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Democracy, Governance and Curbing Corruption in Sub-Saharan Africa
Location: Cheyney University of Pennsylvania
An international conference organized by the Master of Public Administration Program, in collaboration with The African & Caribbean Business Council.
While other regions of the world are making strides in improving the living standards of their citizens, Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is still trapped in poverty with more than 40% of its 600 million people living below the internationally recognised absolute poverty level of US$ 1 per day. Several reports highlight corruption as one of the institutional and systemic problems responsible for keeping million of Africans under absolute poverty. In fact, the 2008 Transparency International report demonstrates a direct link between corruption and failure of societal institutions to effectively achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in SSA. It is a serious concern that the goals of halving poverty in SSA by the year 2015 from the level of 1990 will not be met.
For additional information including call for papers, registration and lodging, please visit the conference website at: http://www.cheyney.edu/international-anticorruption/index.cfm
Reconciling Compassion with Practice
in Global Health
Fifth Annual Pediatric Global Health Symposium
Sponsored by The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Department of Global Health
Join us on September 21-22 at The Union League of Philadelphia for the Pediatric Global Health Symposium. Session speakers include nationally renowned global health experts who will provide attendees with a unique perspective on the role of compassion in global health. Join us on the second day of the Symposium to learn about opportunities to get involved in global health intiatives.
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Call for Posters
The organizing committee invites you to submit an abstract for the annual poster session at the Fifth Annual Pediatric Global Health Symposium. Abstracts featuring research, clinical work or programs with a focus on global health will be considered. The poster session is open to students, researchers and clinicians. Deadline for submissions is Friday, August 10, 2012. Please email your abstract to the CHOP Department of Global Health.Advisor: Dr. Anil Rustgi
Location: Class of '62, JMB
Location: BRB Auditorium
Advisor: Xianxin Hua
Advisor: Gerd Blobel
Location: Class of '62
"Fighting Cancer in Africa: Why Africa and Why Now?"
A talk by Cristina Stefan
(Thursday, Aug 2, 9 am, 701 Blockley Hall).
Cristina is a pediatric oncologist and head of oncology at Tygerberg Hospital and Stellenbosch University. She has been developing a number of cancer initiatives in Africa. She would like to meet colleagues interested in cancer in Africa at Penn. If you are interested in meeting with Cristina, please contact Timothy Rebbeck (rebbeck@exchange.upenn.edu).
Join us for a partial screening of HBO’s new documentary series exploring obesity in America. Featuring discussion with Dr. Shiriki Kumanyika, PhD MPH, who is a featured expert in the series. healthy snacks will be provided. To RSVP: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGx2WEI5ZE5sOHpvVkJUT2lqaEJMX3c6MQ
Advisor: Jordan Orange, MD, PhD
Location: Austrian Auditorium
The Program forThe Master of Science in Translational Research is pleased to announce the thesis defense of WENLIANG SONG, MD
Advisor: Garret A. FitzGerald, MD
THESIS TITLE:“Systemic Biosynthesis of PGD2 by Platelet COX-1 in Mice and Humans: Implications for DP1 antagonism during chronic treatment with Niacin”
Thursday, August 9, 2012
11:00-12:30
10-100 TRC
For more information:
http://www.itmat.upenn.edu/ctsa/mtr
mtrpor@mail.med.upenn.edu
The Program for The Master of Science in Translational Research is pleased to announce the thesis of Rong Chen, PHD
Title: "Brain Morphometry and Neurocognitive Functioning In Children with Sickle Cell Disease"
Wednesday August 8, 2012
Noon-1:30PM
HUP, 8030 Maloney
For more information:
Advisor: Dr. Jordan Orange
Location: Class of '62, JMB
Advisor: Dr. Christopher Chen
Location: Towne 337
PH.D. CANDIDACY EXAMINATION
of
NABIL THALJI
9:30 a.m., August 3, 2012
11-146 TRC
