2025 AAPM&R Annual Assembly Abstracts.

<p>The European Geosciences Union (EGU) is the leading organisation for Earth, planetary and space science research in Europe. Each year the EGU holds its General Assembly (GA), which is the largest and most prominent geosciences event in Europe, attracting over 16,000 scientists from all over the world in the year 2019. In 2020 the General Assembly transitioned to a completely virtual format in response to the global COVID-19 pandemic, with approximately 20,000 members participating. Using self-declared data provided by participants during the registration phase of the annual general assembly we were interested to learn how the attendance of Early Career Scientists (ECS) at the general assembly had evolved over recent years and especially during the transition to the fully online format. Within the EGU an ‘Early Career Scientist’ is defined as ‘a student, a PhD candidate or a practicing scientist who received their highest degree (e.g. BSc, MSc or PhD) within the past seven years’, with some exceptions to this time-frame that account for research career breaks. As ECS account for about half of the total EGU membership we tested whether there were any emerging trends in the database regarding the number of ECS attending the meeting between 2015 and 2020 and whether there were any shifts in the diversity of ECS with respect to gender and age during the same timeframe.</p><p>We observed a general increase (5-30%) in ECS participation from 2015 until 2020 irrespective of gender. In 2019, the total increase of all participants stalled, but the overall number of ECS participants still increased with 12%.</p><p>Around 55% of the ECS fall within the age-group ‘26-35 years' and a further 10% in the '18-25 years' group. These percentages have been very constant through the years, apart from the age-group ’36-45 years, which has seen a slight increase from 10-14% over the past years. All groups have seen an increase in the absolute number of ECS participants during the physical meetings. However, a continuation of this trend is less clear during the online GA, as about 60% of the ECS members refrained from sharing their age.</p><p>We also investigated to what extent ECS participate as conveners in scientific sessions. About 10-12% of the ECS members are active as conveners during the GA, with the majority self-declaring as male. Only during the virtual GA in 2020 did the number of women conveners equal the numbers for men. We observed an increase in the representation of ECS of the total convener’s pool from 30% to 43% during the physical GA’s. During the online GA in 2020 ECS representation was 31%.</p><p>One consideration with the ECS status of members, is that depending on someones career stage, privacy reasons, and the awareness of our members about the ECS definition, not all members who would qualify for the ECS status, are in our system as such, because it is a self-declared status. This data is extremely important as it allows the EGU to track the success and developments of initiatives that support ECS career and conference experiences.</p>

Dear Members, Welding world is all set to coverage in Chennai between 17-23 July 2011 on the occasion of “IIW 2011”, the 64th Annual Assembly and International Conference of the International Institute of Welding (IIW). “Weld India 2011” the 6th International Welding Technology exhibition will be an added attraction for the attending delegates from the 54 member countries of the IIW. This exhibition is poised to become the biggest ever welding expo in India and entry is free for all visitors. Indian Welding Journal on its part will bring out the July 2011 issue as a special issue and will be distributed to all the attending delegates of the Annual Assembly. The issue will include some state of the art articles on the Indian scenario in the areas like welding consumables, equipments, education, research and training and growth of steel industry in India. I hope the readers will enjoy reading this issue.

WMA drafts guidelines on genetic databases

Conradh na Gaeilge (the Gaelic League) held its annual general meeting in Béal Feirste/Belfast over the weekend. Founded in 1893 to promote the Irish language, the organisation has long been central to language activism across Ireland. In a significant development, delegates voted to support Irish political unity – a position the organisation had not formally adopted in its 130-year history. The decision reflects both the growing momentum of the Irish-language movement, particularly in Northern Ireland, and wider political shifts on the island.

A World Medical Association resolution condemning euthanasia as “unethical” and urging all doctors and medical associations to refrain from the practice has prompted the Royal Dutch Medical Association to call...

