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The article offers information on the Fourth Interdisciplinary Network for Group Research (INGRoup) Annual Conference to be held in Colorado Springs, Colorado in July 16-18, 2009.

Objectives: ACL reconstruction is one of the most common knee procedures performed annually in the United States. Athletes participating in cutting and pivoting sports are at high risk for ACL injury. In the general population, most graft choices including allograft, bone-patellar tendon-bone (BTB) autograft, hamstring autograft and quadriceps autograft have all been shown to excellent results following reconstruction. However, in the high-level cutting and pivoting athlete, the optimal graft for reconstruction remains controversial. Most consider BTB autograft to be the gold standard for such athletes. However, BTB autografts have drawbacks including anterior knee pain, difficulty kneeling and possible patellar fracture and patellar tendon rupture. Quadriceps autograft has increased in popularity since it offers a thicker graft with more favorable tensile properties compared to BTB and hamstring autografts. The quadriceps autograft has nearly twice the cross sectional area, higher load to failure and greater stiffness than the BTB autograft. Studies have shown equivalent outcomes when directly comparing BTB autograft vs. soft tissue quadriceps autograft in the general population. No studies have directly compared these two grafts in athletes participating in cutting and pivoting sports. We hypothesized that the quadriceps autograft would lead to similar patient outcomes, re-tear rates, return to sport and complications as BTB autografts in the cutting and pivoting athlete. Methods: A retrospective review of cutting and pivoting athletes with ACL tears treated with BTB autograft or soft tissue quadriceps autograft with at least 2 years of follow up was performed. Only athletes participating in cutting and pivoting sports were included in the study. Four sports were considered to be cutting and pivoting including soccer, football, lacrosse and basketball. The decision on which graft to use was based on the athlete's choice after discussing the pros and cons of each graft. Exclusion criteria included those athletes with recurrent ACL tears, multiligamentous injuries, previous meniscal surgery and those requiring osteotomies. International Knee Documentation Committee Subjective Knee Evaluation (IKDC) and Lysholm knee scoring scale were used to evaluate patient reported outcomes. Through chart review, ability to return to sport, time to return to sport and complications were identified. The postoperative rehabilitation protocol for both grafts was identical. Results: There were 32 athletes in the soft tissue quadriceps autograft group and 36 in the BTB autograft group. The average age was 18.6 years for the quad group and 19.7 years for the BTB autograft group (p=0.63). Females made up 62.5% of the quadriceps group and 44.4% of the BTB group (p=0.14). The quad group was made up of 56.3% high school and 43.7% college athletes compared to 61.1% high school and 38.9% college athletes in the BTB autograft group (p=0.53). Soccer was the most common sport with 16 in the quad group and 14 in the BTB group. The rest of the quad group included 8 football players, 4 lacrosse and 4 basketball players. The remaining BTB group consisted of 12 football players, 8 lacrosse and 2 basketball players. Meniscal surgery was performed in combination with the ACL reconstruction in 17 (53.1%) of the quad group and 22 (61.1%) of the BTB autograft group (p=0.37). Average graft size was 9.5mm for the quad autograft group and 10 for the BTB autograft group. The 2-year IKDC score was 93.6 for the quad group and 95.1 for the BTB group (p=0.45). The 2 year Lysholm scores were 95.7 and 96.1 for the quad and BTB groups respectively. Return to play at the same or higher level was 90.6% in the quad group and 86.1% in the BTB autograft group (p=0.82). Time to return was also similar between the groups with 7.1 months for the quad group and 7.6 months for the BTB autograft group. There was 1 re-tear which required revision in the BTB group and no re-tears in the quad group (p=0.34). Arthrofibrosis requiring MUA and lysis of adhesions occurred in 2 quad autografts and 4 BTB autografts (p=0.49). One contralateral ACL rupture occurred in the quad autograft group and 4 in the BTB autograft group (p=0.21). Conclusions: The optimal ACL graft in high level athletes participating in cutting and pivoting sports remains in question. In our comparison of quadriceps autograft compared to BTB autograft in this athletic population, no difference in patient reported outcomes, return to sport or re-tear rates was identified. Based on these findings, quadriceps autograft is as effective as BTB autografts in cutting and pivoting athletes and should be part of the graft choice discussion with the athlete. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This symposium features three papers that investigate various aspects of government spending. The papers also share common ground in the considerable attention paid by each to international issues. Beyond that, the papers are quite different. They vary considerably in the mix of theory and empirical evidence as well as in the specific aspects of government spending that are investigated. The paper by Darrel Cohen utilizes techniques from the spectral analysis of time series to characterize seasonal, cyclical, and long-run properties of various measures of U.S. government spending; in addition, spectral techniques are combined with an intertemporal optimizing model of a representative consumer to shed light on the issues of the degree of direct substitution between government and private consumption spending in each of twelve major economies. The paper by Louise Sheiner uses cross-country data to address the question of whether conventional projections of a country's future health care expenditures are based on a faulty assumption that relative health spending by age remains constant. This paper is quite topical given impending demographic changes and related projected impacts on government outlays on health and retirement programs in many countries. The paper by Michele Cavallo develops a theoretical model and utilizes a calibration exercise to examine the effects on the current account balance of changes to different types of government spending, in particular expenditures on goods and expenditures on hours worked. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021 (P.L 177-58) authorized some $1.2 trillion to invest in infrastructure in the United States. The largest infrastructure investment in a generation, the bill combined funds for traditional infrastructure (roads, bridges, water, ports, etc.) with money for broadband internet, electric vehicle charging, clean energy, and other uses. However, only a small portion of the funds are available to address redundant, abandoned, idled, or neglected (RAIN) infrastructure. This article presents the broader issues associated with RAIN infrastructure, (i.e., costs and equity) and introduces the papers that comprise the RAIN symposium. We conclude that there is a significant need for further scholarly and policy attention within the U.S. and elsewhere, so that the myriad of issues relating to existing infrastructure may be adequately addressed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents abstracts of various papers related to marketing presented at the 12th Conference on Historical Analysis & Research in Marketing that was held during April 28-May 1, 2005 in Long Beach, California. The paper "Pansies to Parents: Gay Male Images in American Print Advertising," states that the increasingly common and diverse depiction of gay men in American print advertising is a recent phenomenon, dating from the mid-1990s. However, gay male images have appeared in print advertisements since early in the last century. Using a framework categorizing minority depictions in media over time and adapted for this study, a chronological series of twenty-two print advertisements are presented and analyzed dating from 1917 through 2004. Another paper "Historical Perspectives on Firm-Based Pricing Research in Marketing: 1915-2004," states that pricing is a singular concept in marketing and in management science. Actually, pricing's legitimacy in marketing has long been relative. For decades, pricing studies relied on the strong theoretical frameworks proposed by economics and mathematics on one side and by psychology and sociology on the other.

