A meeting was organised in Paris on 13 September 2004, to provide an in-depth description of the state of the art in institutional clinical research infrastructures and their environment in France. This meeting was scheduled within the ECRIN (European Clinical Research Infrastructures Network) project, funded by the European Union (6th Framework Programme). Ten items were addressed: (i) centres...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether final year medical students' perceptions of teaching workshops delivered by a consultant rheumatologist are similar those of the same workshops delivered by an experienced nurse clinical educator (NCE). METHODS The design was a semi-randomized post-test intervention study. The consultant and NCE alternated in presenting eight teaching workshops to four groups of...

Meeting up with colleagues from all over the world is important for the progress of our profession, getting updated and building our professional network. In order to provide possibilities to really discuss rather than engage in inactive listening, the programme includes symposia, keynote lectures, workshops, controversy debates, breakfast and lunch forums including ‘meet the professor’ opportu...

Does greater transparency improve governmental performance and increase political accountability? In this paper, we use a simple model of political accountability to derive a set of hypotheses linking information to political behavior; we introduce a unique field experiment designed to test these hypotheses in the context of MP behavior in Uganda; and we provide findings from a preintervention ...

In this paper I investigate the relationship between fertility and old-age support in developing countries. In the first part of the paper, I present a two-period model. In the first period, parents decide on the quantity and the quality of children and savings. In the second period, children decide on transfers to parents. I then derive the effects of an exogenous increase in fertility in the ...

MCEER technical reports are published to communicate specific research data and project results. Reports are written by MCEER-funded researchers, and provide information on a variety of fields of interest in earthquake engineering. The proceedings from conferences and workshops sponsored by MCEER are also published in this series. To order a report reviewed in this issue, fill out the order for...

s: Plenaries 1 Ageing 2 Census 7 Ethnicity 14 Families & households 23 Fertility & reproductive health 31 Health & mortality 40 Historical demography 48 Intergenerational transmissions 53 Life course linkages 55 Local government & planning 57 Methods & models 60 Migration 67 Population change, environment, resources & conflict 76 Posters 80 Workshops & training sessions 104 Index to contributor...

The study reports on the results recorded during a series of semenology workshops presented from 1997 to 2014. The results were obtained from training workshops that were conducted in 6 continents in 38 cities including 1124 individuals. All workshops consisted of 2 sessions namely a pre-and post-training session. Results recorded from the pre-training sessions were used as a baseline value of ...

Participatory, co-design and creativity workshops can lead to more useful, usable and innovative systems design. However, evaluating the effectiveness of the creativity support provided by different technologies and workshop techniques is challenging. This is especially so when evaluation takes place during the workshop and maintaining a creative atmosphere is important. In this paper we briefl...

This is a brief exploration of the ethical issues raised for psychiatrists, and for universities, schools and wider society, by the demand that they attend mandatory training as part of the UK government's Prevent counter-terrorism strategy. The silence on this matter to date on the part of the General Medical Council, medical Royal Colleges, and the British Medical Association is a failure of ...