Depression on College Campuses conference
...ence ever held on the topic. This year's featured speakers include the directors of three of the National Ins...unseling leaders, from U-M and other campuses, and speakers from the Suicide Prevention Resource Center and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. The ...HeartScore launch - Press teleconference invitation
...t one-on-one interviews thereafter with any of the speakers or other Spokespersons of the ESC Following the teleconference, the HeartScore program will be available for press download by registered press. Full press assistance and press materials will be available for registered press. To attend the tel...Research aims to improve nation's health
...l be officially launched on Tuesday May 18th, when speakers will include Dr Ruth Hall, the Chief Medical Officer for Wales, and Professor Ian Diamond, Chief Executive of the Economic and Social Research Council....Speech recognition experts at OGI School of Science & Engineering receive nearly $700,000 in grants
...lliterate people learn to read, to help non-native speakers learn English, and to give autistic people more ways to communicate, van Santen said. Center for Spoken Language Understanding assistant professor Peter Heeman, Ph.D., also has received a three-year $580,000 grant from the National Science Foundatio...Read my lips: UCL launches centre for human communication
... study of sounds in speech, something that English speakers often struggle with when learning a foreign language. She continues: "Ask the average Brit to say the word 'tall' in Cantonese, and they may end up threatening you by mistake. The equivalent Cantonese word, which sounds like "go", has two different ...3D neutron-based medical imaging, 4D lung scans, and hitting a moving tumor
...ting, the President's Symposium features visionary speakers who look at future trends in medical physics. The 1982 symposium included a presentation by Paul Lauterbur, who went on to share last year's Nobel Prize for magnetic resonance imaging. This year, Andrew Maidment of the University of Pennsylvania ( ...Short term memory's effectiveness influenced by sight, sound
...s, cognitive scientists showed that for nearly all speakers of all languages, list retention peaked at around ... doesn't matter. When people tried this test, both speakers and signers performed equally well, showing that such a test is likely a much better evaluator of co...Envisat Symposium report day 2: GMES turns science to services
...uality authorities in cities across Europe. Other speakers touched upon the research required to support GMES objectives, such as improved modeling tools and data fusion techniques. Jean-Louis Fellous of IFREMER stressed that research plays multiple roles: "It is a means of defining services and user require...Envisat Symposium report day 3: Satellites supporting Kyoto - our future is in our forests
...R) instrument, but has a higher resolution. Other speakers addressed the subject of forest mapping using MERIS, but also Envisat's Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) along with radar data acquired from Envisat's predecessor missions ERS-1 and 2. Shaun Quegan of Sheffield University discussed use of in...Opening Dialogues in Healthcare Communication
...listic, Collaborative, and Entertaining" Plenary speakers include nationally-known experts in shared decision- making Thomas Inui, M.D. of the IU School of Medicine and the Regenstrief Institute, Inc. and Hilary A. Llewellyn-Thomas, Ph.D. of Dartmouth University and health literacy experts Rima Rudd, M.S.P....Rice bioengineer named to Technology Review's TR100
...growth and dramatically change the future. Keynote speakers include Vinod Khosla, founding CEO of Sun Microsystems and General Partner at Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers; Ray Kurzweil, renowned inventor, author and founder of Kurzweil Technologies; and Rick Wagoner, chairman of General Motors. More informa...NIDA sponsors frontiers in addiction research mini-convention
...oincides with NIDA's 30th anniversary, includes 20 speakers and 72 poster presentations, will run from 8:00 a.m. to 9:15 p.m. "NIDA-supported research forms an integral part of the field of neuroscience," says NIDA Director Dr. Nora D. Volkow. "Over the past 30 years, thousands of NIDA-supported scientist...Cancer patients in Europe unite with doctors
...are on an individual, national and European level, speakers will say on 30-31 October 2004 at the European Society for Medical Oncology's (ESMO) Patient Seminar in Vienna, Austria. "Patients need to make themselves heard on an international level," says Heinz Ludwig, Chairman of the ESMO Patient Seminar Worki...Congress of Neuological Surgeons meets in San Francisco
...pinal and skull base neurosurgery. Other featured speakers include Mikhail Gorbachev, former Soviet President and Nobel Laureate, and Burt Rutan, designer of the legendary Voyager, the first aircraft to circle the world non-stop without refueling. Rutan will deliver the Special Lecture on Creativity and Inn...Cedars-Sinai October 2004 medical tipsheet
...e Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute, as well as guest speakers from the Children's Center for Cancer and the House Ear Clinic, will present the latest information on research and treatment for adult and pediatric brain tumors. The Oct. 23 conference is designed to educate brain tumor patients and their caregiver...Latest Asian-American tobacco use data reported
... "Among Asian American males, high English fluency speakers had significantly lower smoking prevalence when compared to low English fluency speakers -- 17 percent versus 25 percent. But the pattern was completely the opposite for Asian women," Tang ...IU Medical School poised to host global HIV/AIDS conference
...efault.asp?course=05-191 . Among the keynote speakers are Ambassador Randall Tobias, U.S. Global HIV/AIDS coordinator; James Morris, executive director of the U.N. World Food Programme; and Debrework Zewdie, Ph.D., director of the Global HIV/AIDS Program, The World Bank; Greg Behrman, author of The Invi...Perfect pitch, portable bone-health monitor
...flects the rhythm and melody of English and French speakers will be featured at a meeting press luncheon to be...le North, San Diego, CA 92108). The press luncheon speakers and topics are listed below. The entire acoustics meeting takes place from November 15-19, 2004. Rep...Media update: GSA underscores hottest meeting topics
...pus of spontaneous conversation and narrative with speakers who have moderate to late moderate AD. Dena Shenk, Director of The University of North Carolina at Charlotte's Gerontology Program, will be joined by Heidi Hamilton and Steven Sabat of Georgetown University. November 21 at 1:45 p.m. ......ave a voice in this interactive session. Our speakers will share their views on opportunities and challenges and ask you to contribute your opinions, respond to your colleagues and start to define a path of action! What should we do, as gerontologists and geriatricians, as researchers, educators and pr...