The 9 th International Congress on Per itoneal Sur face Malignancies, sponsored by the Peritoneal Surface Oncology Group International (PSOGI) and organized by the Netherlands Cancer Institute, was held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, from October 9 to 11, 2014, with over 650 delegates from 66 countries attending the meeting. With the central theme to summarize the global progresses in peritonea...

The 9 th International Congress on Per itoneal Sur face Malignancies, sponsored by the Peritoneal Surface Oncology Group International (PSOGI) and organized by the Netherlands Cancer Institute, was held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, from October 9 to 11, 2014, with over 650 delegates from 66 countries attending the meeting. With the central theme to summarize the global progresses in peritonea...

We read with great interest the letter from the STARSurg group, highlighting the need to recognize the growing student participation in collaborative research [1]. We also noted Kazzazi et al. [2] counter-argument to this, who claimed that the workload of the individual collaborator in such a study is far lighter than that required by those in a study run by a relatively smaller number of resea...

Although a substantial part of scientific research is collaborative and increasing globalization will probably lead to its increase, very few studies actually investigate the advantages, disadvantages, experiences and lessons learned from collaboration. In environmental epidemiology interdisciplinary collaboration is essential and the contrasting geographical patterns in exposure and disease ma...

ment in a privacy-enhanced collaborative environment. In P. Kommers, & P. Isaías (Eds.) Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference e-Society 2010, (pp. 3–10). International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS), Porto: IADIS Press. URL: http://www.iadisportal.org/digital-library/role-management-in-a-privacyenhanced-collaborative-environment, Slides: http://www.sl...