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Introduces a series of articles on the philosophy of science, presented at the 1998 World Congress of Philosophy in Boston, Massachusetts.

We are honored to present this collection of abstracts from the Research and Thesis Poster Session of the 57th American Dance Therapy Association (ADTA) Conference in Montreal, Canada held from October 27–30, 2022. This paper features eleven abstracts that showcase the latest research in dance therapy from various perspectives and approaches. These abstracts were selected and curated by Research and Practice committee members, Karolina Bryl, Cecilia Fontanesi, and Chevon Stewart, who were responsible for organizing the Research and Thesis Poster Session. The Research and Thesis Poster Session is a vital component of the ADTA Conference, providing a platform for researchers and practitioners to share their work, exchange ideas, and connect with colleagues. The abstracts presented in this paper offer insights into a broad range of topics, including the use of dance therapy in clinical and community settings, the integration of technology in dance therapy, and the examination of cultural and social factors that impact the practice of dance therapy. We hope this collection of abstracts will inspire and inform future research in dance therapy, and we extend our appreciation to all the presenters for their contributions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers news briefs related to philosophy in the U.S. A call for papers is issued by the College at Brockport in Brockport, New York for its annual philosophy conference on April 22-23, 2011. The 69th Annual Midwest Political Science conference will be held at Chicago Palmer House Hilton in Chicago, Illinois from March 31 to April 3, 2011. The 106th Annual Meeting of American Sociological Association will be held at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada on August 20-23, 2011.

Highlights the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Conference on Prevention of bilirubin-induced brain injury and kernicterus, held in Bethesda, Maryland, in June 2003.

Presents news briefs concerning the American College of Gastroenterology as of March 1971. Details of the 1971 Rorer Awards Contest of the organization; Approval of the Annual Course in Postgraduate Gastroenterology; Schedule of the Fourth Asian and Pacfic Congress of Gastroenterology.

The article presents a sociological view of the press coverage of a sociological convention. The coverage is based on observations carried out by five newsmen-observers who attended the August 1965 American Sociological Association (ASA) meetings in Chicago, Illinois. The general conclusion of this study of the convention was that the confrontation of the sociologist with the representative of the news media was overwhelmingly inadvertent, disconcerting and only partially successful to either party. In terms of efficiency in social communication, it leaves much to be desired and strongly entices one to prescribe therapy. Few suggestions are made in advance of Florida sessions in order to get sociologist into communication with the Miami Press. It is suggested to issue a handbook in advance of the convention to all members of the ASA and once the convention has started, to maintain a special message board near the newsroom which offers a chance for newsmen to indicate their wish to contact writers of papers. It is also suggested the president of the ASA assemble a small, informal committee which would hold daily news briefings alerting them to persons or topics originating outside or inside the formal program of the convention.

Presents information on call for papers and upcoming events of the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society. Topics that will be discussed in the 2004 Electronic Materials Conference in Notre Dame, Indiana; Information on the Materials Science & Technology 2004 Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana; Deadline for the submission of abstracts for the 2004 International Symposium on Railroad Tank Cars.

Presents updates on the field of gastroenterology in the U.S. as of January 1969. Schedule of meetings of the American College of Gastroenterology; Recipients of awards given by the college; Information on a postgraduate course sponsored by the American Gastroenterological Association.

Presents news briefs related to gastroenterology in the U.S. as of March 1965. Information on the Annual Course in Postgraduate Gastroenterology of the American College of Gastroenterology that will be given in Bal Harbour, Florida; Southern Regional Meeting of the American College of Gastroenterology held in New Orleans, Louisiana on March 7, 1965; Medical education symposium on gasteroenterology sponsored by the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta from March 31 to April 2, 1965.

Presents updates on several events related to gastroenterology as of March 1970. Rorer Awards Contest of the American College of Gastroenterology in the U.S.; Congress of the International Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy in Copenhagen, Denmark; Postgraduate Course on Hepatitis in Aspen, Colorado.

Reports on the international symposium 'Photoluminescence and Electroluminescence of Rare-Earth Elements in Semiconductors and insulators,' held in St. Petersburg, Florida from October 23-24, 2001. Organizer of the symposium; Topics of the paper presented in the symposium; Topics related to the rare earth elements in semiconducting crystals and insulators discussed at the symposium.

Introduces a series of articles dealing with psycholinguistics that were previously presented at the Columbia University New York 2000 Conference on Human Sentence Processing held in La Jolla, California from March 30 to April 1, 2003.

