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Calls for papers for the American Society of Hospital Pharmacists' midyear clinical meeting in Atlanta, Georgia from December 8 to 12, 2002. Prior publication or presentation; Authorship; Publication rights; Preparation of paper for submission.

The article explains the requirements for authors who will be submitting contributions for review and consideration for presentation at the symposium on topics of interest to the U.S. Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) and the International Union of Radio Science (URSI). The general submission information is presented along with the instructions for URSI authors. The criteria of eligibility for entries in the AP-S student paper competition are given as well.

The article discusses various topics related to the field of Southwestern U.S. history. It presents a call for papers for the 117th Annual Meeting of the Texas State Historical Association (TSHA), to be held in Fort Worth, Texas, from February 28 to March 2, 2013. The author announces that the 2012 annual convention of the North American Society of Oceanic Historians (NASOH) will take place at the Tremont Hotel in Galveston, Texas from April 22 to April 26, 2012. The article also lists individuals who have become members of the TSHA, including Susan Edwards, Carol Sayle, and Levi Goode.

The article discusses the highlights of American Society of Naval Engineers Day 2010. Captain Paul Roden of the Office of Naval Engineering moderated the Session 1 titled "Ship Systems on first day of the technical paper sessions," in which the papers "Systems and Suggested Improvement for Future Ship Platforms" and "Automated Casualty Response Guided by Expert System" were discussed. In Session 5. "Marine Power Systems," Timothy J. McCoy of the Electric Ship Office moderated the discussion on papers by Dwight Alexander, James David McWhite and Jing Sun.

Discusses the contents of papers presented at the meeting of the Industrial Relations Research Association held in Washington D.C. Theme of the conference; Topics discussed; Highlights of the event.

The article presents a collection of news briefs related to finance in the United States. In 2004 the American Financial Association board authorized a History of Finance project with Stephen Buser named as historian. The 2007 annual meeting of the American Financial Association was held January 5-7 in Chicago, Illinois. Professor Kenneth French was the Program Chair. The American Financial Association and the Department of Finance have entered into a joint venture to maintain and enhance the finance faculty directory on the University's website.

The article offers information on the Third Annual Meeting of the Operations Research Society of America held in New York City from June 3 to 4, 1955. The secretary reported on the status of membership in the Society. Several local sections of the Society have been authorized by the Council for the Los Angeles, California area. Non-member subscriptions to the "Journal of the Operations Research Society of America" have increased from 467 to 834. An election of officers and council members was held during the Business Meeting of the Society on June 3, 1955.

Many health sciences librarians as well as other professionals attend conferences on a regular basis. This study sought to link an innovative peer review process of presented research papers to long-term conference outcomes in the peer-reviewed professional journal literature. An evidence-based conference included a proof-of-concept study to gauge the long-term outcomes from research papers presented during the program. Real-time peer review recommendations from the conference were linked to final versions of articles published in the peer-reviewed literature. The real-time peer review feedback served as the basis for further mentoring to guide prospective authors toward publishing their research results. These efforts resulted in the publication of two of the four research papers in the peer-viewed literature. A third presented paper appeared in a blog because the authors wanted to disseminate their findings more quickly than through the journal literature. The presenters of the fourth paper never published their study. Real-time peer review from this study can be adapted to other professional conferences that include presented research papers. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This article discusses the 19th annual meeting of the Philosophic Society for the Study of Sport. The meeting is to be held at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, October 10-12, 1991. The article also presents a request for completed copies of essays from those wishing to speak at the conference, and a deadline for these submissions. Joy T. DeSensi, a professor in the Department of Human Performance and Sport Studies at The University of Tennessee is listed as the contact for submissions. The article also states that updated information concerning the conference will be released through the society's newsletter.

The article discusses 2015 American Kinesiology Association (AKA) Leadership Workshop focusing on health benefits of physical activity leading to increased scope of kinesiology. Topics discussed include public health integration in academic life, providing students with training in topic of Kinesiology and comprehensive school physical activity programs (CSPAP).

