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The most iconic event in the premiums, corporate, promotional and retail gifts industry, Singapore Gifts & Premiums Fair (SGPF) 2008 will be held the 9th year running.

The fair serves as a platform for showcasing the latest in promotional products and retail gifts solution and a forum for highlighting the industry's trends. Exhibitors can seize this great opportunity to meet buyers, check out market's latest and to network! Boost your sales and capture market share at proven trade event once again!

Visitors will enjoy an all-rounded beneficial experience as the show incorporates "Premiums & Promo Gifts 2008" and "Liftestyle Gifts 2008".

Office Security Expo (OSEC is the specialized office physical security exhibition. OSEC exhibits all kinds of products and services against physical threats such as unlawful entries, thefts, disasters and so on. Office users, distributors and building management companies visit the show to discuss business on-site.

Products and Services

Physical Security related products & services

* Important Documents/ Materials Management Tools
* Access Control
* Safety
* Quakeproof Products
* Image Management
* Security Camera
* Office Building Components for Safety and Disaster Prevention
* Risk Control
* Security Consulting
* Stationery for Security
* Security Service

As a testament to Vietnam’s potential in manufacturing, international suppliers and vendors will once again gather at MTA Vietnam2008 to tap business opportunities. From cutting tools to machining centres, dies and moulds, milling machines, lathes, presses, as well as precision measurement devices and gauges, the latest, most relevant technologies and biggest industry brand names will be on show during the event. The event last year gathered over 8,700 trade
visitors from 29 countries to source for the latest manufacturing products and technologies. MTA Vietnam also incorporates Metrology Vietnam2008 (Vietnam International Precision Measurement & Testing Exhibition), SubCon Vietnam2008 (Vietnam Contract Manufacturing and Subcontracting Exhibition) and Automation Vietnam2008 (Vietnam International Industrial Automation Exhibition). For more information on MTA Vietnam2008, please visit
www.mtavietnam.com.

Since its debut in 2000, Stationery&OfficeLink (SOL) has been established to become an important exhibition for the stationery, office equipment and supplies industry in Singapore and the region.

Through this trade fair, exhibitors can capitalise on the bountiful presence of visitors to enhance their brand names and forge beneficial strategic alliances. This is a thriving ground for networking and successful sales-boosting.

Visitors can expect a wide array of competitive-priced stationery and office products for purchase in this vibrant and high-energy atmosphere.

The 11th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs will be held in Linz in July 2008.

Over the last decades the advancement in Assistive Technologies (AT) and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have significantly influenced the life of people with disabilities. According changes in awareness and understanding of disability as well as social and legal frameworks, driven by Disability Rights and Independent Living Movements led to what is known as eAccessibility, Universal Design or eInclusion.

The Spanish Association for Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (AERFAI) and the Mathematics and Computer Science Department of UIB are organising the fifth international conference AMDO 2008 that will take place in Puerto de Andratx, Mallorca. This conference, IAPR endorsed, is the natural evolution of the AMDO's previous workshops. The goal of this conference is to promote interaction and collaboration among researchers working directly in the areas covered by the main tracks. New perceptual user interfaces and emerging technologies strengthen the relationship between areas involved with human-computer interaction. The new perspective of the AMDO 2008 conference will be to reinforce the relationship between the many areas that have as key point the study of the human body using computer technologies as the main tool.

PAACE Automechanika Mexico is Latin America’s most important automotive trade show. Held annually in Mexico City, the event draws more than 17,800 attendees in the automotive industry.

Held in conjunction with the International Week of the Automotive Industry and with the support of important industry associations, PAACE Automechanika Mexico has become a growing platform for automotive business in the Mexican and Latin American markets.


With more than 500 exhibitors, PAACE Automechanika Mexico is the ultimate platform for sourcing domestic and international products and suppliers. In addition the thousands of products, services and resources available on the exhibit hall floor, PAACE Automechanika Mexico offers valuable education and training, unmatched business solutions, exciting networking events and more.

Having reached its 25th anniversary, the Royal College of Nursing Practice Nurse Association would like to invite you to its conference in Cardiff which will be hosted by the Welsh Practice Nurse Association committee in association with RCN Events.

