Re: 2007 IBMBS Conference in Budapest and Paper Reminder (fwd)

["Clarice G.B. Demetrio" <clarice@carpa.ciagri.usp.br>]

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Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 13:32:34 -0800
From: IBMB Society <ed@ibmbs.com>
Subject: Re: 2007 IBMBS Conference in Budapest and Paper Reminder

Hi:

         If in your wide circle of friends, you know anyone besides
yourself who may be interested, please pass this on.

Thanks

Ed Campbell


>>>Greetings:
>>>
>>>         You are cordially invited to attend the August 19, 20 and 21st
>>> 2007, <http://www.ibmbs.com/conference_2004.html>IBMBS Conference in
>>> Budapest, Hungary.  You are also invited to
>>> <http://www.ibmbs.com/participants.html>submit papers and projects for
>>> possible presentation at this conference by March 3, 2007.  This may be
>>> the second or third invitation you have received, so it is a reminder
>>> that time is short for paper presentations.  You may click on the
>>> highlighted words above to be taken to the proper pages in the IBMBS
>>> web site <www.ibmbs.com> more information.
>>>
>>>         The International Behavioral and Medical Biometrics Society's
>>> theme in 2007 for this, its third international conference, is
>>> Identifying, Collecting and Interpreting the Behavioral and Medical
>>> Biometric Markers. We hope to have a return of the Chinese physician
>>> Dr. Wang Chenxia providing us with further information on her decade of
>>> using such hand markers for medical diagnosis in her school and clinic
>>> in Hunan Province in mainland, China.  We also hope to introduce to the
>>> Europeans the Taiwanese educator, Mary Lai, founder of the Mind
>>> Measurement Association in Taiwan with corresponding groups in Hong
>>> Kong, mainland China and SE Asia.  She, her students and collaborators,
>>> have been developing individual educational cirriculums and parenting
>>> plans based upon child plantar and palmar assessments for over the past
>>> two decades.  These have assisted the successful education and
>>> development of many children (she has collected a data base of over
>>> 10,000) and promises to vastly expand the potentials for assessment and
>>> placing in the fields of human resources and childhood education practices.
>>>
>>>         Similar human resource analysis research based upon biometric
>>> analysis is also near fruition in the West and in other places in SE
>>> Asia (Kuala Lumpur) Hong Kong, and mainland China (Shanghai).  The
>>> forensic criminal and security practitioners will immediately grasp the
>>> potential of profiling based upon both matched and unmatched biometric
>>> data, especially as we study not only the hands and feet, but the eyes,
>>> faces, lips and other biologically measurable markers.
>>>
>>>         While IBMBS is fairly new, it is built upon centuries of
>>> observations in a variety of fields.  It combines several disciplines,
>>> many developed in the past century.  The recent example of Professor
>>> Zhang Haiguo, geneticist and dermatoglyphic researcher at Shanghai Jiao
>>> Tong University, volunteering to assist the students and associates of
>>> Ms. Lai in the statistical development of their research in such fields
>>> as children's abilities in music and math is but one example of the
>>> growing interdisciplinary collaboration.  Prof. Haiguo teaches the an
>>> elective course in Human Dermatogliphics that more than 650 students
>>> have taken in the last 2 years. I recently referred a African student
>>> to him for for further studies in dermatoglyphics.  I am also editing
>>> the English version of his new work; a comprehensive study of Chinese
>>> dermatoglyphics covering the 56 Chinese nationality groups, including
>>> the Gaoshan (Aboriginal) nationality that live in Taiwan. Professor
>>> Haiguo also hopes to join us in Budapest.
>>>
>>>         The first recipients of this invitation will be among the
>>> world's leaders in forensic sciences, dermatoglyphics, biological
>>> computer sciences, and anthropology.  Each could have a special
>>> relationship to the interdisciplinary science of medical and behavioral
>>> biometrics-.  Several of us are utilizing computer science to capture
>>> data, catagorize it and develop both medical diagnostic and human
>>> resource programs using its platforms.  I am exploring with Dr. Wang
>>> and Dr. Jun Wang, MD, Ph.D. Chief Scientist and General Engineer of
>>> Beijing Continental Pharmaceutical Co. and  advisory professor,
>>> Institute of Biological Science and Technology, Beijing Jiaotong
>>> Univeristy, on the development of both software and hardware for
>>> diagnostic purposes to bring affordable health care to some 800 million
>>> Chinese rural poor, with the opportunity to spread that throughout the
>>> world.  This not only requires leading edge computer science, but
>>> hardware including satellite links.  Ms. Lai and I are working in
>>> parallel on HR projects as are others, and we are also developing her
>>> child assessment programs for use in the west.  The immediate
>>> potentials in the fields are enormous.  Some of this will very probably
>>> be discussed amongst participants at the conference.
>>>
>>>         We look for a return of the practitioners of Psychodiagnostic
>>> Chirology, that form of psychology developed by Dr. Arnold Holtzman,
>>> PhD, of Israel.  A number of his former students and practicing
>>> therapists made presentations at our last conference in
>>> Shanghai.  While They study the whole hand in their diagnostics, they
>>> have discovered some significant morphological markers for problems
>>> that may be treated through therapy.  In December, 2006, Dr. Holtzman
>>> was invited to give a series of 3 four hour lectures to the Israel
>>> Association of Psychologists on his work in Psychodiagnostic Cheirology..
>>>
>>>         For more on past conference presentations see: Past Conferences
>>> at http://www.ibmbs.com/conference_2004.html.
>>>
>>>         We also look forward to a return of the iris and eye
>>> researchers and expansion into face readings.  We have a special treat
>>> in store with a presentation of practitioner of cheiloscopy, (lip print
>>> reading) who will collect kisses and invite the participants to join in
>>> her demonstration. I look more to sharing discoveries from hand
>>> vascular conditions similar to the paper presented last year in
>>> Shanghai on finding parental genomic imprinting in adult subjects
>>> indicating the source of otherwise unresolved psychological probelms
>>> with security and feelings of lack of love, and further research from
>>> hand vascular markings indicating similar problems with more current
>>> causations.
>>>
>>>         We need some help in the hosting function in Budapest, and this
>>> could provide a way to cover conference registration fees for
>>> interested students in the area, as well as an ability to meet many of
>>> the conference attendees for others willing to go to a little extra
>>> effort to make our travelers feel comfortable while attending the
>>> conference.  Group rates can also be arranged for those attending in
>>> groups.  Please contact me.
>>>
>>>         Please share this with colleagues and students.
>>>
>>>Edward D. Campbell, J.D.
>>>Chairperson, IBMBS
>>>ed@ibmbs.com
>>>9534 14th Ave NW
>>>Seattle, WA 98117-2308 USA
>>>Phone 206 783 3410
>>>Fax 206 784 2206
>>>
>>>The International Behavioral & Medical Biometrics Society is a
>>>non-profit corporation recognized as a 501(c)(3) tax exempt organization
>>>by the United States Internal Revenue Service.
>>>
>>>If any are interested in further information on Professor Zhang's new
>>>book, ask and we will forward you the preface and table of contents.