LD, DF, KK, DO and JCR were members of the organizing committee and contributed to the conception of the conference, the methodology and the analysis of the output.
Previous studies, including a Cochrane review on the impact of workshops and seminars, aimed to determine the effectiveness of conferences but failed to address how current conference evaluation methodologies can be improved tangibly.
This article draws on literature from neurology and psychiatry and discussions at a MacArthur Foundation sponsored Conference on Longitudinal Methodology in 1992 (David J. Kupfer, M.D., Chair), which brought together investigators to consider alternative designs for patients with severe and persistent mental illness.
The new approach is more robust than a previous, attach-and-deform based approach (Zhang P, Zhang C, Cheng F. Constrained shape scaling of trimmed NURBS surfaces. In: Proceedings of the 1999 ASME Design Theory and Methodology Conference. Las Vegas, Nevada, 1999) in that it can tolerate scaling factors of bigger values (up to 2 in some cases).
Who Needs NSA When You Have Social Media?' was the name he proposed for a talk at a security conference to reveal his methodology.
This is the second of a two-article series describing the outcomes of the Hormonal Contraceptives Trial Methodology Consensus Conference held in Philadelphia, PA, on September 23 , 2005
The following databases were searched: Cochrane Methodology Register, Conference Proceedings Citation Index – Science, Econlit, EMBASE, Health Management Information Consortium, Health Technology Assessment database, MathSciNet, MEDLINE, MEDLINE in-process, OAIster, OpenGrey, Science Citation Index Expanded and ScienceDirect.
Following these findings, interventions such as capacity building using various approaches like short-term trainings, workshops, and conferences about CEA methodologies and approaches have been widely implemented in Thailand [ 5].
75 In the same year, OMERACT delegates, partners and professionals participated in the second COMET conference, demonstrating how the OMERACT methodology can be utilised in other disease areas.
The principal expectation cited by 65.3% of respondents concerning their projects was the publication/presentation of their findings at conferences, followed by learning scientific methodology and understanding the subject, 10.2% each.