Information about what wass discussed at the International Association for Dental Research (IADR) meeting that was held in March 1961 is presented. The funds that were made available for the publishing of meetings has increased from 248 to 356 and the contributing institutions went from 69 to 99. With that being noted, the average number of papers per institution has remained constant during the growth, even though the number of papers presented ranged from one to 25 per institution.

Announces the Ninth International Conference of the National Organization on Male Sexual Victimization from October 25 to 28, 2001 in New York City. Theme of the conference.

The article announces meeting, awards, nominations and call for papers for the Western Political Science Association (WPSA) in the U.S. The March 2008 meeting of the WPSA will be held at the Manchester Grand Hyatt Hotel in San Diego, California. Several awards were presented by the association at the 2007 Annual Meeting held in Las Vegas, Nevada. The WPSA Committee on Nominations requests that nominations be submitted for various WPSA officer positions. Meanwhile, the deadline for the submission of paper proposals/program participation forms for the 2008 WPSA Convention is on September 10, 2007.

ECCC4, held at the International Convention Centre in Birmingham on 14-16 October 2002, attracted 371 delegates from 37 countries. The Organising Committee was wholly from Corus and together with the IOM(3)personnel, who did excellent work on the administration, and the Scientific Committee, 90 papers were assembled into 17 sessions. There was also a opening plenary session with three papers, 13 posters and an exhibition with 23 stands. On 17 October works visits were offered to the Corus plants at Aldwarke, Scunthorpe and OSF2 and DSP at IJmuiden. This report was compiled by A. S. Normanton, B. Patrick, V. Ludlow, A. Scholes, B. Barber, B. Harris, A. W. A. Smith, A. Chown, and J. Whitbread of Corus Teesside Technology Centre (TTC), UK and G. Abbel, W. H. L. Moonen, and R. Mostert of Corus IJmuiden Technology Centre, The Netherlands. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Calls for the submission of public administration papers for the national meeting of the Academy of Management's Public Sector Division from August 10 to 13, 1980 in Detroit, Michigan. Public sector management consultation; Comparative studies of public, quasi-public and private organizations; Format of submitted papers.

