Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / AIDS / December 2005
Call for Papers: The 2006 IAENG International Conference on Mathematical, Statistical and Computer Methods in HIV/AIDS 2006
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imecs2006@iaeng.org - 28 Dec 2005 05:47 GMT From: International Association of Engineers (IAENG)
Call for Papers ==========================
The 2006 IAENG International Conference on Mathematical, Statistical and Computer Methods in HIV/AIDS 2006 (Part of The International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists IMECS 2006)
IMECS 2006: 20-22 June, 2006, Hong Kong
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Considering that a large number of people in any community do not know that they are HIV positive, and consequently, that the HIV prevalence estimates in any country are usually unreliable, the purpose of this Conference is to bring together researchers from all over the world to discuss methods for accurate estimates and future predictions of HIV/AIDS incidence and prevalence in different parts of the world. While papers (both research papers and discussion papers) from all parts of the world are very welcome, those discussing hiv prevalence in Africa, all parts of Asia, and in Eastern Europe and in Russia should add a very desirable breadth to the conference. All papers discussing these issues through Mathematical, Statistical, Computer, Survey and any other methods will be welcome.
The ICMHA'06 conference is held as part of the International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists 2006. The IMECS 2006 is organized by the International Association of Engineers (IAENG), and serves as good platforms for the engineering community members to meet with each other and to exchange ideas. Extended version of the papers under this workshop can be included in the special issue of our journal Engineering Letters. And, further extended version can also be included in a book called "Current Trends in Mathematical, Statistical and Computer Methods in HIV/AIDS 2006" to be published by IAENG.
The IMECS 2006 multiconference has the focus on the frontier topics in the theoretical and applied engineering and computer science subjects. It consists of 14 workshops (see the details at IMECS website: www.iaeng.org/IMECS2006). The multiconference serves as good platforms for the engineering community members of different disciplines to meet with each other and to exchange ideas. The current conference committee of the IMECS 2006 includes over 140 workshop co-chairs and committee members of mainly research center heads, department heads, professors, research scientists from over 20 countries, while a few of the committee members are also experienced software development directors and engineers.
========= Submission:
Prospective authors are invited to submit their draft paper in abstract format (one page) or in full paper format to imecs@iaeng.org by 12 March, 2006. The submitted file can be in MS Word format, PS format, or PDF formats.
The first page of the draft paper should include:
· Title of the paper; · Name, affiliation and e-mail address for each author; · A maximum of 5 keywords of the paper;
Also, the name of the workshop session that the paper is being submitted to should be stated in the email.
============= Important Dates:
Proposals for special conference sessions and tutorials deadline: 30 December, 2005 Draft Manuscript / Abstract submission deadline: 12 March, 2006 Camera-Ready papers & Pre-registration due: 2 April, 2006 IMECS 2006: 20-22 June, 2006
More details about the ICMHA 2006 can be found at: http://www.iaeng.org/IMECS2006/ICMHA2006.html
ICMHA Conference Chair and Committee Members:
Prof. B. D. Aggarwala (Chair) Professor Emeritus Department of Mathematics and Statistics University of Calgary, Canada
Jiunn-Lin Wu Assistant Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan
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montygram - 28 Dec 2005 07:05 GMT "Mathematical, Statistical and Computer Methods in HIV/AIDS" or you can just call them "lies" instead and save some breath.
Susie, age 9 - 28 Dec 2005 22:18 GMT > "Mathematical, Statistical and Computer Methods in HIV/AIDS" or you can > just call them "lies" instead and save some breath. Or better yet, how to get free money from drug companies, without really working.
Gosh, Gary Stein and George Mohammed Carter can tell us loads about that!
susie
GMCarter - 28 Dec 2005 23:28 GMT >> "Mathematical, Statistical and Computer Methods in HIV/AIDS" or you can >> just call them "lies" instead and save some breath. > >Or better yet, how to get free money from drug companies, >without really working. Do you really work? LOL. I bet not.
>Gosh, Gary Stein and George Mohammed Carter can tell us >loads about that! "Mohammed"? Nope. Not my name. No more than yours is Susie.
Anyway, yes indeed. Pharma gives away scads of money and gifts and what have you to buy physicians, distort research and in general bolster profits. Indeed, the "privatized" model of drug discovery is increasingly recognized as an abject failure.
There are ways to change this. More public investment in discovery and later phases of clinical trials testing is good. Increasing investment in "neglected" diseases would be great.
Perhaps most crucially would be to change patent law. Now, it is a distorted perversion of its original intent. To the extent it is needed at all, DISCOVERERS should be rewarded. NOT Stockholders.
And only rewarded reasonably. Such changes in the law along with a single payer healthcare system and price controls on drugs would go a long way to offsetting the burgeoning and crippling healthcare costs that are causing pensions to be destroyed in both the private and public sectors.
Yes, indeed. There is lots to be discussed about these problems of an out-of-control industry that has little hesitation to bend the US government to its will and indeed, is willing to let millions of men, women and children die each year simply to protect their profiteering.
The notion that "R&D" costs is the reason for high drug prices is a ludicrous lie. Indeed, the extent that such costs are pertinent is as much a fault of high licensing fees and, again, patent distortion, up- and downstream in the discovery process.
George M. Carter
montygram - 29 Dec 2005 00:52 GMT Overall, a reasonable response by Mr. Carter. I would add that "medicine" is rarely the answer. If people were told how to maintain their bodies properly, there would be very little need for doctors or pharaceutical companies. "HIV/AIDS" is particularly obnoxious because it rewards people for doing the worst kinds of things: people think they can do anything to their bodies as long as they "protect themselves againsts the virus," BigPharma makes huge profits selling "medicines" that nobody can live on for more than a short time without serious physical degeneration, and doctors are essentially relieved from having to do any thinking.
Once you begin to say to yourself, "wait a minute, the scientific method exists, and before I take any claim seriously I want to see the evidence, and that means the raw data and every other kind of full disclosure possible," all of a sudden things look very different. Instead, "biology" and "medicine" are going in the direction of "markers," "links," "surrogate endpoints," "associations," etc. Even when an AHA spokesman (Dr. Richard Stein) states that only oxidized cholesterol is dangerous (in the CHD context), the AHA is not telling people to stop taking the cholesterol lowering "medications" and simply avoid oxidized cholesterol (since low cholesterol means higher risk of cancer, bleeding stroke, etc.). In my library, books that contain such dogma are shelved next to books about fairy tales.
GMCarter - 29 Dec 2005 04:39 GMT >Overall, a reasonable response by Mr. Carter. I would add that >"medicine" is rarely the answer. Well, then you'd womble off into your usual unreasonableness.
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