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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 the meeting schedule for The Institute of Management Science (TIMS). The 13th International meeting will take place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from September 6-8, 1966. Warsaw, Poland, will host the European Section meeting from September 2-7, 1966. The American meeting is scheduled for April 5-7, 1967 in Boston, Massachusetts. Detailed meeting information is provided.

Mitchell and Levesque provide commentary on the two AAAI Classic Paper awards, given at the AAAI-O5 conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The two winning papers were "Quantifying the Inductive Bias in Concept Learning," by David Haussler, and "Default Reasoning, Nonmonotonic Logics, and the Frame Problem," by Steve Hanks and Drew McDermott. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Information about the several topics discussed at the 39th Annual Travel and Tourism Research Association (TTRA) conference is held in June 15-17, 2008 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is presented. The conference which theme freedom to travel, includes topics on the trends in air travel which was provided by Michael Nutter, the keynote speaker. It also tackled the topics on using imperfect research which was moderated by Jim Petrick.

The article focuses on the history of the scientific association in Pottsville, Pennsylvania during the period 1854 to 1862. On October 10, 1854 a small group of men with a common interest in science formed the Pottsville Scientific Association. The association stimulated its members' own studies. The association published several worthwhile contributions to science. The members accumulated a large collection of minerals and a library of some 700 bound volumes as well as a large collection of scientific papers. .

This article reports on the proceedings of the forty-fifth annual conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) and the World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR), held in May 1989, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The four-day Conference consisted of 27 AAPOR paper panels, 5 WAPOR paper panels, 15 roundtables, two plenaries, and one didactic session. Together, these sessions included over 175 different presentations. The tally of all names listed in the program-including session chairpersons, discussants, roundtable panelists, paper givers and coauthors-indicates that 280 different persons contributed to the intellectual content of the conference program in some direct fashion. The two, evening plenary sessions focused on "Perestroika, Glasnost, and Public Opinion in the Soviet Union" and "Newspapers and Television as Election Pollsters: Do They Do Anything Right?" The didactic session was on "Designing Good Graphs." The AAPOR Award for exceptionally distinguished achievement was presented to Herbert E. Krugman.

Rural sociologists figure prominently in the move towards public sociology. The paper takes up Michael Burawoy's call for public sociology and discusses what rural sociologists have to offer to publics and how we stand to gain as a discipline in working with publics. The paper argues that rural sociologists' ability to adopt a cosmopolitan view while negotiating the complexities of global/local processes provides a useful theoretical stance for doing public sociology. Methodologically, both feminist methods and various approaches to networks can guide us as we do public sociology. Then, the paper provides two examples of recent efforts to do public sociology with a women's community group in Sri Lanka in response to the tsunami and with the Pennsylvania Women's Agricultural Network to illustrate the possibilities and limitations of working with networks. In conclusion, the paper addresses opportunities for doing public sociology, the challenges we face as we go public, and future work that is needed to develop theoretically and methodologically strong public rural sociology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents the schedule of events and activities of the 1987 Joint Meeting of the International Society of Dermatology and the American College of Clinical Pharmacology in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

How arc faith-based organizations (FBOs) and secular social service organizations distributed in relatively poor urban neighborhoods? How do FBOs compare with their secular counterparts in terms of services, resources, and organizational characteristics? What are the implications for community practice and capacity-building? This paper draws on a survey of 230 nonprofit organizations in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania to address these questions. The data suggest that FBOs are evenly distributed across communities of varying wealth, but in the poorest quartile communities, FBOs account for a disproportionately high share of essential social services. FBOs are comparable with secular organizations in terms of management infrastructure. The author offers suggestions for building the capacity of community-based social service organizations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a schedule of events relating to the 52nd annual meeting of the American Economic Association to be held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 27-29, 1939, at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel. Schedule for the first day of the event will include the meeting entitled "The Objectives of Monetary Policy," to be chaired by Arthur W. Marget from the University of Minnesota, another entitled "Economic Issues in Social Security Policy," chaired by John B. Andrews of the American Association for Labor Legislation. Round Table Conferences will be held in the afternoon. Business meetings and more round table conferences will be held on the second day. The meeting of the executive committee will be held on the last day.

Details the proceedings of the annual meeting of the Charles S. Peirce Society held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on December 28, 1966. Papers presented at the meeting; Resolutions of the Executive Committee presented; Information on the treasurer's report.