Highlights a successful undergraduate psychology conference in New York City. Details of the planning, implementation and evaluation of a large-scale undergraduate psychology conference; Course requirements for the special course; Philosophy and organizational task of the conference.

This article reports developments related to organizational conferences in the United States. Details of the conference by the Center on Japanese Economy and Business are given in the article. The conference will be held in New York from January 8-10, 1993. Papers, workshops, panels and symposia are invited for presentation and may cover any aspect of the Japanese business system and its economic, political, social and legal environments. Schedule of the international symposium on the "Role of International Business in Economic Growth and Development," is also discussed in the article. Information on the 6th Annual International Symposium on Pacific Asian Business is also reported in the article. Themes of the symposium include international business and politics, managerial roles, modernization and socio-political change, transnational corporations, industrial structure, economic growth and others.

This article cites a study, which deals with the scientific communication associated with the 1968 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). The study reported here is the first in this series for educational research. Presentations at the 1968 annual meeting of AERA constituted a set of core events in relation to which communication was assessed. Three groups of persons having contact with these presentations were included in the study: authors, those who made presentations at the meeting; attendants, those who heard these presentations; and requesters, those who requested copies of the presentations from the authors. All 349 authors who presented papers were sent questionnaires. The questionnaire concerned the inception, nature, and previous as well as planned dissemination of the work they reported; the authors' current activities in those subject areas discussed in their presentations; and the effect upon these activities of scientific information exchanged at the meeting. The study assessed: how much of the program material had been submitted for journal publication during the ensuing year; which journals had been selected; and how many authors had neither submitted nor planned to submit manuscripts to journals based on their meeting presentations.

Information about several papers discussed at the biennial Polymer Process Engineering series of international meetings from July 3-4, 2007 in the U.S. is presented. A paper on substrates for flexible electronics was tackled by Bill McDonald from DuPont Teijin Films. Robin Kent addressed energy efficiency through detailed monitoring and analysis of a wide range of polymer processing companies. Rudi Koopmans of Dow Benelux NV raised issues on sustainable technologies for innovative materials.

The article presents several official reports and proceedings of various societies of the U.S., published in the December 1940 issue of the journal "American Sociological Review." The report of the "American Sociological Society," provides a very good answer to the question of what is possible in the way of making a living by taking sociology. The census of membership has revealed that sociologists who are members of the Society are employed in nearly 250 different types of occupations. Alfred McClung Lee, chairman of "Committee on Public Relations," is anxious that all papers to be given at the annual meetings should be in his hands. The Committee needs these papers early in order to aid newsmen in the proper selection and presentation of material and thus lessen the danger that the society and persons on the program may be presented to the public in a bad light because of hasty, ill-considered or out-of-context reporting. The press is only too happy to cooperate in this matter, but it cannot be done to the best advantage unless the Committee can get copies of the papers early. Every paper read at annual meetings becomes the property of the society, chairmen of divisions and sections should so inform the participants on their programs and collect and turn over to the secretary or editor all papers presented.

Homeland security functions are a new and costly responsibility for local governments. What complicates this new function is that it must be implemented in the context of the federal system, where appropriate funding burdens and roles are still being worked out. Both papers in this symposium address these tensions and uncertainties. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers information on the American Educational Research Association 2007 Annual Convention Call for Proposals. The convention which will be held on April 9-13, 2007 in Chicago, Illinois will have "The World of Educational Quality" for its theme and will focus on the issues of attending to educational systems and education research outside the United States. The call for proposal encourages research that applies novel methods or integration of such methods to educational problems.

Reports on the conference Information Technology in Hospitality Education by the School of Hotel Administration of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York on January 23 to 26, 1992. Colleges participating in the program committee of the conference; Topics of the conference; Facts on the submission of conference proposals.