Information about several papers discussed at a symposium that focused on employer sponsored health insurance coverage and the U.S. labor market. The papers presented at the conference include "The Impact of Job Displacement on Employer Based Health Insurance Coverage," "The Impact of the Labor Market on Health Insurance," and "What Fills the Gap Left by Employer-Provided Insurance?"

The March/May 2004 special issue of the Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics presents papers presented at the Maastricht, the Netherlands-Cambridge, Massachusetts Symposium 2002. The Limburg Institute of Financial Economics, the Netherlands hosted this third symposium, which was attended by 43 participants. In all, eleven papers were presented, with nine being selected for publication in this special issue of the Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics. Of these nine articles, research teams based in the United States write four, another four are from Europe, and one is from the Far East. That means that the special issue of the journal is becoming increasingly international in scope, which underlines the growing quality of research in real estate finance and economics outside of the United States.

Presents the schedule of conferences for The Mineral, Metals and Materials Society (TMS) in the U.S. from March to September 2004. The 2004 TMS Annual Meeting; Materials Science & Technology 2004; The Accelerated Implementation of Materials and Processes.

Presents reflections on the Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC) conferences in the United States. Memories of how it all started; Relationship between formal modeling and the algorithmic research that forms the core of PODC; Old distributed computing problems will require new solutions for new settings.

Presents the preface for the September 1, 2002 issue of "Environmental and Applied Acarology", which contains the Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Ticks and Tick-Borne Pathogens held at The Banff Centre in Banff Alberta, Canada, from 21 to 26 July 2002. Continuation of the tradition established in 1992 at the first Conference in St. Paul Minnesota, USA, and developed subsequently at Kruger National Park, South Africa (1995) and the High Tatra Mountains, Slovakia (1999); Further division of the papers into sessions concerning the tick?pathogen interface (three papers), tick?host interface (3 papers), tick?host?pathogen interface (8 papers), remote sensing and mapping of tick-borne pathogens (3 papers) and finally session six containing six papers dealing with various aspects of tick control; Acknowledgement of those contributing to such a successful conference:.

Information about the papers discussed at the conference entitled "Why Do Employers Do What They Do? Studies of Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance," initiated by the Department of Labor Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration on April 27, 2001 in Washington, D.C. is presented. Topics include benchmark theory, employer-provided health insurance, and research methodologies. It also analyzes issues related to compensating differentials of health insurance.

Provides information on the 2003 Applied Voice Input/Output Society (AVIOS) Speech Developers Conference & SpeechTEK Spring EXPO, held in San Jose, California from March 31 to April 3, 2003. Background on AVIOS; Connection of the "International Journal of Speech Technology," with AVIOS conference; Awards given to research papers on speech technology.

Background: Speaking invitations are used by faculty promotion committees as evidence of external recognition. However, women are underrepresented as speakers at specialty society conferences despite the rise in women physicians. The purpose of this study was to estimate to what extent the gender of session conveners is associated with the gender distribution of invited speakers at SAGES meetings.Methods: A retrospective audit of annual SAGES meeting programs during 2009-2018 was performed. All invited panel speakers, defined as faculty delivering a prepared oral presentation in a session under the organization of one or more chairs, were identified. The gender of speakers and chairs/co-chairs was determined. Hands-on courses, paper sessions, military symposia, mock trials, and jeopardy sessions were excluded. We compared the proportion of all-male panels in sessions with all-male conveners versus sessions with at least one woman convener. Statistical analysis was performed using Chi-square and t tests.Results: There were 3405 speakers and 459 panels identified. After applying inclusion and exclusion criteria, 2836 invited speakers on 402 panels were analyzed. Women represented 15% of all speakers, increasing from 9 to 19% (2009 to 2018). This reflects the rise in the proportion of women overall members (11% in 2010 to 19% in 2018). The proportion of panels with at least one woman convener increased from 12 to 58%. All-male panels represented 40% of all panels (n = 163) and their proportion significantly decreased over time from 50 to 31% (p trend < 0.000). Sessions with all-male conveners had 52% all-male panels, while sessions with at least one woman convener had 19% all-male panels (p < 0.001).Conclusion: The proportion of women invited speakers at the annual SAGES meeting has significantly increased over time. All-male convener sessions were more likely to convene all-male speaker panels. Including a woman chair/co-chair increased the number of women speakers and is a successful strategy to achieve gender balance in conference planning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents news briefs related to several events in the U.S. The Committee on Economic Statistics will sponsor the American Economic Association meetings in January 2011 in Denver, Colorado. The submission for articles on the role of indigenous media and visual culture for the special edition of the American Indian Culture and Research Journal is until June 15, 2010. Moreover, the Center for Inquiry will celebrate its 30th anniversary on October 7-10, 2010.