Atlanta to host 1997 AAPM&R annual assembly

Two Palestinian cultural organizations formed an international collaboration with twenty other organizations of the Global South, to cope with separation and severely hampered coordination. This framework for action differs from previous nationalist models that had emphasized the role of Palestinian governmental agencies and political-cultural associations in revitalizing Palestinian arts. While such agencies were initially inwardly oriented, they increasingly came to rely on external donors in asymmetrical networks. The effort to link ‘out’ yet not ‘up’ was spearheaded by young Palestinian cultural organizers and poses challenges to older models of art and nationhood. Since forming in 2012, as part of the Arts Collaboratory (AC), this segment of the younger Palestinian generation has elaborated a lexicon, ecology, economy, and epistemology to enable its members to pursue cultural production locally while expanding their horizons. In the summer of 2018, AC members converged from across the Global South on Jerusalem for their annual assembly. Their interactions and expressions during that trip reveal the ramifications and tensions when globality undergirds localism. Vocabulary techniques in particular vivify members’ concept of globality while enabling new local conversations and practices between generations ‘at home’.

The Italian Geographical Society (SGI) (http://www.societageografica.it/) was founded in Florence in 1867—at that time the Capital of Italy. Over the last 100 years, and still today, the headquarters has been based in Rome, Palazzetto Mattei, a 16th century building within Villa Celimontana, a public park a few hundred meters from the Colosseum. SGI mission is to promote and disseminate geographical culture and knowledge, enhancing the understanding of the territory, landscape, environment, and the safeguarding of cultural heritage. The SGI acts as a hub for geographical research and thought, with a network connecting academic scholars and geography enthusiasts in Italy, but also in connection with wider international networks. The SGI has always considered the international scale to be important, participating in the main scientific events of international geography. Precisely for this reason, the SGI is among the creators and founders of the Association of European Geographical Societies (EUGEO) (www.eugeo.eu). The initial objectives of EUGEO were to improve communication and exchange ideas between member institutions, to act as a lobbying body for geography in Europe, to improve synchronization of geographical research at a Pan-European level, and to identify new scientific and educational responsibilities for geography within Europe so as to position geography more fully within the center of the European debate. This European institution is now consolidated and carries out its functions in several ways. Contact and dialogue between the various geographical societies takes place through the annual General Assembly; the EUGEO Congresses have acquired increasing importance (in Barcelona, in 2024, the Congress was attended by 750 registered delegates representing 48 countries), taking place every two years and reaching the tenth edition in Vienna in 2025 (https://www.oeaw.ac.at/isr/eugeo-2025). To bring academic geography to contribute to the public debate, in 2018 EUGEO decided to bring to the European and then global scale a “popular” initiative born in 2017 in France thanks to the CNFG (EUGEO member): the GeoNight (www.geonight.net). The 2024 edition registered 286 approved events from 36 countries, with at least one event in each continent. Everyone is invited to submit an event proposal for the 2025 edition, which will be held on April 4th.

Diseases of the Colon & Rectum: November 1984 - Volume 27 - Issue 11 - p 732 doi: 10.1007/BF02554602

It's finally that time of the year – our annual Halobacteria mutant strain genome sequencing and assembly. Quick recap; our lab has an acidophilic/tolerant (robust growth at pH 4.0~5.0) Halobacteria mutant strain from around 2019.

The Thirty-Ninth Annual General Assembly

The Twenty-Fourth Annual General Assembly

A quarter-century of the Japanese Society of Child Neurology

Emergency medicine (EM) educators have many
\nmasters. These include our hospital administrations who
\nexpect efficient patient care reflecting the priorities of safety
\nand quality, the accreditation council for graduate medical
\neducation which has introduced a new competency-based
\nstandard by which our learners must be educated and last but
\nnot least, our learners that are using new educational modalities
\nbased on expanding digital platforms.
\n To be successful, educators must satisfy each of these masters against the
\nbackdrop of increasing regulations, decreasing funding and
\ninformation technology that appears to decrease our time with
\npatients and perhaps learners in clinical practice.

It's finally that time of the year – our annual Halobacteria mutant strain genome sequencing and assembly. Quick recap; our lab has an acidophilic/tolerant (robust growth at pH 4.0~5.0) Halobacteria mutant strain from around 2019.