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Call for Abstracts: Society of Urologic Nurses and Associates 44th Annual Conference

SUNA's 44th Annual Conference will be held October 11-14, 2013, at the Hyatt Regency Chicago in Chicago, Illinois.

Share Your Expertise! Do you have a case study, best practice, or research that you would like to share with your colleagues? Here's your opportunity! The program planning committee has issued a Call for Abstracts for verbal and poster presentations at the Annual Conference. The deadline for submission of abstracts is June 12, 2013.

Call for Original and Encore Abstracts: Clinical Nutrition Week 2014

 January 18-24, 2014 Savannah, Georgia

Original and Encore Abstracts 

Opens – July 1, 2013

Closes– September 9, 2013

Submission Fee: $50

1. Original Abstracts 

This option is reserved for previously unpublished basic or clinical research and data, practice abstracts, or case studies. Research methodology may range from prospective, randomized trials and systematic reviews to quality improvement projects and unique case reports.  Depending on review score, these abstracts may be presented in poster exchanges, oral paper sessions, symposia, or workshops and are eligible for Research Awards.

2. Encore Abstracts 

This option is reserved for abstracts previously presented at other meetings or previously published in a peer-reviewed journal.  These abstracts will be presented as posters and are not eligible for Research Awards.

All correspondence will be conducted with the primary (presenting) author of the abstract. It is assumed that if the abstract is accepted for presentation, this primary author will attend CNW to present.  The primary author is required to be present at their poster for the poster exchange.

All accepted abstracts are published online in the Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition.

Call for Papers: Risk, Perception, and Response Conference

March 20-21, 2014 Harvard School of Public Health Boston, Massachusetts

Abstracts Due: June 10, 2013

Registration Opens: December 2013

How people react to scientific evidence of risk is mediated by many factors, including how risk information is perceived and communicated, how we react to social and cultural influences, and how choices are structured. Examples abound of situations where individuals’ risk perceptions lead them to act in ways that appear contrary to their own interests, overreacting to or neglecting risks. How can situations in which individuals are likely to respond poorly be identified, and what can be done to improve their responses? To increase our understanding of the factors that contribute to these behaviors and to develop better options for fostering sound decisions, the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis is commissioning papers for presentation at a March 20-21, 2014 conference and subsequent publication.

Limited attention, emotional reactions, and difficulties in processing risk-related information, among other factors, may lead individuals to act in ways that impair their health or welfare. For example, warnings about mercury in fish can lead people to decrease their overall fish consumption and hence their consumption of healthful omega-3 fatty acids. Concerns about autism can lead to vaccine avoidance, increasing the individual’s risk of disease and the risk of transmission to others. Such behaviors may result from incomplete, inaccurate, or ineffective risk communication, or may occur even if the risk is well-communicated. Choice architecture, popularized by Thaler and Sunstein’s Nudge, also affects behavior. To promote welfare-enhancing decisions, better understanding of these causal factors is needed, together with innovative approaches for overcoming them.

The Harvard Center for Risk Analysis is soliciting papers to explore these issues and develop methods for effectively addressing them. Papers may be theoretically or empirically oriented; case studies are encouraged but not required. Examples of topics that may be addressed include the following.

How can we identify and assess cases where reactions to risk have led, or are likely to lead, to harmful behaviors, from an ex post or ex ante perspective?

What factors affect the likelihood and severity of these adverse outcomes? To what extent are they attributable to the nature of the risk, the characteristics of the affected population, cognitive or affective responses, social or cultural considerations, or other factors?

How can we intervene to prevent such adverse reactions? What are the implications for risk communication, choice architecture, government policies, or other actions?

For each accepted paper, HCRA will cover travel expenses (including airfare, hotel, and other expenses) of up to $1,000 for one presenter. In addition, we will pay a $3,000 honorarium. The first $1,000 will be provided upon receipt of a complete draft of the paper, due no later than January 31, 2014. The remaining $2,000 will be provided when the final manuscript is submitted for publication. Authors will have the option of submitting their paper for peer-reviewed publication as part of a special series focused on the results of the conference.

Submissions must be provided as PDFs, and must include the following information:

Title (70 characters maximum).

Complete list of authors and institutional affiliations.

Full contact information for the presenter (email, postal address, and phone number).

All correspondence will be directed to this individual.

A statement certifying that the research represents new work that will not be submitted for publication prior to the conference.

A summary of the proposed research, no longer than 1,000 words, that clearly:

indicates the relationship of the research to the goals and objectives of this project; and,

describes the issues to be addressed by the research and how it will be conducted.

A bibliography including no more than 15 references.

Submissions that do not adhere to these requirements will not be considered.

Submissions must be emailed to riskperception@hsph.harvard.edu and received no later than June 10, 2013.

Completed papers must be submitted to the conference organizers no later than January 31, 2014.

