This notice announces the approval of the Commission on Office Laboratory Accreditation (COLA) as an accrediting organization for clinical laboratories under the CLIA program. We have found that the accreditation process of this organization provides reasonable assurance that the laboratories accredited by it meet the conditions required by Federal law ...

A summary of the proceedings of the third world congress on psychiatric genetics is presented. The meeting was held in New Orleans on October 2-5, 1993 and brought together researchers from around the world. The International Society of Psychiatric Genetics sponsored and organized this meeting. Rapid advances of the last ...

The President of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) validates the AANS as the national neurosurgical organization. He describes improved management of major committees of neurological surgery by the Joint Officers of the AANS and the Congress of Neurological Surgeons. A strong argument and proclamation are presented to expand ...

In the "NATO International Scientific Exchange Programmes" (31 Jan., p. 577), the item "Cell-free analysis of the functional organization of the cytoplasm" was listed incorrectly. The title should have been "Molecular mechanisms of membrane traffic." The organizer is Dr. Kathryn Howell, American Society for Cell Biology/NATO, 9650 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, ...

ASAIO has a proud heritage and a list of many accomplishments. It has given birth to many highly specialized societies and meetings. These changes and new developments in other fields have diverted it from being mainly a kidney society to being more multidisciplinary than ever before. Although meeting attendance declined ...

The American Group Psychotherapy Association began in 1942 as an elite, strictly Freudian organization. Its dramatic growth in the 1960s and 1970s was accompanied by much theoretical disagreement and professional "chauvinism." During the past decade, however, the ideological controversy has yielded to pluralism in theory and eclecticism in practice.

This paper embodies a personal view of the ethical considerations that the author believes should be continuously in the mind of any applied statistician or biometrician whose work involves extensive collaboration with other persons and organizations. It looks particularly at the contribution of the International Statistical Institute to the codification ...

The process of admittance to membership in a psychological organization is an opportune time to take into consideration any questionable behavior in the professional background of a prospective member. Membership application forms of the American Psychological Association (APA) and 58 affiliated organizations are reviewed to determine the kinds of questions ...

This report is based on two meetings held in Europe in December 1989, and April 1990, as well as Dr. Cooksey's observations. Specifically, the meetings were: (a) Physiology of Immobilized Cells held in Wageningen, the Netherlands, and organized by the European Federation of Biotechnology and the Agricultural University at Wageningen; ...

Following an earlier paper in the journal in which Evans argued that it was commercial exploitation, not mere payment, that was morally objectionable about certain sorts of organ donation, this paper looks at the moral issues when commercial exploitation is eliminated from systems of paid organ donation. It argues that ...

Energy transformations in cells and organisms : proceedings of the 10th Conference of the European Society for Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry, 302-309

The roles of various organizations in ethical decision making are considered. Such organizations include local and national ethical committees, professional organizations, religious organizations and governments, and their respective strengths and limitations are discussed in turn. The practising individual scientist or doctor must decide where he or she stands on specific ...

"Proceedings of the twenty-fourth Annual Symposium of the Phytochemical Society of North America on biochemical interactions of plants with other organisms, held July 9-13, 1984, at Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts"

It's hard to imagine what our industrial society would be like if, for instance, there were no factories. How would things get produced, how would business survive? But are we, in fact, an industrial society? Are factories going to be the prime production place for a society that is conserving ...

A brief description is given of the behaviour of Pseudotropheus zebra, a mouth-breeding and sexually dimorphic Cichlid species from Lake Malawi. Although the two sexes have different roles in the organization of the territorial society, both were found to use the same behavioural repertoire. This repertoire has been quantitatively analysed ...

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Proceedings of a Symposium held 11-13 march 1975 at the TVA National Fertilizer Development Centre Muscle Schoals Albama, and cosponsored by the Soil Science Society of America ... et al.

A report on the 'Host-Pathogen Interactions' minisymposium at the first meeting of the European Life Scientist Organization (ELSO), Geneva, Switzerland, September 2-6, 2000.

This quarterly newsletter from International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) provides articles, news, market information and details of conferences, of relevance to forestry in the tropics. It is available in English, French and Spanish and can be downloaded from the website as a PDF, or sent via email to subscribers.

A resolution due to be debated at the RCN's annual congress in Bournemouth next week will ask members to 'urge the government to introduce an opt-out system of organ donation' (RCN 2000). The resolution will be preceded by a fringe event that will open up the debate. This article highlights ...

Sections of mitochondria in Paramecium and Euplotes present a consistent pattern. The mitochondrion in these cells can be conceived of as a twisted mass of closely compacted tubules. Two general kinds of substances can be recognized: the electron-dense that borders the lumen of the tubule, and the less dense that ...

"This symposium ... was organized by the Limnological Society of America"