What's the difference between symposia and symposium?
Symposia
Definition:
(pl. ) of Symposium
Example Sentences:
(1) This analytical overview attempts to cover the main achievements and trends in research and clinical investigation in animal and human reproductive immunology published in the 3-year period (1982-1985) between Fifth and Sixth Varna Symposia.
(2) The antecedents of the International Society for Neurochemistry are described, especially the parts played by the International Neurochemical Symposia held between 1954 and 1962; the Journal of Neurochemistry between 1956 and 1965; and by other organizations concerned with neural systems though not primarily neurochemical.
(3) The clinical results of fosfomycin in Japan which were mainly collected in both symposia are described below.
(4) The basic and clinical results obtained from hospitals and institutes almost all over Japan, to which members of the above Committee belong, were presented by speakers under a hot discussion in two symposia which were held by the Japan Society of Chemotherapy; one on its oral form in June 1974, and another on its parenteral form in December 1974.
(5) This interdisciplinary character of the meeting conforms with previous symposia also held in Konstanz: Protein-Ligand Interactions (1974) and Transport by Proteins (1978) [see FEBS Lett.
(6) Publications in neurosurgical journals, presentations at national and international neurosurgical meetings, and participation in organized neurosurgical symposia are, however, relatively sparse in this area of activity.
(7) The third step calls for the dissemination of the results of this project to an international audience through demonstration projects for international symposia and pilot tests for scientific applications.
(8) At that time the response to our results was rather theoretical, but the last years a new wave of interest in DHEA called for two consecutive symposia, where important findings were presented (Paris in January and Jena in April 1989).
(9) It also joined the WHO-European network and the French-speaking network where cities shared information via meetings and symposia.
(10) Many nursing conferences include research reports in the form of oral reports, symposia discussions, and poster presentations.
(11) Recent advances in knowledge of pediatric seizure disorders, including classification of seizure types and febrile convulsions, have been the topics of major symposia.
(12) The Pediatric Gynaecological Section of the National Gynaecological Society has organized two national symposia in 1969 and in 1972, devoted to gynaecological problems and functional disorders occuring during childhood and puberty.
(13) Communications presented at Cold Spring Harbor Symposia may contain preliminary data and should not be cited in bibliographies.
(14) She had reinvented herself again, as a chic and super-successful lady wit: perfect hair and maquillage, expensive jewellery, furs; a smart apartment full of Scandinavian furniture just across the road from the Vatican, handy for symposia with the curia and nobles and the Cinecittà film types whom she now numbered among her glittering friends.
(15) Most symposia concerned with the therapeutic roles of calcium antagonists first emphasize their extreme structural, chemical, and pharmacological heterogeneity.
(16) On a case-by-case basis, the FDA is asserting its jurisdiction over promotional activities such as industry-sponsored medical symposia and teleconferences, press conferences, celebrity spokespersons, and direct-to-consumer advertising.
(17) Courses on basic sciences, methods of diagnosis and therapeutic advances, symposia and workshops as well as a Programmed Teaching in Neurology suitable to residents and practitioners are to be included.
(18) Answers to these problems will no doubt form the basis for future symposia.
(19) The PLoS documents show DesignWrite sold Wyeth more than 50 peer reviewed journal articles for HRT, and a similar number of conference posters, slide kits, symposia, and journal supplements.
(20) The paper traces the development of programmes of lectures and symposia in most British medical schools, which have developed into a postgraduate programme of research and publication.
Symposium
Definition:
(n.) A drinking together; a merry feast.
(n.) A collection of short essays by different authors on a common topic; -- so called from the appellation given to the philosophical dialogue by the Greeks.
Example Sentences:
(1) This article, a review of factors controlling vasopressin (AVP) release in pregnancy, extends our contribution to a symposium in this journal published in 1987 (vol X, pp 270-275).
(2) During the 1985 annual meeting of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons in Honolulu, neurosurgical training and practice in India, Korea, Japan, and Australasia were discussed at the International Committee symposium.
(3) This explains why this symposium is devoted to NSAIDs and elderly.
(5) This paper reviews the most important issues discussed in a 2-day symposium on corporate exposure limits which was sponsored by the AIHA Workplace Environment Exposure Limits Committee (WEEL).
(6) The virtues of transvaginal scanning both in gynecology and obstetrics are well described in subsequent articles in this symposium.
(7) This sounds very much like the reaction of most participants of the Edinburgh symposium to the proposals of Gitelson.
(8) The intramuscular imipenem formulation has been proven to be effective for mild to moderate infections of many body sites, as demonstrated by other papers in this symposium.
(9) But a novel drug combination unveiled at the Aids 2014 symposium in Melbourne on Monday for the first time allows tuberculosis (TB) to be treated in patients while they are taking their HIV drugs, offering the potential to save millions of lives.
(10) We counted the symposiums published in 58 journals of clinical medicine and surveyed the journal editors regarding their policies for symposium issues.
(11) The benefits and risks of oral contraceptives, IUD and abortion are appraised at an international symposium in Montreal.
(12) Eight research protocols which had previously been approved by Ethical Research Committees (ERCs) were reviewed in simulated review committees set up during a symposium on medical ethics.
(13) Progress since the Pennsylvania Symposium has been considerable for questions of 'where' and 'when': localization of symptoms ('where') fields a double gradient (up-down and back-to-front) in monkeys, and a right-left difference in man; analysis of time factors ('when') distinguishes early and late lesions, single and serial removals, or succeeds in recording and stimulating at critical moments during performance.
(14) Included in the symposium are descriptions of the biochemistry of free radicals and evidence of their direct toxic effects on the heart, as well as discussions concerning the effect of oxygen free radical scavengers on myocardial infarct size, the stunned myocardium, and cardiac preservation during surgery.
(15) This symposium paper is a digest of three full-length manuscripts currently in press with J Membrane Biology (see reference list).
(16) Several contributions of this senna symposium bring complementary information of utmost interest.
(17) According to materials of the symposium at the XVI All-Union Congress of Microbiologists and Epidemiologists the author presents some trends in the improvement of teaching epidemiology, including renovation of the programs and teaching plans at the sanitary-hygienic faculty, development of practical habits and rationalization in the organization of practical work at the therapeutic and pediatric faculties.
(18) Many of these have been discussed elsewhere in this symposium.
(19) An attempt is made to lead into a more detailed discussion about the specific compromised hosts that are discussed in the rest of the symposium.
(20) The Oxford International Symposium on myocardial preservation provided an appropriate milestone and impetus to survey one aspect of operative myocardial preservation, namely blood cardioplegia, and to contrast it with the more popular crystalloid cardioplegia.