This special collection of papers had its genesis at the IEEE Computer Society Workshop on Software Testing and Test Documentation held in Fort Lauderdale, Florida during December 18-20, 1978. This collection is devoted to selected papers on program testing that were presented at the Workshop. The thrust is towards approaches that can support the heuristic components of testing. There is increasing recognition that it is unlikely there will be a grand theory of testing which will lead to fully automated testing systems. Instead the tester will be called upon to use his intuition and problem-dependent knowledge in a discipline manner to test for a variety of specified error types. But it is crucial that this less ambitious, heuristic activity be nevertheless firmly embedded in an underlying framework which is logical, rigorous and well-understood.

This paper reflects on the 30th anniversary of the African Geographical Review (AGR) by looking at the history and future of the journal. It originated in a panel discussion organized by the current editors of the AGR at the 2010 annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) in Seattle. It synthesizes presentations made by participants of the panel including William Moseley, Florence Margai, Isaac Luginaah, Maano Ramutsindela, Padraig Carmody, Kefa Otiso, Bakama BakamaNume, and Ian Yeboah among others. The paper demonstrates how the East African Geographical Review (EAGR), a regional journal serving the East African region from 1963 to 1996, has grown into the mouthpiece of the Africa Specialty Group (ASG) of the AAG. The role of individual agency and the tenacity of the editors of the journal since its arrival in the United States have been central in growing it into the ASG's mouth piece. We anticipate that when the next stocktaking of the AGR occurs, the AGR will be a leading global geography journal on Africa. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents the papers on viticulture presented at the two session of the 1991 Association of American Geographers (AAG) Meeting in Miami, Florida. `Continuity in early medieval viticulture: secular or ecclesiastical influences?' by T. Unwin and `Aristocratic,' by J. P. Dickenson of the first session; `Napa Valley: diversity of soils and environments,' by Elliot-Fisk, `Napa Valley: influence of soils and other factors on wine flavor,' by A. C. Noble and others of the second session.

ABSTRACT Aims This paper describes alcohol industry involvement in the 2010 annual conference proceedings of the National Conference of State Liquor Administrators (NCSLA) in the United States. Design The author attended the conference, observed conference attendees and panelists and identified key themes in the panel sessions. Setting The NCSLA Annual Meeting took place 20-24 June 2010 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Participants NCSLA meeting attendees and panelists were professionals from state alcohol control systems; federal government agencies; and companies representing the alcohol industry. Measurements The total number of conference attendees and participants were counted as well as the number of attendees and participants from regulator, industry and public health sectors. Findings More than two-thirds (72.2%) of the 187 conference attendees were from alcohol producers, importers, wholesalers, retailers or their attorneys. Nearly two-thirds (65.0%) of the 40 panelists were from the alcohol industry. The author of this paper was the only attendee, and the only panelist, representing public health policy. Conclusions The National Conference of State Liquor Administrators in the United States is dominated by the private, global companies that produce, import, distribute and sell alcohol, highlighting a lack of public health considerations within the Association's liquor control agenda. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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.

The article announces several conferences including the Eighth National Meeting of the Operations Research Society of America which will be held in Ottawa, Ontario from January 9 to 10, 1956, the Fourth Annual Meeting of the Society in Washington, D.C. which will be held tentatively from May 10 to 11, 1956 and the National Meeting of the Institute of Management Science in New York City from October 20 to 22, 1955.

Announces the annual conference of the History of Economics Society in Davis, California. Encouragement of proposals or papers or sessions on all aspects of economic history; Limitations of the abstracts submitted; Deadline for the submission of abstracts; Publication of selected papers in the special issue of the journal.

The Allied Social Science Associations is a marketing name for an annual three-day, citywide conference of about 9,000 economists that is organized, managed, and controlled by the American Economic Association (AEA). AEA invites the participation of about 50 additional (i.e., allied) economics-related societies that organize the scholarly content of a portion of the ASSA meetings. It is this broader meeting that operates under the ASSA flag. Although the AEA has met periodically with other social science associations since the 19th century, the current format dates back to the 1960s. The convention rotates among approximately 10 large U.S. cities. A centralized staff at AEA headquarters in Nashville, Tennessee has managed the convention since 1986. The ASSA name was first used on the conference program in 1952. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article focuses on the book "History and Research in Child Development. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development," written by Alice Boardman Smuts and John W. Hagen. This monograph is a pioneer venture, the first publication in which both professional historians and child developmentalists focus on the history of child development and in which historians gear their work to an audience of developmentalists. The monograph is one result of the decision of the U.S. Society for Research in Child Development to make the history of the society, of child development research, of the family, and of childhood the theme of its fiftieth anniversary meeting, held in Detroit, Michigan on April 2 1-24, 1983.

