s of Poster Presentations at the Second Meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Protected Areas, 11–15 February 2008 in Rome, Italy CBD Technical Series No. 35 Implementation of the CBD Programme of Work on Protected Areas: Progress and Perspectives Abstracts of Poster Presentations at the Second Meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Protected Areas, 11–15 February 2008 in...

It is often the case that a human can determine the genre of a movie by looking at its movie poster. This task is not trivial for computers. A recent advance in machine learning called deep learning allows algorithms to learn important features from large datasets. Rather than analyzing an image pixel by pixel, for example, higher level features can be used for classification. In this project I...

Angiogenesis, the development of new blood vessels from pre-existing vascularization, represents one of cancer’s hallmarks. Blood supply is essential for a tumor to progress toward a malignant condition since this allows the delivery of nutrients and oxygen necessary to support cancerous cells’ growth as well as entrance into the circulation causing metastasis to arise. Study on angiogenesis in...

Social events are part of human life, peace, conflicts occur one after another. At the end February 2022 world was shocked by Russian military attack on Ukrainian territory. The community hopes Russia can stop but it still happens. In March Japan's Ogaki Poster Museum summoned poster artists (poster call) around to participate in voicing their opinions through art posters with NO WAR theme, res...

Today, software is being developed and maintained not just by engineers educated formally but also by people from widely different backgrounds including children, knowledge workers among many others. However, a number of studies indicate that most of these people are not equipped with enough software engineering skills leading to low-quality software. On the other hand, an analysis of literatur...

Presenting posters at national meetings can help fellows and junior faculty members develop a national reputation. They often lead to interesting and fruitful networking and collaboration opportunities. They also help with promotion in academic medicine and can reveal new job opportunities. Practically, presenting posters can help justify funding to attend a meeting. Finally, this process can b...