Symposium on computer applications to cardiology Introduction

Applications of biotechnology to nematology: symposium introduction.

This symposium, "Applications of Biotechnology to Nematology," is intended to stimulate your thinking on the potentials o f biotechnology to revolutionize research and development in the field of nematology. Biotechnology is advancing so dynamically that articles written for journals today are often eclipsed by new developments before they appear in print. These new technologies promise to yiel...

An Introduction to Cardiology

Introduction to the symposium.

Forty-five years ago a symposium on the ‘‘Lower Metazoa’’ was held in Pacific Grove, California. The resulting volume (Dougherty et al., 1963) sampled much of the then current study and thought about simple animals—sponges, cnidarians, ctenophores, flatworms, pseudocoelomates, and more. Extensive discussions of homology and phylogeny formed the basis for testing a variety of hypotheses concerni...

Introduction to Symposium on Sports Economics

Introduction to the Symposium on Echinococcosis

China is one of the world’s most highly endemic countries for the cestode zoonosisechinococcosis. In the northwest of the country, both Echinococcus granulosus and E.multilocularis are transmitted between domestic livestock or wildlife hosts respectively, over vast and relatively remote regions. Traditional pastoralist communities of Tibetan, Kazakh and Mongol ethnic minorities appear to be mos...