The article offers information on several congresses for 2007 in the U.S. including the Spring 2007 Meeting of the Long Island Philosophical Society to be held in Selden, New York in May 5, the Ninth Annual Philosophy of Social Science Roundtable in Tampa, Florida from March 23-25 and the Fourteenth Annual International Business Ethics Conference in Chicago, Illinois from November 1-3.

Provides information on meetings of The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) in 2005 in the U.S. The 2005 TMS Annual Meeting from February 13 to 17, 2005 in San Francisco, California; 2005 Electronic Material Conference from June 22 to 24, 2005 in Santa Barbara, California; MS&T 2005 from September 25 to 28, 2005 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

This paper argues that time-series econometrics provides valuable tools and opens exciting research opportunities to marketing researchers. It allows marketing researchers to advance traditional modeling and estimation approaches by incorporating dynamic processes to answer new important research questions. The authors discuss the challenges facing time-series modelers in marketing, provide an overview of recent methodological developments and several applications, and highlight fruitful areas for future research. This discussion is based on the First Annual Conference on ‘Modeling Marketing Dynamics by Time Series Econometrics’ at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA on September 16-17, 2004. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents a list of The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS)-sponsored meetings and calls for papers in the U.S. for the period of 2004 to 2005. 2004 Electronic Materials Conference in Indiana; TMS Annual Meeting in California in 2005; Device Research Conference in Indiana in 2004.

Provides information on several conferences and symposiums to be held by The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) in the U.S. from March 2004 to February 2005. 2004 Electronic Materials Conference in Notre Dame, Indiana; The Accelerated Implementation of Materials and Processes Symposium; Effects of Microstructure and Property Homogeneity/Variability on Product Performance conference; 2005 TMS Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California; 12th International Conference on Metal-Organic Vapor Phase Epitaxy.

Delivering well-coordinated care is essential for optimizing clinical outcomes, enhancing patient care experiences, minimizing costs, and increasing provider satisfaction. The Veterans Health Administration (VA) has built a strong foundation for internally coordinating care. However, VA faces mounting internal care coordination challenges due to growth in the number of Veterans using VA care, high complexity in Veterans' care needs, the breadth and depth of VA services, and increasing use of virtual care. VA's Health Services Research and Development service with the Office of Research and Development held a conference assessing the state-of-the-art (SOTA) on care coordination. One workgroup within the SOTA focused on coordination between VA providers for high-need Veterans, including (1) Veterans with multiple chronic conditions; (2) Veterans with high-intensity, focused, specialty care needs; (3) Veterans experiencing care transitions; (4) Veterans with severe mental illness; (5) and Veterans with homelessness and/or substance use disorders. We report on this workgroup's recommendations for policy and organizational initiatives and identify questions for further research. Recommendations from a separate workgroup on coordinating VA and non-VA care are contained in a companion paper. Leaders from research, clinical services, and VA policy will need to partner closely as they develop, implement, assess, and spread effective practices if VA is to fully realize its potential for delivering highly coordinated care to every Veteran. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This perspective paper seeks to lay out an efficient approach for health care providers, researchers, and other stakeholders involved in interventions aimed at improving care coordination to partner in locating and using applicable care coordination theory. The objective is to learn from relevant theory-based literature about fit between intervention options and coordination needs, thereby bringing insights from theory to enhance intervention design, implementation, and troubleshooting. To take this idea from an abstract notion to tangible application, our workgroup on models and measures from the Veterans Health Administration (VA) State of the Art (SOTA) conference on care coordination first summarizes our distillation of care coordination theoretical frameworks (models) into three common conceptual domains-context of an intervention, locus in which an intervention is applied, and specific design features of the intervention. Then we apply these three conceptual domains to four cases of care coordination interventions ("use cases") chosen to represent various scopes and stages of interventions to improve care coordination for veterans. Taken together, these examples make theory more accessible and practical by demonstrating how it can be applied to specific cases. Drawing from theory offers one method to anticipate which intervention options match a particular coordination situation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents an overview of `Building the System: Making Science Education Work. Putting the Pieces Together. Proceedings of the Annual Conference (2nd).' Components of the conference organized by the National Science Foundation; Briefing papers.