The aims of this conference will be to celebrate how much the practice nurse profession has achieved over the past 25 years. The clinical theme of the conference will look at a journey through womanhood - introducing some of the more controversial aspects and challenges a woman has to face today.

The latest issues facing practice nursing will be discussed and will provide you with the opportunity to debate issues that impinge upon your daily practice - essential information to take back to your workplace. The third and final day will be looking to the future of the profession to deliver a world class service in primary care over the next 25 years.

At Europe’s most productive, insightful and honest Defence Logistics Forum, you will be will have the opportunity to get to grips with current operational feedback, equipment updates and emerging requirements with presentations ranging from lessons identified to operational case-studies. Keynote Speakers from Allied nations will present updates on logistics initiatives and best practice specific to their national Armed Forces, NATO speakers will examine recent multinational operations and the tactical level, boots on the ground perspective will be provided by end-users at the sharp end operations, concentrating on ranks from Major to Colonel and equivalent. This unique audience of speakers and delegates provides you with an unrivalled opportunity to engage with a real cross-section of logisticians and their colleagues.

A service level agreement is a powerful tool for driving business effectiveness. It does more than simply measure and monitor performance. A carefully constructed SLA will also ensure that the incentives for the service provider are aligned with the goals of the client. An agreement that works to continuously enhance the customer-provider relationship will ultimately deliver better business outcomes.

SLA is the document which is referred on the regular basis to ensure the expected quality delivered. That is why it demands for the constant up gradation in all the aspects essential for a constructive SLA, for example the legal know-how. However, while SLAs are universally recognized, they aren’t always easy to figure out. In fact, many organizations make common mistakes when constructing and managing SLAs. Simply having a SLA won’t guarantee perfect service but it will define minimum performance levels and outline your provider’s responsibilities.

Topics to be discussed are:

• Setting the business context for SLA
• Understanding the legal structure of a SLA
• Preparing the business for SLA
• Building the content of the SLA
• Selecting your service provider efficiently and managing
the tendering process
• Negotiating the SLA
• Successfully implementing and managing the SLA in a
commercial context
• Measuring and monitoring performance and incrementally
modifying the agreement
• Penalties and security controlling risk and providing
incentives for performance excellence

How will you benefit from these seminars?

- Existing mentors are recommended to attend one of these regional seminars to develop their awareness of the Scheme, reinforce their understanding of the role and update their mentoring skills.
- Companies who would like to become accredited will receive all the practical guidance necessary for achieving accreditation.
- The seminars are a great networking event for mentors, HR and training staff alike, providing an excellent opportunity for the exchange of ideas and to develop best practice.
- The syndicate work will help you put these ideas into action in the workplace.

The Conference will focus on five major themes – Family Relationships; Children, Youth and Patterns of Care; Families and Work; Families and Community Life; and Violence and Protection Issues. These are the themes around which the Institute’s current work is organised. They are closely related to national policy priorities and areas of particular research interest. Within the framework of these broad themes there are sub-themes covering an extensive range of topics related to families that allows a broader scope for discussion. Although these areas are the focus of the conference, individual papers and symposia are not restricted solely to these themes.

Asia's best office machines & equipment trade fair

Products and Services

Copying machines, printers, fax machines, TV conference systems, cutting machines, laminators, bookbinders, white boards, projectors, OHP, screens, time recorders, tape writers, electronic stationery, air fresheners, electronic punchers, cash registers, calculators, sound systems, electronics products, front desk systems, posting machines, toner cartridges, business PC software, scanners, office security systems

This meeting aims to provide an update on assessment and remediation methods and services available for poorly performing doctors in the UK. The programme is designed to provide some insight into the research both nationally and internationally in this field and provide those attending with more confidence when faced with these problems in their workplace.
This conference is intended to meet the practical needs of all doctors and managers who have responsibility for managing performance in the work place. This includes educational supervisors, medical directors, clinical directors, staff of the postgraduate and undergraduate deaneries, HR managers and consultants.

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is becoming a bigger priority to organizations in Asia Pacific. While CSR is not a new concept or practice, it’s initiatives in the region is still comparatively young. However, it’s now recognized as one of the best ways to enhance a company’s position and value and many companies are now increasing their CSR initiatives.