By vote of the executive committee of the American Sociological Society, the 1951 Annual Meeting will be held in Chicago on September 5, 6, and 7, 1951. This will overlap, on September 5, with the meeting in the same city of the American Psychological Association. The hotel which will serve as headquarters for the annual meeting has not yet been selected. Those who are interested in presenting papers at the 1951 meeting of the American Sociological Society are invited to make known their interest by following the procedure outlined below. The Committee on Contributed Papers will handle submitted papers in one of two ways. If a paper appears to fall in an area covered by one of the sections of the meeting, it will be forwarded to the chairman of that section for his consideration otherwise it will be considered for inclusion in one of the three sessions of this committee. In general, the Committee on Contributed Papers is interested in research reports which can be read in fifteen minutes.

The article presents information on the preliminary program of the thirty-third annual meeting of the American Sociological Society to be held at Hotel Book Cadillac, Detroit, Michigan, from December 28-30, 1938. Papers to be presented on 28th include: "European Expansion and the Historical Process," by Robert E. Park, University of Chicago; and "The Negro in the State of Bahia, Brazil," by Donald Pierson, Fisk University. Papers to be presented on 29th include: "Social Participation and Social Intelligence," by F. Stuart Chapin, University of Minnesota; "Motivation of Human Actions in the Light of Time-Budget Data," by Pitirim A. Sorokin, Harvard University; and "Some Phases of Personality Development in Communities of White-Indian-Negro Mixture," by Guy B. Johnson, University of North Carolina. Papers to be presented on 30th include: "Objective Social Conditions, Social Status, and Corporate Organization," by Edward A. Shils, University of Chicago, and Herbert Goldhamer, Stanford University: and "The Professions and Social Structure," by Talcott Parsons, Harvard University.

The article focuses on recent developments related to people with disabilities in the U.S. Any person or group wishing to present a paper or make some sort of formal presentation at the 1973 Annual ACLD Conference, which will be held from March 15-17, 1972, in Detroit, Michigan, is invited to submit abstracts to the program chairman for the meeting. Abstracts should be no longer than 250 words in length and must include sufficient information to judge adequately the contribution. For example, research papers must include a statement of the problem, procedures used, results, relevant implications, and so forth. Recordings of speeches by leading educators such as Dr. William Glasser on "Creating a School Without Failure," Dr. Sidney Simon on "Values in Teaching," and Dr. Dwight Allen on "Working to Make the Future of Education Less Certain," which were taped live at the recent Ohio Catholic Education Convention are being made available at moderate prices though Creative Sights & Sounds Inc.

Discusses several issues on the provision of health care for Hispanic Americans highlighted at the 3rd International Crossing Borders Conference at the School of Nursing of the University of Texas at Arlington. Relationship between acculturation and health behaviors and outcomes; Strategies for prevention of HIV among Latino youth; Use of structural equation modeling to test hypothesized relationships related to condom use.

The article presents updates related to the U.S. plastics industry. It notes that the 2011 International Polyolephins Conference was held in Houston, Texas and featured sessions on advances in equipment and sustainability issues. The 2011 Society of Plastics Engineers' (SPE) ANTEC event featured several technical sessions, supplier exhibits and plenary sessions. Edward L. Steward, founding partner of American Kuhne, died at Yale-New Haven Hospital on April 9, 2011.

The papers included in this symposium provide a compelling rationale for the role of health as an engine of economic growth, and thus for investing in health improvement as an important step in improving economic growth in the Mississippi Delta. This newer model of the relation between health and wealth, positioning health as an investment and as an important determinant of economic growth, has substantial implications for health-related public policy and for the business sector. Societal support of health promoting initiatives through public policy, especially for children and for the poor, are important efforts for improving health and for realizing the economic benefits of health improvement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses about labor movement emerging in the twenty-first century in the U.S. The author here has highlighted the need for American unions to organize the massive numbers of unorganized workers. But what sections of workers shall represented this class remains as a debate. No agreement has been reached as to which strategies are most effective to organize which workers. Nor is there a clear understanding of what it takes to move beyond the initial certification election or recognition campaign to build lasting, vital unions in these newly organized workplaces. In hostile organizing climate, unions only succeed in organising when they run aggressive grassroots campaigns, with an emphasis on developing active leadership. Due to this many newly organized workers come into the labor market armed with leadership skills. The challenge for the American labor movement is to nurture and develop these new leaders So that they can assist in the effort to rebuild and revitalize their unions. The University and College Labor Education Association (UCLEA) and the AFL-CIO Education Department has called for a joint annual conference to be held in San Jose, California. The stated goal of the conference was to bring together union and university labor educators, researchers, and activists who are committed to revitalizing and strengthening the labor movement through developing rank and-file leadership for the long haul.