Reports on the efforts of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) to foster the development of health services research on alcohol abuse treatment and prevention in the United States. Application of the National Plan report findings; Conferences sponsored by the NIAAA on alcohol abuse and treatment; Papers on alcoholism published by the NIAAA.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) co-organized a symposium on “Air Pollution Exposure and Health” at Research Triangle Park, North Carolina on September 19–20, 2006. The symposium brought together health and environmental scientists to discuss the state of the science and the cross-jurisdictional and methodological challenges in conducting air pollution epidemiology, environmental public health tracking and accountability research. The symposium was held over 2 days and consisted of technical presentations and breakout group discussions on each of the three principal themes of this meeting: (1) monitoring and exposure modeling information, (2) health effects data and (3) linkage of air quality and health data for research, tracking and accountability. This paper summarizes the symposium presentations and the conclusions and recommendations developed during the meeting. The accompanying two papers, which appear in this issue of the Journal, provide more in-depth discussion of issues pertinent to obtaining and analyzing air pollution exposure and health information. The symposium succeeded in identifying areas where there are critical gaps of knowledge in existing air pollution exposure and health information and in discovering institutional or programmatic barriers, which impede accessing and linking disparate data sets. Several suggestions and recommendations emerged from this meeting, directed toward (1) improving the utility of air monitoring data for exposure quantification, (2) improving access to and the quality of health data, (3) studying emerging air quality and health issues, (4) exploring improved or novel methods for linking data and (5) developing partnerships, building capacity and facilitating interdisciplinary communication. The meeting was successful in promoting an interdisciplinary dialogue around these issues and in formulating strategies to support these recommended activities. Finally, this symposium subsequently led to strengthening and initiating new partnerships or interactions between the EPA, CDC, States, academia and the research community at large.Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology (2009) 19, 19–29; doi:10.1038/jes.2008.34; published online 11 June 2008 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents upcoming meetings and calls for papers by The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) in the U.S. from 2006 to 2008. 2006 TMS annual meeting on March 12 to 16 in San Antonio, Texas; 2006 Electronic Materials Conference on June 28 to 30 at University Park, Pennsylvania; 2008 TMS annual meeting on March 9 to 13 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

The publication of Unfair Advantage, a report published by Human Rights Watch (HRW). documents and analyzes how employers routinely violate international human rights standards by depriving U.S. workers of their legal right to organize. in a recent symposium on Unfair Advantage published in the British Journal of Industrial Relations, 7 essays analyzed the strengths and weaknesses of the HRW report from a variety of ideological and theoretical perspectives. Although the scholars who wrote these essays raised a number of important issues concerning Unfair Advantage, they failed to provide any concrete or practical methodologies for using this report to promote the collective bargaining rights of US. workers in the early years of the twenty-first century. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to critique these symposium papers as well as to propose a minimum program, on the basis of Unfair Advantage,for advancing the collective bargaining rights of U.S. workers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents information about various papers presented in the 33rd annual business meeting of the Behavior Genetics Association held on June 28, 2003 at Palmer House Hilton in Chicago, Illinois. Proceedings of this meeting; Abstracts of papers presented in this meeting; Contact information of authors of these papers.

The article reports that the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) is sponsoring the twelfth annual conference on Economic Issues in Workers Compensation to be held November 19, 1993, at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Experts are invited to submit a paper to be considered for presentation at the symposium. Portions of the proceedings will be published in the Huebner International Series on Risk, Insurance, and Economic Security. The NCCI will assemble a distinguished group of researchers for an intensive review of significant issues confronting workers compensation insurers and to answer important questions concerning the direction of the U.S. workers compensation insurance system.

Introduces the working papers presented at the Seventh ACM Symposium on Parallel Algorithms and Architectures held on July 16-19, 1995 in Santa Barbara, California.

Purpose In recognition of the importance of performance measurement and MCH epidemiology leadership to quality improvement (QI) efforts, a plenary session dedicated to this topic was presented at the 2014 CityMatCH Leadership and MCH Epidemiology Conference. This paper summarizes the session and provides two applications of performance measurement to QI in MCH. Description Performance measures addressing processes of care are ubiquitous in the current health system landscape and the MCH community is increasingly applying QI processes, such as Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycles, to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of systems impacting MCH populations. QI is maximally effective when well-defined performance measures are used to monitor change. Assessment MCH epidemiologists provide leadership to QI initiatives by identifying population-based outcomes that would benefit from QI, defining and implementing performance measures, assessing and improving data quality and timeliness, reporting variability in measures throughout PDSA cycles, evaluating QI initiative impact, and translating findings to stakeholders. MCH epidemiologists can also ensure that QI initiatives are aligned with MCH priorities at the local, state and federal levels. Two examples of this work, one highlighting use of a contraceptive service performance measure and another describing QI for peripartum hemorrhage prevention, demonstrate MCH epidemiologists' contributions throughout. Challenges remain in applying QI to complex community and systems-level interventions, including those aimed at improving access to quality care. Conclusion MCH epidemiologists provide leadership to QI initiatives by ensuring they are data-informed and supportive of a common MCH agenda, thereby optimizing the potential to improve MCH outcomes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite the increasingly liberal cast of the national Democratic Party, self-identified conservatives continue to represent a significant segment of the party. At least 25 percent of Democratic identifiers considered themselves to be conservatives during the 1972-1988 period. This paper explores the puzzle of why significant numbers of political conservatives continue to identify with the Democratic Party. We argue that conservative Democrats relate to their party not because of political ideology, as do Republicans and to a lesser extent, liberal/moderate Democrats, but because of the symbolic values associated with the main groups in the party—what we refer to as "party ethos." This preposition is examined by analyzing a new set of open-ended questions included in the 1988 American National Election Study probing citizens' images and assessments of the Republican and Democratic parties. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article covers issues related to the Society for Computers in Psychology (SCiP) in the U.S. as of 2009. The May 2010 issue of the periodical "Behavior Research Methods" may publish papers presented at the conference of SCiP. Those who are interested in the uses of computers in psychological research, teaching and applications are qualified to become a member of the organization and participate in its meetings.

