful event in Minneapolis this October 6 to 8. The joint conference planning committee has created an exceptional program featuring an outstanding faculty of more than 55 internationally recognized speakers. There will be many special presentations covering topics such as healthcare reform, veteran’s issues, community services, complex medical chal...

1987 Annual Report

Second Sino-American Conference on Nuclear Medicine.

N uclear medicine professionals from the United States and China met in New Orleans, LA, January 23–27, for the Second Sino-American Conference on Nuclear Medicine. The conference was held in conjunction with the 2013 SNMMI Mid-Winter Meeting and the annual meeting of the American College of Nuclear Medicine (ACNM). The previous conference was hosted by the Chinese Society of Nuclear Medicine (...