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The greatest focus in alcoholism treatment research today is matching client to treatment. Consistent with this research direction, this paper describes a survey completed by members of Alcoholic Anonymous (AA) regarding their assessment of AA as a treatment. It looks at the self-reported behaviors of AA members and compares these actions with program recommendations. In addition, it investigates the attitudes of AA members about other treatments and about AA itself, and seeks to identify areas of difficulty experienced when AA members address each of the 12 steps of the program. This paper reports that AA is a sufficient treatment unto itself for some people, but at least 23% of subjects felt that they required adjunctive treatment. Strong compliance with the program was demonstrated by responses to questions on whether or not subjects considered themselves alcoholics and whether or not they regularly attended meetings. Almost half the members had undergone the setback of drinking again, yet resumed their attempts at recovery. It notes the need to investigate the reasons why people in AA experience a high attrition rate. (Contains 34 references.) (JDM)

Selected original analog telemetry tapes from three of the topside-sounder satellites of theInternational Satellites for Ionospheric Studies (ISIS) program, namely Alouette 2, ISIS I, and ISIS II, wereused in an earlier project to produce more than ½ million digital topside ionograms; the resulting digitaltopside ionograms from ISIS II were used to produce more than 86,000 globally distributed vertical topsideionospheric electron density profiles Ne(h) that cover a time span of more than a solar cycle. These Ne(h) wereproduced using the Topside Ionogram Scaler with True height algorithm auto-scaling software. Beforeattempting to automatically process Alouette-2 or ISIS-I ionograms, a data-enhancement project wasinitiated so as to increase the number of ionograms suitable for manual scaling and to increase theauto-processing success rate. These enhancements were mainly to correct problems that often occurredduring the analog-to-digital conversion of the original telemetry tapes. Here we illustrate the improvementsmade to the ISIS-I digital topside ionograms and compare Ne values at the satellite altitude and Ne(h)profiles, based on the manual scaling of selected ionograms, to both the auto-scaled values and thepredictions of the International Reference Ionosphere 2016 model. The results indicate the need to improvethe available auto-processing software for the new ISIS-I digital ionograms and that International ReferenceIonosphere 2016 predicts midlatitude winter topside Ne values that are too high in the late morning andat noon but too low in the early morning.

Selected original analog telemetry tapes from three of the topside-sounder satellites of the International Satellites for Ionospheric Studies (ISIS) program, namely Alouette 2, ISIS I, and ISIS II, were used in an earlier project to produce more than million digital topside ionograms; the resulting digital topside ionograms from ISIS II were used to produce morethan 86,000 globally-distributed vertical topside ionospheric electron density profiles Ne(h)that cover a time span of more than a solar cycle. These Ne(h) were produced using the TOPIST auto-scaling software. Before attempting to automatically process Alouette-2 orISIS-I ionograms a data-enhancement project was initiated so as to increase the auto processing success rate. These enhancements were mainly to correct problems that often occurred during the analog-to-digital conversion of the original telemetry tapes. Here we present the status of, and results from, this ongoing enhancement effort.