Editorial. Highlights the 11th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference held in Monterey Bay, California. Increase in interest in requirements engineering (RE) for commercial-off-the-shelf systems; Growing interest in the skill set of the requirements engineer; Aim to learn and to share experiences on effective ways to implement RE in an organization.

The author comments on a ban imposed on lead in electronics in the European Union in July 2006. He says that except from California, the U.S. has yet to legislate lead-free solders. He notes that a series of symposia was organized by the Electronic Packaging and Interconnection Materials Committee of The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS) Electronic, Magnetic & Photonic Materials Division in response to growing interest in such solders. Papers discussed at the events are cited.

Looks at several events and studies related to lead-free soldering and microelectronics packaging technology. Enactment of the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment and Restriction of the use of certain Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment directives; Information on the Lead-Free Solders and Processing Issues Relevant to Microelectronic Packaging symposium held in North Carolina; Description of research papers presented at the symposium.

Details the 1994 Annual Scientific Meeting of the American College of Gastroenterology from September 28-29, 1994.

Presents the schedule of the Annual Scientific Meeting of the American College of Gastroenterology in the U.S. September 1994. Registration process; Industry sponsored symposium and breakfast; Presidential address.

Presents the schedule of events at the American College of Gastroenterology Annual Scientific Meeting to be held in the U.S. on September 28 to 29, 1994. Registration; Alumni receptions; Poster session.

The article presents an introduction discussing the Ninth Annual International Conference Promoting Business Ethics. The Conference was held in Niagara Falls, New York. The conference is cosponsored by the Vincentian universities in the United States. Some of the papers presented at the conference are presented in this issue.

Introduces a series of articles presented in the workshop held in Pingree Park, Colorado about forest gap modeling.

The article comments on the themes of research papers related to children mental health services in the U.S. discussed at the Vanderbilt Conference in September 2009 in Nashville, Tennessee. The main theme of the paper was to look for a public health approach that required tracking and screening the population health. Another theme included the infrastructure development for retaining specialists in the mental health work force. Other theme focused on the economics of mental health services provision.

Scientists in the United States assumed major roles in developing the Mössbauer community during its early years. However, since the termination of the Mössbauer Effect Methodology meetings in 1976, there has been little in the way of regular Mössbauer meetings in the United States. Nevertheless, there is an active United States Mössbauer community, as noted by the number of annual publications – 156 in 2004. In recent decades, attendance of Mössbauer researchers from the United States at the International Conferences on the Applications of the Mössbauer Effect (ICAME) has been far below what would be expected from the number of contributions in the Mössbauer literature. Attempts have been made, unsuccessfully, to arrange for regular Mössbauer meetings. Models for possible future Mössbauer meetings of US scientists are discussed, including a regular biannual meeting, and another being a virtual Mössbauer conference. Also discussed are other models to maintaining an active Mössbauer community in the United States, making use of information technologies that are available to us along with other resources we can use. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is a revised version of a keynote address delivered at the inaugural International Industrial Organization Conference in Boston, April 2003. It argue that new econometric tools have facilitated the estimation of models with realistic theoretical underpinnings, and because of this, have made empirical 1.0. much more useful. The tools solve computational problems thereby allowing us to make the relationship between the economic model and the estimating equations transparent. This, in turn, enables us to utilize the available data more effectively. It also facilitates robustness analysis and clarifies the assumptions needed to analyze the causes of past events and/or make predictions of the likely impacts of future policy or environmental changes. The paper provides examples illustrating the value of simulation for the estimation of demand systems and of semiparametrics for the estimation of entry models. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]