The article presents a study which provides evidence and a methodology to assist organizations in evaluating the early stages of their process mapping on transparency. It mentions that process mapping enables representation and analysis of business processes and is used to articulate the activities and procedures of business entities in a graphical way as pictorial images readily convey considerable information. It also states that the research objective is accomplished through a study at the Design and Construction Division of Pennsylvania State's Office of Physical Plant (OPP).

This article reports on the annual membership meeting of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR), held on My 19, 1989, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Retiring president Phil Meyer presided the meeting. President Meyer called the meeting to order. He announced that Chuck Cowan has expressed his intention to step down as Site Selection Committee chair. He introduced Karen Goldenberg, who has been selected as Associate Site Selection Committee chair by the Executive Council. Meyer reiterated the Council's interest in hearing from volunteers to serve on the committee. He then turned to various Council members for reports of their committees' activities during the past year. In reviewing budgetary matters discussed during the past year, three items were noted. A review had been undertaken of the relative costs of supplying services to foreign members: while the dues structure was not covering the full cost of all these memberships, the Council agreed to continue to provide a small net subsidy to this class of members. Second, a decision was made to invest nonworking AAPOR cash balances in conservative bond funds in order to obtain a higher rate of return than is available in checking accounts. Third, slight revisions will be made to current accounting procedures to reflect better the allocation of funds to projects that continue across multiple fiscal years, such as the allocations to cover the production and printing of the AAPOR history.

The article presents information about the third annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Branch of the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology held in Price Hall of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in April 11, 1913. Two sessions were held, one in the afternoon and one in the evening. The Chairman, Louis N. Robinson of Swarthmore College, then presented the report of the committee on "Criminal Statistics". The report dealt with what has been done in the U.S. in the way of the collection of statistics of crime and criminals and with some of the problems connected with the collection and tabulation of such statistics including a discussion of the proper unit of counting. The subject of "Insanity and Crime" was then taken up and a paper treating the subject more especially from the medical standpoint was read by Frank Woodbury, Secretary to the Committee on Lunacy of the Board of Public Charities of Pennsylvania. At the evening session Robert von Moschzisker of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania presided and opened the meeting with brief remarks emphasizing the significance of the subjects under consideration and the importance of the work of the Institute.

The Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence was held July 9-13, 2005, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The conference, which marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), received 803 submissions to the technical program. All papers were double-blind reviewed, and 150 papers were accepted for oral presentation, while 79 papers were accepted for poster presentation. The keynote address was delivered by Marvin Minsky. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The way in which the news media frame child sexual abuse can influence public perception. This content analysis of the child sexual abuse coverage of eight national news organizations in the United States from 2002 to 2012 includes the two dominant events of the Catholic Church and Pennsylvania State University child sexual abuse scandals. Census and systematic stratified sampling techniques were applied to articles obtained from the Lexis/Nexis Academic database, resulting in a sample of 503 articles. Intercoder reliability was ensured by double coding a randomly selected sample. Study findings indicate a shift in the attribution of responsibility of child sexual abuse among news organizations over the past decade from an individual-level problem with individual-level solutions to a societal-level problem with institutional culpability. Nevertheless, individual-level solutions continue to be framed as the best possible solution. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article presents the annual meeting of the American Association on mental Deficiency to be held on May 11 to 15, 1944 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Wayne County Training School submitted substantial papers for the meeting's topics. These topics include historical, longitudinal records on an adjustment rating basis, the Rorschach method enforcement for mentally defectives, and community follow-up studies.

The article focuses on the principal address prepared by William Russell, an education professor, during the actual day when the National Teachers' Association was founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on August 26, 1857. The address was read by the presiding officer Thomas W. Valentine, president of the New York State Teachers' Association. Among the issues that have been dealt with by Russell through his address was the issue on the recognition of teaching as a profession. Another concern is that the teaching profession should maintain its own standards, through a teacher's certification, to set a high degree of professional excellence.

The article discusses the formation of U.S. tariff policy in the early 1820s, focusing on the debate surrounding the Baldwin tariff bill, sponsored by Henry Baldwin, the Chairman of the House Committee on Manufactures, during the first session of the Sixteenth U.S. Congress. It particularly examines the protectionist, pro-tariff activism of printer Mathew Carey of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and comments on the nonpartisan voluntary associations the Philadelphia Society for the Promotion of National Industry and the Pennsylvania Society for the Encouragement of American Manufactures.

Information about several papers on the innovative technologies and processes used in the manufacture of coatings discussed at the meeting of the Philadelphia Society in Pennsylvania in March 2006 is presented. The article focuses on the presentations introduced at the Philadelphia Society Meeting in March 2006. The topics presented include experimental design and vision-based on-line process control. The speakers at the event were coatings experts John D. Guerin, J. M. Canty and Harry Way.

