Databases for psychologists Subject specific 1 DATABASES FROM the APA 1.1 PsycBOOKS o a full-text database of books and chapters o produced by the American Psychological Association. o psychology o (1950–2002) 1.2 PsycINFO The major, most comprehensive database o Content: psychology and psychological aspects ofrelated disciplines. including psychiatry, nursing, business, education, socialscience, neuroscience, law, medicine, social work , medicine,psychiatry, nursing, sociology, pharmacology, physiology and linguistics o Coverage : journalarticles, book chapters, dissertations and technical reports o Date range : (1806-present) o Updates : monthly o producedby the American Psychological Association 1.3 PsycArticles o Content: general psychology andspecialized basic, applied, clinical, and theoretical research in psychology. o Coverage : journalarticles o Date range : ( 1988 -present) o Updates : o publishedby the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational PublishingFoundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe PublishingGroup 1.4 PsycCritiques . o Content: relevantto psychology o Coverage : Reviews of books, films and software o Date range : ( 1988 -present) o Updates : o producedby the American Psychological Association 1.5 PsycTests (APA) psychological tests and measures as well as arich source of structured information about the tests 1.6 PsycBITE evidence-based empirical reports on the effectiveness ofnon-pharmacological interventions for the psychological consequences ofacquired brain impairment. · 1.7 PsycEXTRA A grey literature database, is a companion to the scholarlyPsycINFO database. Most of the content was written for professionals anddisseminated outside of peer-reviewed journals (newsletters, magazines,newspapers et al.,) 1.8 PsycTHERAPY is a database of streaming psychotherapydemonstrations featuring some of the most renowned therapists in North Americaworking with participants on a host of therapeutic topics. PsycTHERAPY providesover 300 hours of video content. More than 200 different topics and 65therapeutic approaches, demonstrated by 95 therapists, and covered throughouthundreds of filmed therapy demonstrations. 2 GENERAL /Multidisplinces 2.1 Scopus alarge multidisciplinary database , abstracting database o Content: Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics andEngineering ; Life and Health Sciences ; Social Sciences, Psychology andEconomics ; Biological, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences o Coverage : reviewed journals, quality web resources and patents , Articles, books, reports, and patents o Date range : 1995-present . o Updates : o NOTES: Includes citationfeatures and tools to analyze authors and journals; set up citation alterts;track authors and analyse journal performance 2.2 Web of Science (Web ofKnowledge) a large multidisciplinary database o Content: science,social science, engineering, and art humanities o Coverage : Bibliographicinformation and cited references o Date range : 1900 for the Sciences, 1956 forSocial Sciences and 1975 for Arts Humanities. o Updates : weekly o NOTES: ScienceCitation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index (through the Web of Science) o Good for contextualizing research. 2.3 Google Scholar o Content: scholarly literature from avariety of disciplines o Coverage : peer-reviewedjournal articles, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports. o Date range : o Updates : o Good for finding psychology articles, thoughhistorical coverage weaker than PsycINFO 2.4 ScienceDirect o Content: Informationsource for scientific, technical, and medical research, a broad range ofsubjects iin the social sciences and humanities, health sciences, lifesciences, and physical sciences and engineering o Coverage : peer-reviewedjournal articles, books, and reference works. o Date range : (1950-present) o Updates : o producedby the publisher Elsevier. Subsidiary publishers include Academic Press, Cell Press,Pergamon, Mosby, and Saunders journals. 2.5 Wiley Online Library WileyOnline Library . o Fulltext scientificelectronic journals published by Wiley o Journals articles andthousands of e-books (including some encyclopaedias) in almost all subjects. 3 mEDICINE 3.1 PubMed / Medline PubMed is the free web tool to search Medlinecontents the largest biomedical database o Content: psychiatry, biological psychology andbrain sciences. covers the fields of medicine, pre-clinicalsciences including clinical psychology. o Coverage : indexes journals o Date range : ( o Updates : o fromthe National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the US NationalLibrary of Medicine (NLM). Medline is the premier database for journal articlesin the health sciences. For further information see the Database Guide toPubMed. Contains internationalliterature on biomedicine, including the allied health fields and thebiological and physical sciences, humanities and information science as theyrelate to medicine and health care. . 3.2 Embase an internationalpharmacological and biomedical database indexing medical and drug informationfrom 70 countries. the Europeanequivalent of Medline which indexes journals Comprehensivepharmacological and biomedical database drug information 3.3 PILOTS Database Index to the literature on post-traumatic stress disorder. (1871-present) for articles on post-traumatic stress disorderand other mental-health consequences of traumatic events. 