-HEAR case studies from the EORTC and Lundbeck about their real life answers to overcoming the day to day challenges in data management

-DISCOVER the future of clinical trials and data management from speakers involved in the integration of healthcare and clinical data initiatives including the leading European initiative ‘NHS connecting for health’

-UNDERSTAND how the role of the data manager is changing and listen to practical solutions dealing with accelerated data management timelines and improving communications between departments

-DISCUSS the risks and benefits of outsourcing and offshoring the data management the role.

-LEARN about the new regulations and standards that will change the way you will have to manage your data

-GET TO GRIPS with the definition of a clean database and discuss the benefits of a standardised definition for the whole industry

-MEET and share experiences with a diverse range of data management professionals and come away with the answers to improve your data management processes

Don’t miss the opportunity to attend this unique industry focussed meeting dedicated to bringing together leading pharmaceutical research teams, RNAi focussed companies and top academics to address how to optimise RNAi as both a research tool and as a potential therapeutic.



This highly technical and scientific MicroRNA and RNAi congress has been designed with presentations structured as peer-led case studies to ensure that you gain true unbiased appraisals of all the strategies, methods and applications of RNAi that are being employed and optimised by specialist and large companies alike. Leading academics will feature alongside industry experts to present some of the most innovative work that is impacting on the field at present.

Plan to attend the 2008 Fish Health Section – AFS meeting to be held in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada between July 9th and 12th . The meeting is being hosted by the Atlantic Veterinary College – University of Prince Edward Island, and will mark only the second time in history the FHS annual meeting has been held in Canada. We are encouraging our EAFP and other international fish health colleagues to attend. The first call for papers is expected the autumn. Prince Edward Island is easily accessible from Europe, Asia and South America through Halifax, Nova Scotia and Moncton, New Brunswick by air on several major airlines.

"Biomass Nippon Strategy" has been revised by the Japanese Cabinet in March 2006, and it will be soon the year of 2008, the primal appointed implementation period of Kyoto Protocol.

Under the urgent and serious circumstances due to the global warming, various efforts have been undertaken to reduce dependence on fossil resources all over the world. In Japan, also, introduction of biofuels into transportation sector has been carried out, for instance, in Tokyo metropolitan district, aiming at "500,000kl (crude oil equivalent), by 2010".

Under these circumstances, BioFuels World 2007 was successfully held last summer at Pacifico Yokohama for exploring the future prospects of biofuels. However, due to ever-changing situations in biofuels and amplified climate changes, urgent action is further necessary to be taken. Thus, we need to establish new control policies and agenda for "Post-Kyoto Protocol". In addition, an increasing attention has been drawn to an enormous amount of biomass in Southeast Asia, as the use of biofuels is being expanded. Although biomass resources are renewable and carbon-neutral, it would be as exhaustible as in fossil resources, unless it is effectively and comprehensively utilized under a long-range planning.

Japan’s All-New Variety Gift Trade Fair

Products and Services

* Character goods: Key Cases, Cellular-phone Straps, Toys, Dolls, Character goods, Puzzles, etc.
* Fragrance & Aroma: Incense, Candle, Aroma Oil, Perfume, Herb teas, etc.
* Bath & Beauty: Bath accessories, Salts, Soaps, Manicure Kits, Mirrors, Makeup Cases, etc.
* Flower goods: Preserved Flowers, Dried Flowers, Foliage Plants, Vases, Flower Bases, etc.
* Wrapping goods: Ribbon, Wrapping papers and Materials, etc.
* Fashion accessories: Accessories, Bags, Belts, Watch, Glasses, etc.
* Interior & Lifestyle: Lifestyle Goods, Lighting, Tableware, Kitchenware, etc.
* Art & Crafts: Art Frames, Posters, Photo Flames, Craft Goods, etc.
* Party: Party Goods, Entertainment, Goods, etc.
* Health & Healing: Fitness Goods, Healing Accessories, etc.
* Christmas: Christmas Trees, Decorations, Ornaments, Cards, etc

Good publication strategies and intelligent planning can help you to maximize the benefits from publications and help you increase the ROI from clinical trials. This 3 day practical course will cover the essentials of how you can develop and deliver more effective publication policies, strategies and plans. You will learn how to convert strategies into effective plans, gain essential knowledge about journals and meetings and cover the latest rules and regulations governing publications. Practical sessions will help you to apply this to create realistic timetables, with valuable insights from journal editors and other publications professionals. With a lack of a strategy and poor planning leading to delays and tension between investigators / opinion leaders / research sponsors can you afford to miss this course?