The article presents a summary of the activities of the journal's parent association the Melville Society as of June 2010. Details are given highlighting the society's participation in the Modern Language Association's December 2009 meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, developments in the Society's archive projects, and giving several tours at the New Bedford Whaling Museum of Massachusetts.

The article presents an exploration into the legal and social dynamics of membership in voluntary societies during the Early Republic period of the United States. The political complexities of popular notions concerning civil society, citizenship, and the grounds for member expulsion are addressed. Several examples of legal cases and treatises concerning the subject in Pennsylvania are examined, with particular attention to the 1810 case of the St. Patrick's Benevolent Society between public figures William Duane and John Binns. The social theories of Jürgen Habermas are also cited to explore the paradigms of such social relations.

A local civic organization, Greater Philadelphia First, engaged us to study the knowledge economy of the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania region and make recommendations on ways to improve its rate of growth. To structure our thinking and the interviews with local entrepreneurs, civic leaders, and others, using soft operations research techniques, we developed a framework for collecting ideas through interviews, generating our own by reflecting on the interviews, and organizing the resulting ideas. We generated a large number of useful ideas for improving the local knowledge economy. The organization sifted through the collection of ideas and selected the ones it is now advocating. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Provides information on the formation of the Banneker Literary Institute of Philadelphia in 1854. Objective of the institute; Restriction in membership at the literary institute; Role of the institute in the history of Afro-Americans.

Presents a case description of a non-profit educational agency whose organizational culture is based on the feminist values of caring, voice and self-reflection. Grounded theory analysis of intensive interviews, focus groups, observations and organizational documents reveals how these values are embodied in the organization's management practices and change processes. The case strongly suggests that a commitment to feminist values can prove highly generative of a wide range of desirable organizational competences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article lists the titles of professional sessions scheduled for April 22-25, 1980 during the annual convention of the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The names and session leaders and participants in the Early Bird Special Program are provided. Topics of meetings by CEC federations include: mainstreaming for the regular educator; creative drama with exceptional children; writing and adapting materials for secondary special education students; and the learning by doing concept at the college level.

The article provides a preview of the 58th Annual International Convention of the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) on April 20-25, 1980, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In addition to the broad range of professional sessions which are focused on special interests, the convention program will include additional sessions geared for parents and support personnel; bilingual and bicultural children; severely handicapped people; and community and interagency participation.

Examines exhibits at the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Physical site and situation in Pennsylvania; Situation and growth of Philadelphia.

J.H. Kolb, president of the Rural Sociological Society, has requested to make a statement regarding the proposals of the Organization Committee of the American Sociological Society. This committee was appointed by E.H. Sutherland, past president of the American Sociological Society, in the spring of 1939, as voted by the Society at its Detroit meeting. It consists of fourteen appointed members and the secretaries and chairmen of the regional sociological societies. J.H.S. Bossard is chairman and C.C. Zimmerman and the writer are the rural sociologist members. The committee carried on an extensive correspondence and had a meeting at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where it presented a report which will be found in the February, 1940, issue of the periodical "American Sociological Review." This report comprises four major topics. First, membership, second, relation to Regional and Specialized Societies, third, reorganization of Executive Committee and fourth, miscellaneous.

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.

The article presents information on a case of cooperation among retail grocers in Philadelphia. The Retail Grocer's Association in Philadelphia was formed in 1886 to protest against the payment of a tax $10 per annum on all retailers of oil. The history of this organization shows clearly the advantages of cooperation by retail dealers and suggests what such organizations can and can not successfully do. The association had always been opposed to price cutting. When the chain stores made its appearance with low prices and numerous special bargains it was dangerous rival and for some years viewed with intense hostility. To meet this challenge the association employed four methods. The first was due to the accusation that one group of the chain stores were owned and managed by a wholesale grocery house. The association favored the withdrawal of patronage from this jobber in case the rumor proved true. A second method was the agreement to ask manufacturers to limit the prices at which their goods could be retailed and a number of manufacturers expressed their willingness to cooperate.