Background: Social media is increasingly used in surgery, facilitating the dissemination of knowledge. Social media can potentially aid networking, education, and information exchange. This study explored the impact of tweet components and tweeter characteristics during a large surgical congress to inform recommendations for optimizing social media use at future surgical conferences.Methods: Twitter activity was monitored during the American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress 2018 using NodeXL to extract tweets containing the conference hashtag #ACSCC18 (or #ACSCC2018). Multivariable logistic regression analysis was performed to identify independent predictors of retweet activity, also testing for multicollinearity and interactions among variables.Results: There were 4386 tweets that contained #ACSCC18 (or #ACSCC2018) posted from 1023 Twitter accounts. A larger group of Twitter accounts just retweeted. Other Twitter accounts with a stake in the conference neither tweeted nor retweeted. In a multivariable analysis of original tweets, the following were all independently associated with retweets, in decreasing order of effect size: mention of other tweeters, multimedia, inclusion of other hashtags, and the number of followers. In contrast with other conferences, the inclusion of a weblink (URL)-for example, link to paper or blog-was not associated with retweets.Discussion: This study helps understand social media impact at surgical conferences. Engage by tweeting and retweeting. Mention other tweeters, add multimedia, include congress hashtags and topic-specific hashtags, and build your followers. Although not associated with retweet activity in this study, the inclusion of URLs can still contribute in substantiating the disseminated content based on findings at other conferences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Research in the form of poster and podium abstracts is disseminated at subspecialty society meetings. The quality of this research can be defined by exploring the ultimate publication rate of the presented abstracts. Purpose: To investigate (1) the manuscript publication rate of abstracts presented at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine (AOSSM) annual meeting; (2) whether abstract format (poster vs podium) influences overall or 2-year publication rates and time to publication; (3) the abstract factors that are associated with increased publication rate; and (4) whether publication quality as measured by journal of publication, level of evidence (LOE), and number of citations differs between posters and podiums. Study Design: Cross-sectional study. Methods: Poster and podium abstracts that were presented at the AOSSM annual meetings between January 1, 2016, and December 31, 2019, were included. The PubMed and GoogleScholar databases were searched by abstract title and authors to determine whether the related manuscript had been published. For published manuscripts, the journal, journal impact factor (IF), time to publication, authors, and LOE were recorded. Results: The manuscripts of 664 abstracts (341 poster, 323 podium presentations) were published during the study period. The overall publication rate was 52.4%. Publication within 2 years of the meeting was found to be higher in podium abstracts (45.8%) compared with poster abstracts (37.8%) (P =.0366). Podium abstracts had a shorter time to publication (P <.001), higher LOE (P =.0166), more citations (P <.0001), and were published in higher IF journals (P =.0028). Poster presentations were more likely to undergo a change in first author between the time of the conference and future publication (P =.0300). The most common journal of publication was the American Journal of Sports Medicine (36.8%). Conclusion: Abstracts presented at the AOSSM annual meeting had a high rate of publication within 2 years. There was no difference in publication rates between podium and poster abstracts, but podium abstracts had a shorter time to publication and more future citations and were published in journals with higher IFs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents a calendar of conferences on family nursing to be held from September 2006 to November 2007. Nuturing Nature: Behavior, Genetics and Therapy by the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy in Austin, Texas; 8th International Family Nursing Conference: "Healing Families, Healing Communities--New Innovations in Practice, Education and Research" in Bangkok, Thailand; Annual Meeting of the American Family Therapy Academy in Washington D.C.

Presents a course built around participation in a teaching of psychology conference in the United States. Discussion on the course rationale; Benefits gained by students from attending research conferences; Importance of interpersonal interaction between students and faculty.

The article reports about plans for the Fifth World Congress of Sociology, sponsored by the International Sociological Association, to be held in Washington D.C. between September 2 and 8, 1962. The major topics to be discussed are, "Sociologists, Policy Makers and the Public," "The Sociology of Development," "The Nature and Problems of Sociological Theory." The general plan is to have the main paper on each of the three major themes published in advance in two volumes of the "Transactions." The World Congress will follow immediately upon the meetings of the American Sociological Association and will also be held in the Shoreham. Two generous grants have been made in support of the Congress, one of $50,000 from the ACLS-SSRC Committee administrating a Ford Foundation grant, and one of $25,000 from the National Science Foundation. These monies will be largely used to defray the travel cost of foreign scholars who are preparing papers. It has been hoped that the presence of scholars from abroad may be facilitated teaching opportunities in American universities either before or after the Congress.