Presentation Title: “Structural Plasticity of Factor X/Xa: Functional Correlates and Therapeutic Implications”
Thesis Advisor: Rodney Camire
Committee Chair: Lawrence Brass
Committee Members:
Valder Arruda
Adam Cuker
Sriram Krishnaswamy
“Clinical Evaluation of Insomnia”
“Central Sleep Apnea”
“Sleep in Psychiatric Disorders”
“Pediatric OSA”
“Pediatric Polysomnography"
“Sleep in PTSD”
The Neuroscience Behavior Initiative invites:
Mariella DeBiasi, PhD
Associate Professor (tenured), Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
Assistant Director, Center for Addiction, Learning & Memory, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
Presents:
Mechanisms of Nicotine and Alcohol Addiction
Thursday, August 16th at 2pm
3535 Market Street, Suite 4100 Conference Room
The Neuroscience Behavior Initiative invites:
John A. Dani, PhD
Professor, Baylor College of Medicine, Department of Neuroscience (primary)
Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (secondary)
Graduate Program in Translational Biology and Molecular Medicine (secondary)
Director, Center on Addiction, Learning, Memory (CALM)
Merit Appointment, Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center
Presents:
"Nicotinic Cholinergic & Dopaminergic Mechanisms in the CNS"
Friday, August 17th at 11am
Barchi Library – 140 John Morgan
Attendees: CDA, Practice Manager/Coordinator of each location, Clinical RN Manager
Call in #: 800-314-2582
Passcode: 435603
The Neuroscience of Behavior Initiative invites:
Michael Halassa, MD, PhD
Resident in psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital
Post-doctoral fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
McGovern Institute, Laboratory of Dr. Christopher I. Moore
Post-doctoral fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Picower Institute, Laboratory of Dr. Matthew A. Wilson
Presents:
"Gating state and sensory transmission: from basic neuroscience to clinical translation"
Tuesday, August 21st at 12pm
Barchi Library – 140 John Morgan
“Cardiovascular Consequences of OSA”
“Parasomnias”
Sandra Griffith
PhD Candidate
Division of Biostatistics
Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
Dissertation Advisor: Daniel F. Heitjan, PhD
Committee Chair: Jason A. Roy, PhD
Committee Members: Kevin G. Lynch, PhD and Robert A. Schnoll, PhD
Abstract: Measures of daily cigarette consumption, like many self-reported numerical data, exhibit a form of measurement error termed heaping. This occurs when quantities are reported with varying levels of precision, often in the form of round numbers. As heaping can introduce substantial bias to estimates, conclusions drawn from data subject to heaping are suspect. Because more precise measurements are seldom available, methods to estimate the true underlying distribution from heaped data depend on unverifiable assumptions about the heaping mechanism. A doubly-coded dataset with both a conventional retrospective recall measurement (timeline follow back) and an instantaneous measurement not subject to heaping (ecological momentary assessment), motivates this dissertation and allows us to model the heaping mechanism.
We take three approaches to this problem. First, we develop a nonparametric method that involves the estimation of heaping probabilities directly, where possible, and calculating others by smoothing, interpolation and subtraction. Next, we use the motivating data as a calibration data set, allowing us to create a predictive model for imputation. We apply this model to multiply impute precise cigarette counts for data from a randomized, placebo-controlled trial of bupropion where only heaped cigarette counts are available. Finally, we build on findings from the first two approaches to develop a more flexible model, which forgoes the restrictive rounding framework of previous models. Rather than assuming subjects will round off when providing self-reported counts, we posit that numbers possess an intrinsic gravity that tends to attract subjects to characteristically round numerals. We outline procedures for parameterizing and estimating such a model and apply it to the motivating data. Our findings suggest that the self-reporting process is more complex than the mechanism assumed in conventional rounding-based models. While we apply these models exclusively to smoking cessation data, they have wide applicability to many types of self-reported count data.