Unlike other sorts of scientific conference, AIDS conferences attract angry activists as well as sober scientists.
Gaffney, Jr. at the 1992 U.S. Army Scientific Conference on Chemical Defense Research, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, 17 November 1992.
From the scientific perspective, for the story to close for science, flight rates have to be high, said Alan Stern, chair of the scientific organizing committee for the conference and associate vice president of the Southwest Research Institute's Space Science and Engineering Division in Boulder.
Amid all this scientific interest, however, the conference did not neglect the more immediate question of how the tools now available can be deployed.
AstraZeneca (nyse: AZN - news - people), the world's fourth-largest pharmaceutical company, barely made a peep at that same conference, speaking last on a scientific panel about its lung cancer drug, Iressa .
Instead of appearing first in a medical journal where results are carefully vetted by anonymous outside experts, as is the tradition for scientific papers, the researchers involved organized a press conference that was funded by the company.
The Council is composed of thirty-four Member States of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, elected by the General Conference at its ordinary sessions, taking due account of equitable geographical distribution, of the need to ensure appropriate rotation, of the representativeness of these States from the ecological viewpoint in the various continents, and of the importance of their scientific contribution to the international MAB programme.
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Taking place during the International Week of Science and Peace, which takes place this year from 6 to 10 November 2012, the 6th Latin American Conference on Social Sciences is a major item in the scientific calendar.
Along with various sovereign states, these "friends" include the Organization of the Islamic Conference (or OIC), the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (set up by the OIC), the Arab League, plus the Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization.
From 6 to 9 November 2012, social scientists from all over the world will gather in Mexico City for the 6th Latin American Conference on Social Sciences which is a major item on the scientific agenda.
C. to discuss the latest innovative scientific and policy advances in HIV prevention and care at the annual International AIDS conference.
Dr. Faiq Billal is Director of Science the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO) an affiliated body of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) having its headquarters at Rabat, Kingdom of Morocco.
The Bali meeting will be the first major conference of its kind since former Vice President Al Gore and a U.N. scientific council were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in October for their environmental work.
At the Munich global warming conference earlier this month Laframboise said the media continues to paint IPCC as an objective, authoritative scientific body and that neither the media nor global warming alarmists have addressed the IPCC shortcomings Laframboise revealed in her book.
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The UNESCO Ethics of Science and Technology Programme, organizer of the conference, was created in 1998 with the establishment of the World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology (COMEST) to generate ethical reflection on science and technology and its applications.
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