In January 2006, the FDA issued new labeling regulations. The Federal Register notice of those regulations included a preamble suggesting that many product liability claims brought against drug manufacturers are preempted by federal law. Since then, an avalanche of judicial decisions has addressed the preemption issue, and the courts are deeply divided over the correct result. In the meantime, the Supreme Court has granted certiorari in cases raising questions about the scope of preemption for medical device manufacturers and the breadth of preemption for claims of fraud on the FDA.

•Why now? Why is tort law just now colliding with the administrative state?
•The developing case law since the Preemption Preamble
•Preemption case selection -- what's the best case for raising the drug preemption defense?
•The status of Colacicco v. Apotex, the first federal appellate case addressing drug preemption;
•Device preemption in the lower courts;
•The status of Riegel v. Medtronic, a device preemption case in the Supreme Court; and
•The status of Warner-Lambert v. Kent, a fraud-on-the-FDA preemption case in the Supreme Court

IEX 2008 Ion exchange is one of the basic separation and purification technologies of modern industry. The SCI IEX Conferences began in 1954 and have been established as one of the major international conferences for the ion exchange community. These unique IEX meetings provide the opportunity, every four years, for the ion exchange manufacturing and service companies, end user and researchers to present papers on all aspects of the theory and practice of ion exchange and adsorbents and to discuss current practice and future industrial developments.

Asia's largest stationery and office products trade event! The gateway to Japan, the world's second largest stationery and office products market.

Products and Services

Writing instruments, stationery, electronic products, painting instruments and accessories, office supplies, machines, pass holders, writing instrument accessories and raw materials, files, paper products, drawing instruments, office automation and related products and accessories, school supplies, school bags, briefcases, office furniture, gift items, calendars, ecological stationery, retailer supplies.

To be proficient as a forecaster, both quantitative and qualitative aspects should be addressed. This two-day workshop will be looking at the most effective statistical techniques to aid you in your forecasting role. Developed as a comprehensive primer to practical forecasting, the instructor will walk you through the process, analysing and treating data, and enable you to prepare forecasts which would be easily understandable to decision makers.

Benefits of attending this workshop:

&bull Develop an accurate model for dynamic market forces

&bull Incorporate variables and randomness for accurate representation

&bull Determine cyclical, seasonal, political trends that effect demand

&bull Predict inventory levels, sales and other business metrics

&bull Represent data for easy understanding and explanation

Japan’s All-New Variety Gift Trade Fair

Products and Services

&bull Character goods: Key Cases, Cellular-phone Straps, Toys, Dolls, Character goods, Puzzles, etc.
&bull Fragrance & Aroma: Incense, Candle, Aroma Oil, Perfume, Herb teas, etc.
&bull Bath & Beauty: Bath accessories, Salts, Soaps, Manicure Kits, Mirrors, Makeup Cases, etc.
&bull Flower goods: Preserved Flowers, Dried Flowers, Foliage Plants, Vases, Flower Bases, etc.
&bull Wrapping goods: Ribbon, Wrapping papers and Materials, etc.
&bull Fashion accessories: Accessories, Bags, Belts, Watch, Glasses, etc.
&bull Interior & Lifestyle: Lifestyle Goods, Lighting, Tableware, Kitchenware, etc.
&bull Art & Crafts: Art Frames, Posters, Photo Flames, Craft Goods, etc.
&bull Party: Party Goods, Entertainment, Goods, etc.
&bull Health & Healing: Fitness Goods, Healing Accessories, etc.
&bull Christmas: Christmas Trees, Decorations, Ornaments, Cards, etc.

