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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 the annual meeting of the society of scientific study of religion at Vista International Hotel Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This year's theme of religious marginality encourages participants to go beyond core beliefs and practices of members of mainline churches to the expressions of interest or disinterest in religion that are less common religious experience, mixed intermarriage, unclear interpreting "don't know" responses to questions on belief, nonestablishment (religion among street people), or rejections of religion atheism and apostasy. List of topics related to this year's theme would include, denominational switching and conversion, sources of membership change in the mainline churches, apostates and returnees, new nones (apostates) vs. stable nones with no prior ties, inter-religious marriage and religion of children, divorce, religious socialization of children, religiosity and the life cycle, Inter-racial marriage and religion and the Black Church.

This article presents information on the research paper "Nursing-Sensitive Patient Outcomes: A White Paper," which was written and submitted by Barbara A. Given, and Paula R. Sherwood. The white paper is published in the July issue of the journal "Oncology Nursing Forum," at the Oncology Nursing Society's (ONS) Board of Director's March meeting held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This article describes patient outcomes that are amenable to nursing intervention and the role of ONS in ensuring patients ability to receive care that enables them to achieve the best outcomes. The ONS Board read, reviewed, and discussed the importance of the outcomes white paper.

The article presents information on the 77th Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association held on May 5-7, 2005, at the Palmer House Hilton Hotel in Chicago. The program committee was chaired by Ken Bordens of Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne and consisted of the following members: Michael Bardo of University of Kentucky, Andy Conway of University of Illinois at Chicago, Maureen Wang Erber of Northeastern Illinois University and others. Invited addresses were delivered by distinguished speakers: Lauren Alloy of Temple University delivered a speech on "Cognitive Vulnerability to Depression;" Mahzarin Banaji of Harvard University delivered a speech on "Mind Bugs: The Psychology of Ordinary Prejudice;" Paul Bloom of Yale University delivered a speech on "Bodies and Souls" and others. The invited symposia were "On Four Aspects of Working Memory: Causation, Activation, Time and Decision-Making," organized and moderated by Nelson Cowan of University of Missouri, Columbia and Randall Engle of Georgia Institute of Technology and others. It also includes information on invited paper presentations, American Psychological Association sponsored presentations, business meeting, election results and officers and affiliated members of American Psychological Association.

The article presents news and information related to dermatology. It states that the twelve dermatological residents will compete in December 1974 for the Fifth Henry W. Stelwagon Prize presented by the College of Physicians of Philadelphia to "the resident who shall be adjudged to give the most outstanding paper" at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Dermatology. The Stelwagon Prize stems from an endowment bequeathed to the College of Physicians of Philadelphia by Henry Weightman Stelwagon, who was the first teacher of Dermatology at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.