3.4 Cochrane Library · provide access tosystematic reviews on a wide range of topics related to health care. evidence-based clinical practice · A source of up-to-date information on the effects ofinterventions in health care 4 SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGYAND SOCIAL WORK · 4.1 SociologicalAbstracts Bibliographic references and abstracts abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,700 serials publications covers sociologyand related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences · SocialWork Abstracts Citations and abstracts of articles 5 EDUCATION · 5.1 EducationFull-Text Citations, abstracts, and full text articles in education periodicals and otherpublications. Education Full Text Indexes and abstracts articles ofEnglish-language periodicals and books on education from 1983 on. Abstractingcoverage begins with January 1994. Full-text coverage begins in January 1996and is available for over half the 600 journals indexed. · 5.2 ERIC (Educational ResourcesInformation Center) Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, indexes articles, governmentdocuments, dissertations, etc., in education. British Education Index and ERIC , for information in the field of education For topics that overlap with education, ERIC canbe helpful. (1966-present) References journal articles and unpublished documents on educational theory andpractice. Indexes research on education policy and practice in developmentcontexts. · 5.3 EducationResearch Complete Offers the world's largest and most complete collection of full text educationjournals. 6 ASSESSMENT TOOLS 6.1 MentalMeasurements Yearbook Descriptions and critical reviews and of over 2,000 psychological tests andmeasures. A comprehensive guide to over 3,000contemporary testing instruments Mental MeasurementsYearbook, produced by the Buros Institute, contains full text information aboutand reviews of all English-language standardized tests covering educationalskills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology, and related areas as includedin the printed Mental Measurements Yearbooks. Contains information and reviews of all english language standardized test. Covers educational skills, vocationalaptitude, psychology and. personality, aptitude, neuropsychology, achievement and intelligence,etc. 6.2 HaPI(Health and Psychosocial Instruments) . A databasedesign to help identify measurement tests used in health, psychosocialsciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science;provides sources, abstract, and reviewer(s) when applicable. 7 Psychoanalysis 7.1 PEP-Web(Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing) Full text from thearchive of psychoanalytic literature (books and journals) 1871 - 2006 a digital archive of many major works of psychoanalysis. Itincludes the complete works of Sigmund Freud, backfiles 8 COGNITION · 8.1 Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) Use this database for language-related issues in psychology. 8.2 CogNet Includes full-text ofbooks and other resources. Use the CogNet Library to browse journals and books from MIT Pressin the cognitive sciences. A collection ofreference works, journals, books and conference proceedings. 9 ORGANISATIONAL ABI/INform Complete Access references and full text articles from leading business databases and newspapers published since 1971. It is offered on the proquest site where you can cross search it with other business databases including Asian Business, Proquest entrepreneurship. Business Source Complete Leading business research database which provides access to the text of several thousand journals covering business, management, human resources, finance and market research topics. Find articles on the media industry. Emerald is a database of references to articles taken from around 450 top management and business journals. The coverage is international but with a UK bias. The database covers the years from 1989 onwards and is updated monthly. Business Source Premier via Ebsco (1922 to present) One of the largest databases covering business, industry and management. Thisis an excellent source organisational psychology and coaching psychology. · Applied Social Sciences Index andAbstracts · Humanities and Social Sciences IndexRetrospective · IBSS (International Bibliography ofthe Social Sciences the contents of books and journals Content: broad range of social science topics, particularly strong on Anthropology, Economics, Politics Sociology. Abstracts and references to journal articles, book reviews and chapters from edited books. Date range : 1951 to present Updates : weekly · International Encyclopedia of Social and BehavorialSciences ProQuest Research Library ( Michigan University ) Indexes over2,300 journals and magazines covering all fields and topics, academic andpopular, beginning as early as 1971. ....................
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Computer Science Conference Rankings Disclaimer: The rankings below are for the most prestigious category of paper at a given conference (i.e. mainly the refereed full paper track). They are based on general reputation of the conference in the field, the citation of the papers published in the conference, reputation of program committee members and reputation of the review process. It is not based on scientific measurements and thus can be controversial. While debatable, this ranking could change in time. New conferences are typically ranked in the third tier. Top conferences are known for their impact history and their rigorous review process. They should be equivalent, if not superior in impact and prestige, to reputable journals. Workshops and new (or unknown) conferences are not ranked. The University of Alberta and/or The Department of Computing Science do not necessarily endorse this ranking. It is mainly put together after intense consultation with international colleagues. The rankings do not necessarily represent my personal views about these conferences and I am not responsible for the reputation of conferences. This is an unofficial reference. If you are looking for a scientifically accurate ranking please disregard this page. --OZ Select conference tier... Top Tier Conferences Second Tier Conferences Third Tier Conferences Field Legend DB: Databases DM: Data Mining AI: Artificial Inteligence NL: Natural Language Processing ED: Computer Education IR: Information Retrieval W3: Web and Information Systems DP: Distributed and Parallel Computing GV: Graphics, Vision and HCI MM: Multimedia NC: Networks, Communications Performance SE: Security and Privacy OS: Operating Systems / Simulations Some seemingly second tier conferences are actually top conferences in their sub-field. Top Tier