Now into its fourth year, the Better Business Conference & Awards attracts 300 attendees from leading business and government organisations looking for new and innovative ideas for progressive organisation and business management. Speakers will be senior industry and government representatives who will make presentations on the topics of: continuous improvement; sustainable performance; risk; effective decision making; accurate resourcing and management; performance improvement; sustainability; compliance; leadership; and other more.

This event is an excellent opportunity to learn from business and organisation management practices with other senior management delegates from business and government.

This event will address issues that are most critical to the investment success of senior public pension fund officers and trustees.

The Summit will cover how surplus returns should affect employee benefit plans, the processes for selection and evaluation of investment managers, legal concerns with fund investment and management policies as well as the benefits and pitfalls of a wide variety of investment strategies.

The Institute of English Studies will host a Symposium featuring an academic panel, with the winner of the 2008 Caine Prize for African Writing, and the other shortlisted writers, in conversation

ANZCA is the peak professional body for communication, mass communication, public relations, and journalism educators in Australasia, and the annual conference is always a lively and collegial opportunity to explore and debate new research directions in communication. We are the biggest annual gathering in Australasia for communication educators and researchers - and often noted as an extremely friendly conference, too!

The theme in 2008 is Power and Place, an emphasis inspired by the location in Wellington, the political capital of Aotearoa New Zealand. We have the flexibility to accommodate a wide variety of perspectives on communication, place, and power.

Opal Financial Group's annual Family Office/Private Wealth Management Forum will address specific investment challenges faced by high-net-worth individuals and family offices. Panel discussions will focus on a wide range of investment strategies and solutions designed to maximize returns. In addition, there will be ample opportunity to network with representatives from some of the leading family offices and asset management firms in the industry.



Specific Topics to be Covered Include:

• Challenges within the Asst Allocation Process
• The Importance of Giving and its Impact within a Family Office Structure
• Case for Global Macro Hedge Funds
• Direct Energy Investing
• Convergence of Family Offices, Fund of Funds and Consultants

The 24th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI 2008) will take place on 9-12 July 2008 in Helsinki, Finland. UAI 2008 is colocated with COLT 2008, which takes place at the same time. Both UAI and COLT 2008 are preceeded by ICML 2008 and MLG 2008 in the same location.

UAI:Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence
COLT Conference on Learning Theory
MLG:International Workshop on Mining and Learning with Graphs
ICML:International Conference on Machine Learning

The 21st Annual Conference on Learning Theory (COLT 2008) will take place on 9-12 July 2008 in Helsinki, Finland. COLT 2008 is colocated with UAI 2008, which takes place at the same time. Both COLT and UAI 2008 are preceeded by ICML 2008 and MLG 2008 in the same location.

UAI:Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence
COLT Conference on Learning Theory
MLG:International Workshop on Mining and Learning with Graphs
ICML:International Conference on Machine Learning

The 2008 annual meeting of the RCSL will be devoted to “Law and Justice in the Risk Society” and held from Wednesday 9 July afternoon, to Saturday 12 July 2008, on the invitation of the Associazione di Studi su Diritto e Società, the Sezione di Sociologia del diritto dell’ Associazione Italiana di Sociologia, the University of Milano, the University of Milano-Bicocca, the University of Insubria-Como and the Centro Nazionale di Prevenzione e Difesa Sociale (CNPDS).

Besides the panels organized by the RCSL Working Groups, the following Workshops, specifically connected with the topic of the conference, will take place:

* Ecology
* Commons
* European Integration
* Market Economies, Enterprises and Work
* Health and Assistance
* Identities and Religion
* Media and the Internet
* Legal Systems and their Risks
* War and Terrorism
* Security and Social Control
* Law and Family
* Law and Biomedical Technologies
* Law and Anthropology

Call for Papers

We are soliciting original papers in the area of information visualization applied to biomedical and biomolecular data, including genomic and proteomic data. One of the great challenges is the presentation of and interaction with large and complex data sets. The need for integrated methods and creative strategies has provided an opportunity for novel solutions. We encourage the submission of new techniques, old techniques applied in novel ways, new methods, interesting applications and in-depth surveys.

