Ninth Oxford Conference Organised by the Oxford International Biomedical Centre (OIBC)

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Ninth Oxford Conference Organised by the Oxford International Biomedical Centre (OIBC)     

Abstracts of the Oral Presentations from the 13th International Conference on the Origin of Life Oaxaca,Mexico, June 30 to July 5, 2002

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Abstracts of the Oral Presentations from the 13th International Conference on the Origin of Life Oaxaca, Mexico, June 30 to July 5, 2002     

International Conference - “Water-Saving Agriculture and Sustainable Use of Water and Land Resources in Arid and Semiarid Areas” October 26 ‐ 29, 2003. Yangling‐Shaanxi‐P. R. China

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International Conference - “Water-Saving Agriculture and Sustainable Use of Water and Land Resources in Arid and Semiarid Areas” October 26 ‐ 29, 2003. Yangling‐Shaanxi‐P. R. China     

Voice of Associations

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Voice of Associations     

Fifth International Conference on Paleoceanography

Announcement

Fifth International Conference on Paleoceanography     

Fifth International Conference on Mycorrhiza, 2006, Granada, Spain

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Fifth International Conference on Mycorrhiza, 2006, Granada, Spain     

Conference announcement (Blacksburg,Virginia)

Aquatic Ecosystem Health and Management Society

Conference announcement (Blacksburg, Virginia)     

Conference announcement (Windsor,Ontario)

Aquatic Ecosystem Health and Management Society

Conference announcement (Windsor, Ontario)     

Conference announcment (Windsor,Ontario) and registration form

Aquatic Ecosystem Health and Management Society

Conference announcment (Windsor, Ontario) and registration form     

Abstracts of 40th Annual Symposium of the Czech Society of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry

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Abstracts of 40th Annual Symposium of the Czech Society of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry     

From the Editorial Board

Materials from the Conference Dedicated to the Centenary of B.L. Astaurov

From the Editorial Board     

3rd International Conference on Mathematical Population Dynamics 1–5 June 1992, University of Pau,France

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3rd International Conference on Mathematical Population Dynamics 1–5 June 1992, University of Pau, France     

Abstracts

Twenty-third Annual Conference on Yeasts Organized by the Commission on Yeasts of the Czechoslovak Society for Microbiology Smolenice (Slovak Republic) March 2–4, 1994

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1988 Gordon Conference on Theoretical Biology and Biomathematics Tilton Academy, Tilton, New Hampshire, U.S.A., 13–17 June 1988

Announcement

1988 Gordon Conference on Theoretical Biology and Biomathematics Tilton Academy, Tilton, New Hampshire, U.S.A., 13–17 June 1988     

Abstracts

Twenty-Eigth Annual Conference on Yeasts organized by the Commission on Yeasts of the Czechoslovak Society for Microbiology Smolenice (Slovakia) May 15–17, 2000

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Symposium of fish behaviour in relation to fishing operations

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Symposium of fish behaviour in relation to fishing operations(organized by the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea) 11–13 June 1992, Bergen, Norway     

Abstracts of Papers,Conference of Young Scientists,Kol’tsov Institute of Developmental Biology,Russian Academy of Sciences,Moscow, Russia (December 21–22, 2009)

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Abstracts of Papers, Conference of Young Scientists, Kol’tsov Institute of Developmental Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia (December 21–22, 2009)     

Program and Abstracts of the 9th Transgenic Technology Meeting (TT2010)

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Program and Abstracts of the 9th Transgenic Technology Meeting (TT2010) 22–24 March 2010, Conference Centre, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine [MDC], Robert-R?ssle-Str. 10, 13125 Berlin, Germany     

A need for recalibrating access and benefit sharing: How best to improve conservation,sustainable use of biodiversity,and equitable benefit sharing in a mutually reinforcing manner?

The upcoming UN Biodiversity Conference should address shortfalls of Access and Benefit Sharing systems inspired by the Nagoya Protocol to help improve sustainable use of biodiversity and equitable benefit sharing. Subject Categories: Economics, Law & Politics, Evolution & Ecology, Pharmacology & Drug Discovery

The 15^th UN Biodiversity Conference (COP‐15) in Kunming, China, presents an opportunity for transformative change to address the biodiversity crisis. However, a lack of consensus on two key issues—mobilization of the necessary resources; and the scope and functioning of regulatory regimes that govern access to genetic resources and the sharing of benefits resulting from their use—threaten progress under the next 10‐year strategic plan of the Convention on Biological Diversity. We highlight systemic misconceptions concerning the financing of biodiversity and the burden this places on the Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) system. We caution that unworkable ABS regulatory frameworks and conflating ABS with resource mobilization could disrupt science policies built on open access, with potentially severe ramifications for research and innovation. To resolve these tensions, we call for a recalibration of ABS to maximize the value delivered by biodiversity for all of society, including indigenous peoples and local communities.     

Objective and automated protocols for the evaluation of biomedical search engines using No Title Evaluation protocols

Background  

The evaluation of information retrieval techniques has traditionally relied on human judges to determine which documents are relevant to a query and which are not. This protocol is used in the Text Retrieval Evaluation Conference (TREC), organized annually for the past 15 years, to support the unbiased evaluation of novel information retrieval approaches. The TREC Genomics Track has recently been introduced to measure the performance of information retrieval for biomedical applications.