Conferences (Rank 1) (DB) VLDB: Very Large Data Bases (since 1975) (DB) SIGMOD: ACM SIGMOD Conf on Management of Data (since 1975) (DB) PODS: ACM SIGMOD Conf on Principles of DB Systems (since 1982) (DB) ICDE: IEEE Intl Conf on Data Engineering (since 1984) (DB) ICDT: Intl Conf on Database Theory (since 1986) (DB) EDBT: Extending DB Technology (since 1988) (DM) SIGKDD: ACM Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (since 1995) (DM) ICDM: IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (since 2001) (AI) IJCAI: Intl Joint Conf on AI (since 1969) (AI) AAAI: American Association for AI National Conference (since 1980) (AI) ICML: Intl Conf on Machine Learning (since 1984) (AI) UAI: Conference on Uncertainty in AI (since 1985) (AI) UMAP: Intl Conf on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (since 1985) (AI) NIPS: Neural Information Processing Systems (since 1987) (AI) AAMAS: International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (since 1997) (NL) ACL: Association for Computational Linguistics (since 1963) (ED) AIED: Intl Conf on Artificial Intelligence in Education (since 1983) (ED) ITS: Intelligent Tutoring System Conference (since 1988) (IR) SIGIR: ACM SIGIR Conf on Information Retrieval (since 1971) (W3) WWW: World-Wide Web Conference (since 1994) (W3) ICIS: Intl Conf on Information Systems (since 1983) (DP) PPoPP: Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (since 1988) (DP) PACT: Intl Conf on Parallel Arch and Compil Tech (since 1990) (DP) IPDPS: IEEE Intl Parallel and Dist Processing Symp (since 1986) (DP) ICPP: Intl Conf on Parallel Processing (SINCE 1972) (DP) Euro-Par: European Conf. on Parallel Computing (SINCE 1995) (GV)SIGGRAPH: ACM SIGGRAPH Conference (since 1974) (GV) CVPR: IEEE Conf on Comp Vision and Pattern Recognition (since 2000) (GV)ICCV: Intl Conf on Computer Vision (since 1987) (GV)I3DG: ACM-SIGRAPH Interactive 3D Graphics (MM) ACM-MM: ACM Multimedia Conference (since 1993) (NC) SIGCOMM: ACM Conf on Applic, Techno, Archit, and Protocols for Comp Comm (since 1977) (NC) PERFORMANCE: IFIP Intl Symp on Computer Performance, Modeling, Measurements Evaluation (since 1980) (NC) SIGMETRICS: ACM Conf on Meas. Modelling of Comp Sys (since 1981) (NC) INFOCOM: Annual Joint Conf IEEE Comp Comm Soc (since 1982) (NC) MOBICOM: ACM Intl Conf on Mobile Computing and Networking (since 1995) (SE) IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (since 1980) (SE) CCS: ACM Conf on Comp and Communications Security (since 1993) (OS) SOSP: ACM SIGOPS Symp on OS Principles (since 1967) (OS) OSDI: Usenix Symp on OS Design and Implementation (since 1994) Other 1st tier conferences: (..) FOCS: IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (since 1959) (..) STOC: ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (since 1969) (..) ICALP: International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (since 1973) (..) SODA: SIAM/ACM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (since 1990) (..) ISMB: Intl Conf on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (since 1993) Second Tier Conferences (Rank 2) (DB) ER: Intl Conf on Conceptual Modeling (Conf on the Entity Relationship Approach) (Since 1979) (DB) SSDBM: Intl Conf on Scientific and Statistical DB Mgmt (since 1981) (DB) FODO: Intl Conf on Foundation on Data Organization (since 1981) (DB) DASFAA: Database Systems for Advanced Applications (since 1989) (DB) SSD: Intl Symp on Large Spatial Databases (since 1989) (DB) DOOD: Deductive and Object-Oriented Databases (since 1989) (DB) CIKM: Intl. Conf on Information and Knowledge Management (since 1992) (DB) CoopIS: Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (since 1993) (DM) PAKDD: Pacific-Asia Conf on Know. Discovery Data Mining (since 1997) (DM) PKDD: European Conf on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (since 1997) (DM) DAWAK: Intl Conf on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery (since 1999) (DM) SDM: SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (since 2001) (AI) AID: Intl Conf on AI in Design (since 1991) (AI) ECAI: European Conf on AI (since 1974) (AI) ECML: European Conf on Machine Learning (since 1986) (AI) GECCO: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (since 1999) (AI) ICGA: Intl Conf on Genetic Algorithms (since 1991) (AI) GP: Genetic Programming Conference (since 1995) (AI) IAAI: Innovative Applications of AI (since 1989) (AI) ICIP: Intl Conf on Image Processing (since 1994) (AI) ICNN/IJCNN: Intl (Joint) Conference on Neural Networks (since 1989) (AI) ICPR: Intl Conf on Pattern Recognition (since 1989) (AI) ICDAR: Intl Conf on Document Analysis and Recognition (since 1991) (AI) ICTAI: IEEE conference on Tools with AI (since 1989) (AI) AMAI: Intl Symp on Artificial Intelligence and Maths (since 1990) (NL) EACL - European Association for Computational Linguistics (since 1983) (NL) COLING: Intl Conf on Computational Liguistics (since 1966) (NL) EMNLP: Conf on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (since 1996) (ED) ICALT: IEEE Intl Conf on Advanced Learning Technologies (since 2001) (IR) TREC: Text REtrieval Conference (since 1992) (IR) ECIR: European Conference on Information Retrieval (since 1979) (W3) HYPERTEXT: ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia (since 1987) (W3) EC-web: Intl Conf on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies (since 2000) (W3) WISE: Intl Conf on Web Information Systems Engineering (since 2000) (W3) ICWS: IEEE Intl Conf on Web Services (since 2003) (DP) ICDCS: IEEE Intl Conf on Distributed Comp Systems (since 1980) (DP) PODC: ACM Symp on Principles of Distributed Computing (since 1982) (DP) SPAA: ACM Symp on Parallel Algms and Architecture (since 1989) (DP) ASAP: Intl Conf on Apps for Specific Array Processors (DP) CCC: Cluster Computing Conference (DP) ICPADS: IEEE Intl Conf on Parallel and Distributed Systems ( Since 1994 ?) (GV) ECCV: European Conference on Computer Vision (since 1998) (GV) EUROGRAPH: European Graphics Conference (GV) CGI: Computer Graphics International (since 1997) (GV) CA: Computer Animation (since 