This volume includes four sections of the 2023 NORDSCI international conference proceedings: (1) Business and Management; (2) Education and Educational Research; (3) Political Science; and (4) Sociology and Healthcare. Business and Management includes 6 papers covering business, including management and organizational studies, business law, and…

This publication follows the tradition of publishing selected papers from the Pacific Islands Association of Libraries, Archives and Museums (PIALA) annual conferences. This 27th annual conference was held in Kolonia, Pohnpei State, Federated States of Micronesia, November 13-17, 2017. This volume includes a listing PIALA Officers and Executive…

This conference was designed to facilitate an exchange of information and experiences on the major issues in research with human subjects. In each session, a speaker from the United States and one from the United Kingdom reviewed procedures, progress, and problems related to a particular topic, leading to a thorough discussion of the advantages or…

This special issue is a compilation of documents from the seminar organized by ICSTI (International Council for Scientific and Technical Information), ICSU (International Council for Science), and CODATA (ICSU Committee on Data for Science and Technology). Focuses on preserving and archiving digital scientific data and discusses electronic…

Discusses the International Conference on Moral Education which took place in Japan in August 1987. Presents an overview of conference presentations, emphasizing the importance of such meetings for the exchange of information and interpretation of perspectives. (GEA)

Offers reviews of world-wide distance learning developments, including reports of international conferences and workshops. Focuses on the World Conference on Computers in Education held in Copenhagen, Denmark, 2001. (LRW)

An international symposium was convened to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the John Murray Expedition to the Indian Ocean on board the Egyptian research vessel Mabahiss (1933-1934). This report describes the symposium and provides abstracts and syntheses of the papers presented in the various marine scientific disciplines covering the areas of…

An International System for the Exchange of Information on Science and Technology for Policy-making, Management, and Development (SPINES) was established to provide a decentralized international system for information exchange between member states which collect, process, and disseminate basic data on science and technology with special emphasis…

The fourth annual meeting of editors of national surveys of educational research was held in the form of a joint meeting with the members of the Bureau of the Committee for Educational Documentation and Information on May 25, 1976, in Strasbourg. Oral reports were given on the present state of national surveys and related activities in each…

The goal of this second EDICO colloquium was to evaluate the development of innovation processes and information systems in UNESCO member countries, including the identification of the most significant areas for the exchange of educational information, and the discussion of possibilities for joint action in the future. The mission of EDICO-2 was…

Drawn from the proceedings of the Sixty-second World Congress of Esperanto, the items in this publication focus on language and the right to communicate. Its contents include a discussion paper on the right to communicate, emphasizing the linguistic aspects of international communication; an address by the Director-General of the United Nations…

Teachers, teacher trainers, pedagogical counselors, and representatives of teachers associations and ministries from ten Council of Europe member states as well as from two non-member states met to evaluate innovation in the schooling of gypsy and traveller children. Considered were the conditions under which innovation emerges, the forms that it…

This report of a conference held at University College in Dublin explores problems associated with cooperation and computer applications involved in networking. An introductory session on the theory and objectives of physical and cooperative networking by Lucy Tedd, a consultant on computer systems in libraries, is followed by Dennis Jenning's…

The proceedings of the First World Conference on Engineering Education focus on future directions, case studies, and unique high-impact programs. The report contains the following: (1) a list of summary statements on ideas, trends and observations; (2) summaries of the 16 sessions in which salient points are noted; and (3) the complete text of…

The history, aims, and activities of the International Society for Music Education (ISME) are briefly reviewed in this synopsis of the organization's Thirteenth World Congress, held August 12-20, in London, Ontario, Canada. (SJL)