The article presents information on developments related to the field of biosciences and the people associated with it, in the U.S. Parithychery R. Srinivasan was recently appointed as president of the New York Academy of Sciences for 1980. Ruth Patrick has been elected chairman of the Section of Population Biology, Evolution and Ecology of the National Academy of Sciences. Andrei D. Sakharov has received the Presidential Award of the New York Academy of Sciences for outstanding accomplishments in science. Plans for a Science and Technology Magnet School are underway by the Dallas, Texas, Independent School District. The American Fisheries Society has issued a call for papers for its 110th annual meeting, to be held at Kentucky from September 21-24, 1980.

The article presents updates concerning the Operations Research Society of America as of November 1960. The Lanchester Prize Committee presented its report to the council of the society in May. The Ninth Annual Meeting of the society will take place in Chicago, Illinois from May 25 to 26, 1961. The council of the society took a number of actions about the operation of the society, including an arrangement approved under which the society would receive a grant from the National Science Foundation.

This article presents information regarding various financial meetings of regional finance associations. The annual meeting of the Midwest Finance Association was held in April 1969 at the Sherman House in Chicago, Illinois. The Western Finance Association held its fifth annual meeting in August 1969 at California State College at Long Beach. The sixth annual meeting of The Appalachian Finance Association was held in April 1970 in Akron, Ohio.

From March 27th through 30th, 1985, the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Society of Behavioral Medicine (SBM) will be held at the Marriott Hotel in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana. The theme of the meeting is behavioral medicine across the life cycle. The deadline for receipt of abstracts is Monday, September 17, 1984. A detailed call for papers, describing the types of sessions and individual submission requirements for each, is available from the SBM national office. Submissions which do not follow the instructions listed in the call for papers will be returned, prior to review, for revision.

The article presents the proceedings of the Ohio Valley Sociological Society Council Meeting, Held on Thursday, April 27, 1971, held at the Cleveland-Sheraton Hotel, Cleveland, Ohio. Resolutions concerning deceased members of the Ohio Valley Sociological Society should be published as obituaries in the Sociological Focus. Physician Olmstead reported for the publications committee. He indicated that the publications committee was currently seeking a new editor for Sociological Focus. He also reported on the number of papers submitted in the undergraduate and graduate paper competition. At the undergraduate level the committee has selected two CO. President Useem then introduced the topic of convention development It was moved that the principle of establishing an office of executive secretary, and/or business manager (which would be ad hoc for now) be approved. Such an executive secretary and/or business manager will work on the managerial issues of the society. The resolution was passed. The executive committee will designate an acting executive secretary.

The article presents information on minutes of the Ohio Valley Sociological Society's council meeting which was held on September 20, 1968 at Pick Congress Hotel in Chicago, Illinois. President William D'Antonio called the meeting to order. The minutes of the last council meeting were approved as corrected. There was discussion of the minutes of the executive committee meeting with the officers of the Midwest Sociological Society. There was discussion of the paper competition. The status of the student when the paper is completed will determine which contest it is entered in. This competition may include honors work and special projects as well as papers for courses. The following motion was made and unanimously passed. The editor of Sociological Focus may set up a special account to handle income and the expense of editing the journal. The editor is to give an accounting of this money to the Publications Committee, and this accounting is to be included in the Publications Committee's report to the council. A membership drive will take place utilizing the state chairmen. Reimbursement of mailing costs to the membership committee was authorized.

