Why do scientists hold and attend annual or semi-annual professional conferences?

a. to catch up on very recent and/or on-going research
b. to meet each other personally, in order to better judge each other's work
c. to get away from teaching commitments
d. to bypass having to read the literature


A

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Answer:

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