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Presents the title and abstracts of papers presented during the 1934 annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Increasing significance of geographic conditions in the growth of nation-states; Erosional history of the wind river range, Wyoming; Long-lot farm and economic in public services.

The article presents summaries of papers delivered at the 125th annual meeting of the American Statistical Association. The meeting took place on September 1965 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In the paper "On the Construction of Stochastic Working Life Tables," by Haskel Benishay, stochastic working life tables are constructed and evaluated. The essence of the construction of stochastic rather than the traditionally deterministic working life tables is in the utilization of the realistic assumptions that the number of births, the number of entries into the labor force, the duration of life, and the duration of working life, are random variables. The end result is a working life table with a double entry in each cell rather than the single traditional one. The implications of this approach for the evaluation of fluctuations in various subcomponents of the labor force are evaluated. Another paper "Measuring Elasticities of Air Travel," by Samuel L. Brown, summarizes research on the response of demand for air travel to differences of fares, incomes, and elapsed travel time. There are three kinds of studies. Multiple regression studies of time series of air traffic, fares and income in the national domestic market yield short-period fare elasticities and income-elasticities. A quarterly first-difference model stands well the usual statistical tests.

The article presents information on several congresses and conventions related to documentation. The annual meeting of the American Documentation Institute for 1959, will be held at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, October 22-24, 1959. Hierarchal definition can be used in faceted classification, in creating terms for a correlative index, in coding for machine searching, and in a subject heading system to tighten its connective structure. The disadvantage of this scheme is that an index would be required which would include names of all classes represented on different levels and also all synonyms, vague terms, etc.

The article discusses the highlights of the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion (AAR) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in November 2005. The event discussed Tomoko Masuzawa's book "The Invention of World Religions: Or, How European Universalism Was Preserved in the Language of Pluarlism." It was jointly sponsored by the Critical Theory and Discourses on Religion Group and the Theology and Religious Reflection Section.

The article discusses the highlights of the annual meeting of the Northeastern Division of the American Fisheries Society (AFS) which was held in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in April 2009. A Special Achievement Award has been given to Kenneth Sprankle for his initiative in organizing symposia for the Rivers and Streams Technical Committee at Northeast Fish and Wildlife Conferences. The division elected Brian Murphy as its representative to the AFS Nominating Committee. One of the recipients of the John Moring Student Travel Award is Doris Mason.

This article presents information regarding various congresses and conventions related to animal welfare. The 86th National Block and Bridle Convention will take place from October 20-23 in Columbus, Ohio. The annual meeting of the United States Animal Health Association/American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians will be held from November 3-10 in Pennsylvania. The joint meeting of the British Society for Animal Science/Animal Husbandry Association of Thailand titled "Integrating Livestock Crop Systems to Meet the Challenges of Globalisation," will take place from November 14-18 in Thailand.

The article presents news notes and announcements related to the field of rural sociology published in the March 1940 issue of the journal "Rural Sociology." Proceedings of the annual business meeting of the Rural Sociological Society, held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on December 28, 1939, are provided in detail. The future of the official journal "Rural Sociology," was also discussed. Member C. Horace Hamilton moved that a continuing committee of seven or more be appointed to continue study of terminology and definitions and to prepare a statement of extent and types of tabulations for 1940 census materials. The election committee reported the election of John H. Kolb as president, T. Lynn Smith as secretary-treasurer, Paul H. Landis as a member of the teaching committee, Harold C. Hoffsommer as a member of the research committee, and Lowry Nelson as a member of the editorial board. The New England Conference on Family Relations will be held at Harvard University from July 24-26, 1940.

A very large proportion of those students who do their major work in accounting in colleges and universities ultimately find their way into the accounting departments of industrial, commercial and financial concerns. Many others are ultimately engaged in production, sales and financial activities to which accounting and statistical analysis has a close relationship. In successful training of this group there devolves upon instructional staffs, an important responsibility for training not only in accounting principles but also in methods of collection and use of accounting and statistical data for managerial control purposes. With the importance of this phase of accounting instruction in mind, a round-table discussion was organized at the annual meeting of the American Accounting Association in December 1936, at which representatives of numerous schools were asked to make brief statements pertaining to methods used in their institutions. The author emphasizes on internal control in accounting courses.

The article discusses the highlights of the 2008 American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) Annual Meeting and EXPO held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from October 3-7, 2008. The theme for the event was Green Infrastructure: Learning Landscapes + Communities. Among the issues addressed during the event were sustainable soils, landscape preservation and landscape urbanism.

Highlights the American Association on Mental Retardation's 128th Annual Meeting from June 1-4, 2004 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Concerns about the health of the learning disabled; Holistic aging; Use of narrative methods of inquiry that attempts to investigate what it means to live with the label of intellectual disability.

The fifth annual meeting of the U.S.-based Society of Behavioral Medicine will be held at the Franklin Plaza Hotel in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from May 23-26, 1984. The theme for the meeting is behavioral medicine and women's health issues. For further information one can contact Society of Behavioral Medicine National Office in Knoxville, Tennessee.