1997) (MM) IEEE-MM: IEEE Intl Conf on Multimedia Computing and Sys (MM) MMCN: ACM/SPIE Multimedia Computing and Networking (MM) ICME: Intl Conf on MMedia Expo (since 2000) (NC) NetStore: Network Storage Symposium (NC) IC3N: Intl Conf on Comp Comm and Networks (NC) LCN: IEEE Annual Conference on Local Computer Networks (NC) ICC: Intl Conf on Comm (NC) WCNC: IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (SE) SECURITY: Usenix Security Symposium (since 1992) (SE) ESORICS: European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (since 1990) (OS) IEEE Annual Simulation Symposium (since 1968) (OS) MASCOTS: Symp Model Analysis Sim on Comp Telecom Sys (since 1993) Other 2nd tier conferences: (..) CC: Compiler Construction (since 1986) Third Tier Conferences (Rank 3) (DB) DEXA: Database and Expert System Applications (since 1990) (DB) IDEAS: Intl Database Engineering and Application Symposium (since 1997) (DB) COMAD: Intl Conf on Management of Data (since 1989) (DB) BNCOD: British National Conference on Databases (since 1981) (DB) SBBD: Simpósio Brasileiro de Bancos de Dados (since 1986) (DB) ADC: Australasian Database Conference (since 1990) (DB) ADBIS: Symposium on Advances in DB and Information Systems (since 1993) (DB) DBIS: Intl. Baltic Conference on Data Bases and Information Systems (since 1994) (DB) IFIP-DS: IFIP-DS Conference (DB) NGDB: Intl Symp on Next Generation DB Systems and Apps (DB) ADTI: Intl Symp on Advanced DB Technologies and Integration (DB) MDM - Int. Conf. on Mobile Data Access/Management (MDA/MDM) (DB) VDB - Visual Database Systems ( Since 1989 ) (DM) ADMA: Intl Conf on Advanced Data Mining and Applications (since 2005) (DM) ICDM: Industrial Conference on Data Mining (since 2001) (DM) AusDM: Australasian Data Mining Conference (since 2002) (DM) EGC: Journées Francophones Extraction et Gestion de Connaissances (since 2000) (AI) PRICAI: Pacific Rim Intl Conf on AI (since 1990) (AI) AusAI: Australian Joint Conf on AI (since 1987) (AI) ANNIE: Artificial Neural Networks in Engineering (AI) ANZIIS: Australian/NZ Conf on Intelligent Inf. Systems (AI) CAIA: Conf on AI for Applications (AI) CAAI: Canadian Artificial Intelligence Conference (AI) ICANN: International Conf on Artificial Neural Networks (AI) ICCB: International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (AI) ICGA: International Conference on Genetic Algorithms (AI) ICONIP: Intl Conf on Neural Information Processing (AI) ICMS: International Conference on Multiagent Systems (AI) ICPS: International conference on Planning Systems (AI) PACES: Pacific Asian Conference on Expert Systems (AI) SCAI: Scandinavian Conference on Artifical Intelligence (NL) NLDB: Applications of Natural Language to Data Bases (since 1995) (ED) ICCE: Intl Conf on Computers in Education (ED) EDmedia: World Conf on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia Telecommunications (ED) AH: Intl Conf on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems (W3) APweb: Asia Pacific Web Conference (since 1998) (W3) WAIM: Intl Conf on Web-Age Information Management (since 2000) (W3) SAINT: Intl Symposium on Applications and the Internet (since 2001) (DP) EGC: European Grid Conference (since 2005) (DP) MPPOI: Massively Par Proc Using Opt Interconns (DP) MassPar: Symp on Frontiers of Massively Parallel Proc (since 1990) (DP) SRDS: Symp on Reliable Distributed Systems (SINCE 1982) (DP) DAIS: IFIP Intl Conf on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems (GV) ACCV: Asian Conference on Computer Vision (since 1993) (MM) MMM: Multimedia Modelling (since 1997) (NC) HPCN: High-Performance Computing and Networking Geometry Modeling and Processing (SE) ARES: Intl Conf on Availability, Reliability and Security (OS) DSS: Distributed Simulation Symposium (OS) SCSC: Summer Computer Simulation Conference (OS) WCSS: World Congress on Systems Simulation (OS) ESS: European Simulation Symposium (OS) ESM: European Simulation Multiconference Other 3rd tier conferences: (..) ICCSA: Intl Conf on Computational Science and its Applications (since 2001) (..) KES: Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems (since 1997) (..) ICADL: Intl Conf on Asian Digital Libraries (since 1998) (..) ISORC: IEEE Intl Symposium on Object-oriented Real-time distributed Computing (since 1998) (..) ISIM: Intl Conf on Information Systems Implementation and Modelling (since 1998) (..) IEEEIS: IEEE Conference On Intelligent Systems (since 2004) (..) ACE: ACM SIGCHI Intl Conf on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology (since 2004) (..) ICGeS: Intl Conf on Global E-Security (since 2005) (..) PERVASIVE: Intl Conf on Pervasive Computing (since 2003) (..) DGO: Intl Conf on Digital Government Research (since 2000) Unranked Conferences (Rank ?) (OS) FAST: Usenix conference on File and Storage technologies (Since 2002) (W3) ECOWS: IEEE European Conference on Web Services (since 2003) (W3) ICSOC: International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (since 2003) (W3) ICWE: International Conference on Web Engineering (since 2000) (..) ICDE: World Conf on Open learning and Distance Education (Since 1981) (..) WCCE: IFIP World Conf on Computers in Education (Since 1981) (..) CAiSE: Conf on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (since 1988) (..) AAMAS: Intl Joint Conf on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (Since 2002) (..) ICVS: Intl Conf on Computer Vision Systems (since 1997) (..) AISC: Intl Conf on Artificial Intelligence and Sybolic Computing (since 1992) (..) CCC (was CoCo): IEEE Conf on Computational Complexity (since 1986) (..) AVI: Working Conf on Advanced Visual Interfaces (since 1992) (..) CRYPTO: Intl Cryptology Conf (since 1981) (..) SAC: ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (since 1986) (..) INFOVIS: IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (since 1995) (..) VIS: IEEE Visualization (since 1990) (..) CCGRID: IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (since 2001) (..) CBMS: IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (since 1988) (..) JCDL: ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (was ADL: Advances in Digital Libraries) (since 1995) (..) GIS: ACM Intl Symposium of Advances in Geographic Systems (since 1993) (..) ICPADS: IEEE Intl Conf on Parallel and Distributed Systems (since 1994) (..) SEKE: Intl Conf on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (since 1989) Not Encouraged (due to dubious referee process) : Intl Multiconferences in Computer Science -- 14 joint int'l confs. SCI: World Multi confs on systemics, sybernetics and informatics SSGRR: International conf on Advances in Infrastructure for e-B, e-Edu and e-Science and e-Medicine IASTED conferences CCCT: International Conference on Computer, Communication and Control Technologies IEEE Conf calendar ACM Conf calendar SIAM Conf calendar DBLP Conf list Other lists of conferences Conferences in programming Language Theory Conferences in Programing Language and Compilers Conferences on parallel and Distributed Computing: ( List 1 ), ( List 2 ), ( List 3 ), ( List 4 ) List of conferences in Databases and Systems Conferences in Computer Vision Conferences in Visualization Conference Acceptance Rate Statistics Citeseer's Conference Impact Ratings (from 2003) SCEAS (Scientific Collection Evaluator with Advanced Scoring). Computer Security Conference Ranking and Statistic (by Guofei Gu) Other non-official rankings (most are based on an internal ranking made at the National University Singapore after a 1999 report .: From Sourav Bhowmick (Nanyang University, Singapore) From Guofei Gu (Georgia Tech, USA) From Monash University Ranking by Distributed Systems Lab at U of Chicago Conference ranking by Blaise Genest giving som indicators (with Europe's perspective) Ranking of Computer Security venues (by Guofei Gu)) cs-conference-ranking.org (Method for calculating the normalized Estimated Impact of Conferences is not entirely disclosed and vague). Comments on this ranking and other similar ones can be found on http://rankingexpose.com/ . Conference ranking by the Australian CORE (COmputing Research and Education) Conference Ranking by the School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang University, Singapore Maintained by: Osmar R. 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《柳叶刀》11月10日在线发表的一项研究表明，一些从行为学角度被诊断为植物状态的病人，可能还会存留部分意识和认知功能。请看该论文摘要。 http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(11)61224-5/abstract Bedside detection of awareness in the vegetative state: a cohort study Original Text Dr Damian Cruse PhD a b , Srivas Chennu PhD c , Camille Chatelle MSc d , Tristan A Bekinschtein PhD b , Davinia Fernández-Espejo PhD a , Prof John D Pickard MD e , Prof Steven Laureys MD d , Prof Adrian M Owen PhD a b Summary Background Patients diagnosed as vegetative have periods of wakefulness, but seem to be unaware of themselves or their environment. Although functional MRI (fMRI) studies have shown that some of these patients are consciously aware, issues of expense and accessibility preclude the use of fMRI assessment in most of these individuals. We aimed to assess bedside detection of awareness with an electroencephalography (EEG) technique in patients in the vegetative state. Methods This study was undertaken at two European centres. We recruited patients with traumatic brain injury and non-traumatic brain injury who met the Coma Recovery Scale-Revised definition of vegetative state. We developed a novel EEG task involving motor imagery to detect command-following—a universally accepted clinical indicator of awareness—in the absence of overt behaviour. Patients completed the task in which they were required to imagine movements of their right-hand and toes to command. We analysed the command-specific EEG responses of each patient for robust evidence of appropriate, consistent, and statistically reliable markers of motor imagery, similar to those noted in healthy, conscious controls. Findings We assessed 16 patients diagnosed in the vegetative state, and 12 healthy controls. Three (19%) of 16 patients could repeatedly and reliably generate appropriate EEG responses to two distinct commands, despite being behaviourally entirely unresponsive (classification accuracy 61—78%). We noted no significant relation between patients' clinical histories (age, time since injury, cause, and behavioural score) and their ability to follow commands. When separated according to cause, two (20%) of the five traumatic and one (9%) of the 11 non-traumatic patients were able to successfully complete this task. Interpretation Despite rigorous clinical assessment, many patients in the vegetative state are misdiagnosed. The EEG method that we developed is cheap, portable, widely available, and objective. It could allow the widespread use of this bedside technique for the rediagnosis of patients who behaviourally seem to be entirely vegetative, but who might have residual cognitive function and conscious awareness. Funding Medical Research Council, James S McDonnell Foundation, Canada Excellence Research Chairs Program, European Commission, Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique, Mind Science Foundation, Belgian French-Speaking Community Concerted Research Action, University Hospital of Liège, University of Liège.