This article presents information regarding Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Rapid Transit Report. The Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company in general charges 3 cents for an exchange ticket between surface lines. But there are free transfers between the Market Street subway and outlying surface lines, and this would be an important feature of the plan for new lines. In Manhattan and the Bronx, though free transfers between surface lines are usual within each system, there are no free transfers between street-surface and rapid transit lines. But through rapid transit ride obtainable is much longer than elsewhere and the topography of Manhattan Island also tends to make such a ride quite generally complete and sufficient. The bureau is now corresponding with manufacturers and associations of manufacturers, chambers of commerce, boards of trade, etc., for the purpose of securing their cooperation in taking the census and of obtaining suggestions in regard to improvements in the form of the schedules. Work has also been started on the lists of names and addresses of manufacturers. It has been the experience of the bureau that it requires practically one year to make the canvass and to collect the reports from all manufacturers.

This article reports on a study of the affects of funds from the Office of Economic Opportunity on sixteen voluntary agencies in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, from 1960 to 7967. It was found that the agencies had changed little with respect to program emphases, types of clients served, and modes of served, and that the agency board members and voluntary funding bodies wore resisting change. The authors discuss some tactics for opening up negotiations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on features of the municipal reforms. In January 1894, the municipal reformers came from various cities into conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to compare methods and to found the National Municipal League. In 1915 the National Municipal League revised its Strong-Mayor-and- Council charter over to the council-manager concept and after the war it took on the central task of collecting and issuing information about its progress to local city officials, citizen committees, and charter commissions. The list of council-manager cities totals nearly 1,400 in communities of all sizes in the United States and Canada. Adoption of the plan in each city normally required approval at the polls. It is quite common nowadays for public officials to instigate the change themselves to secure relief from thankless burdens of unfamiliar detail. The city managers in their conventions used to have sessions for telling each other how they had ousted political favorites, enlarged services, and reduced the debt and the tax rate.

Presents updates on the 1983 conference of the Art Libraries Society of North America in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 13-16. Art collection of the Rosenbach Museum and Library; Information on the Fairmount Park Trolley Tour; Architectural tour of Philadelphia.

The article presents the official charters granted to representatives of one division, one federation and twenty-two chapters of the Council for Exceptional Children in several states in the U.S. The division, federation and chapters includes, (1) Division for Children with Communication Disorders, (2) No. 458 Saskatchewan Federation, (3) No. 55 North Metropolitan Chapter, Michigan, (4) No . 91 Alamo Chapter, Texas, (5) No. 147 Charlotte Mecklenburg, Chapter, North Carolina, (6) No. 247 E. George Payne Chapter, New York, (7) No. 256 San Mateo County Chapter, Alberto, (8) No. 270 San Francisco State College Chapter, California, (9) No. 344 Shasta Chapter, California, (10) No. 346 Kappa Chapter, Pennsylvania, (11) No. 379 Central New Jersey Chapter, New Jersey, and (12) No. 414 Northwest Washington Chapter, Washington.

The article reports that the Board of Governors of the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) will vote on the acceptance of the Council for Children With Behavioral Disorders as a CEC division at the Council's International Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The objectives of the proposed division are to promote the education and general welfare of children with behavioral disorders and to encourage and promote professional growth and research as a means of better understanding the problems related to children with behavioral disorders.

Presents information on the duties and responsibilities of the director of the Institute for E-learning and Research in the Arts and Design, College of Arts and Architecture at the Pennsylvania State University. Areas of concern of the director; Mission of the institute; Members of the staff that the director shall supervise.

The article highlights research work on the Latin American Social Medicine movement, presented at the 2002 American Public Health Association meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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.

The article reports developments related to education in Pennsylvania. The State Council of Education has implemented a new regulations concerning the educational requirements for teacher certificates. It has been mandated that the college certificate to act as home and school visitor is valid for three annual school terms. The Northeastern Convention District of the Pennsylvania State Education Association held its second annual conference on teacher education and professional standards. The theme of the conference was "Strengthening the Profession of Teaching."

The article reports that Helen C. White, principal of Henry Burk Public School, is appointed as chairman of the International Council for Exceptional Children's meeting which will be held on July 1, 1957 at the National Education Association Centennial Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Reports that Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based Printing Industries of America/Graphic Arts Technical Foundation has won a 2005 Trade Association Environmental Leadership Award for Environmental Partnership from the Environmental Protection Agency.

The article reports on the official opening of SCA Americas' new North American headquarters which give its employees and guests the opportunity to view the largest corporate interior space of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. SCA Americas which is a Swedish-based company opened its new headquarters at Cira Center office tower and they collaborated with Francisco Laurier of American Society of Interior Designers and Ewingcole to help them bring their concepts to life.

Announces that Graphic Arts Technical Foundation (GAFT) and Washington, D.C.-based Printing Industries of America (PIA) will move into newly consolidated headquarters in Sewickley, Pennsylvania. Maintenance of an office in Washington.