My brother, my sons and my daughter encouraged the journey, but colleagues at the various
ISSCO meetings also nourished the idea.
United Bank, meanwhile, defeated
ISSCO, also of India, in the other semifinal.
The International Society for the Study of the Chinese Overseas (
ISSCO) was organized at his initiative and that of Ling-chi Wang, head of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley Since 1992,
ISSCO has held full-scale international conferences every three or four years and has sponsored smaller regional conferences in between these, including one in Cuba in December 1999.
Salinity was measured weekly with an
ISSCO UR-2 handheld refractometer, calibrated in distilled water before use (model RF20, Extech Instruments, Nashua, NH).