Submission of an abstract is viewed as a commitment to complete the work, adhere to the schedule noted above, and attend the conference if selected.

Decisions will be provided no later than September 10, 2013.

Call for Papers: First International Conference on ICTs for Disaster Management 

March 24-25, 2014 Algiers, Algeria

Paper Submission deadline: September 23, 2013

ICT-DM’2014 aims to bring together academics and practitioners who are involved in emergency services, ad hoc planning, disaster recovery, etc., to learn about the latest research developments, share experiences and information about this area and develop recommendations.

Authors are invited to submit manuscripts that present original unpublished research on using ICTs for detection, prevention, preparation, response and recovery of disasters. There will also be invited presentations by experts from academia, industry, and government as well as special sessions dedicated to case studies, demonstrations and experiences based on pragmatic approaches. This way, the conference will provide a forum for supporting and encouraging both academic researchers, as well as practitioners involved in applied‐focused research. The conference topics are (but not limited to):

Communication systems for disaster management

Infrastructures, technologies and services for distributed crisis management teams and organizations

Mobile and wireless communication networks

Hastily formed networks (MANETs, Mesh, VANETs, Sensor, …)

Opportunistic communications

Multi-platform and multi-sensor data collection

Infrastructure protection and security

Interoperability of heterogeneous systems

Coordination and collaboration technologies and systems for disaster management

Collaborative information systems architectures, frameworks, technologies

Collaborative decision-making under stress, time pressure and limited resources

Service Oriented Architectures for collaboration

Ontology approaches

Contextual and situation-based collaboration

Security and privacy concerns in information sharing

Cloud computing for disaster management

Pervasive and mobile computing

Social media and networks for participation and collaboration

Modeling and simulation of collaboration

Data/information management and analysis for disaster management

Querying and filtering on heterogeneous, multi-source streaming disaster data

Human-system interactive information extraction

Uncertainty and possibly adversity in data handling and delivery

Context-awareness information analysis and extraction

Data mining from multiple information and huge sources

Mining and making decisions on time-evolving and uncertain data

Crowd sourcing

Trust and information credibility in social networks

Damage and loss assessment

Post disaster needs assessment

Geo-Information technologies for disaster management

Geospatial information technology and geo-collaboration

Situation awareness

Web mapping and Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

Integration of data: building information models (BIM) and GIS

Standardization developments (models, icons, symbols)

Visualization and visual analytics

Evacuation and rescue geo-planning

Open source data and space based resources to support disaster management

Preparation and mitigation for managing disasters

Prediction and early warning

Remote sensing

Risk assessment, modeling and simulation tools for crisis situations

Healthcare crisis information systems

Multimedia-based communication skills for citizens and civil servants

E-government and population education

Practices for risk reduction and rapid response in developing countries

ICT in emergency planning and civil protection

Case studies, particular incidents and learned lessons

Benchmark and case studies in e-governance for disaster management

Case studies of the use of social media and networks

Innovative uses of technologies adapted to the readiness 

Requests can be sent to:

E-Mail: ictdm2014@gmail.com

Fax: +213 (0) 21 91 21 26

Forum for Prevention: Call for Presentations--XX World Congress on Safety and Health at Work 2014--Global Forum for Prevention

24 - 27 August 2014 Frankfurt, Germany

The deadline for the receipt of abstracts is 30 November 2013. Late abstracts will not be considered.

The German Social Accident Insurance is proud to be the national organizer of the 2014 World Congress. Occupational safety and health has become a far-reaching task in our globalized world. People on all continents suffer under dangerous and unhealthy working conditions. Each year, well over 2 million people are killed in occupational accidents. Only by means of sustainable solutions we be able to prevent occupational accidents, occupational diseases and work-related health hazards.

Discussion – debate – action: this is the focus of the 2014 World Congress. Over 4,000 experts from all over the world will be discussing the latest OSH developments and trends. Our hope is that each and every delegate will return home with new ideas and newly forged contacts. In addition, we offer you the opportunity to experience practical prevention activity on-site during visits to companies in a range of sectors, and to learn about new OSH products at the accompanying trade fair.

What is the Forum for Prevention?

Like the Symposia the Forum for Prevention provides an opportunity for the presentation of current projects, topics and problem issues. The design of the Forum for Prevention is however different: it resembles a large marketplace – with a table or poster wall for every presentation that has been accepted. The visitors to the Forum will circulate among these tables and poster walls according to a predefined schedule. This will give the presenters at the tables and poster walls successive opportunities to make their point concisely by engaging in intense discussion of their issues with a wide variety of experts in a small group environment. The Forum for Prevention also provides an opportunity for the introduction of ongoing projects and enables the experts present to share their latest activities and results. Presentations can be made in any of the four congress languages. Please note: interpretation will not be provided.