The Genetics Society of America (GSA) organizes an annual meeting for Drosophila researchers from all over the world who work on overlapping or closely related fields, for interaction and exchange of ideas. The 47th Annual Drosophila Research Conference was organized at Houston, Texas, USA by Hugo J. Bellen, Ron Davis, Graeme Mardon (Baylor College of Medicine) and Georg Halder (M.D. Anderson C...

This study extends meeting research by applying social network analysis to meeting leaders’ behavior in actual, videotaped meetings (N = 46) and examining the position of meeting leaders in the meeting network. Analyses reveal that meeting leaders are key players in meetings taking on the roles of central actor, broker, and elicitor. The role of central actor is linked to the number of planned ...

The US chapter of the International Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) Society recently held its inaugural meeting in Detroit, MI. US-based DOHaD researchers gathered both to create this new society chapter and share their latest research. The US DOHaD Society will provide a much-needed domestic forum for a broad range of DOHaD topics including nutrition, toxicology, stress, ep...

When used effectively, workplace meetings serve as an invaluable opportunity for coworkers to achieve organizational objectives. However, meetings are often regarded as inefficient, unproductive, and a waste of time. Due to meeting attendee frustration, there can be detrimental impact on employee wellbeing. In this paper, we examine the impact of a specific type of meeting behavior, counterprod...

Most office workers participate in multiple meetings on a daily basis. Although surveys show that large parts of these meetings are often not useful to all the participants, it has been shown (Banerjee, Rose, & Rudnicky, 2005) that participants do sometimes need to retrieve information discussed at previous meetings, and that this is usually a difficult task. The human-impact goal of this thesi...

Facilitation and guidance of computer-supported meetings is a well-known activity that can be supported electronically. Various forms of facilitator support have been developed over the years. This paper presents a unique method for meeting guidance for formal, distributed electronic meetings in the form of meeting guides. The method is Web-based and applies the meeting agenda for creation of a...

We present Meeting Miner, a multimodal meeting browser for navigating recordings of online text and speech collaborative meetings. Meetings are recorded through a collaborative writing environment specially designed to capture participants activities. This information, usually lost in common recordings of multimodal meetings, offers novel possibilities for indexing, navigation and information r...

There is considerable interest in the physiology and pathology, as well as the cellular and molecular biology, of bone marrow adipose tissue (BMAT). Because bone marrow adiposity is linked not only to systemic energy metabolism, but also to both bone marrow and musculoskeletal disorders, this biologic compartment has become of major interest to investigators from diverse disciplines. Bone marro...