The art of gathering: histories of international scientific conferences.

Hundreds of thousands of conferences have taken place since their first appearance in the late eighteenth century, yet the history of science has often treated them as stages for scientific practice, not as the play itself. Drawing on recent work in the history of science and of international relations, the introduction to this special issue suggests avenues for exploring the phenomenon of the international scientific conference, broadly construed, by highlighting the connected dimensions of communication, sociability and international relations. It lays out a typology of scientific conferences as a way of gaining an overview of their diversity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Technical conferences as a technique of internationalism.

This paper looks at a genre of meetings that, while neither purely 'scientific' nor 'diplomatic', drew on elements from both professional spheres and gained prominence in the interwar decades and during the Second World War. It proposes to make sense of 'technical conferences' as a phenomenon that was made by and through scientific experts and politicians championing the organizing power of rationality, science and liberal internationalism. Against the background of swelling ranks of state-employed scientists, this paper documents the emergence of technical conferences as the forums where they got down to work.

Porous Polyethylene Versus Autologous Costochondral Reconstruction for Microtia: Incidence and Analysis of Secondary Procedures.

Objective: To examine the frequency of autologous and alloplastic ear reconstructions for patients with microtia in the United States, and describe post-index procedure rates associated with each method.

Design: Retrospective cohort study.

Setting: Claims data from 500 + hospitals from IBM® MarketScan® Commercial and Multi-State Medicaid databases.

Reporting and grading of complications for intracorporeal robot-assisted radical cystectomy: an in-depth short-term morbidity assessment using the novel Comprehensive Complication Index.

Objective: To assess suitability of Comprehensive Complication Index (CCI) vs. Clavien-Dindo classification (CDC) to capture 30-day morbidity after robot-assisted radical cystectomy (RARC).

Materials And Methods: A total of 128 patients with bladder cancer (BCa) undergoing intracorporeal RARC with pelvic lymph node dissection between 2015 and 2021 were included in a retrospective bi-institutional study, which adhered to standardized reporting criteria.

COSMO-RS predictions of logP in the SAMPL7 blind challenge.

We applied the COSMO-RS method to predict the partition coefficient logP between water and 1-octanol for 22 small drug like molecules within the framework of the SAMPL7 blind challenge. We carefully collected a set of thermodynamically meaningful microstates, including tautomeric forms of the neutral species, and calculated the logP using the current COSMOtherm implementation on the most accurate level. With this approach, COSMO-RS was ranked as the 6st most accurate method (Measured by the mean absolute error (MAE) of 0.