The cooperation given to the Public Relations Committee in connection with the thirty-fourth annual convention at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, by the representatives of newspapers and press agencies was even greater than the year before and in equally good taste. News stories, signed articles and editorials appeared in newspapers and newsmagazines from coast to coast. The Philadelphia newspapers alone (Bulletin, Inquirer, Public Ledger, Record, and News) carried 43 separate news stories, feature articles and signed and unsigned editorials. Six pictures were used to illustrate news stories. Special Columns (signed editorials) were written on various aspects of the convention by Harry Elmer Barnes, New York World-Telegram and other papers; Boake Carter, Nashville Times, New York Mirror, Boston Evening Globe, Hartford Times, etc.; Joel Sayre, Philadelphia Public Ledger, etc.; and Bentley Stegner, Cincinnati Enquirer.

The Executive Committee has voted to cancel meetings scheduled to be held in Chicago on November 30, 1945.

Sections planned for the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Society in December 1945 are Social Research, Social Theory, Social Psychology, Population Sociometry, Community and Ecology, Family Criminology, Political Sociology, Educational Sociology, and General Sessions. In addition to these formal sections, members may submit papers for possible inclusion under a special category, "Contributed Papers." The membership the Committee to be in charge and the final date for submitting proposed papers will be announced in a subsequent issue of the journal "American Sociological Review."

Provides information on the 30th annual conference of the Association for Business Simulation and Experiential Learning from March 20 through 22, 2003 in Baltimore, Maryland. Keynote speaker of the event; Award recipients on research papers; Topics discussed in the conference.

Presents an overview of conferences related to science, technology and society (STS) to be held in the United States from March to September 2000. National STS meeting of National Association of Science, Technology and Society; Meeting of the Business History Conference; Comparative literature conference of the University of South Carolina in Columbia, South Carolina.

This paper reviews the presentations and discussions had at the conference on 'Jobs And The Future of the US Economy: Possibilities and Limits' held at Howard University shortly after the late 2000's financial crisis. The paper begins with the historical context in which the conference was placed and reviews the various points made by topic. The paper concludes with an outline of potential alternative eventualities facing the economy were the US not to adopt the policies presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper places broadcast major party convention ratings in the broader context of the changing media environment from 1976 until 2008 in order to explore the decline in audience for the convention. Broadcast convention ratings are contrasted with convention ratings for cable news networks, ratings for broadcast entertainment programming, and ratings for "event" programming. Relative to audiences for other kinds of programming, convention audiences remain large, suggesting that profit-making criteria may have distorted representations of the convention audience and views of whether airing the convention remains worthwhile. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The War on Terror, created by the Bush administration in the wake of 9/11, has brought about changes in domestic intelligence and protest policing that have proven hard to conclusively identify, track, and explain despite the importance of these changes to research on the repression of social movements. This paper argues that a second important trend has also been part of the War on Terror: increasing government secrecy regarding its protest control and anti-terrorism programs. Using battles over access to information on NYPD's and the City of New York's planning for, and execution of, protest control strategies at the 2004 Republican National Convention, this article examines how information secrecy operates by using fears of terrorism as a veil and examines the collateral damage to academic inquiry, and therefore also to public dialogue and debate, created by increasing government secrecy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Information about several papers discussed at a workshop on the interrelation of green jobs to occupational, public and environmental health held in the U.S. is presented. Topics include the need for green jobs community to understand the implications of global climate change, and the different factors to consider in advancing and implementing green chemistry. The workshop featured environmental health workers including Chip Hughes and David LeGrande.

The 16 the annual meeting of International Association for Business and Society (IABS) will be held in California wine country from March 31 to April 3, 2005. The conference theme is "The New World of 21st Century Labor." Conference details are provided in the announcement following these editor comments and on the IABS web page. The 2001 Best Paper Award in the business and society field was announced at the recent IABS conference. The winning article was published in "Business & Society" in the December 2001 issue.

Presents information on the 33rd annual Travel and Tourism Research Association conference in Arlington, Virginia on July 23, 2002. Recovery of the travel industry following the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 in the U.S.; Discussion on tourism destination branding issues; Details of poster presentations during the conference.