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, Gabriele Sclauzero wrote: dear gabriele, GS Contrary to what Axel usually says (but my experience is far little GS than his, so he is in the position to blame me) I do not believe GS that increasing the number of pools always gives a better timing for GS a given system. It depends on the system you are computing (of GS course...): how big is your supercell, how many electrons, how many GS k-points, how many bands... there are _no_ absolute truths in benchmarking and optimizing performance. remember the saying: there are lies, damn lies, and benchmarks. ;) my experience is mostly based on using 2x single processor nodes. the recent change to multi-(soon many) core cpus with large caches but low memory bandwidth will change "the rules". i still remember the case of some benchmarks from eduardo, where the threading in MKL (and using no MPI) was more efficient than MPI with an unthreaded MKL. it will become more important to minimize memory and communication bandwidth and control channels of communication carefully. also, sometimes the more efficient algorithm in theory, may not be the best solution in practice, if it doesn't parallelize well or has the wrong scaling with system size. to give an example: at the last ICTP HPC school a few participants made some tests on multi-threading a simple classical MD code. here is some pseudo code (with f/force being vectors in x,y,z). do i=1,n-1 do j=i+,n force = compute_force(i,j) f(i) = f(i) + force f(j) = f(j) - force end do end do do i=1,n do j=1,n f(i) = f(i) + compute_force(i,j) end do end do the first version should be twice as efficicent, but once you use threading, you have problems with load imbalance (the amount of work in the innerloop changes) and overlapping data access to f(j), which require either using mutexes or caching of intermediate results and thus extra computations. once we went to 8 threads the second version wins, because it has less overhead and you can use static scheduling (which improves data locality and thus cache efficiency), despite it being in theory much less efficient. of course there are even better ways to handle this, but it is hopefully a simple enough example to see my point. GS My experience is that, when working with big supercells is better GS try to use one pool until you have a decent scaling and THEN start GS using more pools. If you have a smaller cell (and consequently many GS more k-points) and not many electrons (like a slab geometry with GS small periodicity), then using pools would be more beneficial. lets put it this way. using pools should help the most when you scaling is determined by the communication. with pw.x you have to always consider a second important contribution to performance: disk i/o. one easy way to check this would be to run an equivalently sized input in cp.x, which does not write to the disk until a restart is written. with a multi/many core cpu node, concurrent disk access can be a big problem. using pools makes it worse, since you need more memory and this reduces the amount of memory available to the disk cache. experimenting with disk_io settings (e.g. 'low' or 'none') using a non-NFS scratch partition can have a significant impact. the rule of the thumb, that "npools are almost always better" is also based on the fact that using multiple nodes means multiple independent scratch partitions which is essentially equivalent to raid-0 scenario (actually even better as you have independent i/o busses, too). this is no longer true on a single node with quad-cores. a final remark on AMD cpus. those need special care for getting maximum performance. since you have a NUMA architecture and effectively each CPU has its _own_ memory that can be "borrowed" to the other, it is very important for good performance to enable both memory and processor affinity. but again, that also has implication of how much memory is available to jobs. ...and in some cases it may be even more efficient on quad-core cpus, to not use all cores, but only half of them. especially on intel core2 architecture since pairs of two cores share a L2 cache and with an overloaded memory bus, you gain more from doubling the cache than from doubling the number of (local) cpus. HTH, axel. GS However these timings may also depend on the configuration of your machine, i.e. how GS optimized are algebra and fft libraries and how fast are communications. GS GS To have a more precise idea of what's going on you should have a detailed look at the GS timings at the end of pw output. GS GS Last thing, you should be careful that increasing the number of pools you're increasing GS the memory request on your node (as well as the memory traffic on RAM and caches, I GS suppose), and that may also be a severe bottleneck to performance. GS GS Regards GS GS GS GS GS Huiqun Zhou wrote: GS Dear list users: GS GS I happened to test duration times of calculating the system I'm GS investigating against number of pools used. There are totally GS 36 k points. But the results surprised me quite a lot. GS GS no pool: 6m21.02s CPU time, 6m45.88s wall time GS 2 pools: 7m19.39s CPU time, 7m38.99s wall time GS 4 pools: 11m59.09s CPU time, 12m14.66s wall time GS 8 pools: 21m28.77s CPU time, 21m38.71s wall time GS GS The machine I'm using is an AMD box with 2 quad core shanghai. GS GS Is my understanding of usage of pool wrong? GS GS Huiqun Zhou GS @Nanjing University, China GS _______________________________________________ GS Pw_forum mailing list GS Pw_forum at pwscf.org GS http://www.democritos.it/mailman/listinfo/pw_forum From: http://www.democritos.it/pipermail/pw_forum/2009-February/011708.html
SO FASHION! Previous / Next image (1 of 8) An ongoing project of ours is a look at Chinese fashion throughout the ages. Is it getting better? Is getting worse? Who knows, but all the looks can be found at Qipu Lu, Shanghai! 我们在进行的一个长期项目便是对中国时尚潮流文化如何演变的研究。它们是越来越潮？还是更加糟 ？答案似乎无从得知，但是在上海七浦路，你可以找到时下几乎所有的潮流单品。 FULS Previous / Next image (9 of 9) For better or for worse a lo-fi candid style of photography has come to capture our generation with its raw visual style. Often associated with hipster or streetwear culture it has been made popular by magazines such as Vice and iD. As with a lot of elements in the culture in which we are now immersed there is quite a lot of negativity surrounding the work, but we kinda like it! This series is our interpretation. You don’t have to look very far to find the original inspiration. 无论如何，一系列lo-fi风格的影像创作， 始以其原始的视觉型格捕获我们这一代人。它们往往伴随“潮流”文化出现，而《Vice》和《iD》等媒体则使得他们更加流行受欢迎。而正如现在许多使我们迷其中的文化元素一样，批评反对的声音也总是掺杂其中，但这并不能阻挡我们的创作人情，我们仍旧乐此不彼！此系列影像表达了我们的态度，不难看到其中的内涵。 PAGODAS Previous / Next image (13 of 13) This series of images are based on the secret lives of pagodas and assorted other structures. They form a series of work that we have shown in exhibitions around the world and sold as limited edition prints. Some of the pagodas have also been used in a commercial project for Swatch. 该系列的创作基于宝塔的秘密生活并结合其他结构元素。这些作品来自我们之前的展览并在活动中进行限量销售的画作。其中部分作品也被用于Swatch的商业活动中。 HELLO SHAPES Previous / Next image (1 of 4) We've always been big fans of Hello Kitty, and feel that the brand is so ubiquitous that even with all its detail removed, it is still recognisable. Hello Shapes are our ode to this concept. In fact even if one were to remove the shapes and just leave a simple bow, we feel the connotations would remain just as strong. Sanrio wanted to sue us, but our love was too strong for us to care! 我们一直都是Hello Kitty的超级粉丝，并一直觉得它无所不在，甚至即使抹去其大部分细节也仍旧可辨。Hello Shapes系列作品旨在向其致敬。事实上，即使你去掉这些边框只余下简单的蝴蝶结，其内涵依旧鲜明。 Sanrio公司曾想对我们提出控告，但我们的热爱让我们无所畏惧！ 0 0