Reports on the annual meeting of Allied Social Science Association (ASSA) held in Anaheim, California from January 5 to 7, 1993. Theme of the meeting; Details of the sessions organized by the American Economic Association; Topics that were discussed in the ASSA sessions; Sessions held by American Finance Association.

Presents information on the business meeting of The Charles S. Peirce Society held at the Baltimore Hilton Miller Brothers Restaurant in Maryland on December 28, 1982. Highlights of the meeting; Expenses of the association for 1982; Funds of the organization.

The article presents the proceedings of the annual business meeting of the Ohio valley sociological society. Don Olmstead reported for the Publications Committee. He reported on the search for a new editor, the maintenance of the publication, Sociological Focus at the University of Akron, and the exploration of future publication possibilities between the OVSS and other societies. Whereas the innovative and sematic scheme of the program produced interesting and provocative papers and discussions. Be it resolved that Chairman Marvin Olson and Program Committee members Elizabeth Mullins, and John Scanzoni be recognized for their efforts and that their universities be so informed. Whereas, the three year term of office for the following officers of the Ohio Valley Sociological Society has expired, be it resolved that the new officers and membership recognize the extraordinary efforts and contributions made by: Shailer Thomas, Secretary; Charles Westie, Treasurer; John Lindquist Editor of Sociological Focus.

The article reports on the activities, meetings, membership and information resources of the American Society of Diagnostic and Interventional Nephrology (ASDIN). It lists the topics that will be covered in the non-traditional sessions of the 5th Annual ASDIN Scientific Meeting in San Antonio, Texas, on February 6-8, 2009. It also cites the three ASDIN Clinical Practice Committee position papers that are available for download on the homepage of the ASDIN website.

The article offers updates on several events of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA). These events include the election of officers of ASA which will take place on April 9, 2010, the 159th Meeting of ASA to be held at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront Hotel in Maryland on April 19-23, 2010, and its technical program. Moreover, several photographs of the candidates for president, vice presidents, and for members of the executive council is provided.

The article presents news about acoustics in the U.S. as of August 1, 2004. The 148th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America will be held November 15 to 19, 2004 in San Diego, California. Meetings related to acoustics to be held in the U.S. include the Society of Automotive Engineering Noise and Vibration Conference from May 16-19, 2005. A list of the cumulative indexes to the journal is provided.

Information about several papers discussed at the annual symposium sponsored by the American Finance Association on financial reports is presented. Topics include the annual financial report, the editor's report, and the advertising manager's report. The symposium featured several economists including Harold Fraine and Donald Woolley.

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.

This article presents the highlights of the International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN) Ninth International Congress, held in Chicago, Illinois from August 30 to September 2, 1992. The congress theme was An International Commitment to Prevent Child Abuse. The host organization was the National Committee for Prevention of Child Abuse based in Chicago. The congress had over 1700 participants from nearly 80 different countries including over 40 developing countries. A majority of participants were from outside the U.S. and for many this was their first experience of an international congress. Rather than attempt to summarize the contents of a congress than in addition to plenary sessions included over 450 papers, a masterclass, research briefings, discussion groups, an exhibition, theatrical productions and social events, three individuals share with us some of their impressions of Chicago 1992. The ISPCAN 9th International Congress was preceded by a Pre-Congress Seminar which was held on the four days prior to the congress. About 100 participants attended at the University of Chicago's campus.

Based on an address given at the April 1995 INFORMS meeting in Los Angeles, this paper's purpose is to suggest the opportunities that the Pacific Rim will bring to OR/MS and INFORMS. It first looks at the two important needs in the profession: to improve the scope of its communications with the public and to expand the context in which OR/MS work is done. After describing some of the radically unfamiliar and different conditions affecting enterprises on the Pacific Rim and suggesting their important challenges, the paper describes some influences acting to inhibit the free growth of the profession and its contributions to society. It closes by suggesting how meeting the challenges of the Pacific Rim cannot only help solve the problems this new context poses, but also help prepare the profession for its larger international future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Features a meeting that marks the close of the fiftieth anniversary of the Association of American Geographers. Implications of the high quality of papers and discussion for the growth of the field and of the society; Concern of the founders of the society; Impact of the association around a common purpose for the development of the field.