Presents updates related to congresses and conventions in science communication in the U.S. as of June 1, 2002. Schedule for the annual meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication in Miami Beach in Florida; Theme of the sixth summer symposium on the philosophy of chemistry and biochemistry in August 2002; Details of the 16th annual conference of the Society for Literature and Science in Pasadena, California.

Presents news updates concerning the plastic film industry as of January 2002. Freedonia Group's prediction on the increase in the worldwide demand for flexible packaging in 2005; Holding of RadTech 2002 Conference and Exhibition on Indianapolis, Indiana in April 28-May 1.

Presents updates related to science communication as of June 2001. Overview of the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication in Washington D.C.; Conference on practices for communication of science and technology in Washington D.C.; Information on the book `A Grain of Truth: The Media, the Public, and Biotechnology,' by Susanna Hornig Priest.

The article presents news briefs related to industrial relations in the U.S. as of April 1962. The Communications Workers of America has developed a program that would promote the quality and efficiency of its services. The Department of Economics and Sociology of the Iowa State University is conducting a research on manufacturing industries. The Northeastern University Bureau of Business and Economic Research sponsored the Third Annual Conference on Labor-Management Law.

The article presents news briefs on labor unions in the U.S. as of January 1953. The Industrial Relations Section of the Department of Economics and Social Institutions at Princeton University celebrated its thirtieth anniversary. Cornell University New York State School of Industrial Relations held several conferences from June to November 1952. The Research Council for Economic Security have appointed several technical and administrative experts to be its advisors. The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues called for papers to enter its Industrial Relations Award for the year.

The article presents information about various meetings related to learning disabilities. The American Association of School Administrators will meet on February 22-26, 1974 in Atlantic City. The 19th annual Eastern Seaboard Skeffington Invitational Symposium will be held in Washington D.C., at the Shoreham Hotel on January 19-26, 1974. The conference, held under the auspices of the non-profit Optometric Extension Program, is an invitational symposium, designed to give optometrists an opportunity to present original papers on optometric visual training practice and methods, and related theories. De Anza College will hold its second annual Symposium on Learning Environments on January 21-23, 1974. The emphasis this year will be on learning centers. Sponsored by the California Junior College Association Committee on Instruction and other interested organizations, the symposium will feature local and nationally known educators.

The article focuses on several events of the U.S. plastic industry including the AIMCAL Web Coating & Handling Conference, held at the Marriott Grande Dunes Hotel in South Carolina from October 19-22, 2014, the Troubleshooting Polymers Center of Excellence conference to be held in Charlotte, North Carolina on January 14, 2015 and the SPE International Polyolefins Conference to be held at the Hilton Houston North Hotel in Texas on February 22, 2015.

The article presents information about plans of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) this year. Two items may be of prime interest in this year's council affairs. The highlight of the annual meeting was a paper by George Homans on the relationship between the social sciences and the humanities. It was generally felt that this session did much to create a better understanding between these two sectors of the academic community. The ACLS Committee on the Secondary Schools has commissioned background papers from scholars in each of the disciplines and areas concerned with the teaching of social studies, and the paper on sociology is being written by Gresham Sykes. Grant and fellowship programs of interest to members of the Association are intended primarily to provide uninterrupted free time for scholarly activity. Travel Grants to international congresses and conferences are presently available only for meetings to be held after July 11, 1962. Since the ACLS will rely upon the Association for recommendations for all congresses and conferences which are primarily sociological in nature, inquiries of this nature should be addressed to the executive office.

The report of the membership committee of the American Sociological Society as of December 1950 is divided into two parts first, a record of organization and operations since the annual meeting in New York last December. Second, policy considerations calling for directives. The work of the committee was organized around three points. The planning and direction was centralized in a headquarters committee consisting of the chairman and the executive office of the society in New York. The implementation, including extensive correspondence and clerical work, was performed by the staff of the national office. National coverage was provided by a field committee consisting of regional and state members of the membership committee and committee representatives appointed for the larger institutions. More than anything else, the effectiveness of this work is due to the cooperative and efficient implementation of plans by the executive officer and the staff of the national office. In the field twenty-five members of the society served to promote the program regionally and more than one hundred institutional representatives combed the larger local markets. The response of these field members and representatives was frequently excellent and indicates the extent of the society's resources in this and other matters when adequate directives and materials are provided centrally.