1. Introduction China surpassed the United States in the mid-1970s to become the nation with the largest number of urban dwellers in the world (Figure 1). Although still a predominantly rural country, with an urbanisation rate just under 20%, in absolute numbers China had become – over 30 years ago – the world’s largest urban nation in human history.1 Paradoxically, this ascendance occurred at the end of a period in which China’s public policy was profoundly anti-urban. Much has changed since then. China’s “opening up”, and the introduction of market-oriented reforms in the early 1980s, accelerated urbanisation across China such that, today, 600 million urban Chinese constitute 44% of the country’s population. Indications are that urbanisation will continue, at even more rapid rates in parts of the country, well into this century. Aside from the national socio-economic changes fuelled by urbanisation over the last 30 years, the growth of China’s cities is starting to have major global impacts. The most obvious are environmental: pollution of coastal waters by industries and untreated urban wastewater; cross-border and inter-continental air pollution from power plants, industries, and motor vehicles; and emissions that have made the country the second largest contributor to global warming. But less obvious global linkages are equally important: China’s transformation into the world’s biggest consumer of steel, cement and a wide range of resource commodities, including carbon-based energy sources, that is beginning to affect availability and supply prices in other countries; the transformation of China’s cities into the world’s factory; and the rapid evolution of the urban populace into a consumer base that is changing what global firms produce, and how they market them. Economic changes in China’s cities are fundamentally changing the global structure of flows of natural resources, products, capital, technology, information, and people.2 Many aspects of public policy in OECD countries will increasingly need to be considered within a global context influenced by China’s urbanisation, and how China’s government manages that urbanisation. This paper provides an introduction to urban trends and policies in China, and is largely descriptive. It describes urban growth trends, where and in what kinds of cities growth is occurring, how China’s cities are governed, and how public policy has influenced the extent, pace, and spatial distribution of urbanisation. The report concludes with a description of some of the key policy challenges facing central and local urban governments in China. • Section 2: China’s changing approaches to urbanisation outlines describes key changes to national urbanisation policy since 1949, and the resulting classification and statistical issues associated with accurately measuring historical levels of urbanisation. • Section 3: Urbanisation trends and projections present official government urbanisation estimates and projections to 2020, and the distribution of China’s urban population by location and city size. • Section 4: China’s urbanising regions describes how urbanisation is consolidating 28 Regional Urban Systems across the country, some of which cross provincial boundaries, and the implications of these urban systems for national regional development policy. It also describes the emergence of 53 metropolitan regions, with populations over one million, all of which cross municipal boundaries. Their economic performance and prospects are reviewed, including issues surrounding national and global competitiveness, especially related to human capital. Key constraints to the realisation of agglomeration economies in these emerging metropolitan regions are outlined. • Section 5: Urban governance describes the current system of sub-national governance in China, the allocation of functional responsibilities among levels of government, the need for better inter-governmental co-ordination, and resulting policy implications. • Section 6: Key policy challenges facing concludes with a review of challenges in attaining and sustaining the global competitiveness of China’s cities, managing environmental quality in cities, ensuring equity in the urbanisation process, and implementing more effective urban governance. • The paper concludes by providing a short executive summary. 原文见 http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/28/21/42607972.pdf
Chen Zhu: from barefoot doctor to China's Minister of Health Original Text Jonathan Watts This article contains 1 flash audio/video. Please enable javascript in your browser to play flash audio/video online. var flashinstalled = 0; var i = 0; var j = 0; var flashVersion = GetSwfVer(); if(flashVersion != -1) flashinstalled = 1; if(flashinstalled == 1) { document.write(' ' +' ' +' Audio (1): ' +' ' +' ') document.write(' 1 ') document.write(' ' +' ' +' ') document.write(' ' +' ') document.write(' ' +' video1 ') document.write(' video/0140-6736/PIIS0140673608615615.mmc1.mp3 ') document.write(' rtmp://cp100886.edgefcs.net:443/ondemand/ ') document.write(' http://download.thelancet.com/images/journalimages/0140-6736/PIIS0140673608615615. 