Examples of application topics include, but are not limited to

- Microarray data, design and analysis
- Nucleotide and protein sequence alignment
- Sequence analysis, comparison and alignment networks
- Evolutionary phylogenetic trees
- Gene expression and gene discovery
- Signaling pathways, biochemical networks
- Biochemical and cellular simulations and models
- Mass spectrometry data analysis
- Heterogeneous medical data sources
- Neuroscience and physiology
- Patient records
etc.

- Interactions with large data sets
- Annotation and labeling
- Linking literature and semantics in pathway visualizations
- Systems-level analysis of experimental data
- Overview and detail presentation of predictive or uncertain data
- Comparative Methods / User studies / Surveys
- Identification of correlated and anomalous relationships in disparate data sets
etc.

We're only a few weeks away from the 22nd Annual High Schools That Work Summer Conference, set for July 9 - 12 in Nashville, Tennessee. This year's theme - Skills for Success in the 21st Century - promises to address many of the key challenges today's high school and middle grades students will face during their working lives. These students will shoulder the responsibility of leading our nation in meeting the exciting challenges of the 21st century. Is your school up to the task of preparing them to meet these challenges?

I would like to give you an update on this year's conference and on the opportunities that await you in Nashville. In support of our conference theme, we have an excellent slate of invited guest speakers scheduled to present. These individuals are uniquely qualified to guide teachers, principals and district leaders in ensuring our schools are preparing 21st-century leaders.

The two-day conference will provide unlimited opportunities - from networking and brand exposure to new learnings on the latest local and international trends and developments affecting the franchise sector.

• Introduction to Digital Library Technologies & Metadata 101 - Laura Riskedahl, Bucknell University
• Local History Online: An Open Source Solution to the Management and Access of Historical Collections - John Lyles, Chattahochee Valley Regional Library System
• Building and Managing a Successful Digital Repository in DSpace - Michele Kimpton, DSpace Foundation
• The Tri-Colleges' Collaborative Visual Resource Collection - Nicole Finzer, Bryn Mawr College; Susan Dreher, Swarthmore College; Julie D. Coy, Haverford College
• Balancing the Need for Efficient Submission of Scientific Data with the Need to Collect Metadata - Robert R. Downs and Robert S. Chen, Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia University

The annual National Vocational Education and Training (VET) Research conference, 'No Frills', is considered one of the best value events on the VET research calendar.

The conference aims to bring together staff involved or interested in education and training research from TAFE institutes, universities and private registered training organisations as well as consultants.

In keeping with the 'no frills' approach, the conference offers an ideal opportunity for participants to network and to share, discuss and present current and recently completed work in a relaxed and informal environment.

To aid you with your decision on whether to study medicine and to show you what we can offer you at the School of Medicine, we will be holding open days specifically for the undergraduate courses taught at the School of Medicine.

During these open days you will be able to find out more about how to apply to study here, see a demonstration interview; gain an understanding of the structure of the undergraduate course, how it is taught and to find out from our current Medical students what it is really like to be at Imperial College London.

Metals are essential ‘trace elements’ in our diet, and the liver and the brain are the organs with the highest metal content. The potential hazards presented by metals are overcome at the cellular level by the existence of dedicated transporters and chaperones, and a number of inherited diseases arise as result of mutations in the proteins associated with these systems. The availability of powerful model organisms, particularly zebra fish, D. melanogaster and C. elegans, has led to the identification of large families of genes encoding metal transporters and chaperones. This has helped to stimulate a dramatic increase in research over the past few years aimed at understanding of the role of metals in normal physiology and in various disease states. This is particularly apparent in the neurosciences, where metals act as neuromodulators and dysregulation of the normal physiological handling of zinc, copper and iron has been linked to some important neurodegenerative conditions, including Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and the transmissible ‘prion’ diseases.

This Meeting will cover the metabolism and transport of metals, and also the role of metals in neuronal function and neurodegeneration. The following topics will be included:

• Metabolism of metal ions
• Transport mechanisms
• The latest advances in model organisms
• The role of metals in neuronal development and in the regulation of normal neuronal transmission
• The role of metals in various neurodegenerative diseases
• Therapeutic approaches and methodologies