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' +' ') } Audio (1): 1 video1 video/0140-6736/PIIS0140673608615615.mmc1.mp3 rtmp://cp100886.edgefcs.net:443/ondemand/ http://download.thelancet.com/images/journalimages/0140-6736/PIIS0140673608615615. thelancet 0140-6736 S0140673608615615_A1 mp3 00:05:04.57 http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140673608615615/fulltext Web audio Interview with Chen Zhu, China's Minister of Health Download This audio (3.49MB) setupFullCaption(); createPageSet("videoPages1"); initPlayer('videoHolder1'); document.write(' '); Full-size image (20K) Download to PowerPoint Even by the standards of the construction site that is 21st-century China, Chen Zhu has embarked on an ambitious architectural project. By 2010, the country's non-communist Minister of Health aims to have laid, supported by the State Council, the foundations of a stronger public health-care system for China's 1·3 billion people. Not only does this mean investing billions in infrastructure, training millions of health workers, and new medical-insurance schemes, it also involves the difficult task of persuading hospital directors, pharmacists, and bureaucrats that health-care services are primarily public goods rather than markets. Given the scale of the undertaking and the vested interests that must be overcome, the task is revolutionary, which may explain why Prime Minister Wen Jiabao chose Chen, a political outsider, to take it on. The Shanghai-born academic is only the second non-communist in 35 years to hold such a senior post. His route to the top is unorthodox. During the Cultural Revolution, he was sent to the countryside for 5 years, where he taught himself basic medicine and became a “barefoot doctor”. He later specialised in haematology, gene cloning, and DNA sequencing. After taking his doctorate in Paris, France, at the Hpital Saint-Louis, he returned to China, later becoming Vice-President of the Chinese Academy of Science. Chen has a track record of establishing institutions, including a biomedical research institute in Guangzhou, a biomass energy centre in Tianjin, and several institutes for the Shanghai Institutes of Biological Sciences. But nothing compares to his current task of rebuilding China's health system. A fluent English speaker, Chen is candid about the challenges caused by the shift towards market economics in the 1980s: “People didn't realise there could be a failure of the market mechanism in certain social areas, such as health care”. For Chen, the 2003 severe acute respiratory syndrome crisis was a turning point: “For some time, the medical care system was given more attention—big hospitals and medical centres. Of course these are necessary. But in the meantime, the importance of public health was a little weakened. The issue became very acute during the SARS outbreak.” But Chen emphasises that economic reforms have also had health benefits. In the past 30 years, life expectancy has increased from 68 years to 73 years, and infant and maternal mortality rates are at the lowest levels among developing nations. With a growing economy, the government budget has surged to US$700 billion, which means more cash for health care. Extra cash is long overdue. The financial burden of medical treatment in China has been disproportionately borne by individuals. Chen is trying to change that through medical-insurance schemes to cover 90% of the population by 2010, introduction of the concept of “essential medicines”, and greater investment in grassroots health services. Most controversially he hopes to buy back control of major public hospitals. These institutions have become dependent on revenues generated by their 15% extra commission on drug sales. Chen says this system encourages hospitals to unnecessarily prescribe and sell expensive drugs. “This is definitely something we must get rid of. But it isn't easy”, he says. Hospital directors have so much independence that they can decide by themselves what equipment to buy and whether to acquire land for new facilities. Chen wants to establish a system of management boards and regional planning. An infusion of public money is crucial. “If we don't invest, how can we have control? This is a very complicated issue but we believe this is a must”, he says. Chen also plans to lift the state share of hospital budgets from 6—8% to 25—30%. A pilot project will begin next year. The ministry is in discussion with local authorities, medical bodies, and the directors of hospitals. “We must be very prudent, very careful because this is a very sensitive area. So we won't do it immediately in Shanghai or Beijing. We will choose a medium size city with relatively good economic and social development because you need money, huge money”, he explains. Chen denies that this shift away from the free market is turning back the clock. While the past 30 years of change unleashed entrepreneurial initiative, he says it is now time to promote justice and equality in basic health care: “What we are going to take is a revolutionary concept, but in practice we are using the approach of reform. You cannot make heaven overnight. You need to have a step-by-step approach.” Philosophically, Chen is advocating a whole new way of thinking about health care. “We should enlarge our vision”, he says. As well as treatment and disease prevention, “health care should cover essential areas like food safety, clean drinking water, environmental protection, and occupational safety in a country with very rapid economic growth. These things are fundamental and not easy.” Chen's task is formidable. In China's political structure, a Health Minister ranks equal to a provincial governor and Chen faces the challenge of coordinating the 17 other ministries and agencies that have a say in health policy. Hospital directors and pharmaceutical executives will not easily give up lucrative lines of business. With the global economic downturn, the finance ministry may think twice about providing the huge sums that “health for all” will require. But Chen is leading an overdue shift from wealth to health. Clearly a committed, brilliant academic with experience in both China's poor countryside and elite overseas institutions, he now faces his greatest test. WebExtra Content Web audio MP3 (3570K) Interview with Chen Zhu, China's Minister of Health
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