Where once the annual meeting of the American Federation for Clinical Research, the American Society for Clinical Investigation, and the Association of American Physicians could unite the whole of clinical investigation, now stand many organizations and meetings catering to specialized fields, and the cohering effect of the Atlantic City meetings ...

The aim of this article is to shed light on the ideological, institutional and intellectual connections between Italian eugenics and American scientific racism, from 1953 to 1967. The paper pays special attention to the scientific links between fascist demographer Corrado Gini (the first president of the Italian Central Statistical Institute ...

Presented at the 6th Annual National Hydrogen Association Meeting, Alexandria, VA, 1995

Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Urban Affairs Association, Salt Lake City, UT April 12-16 2005. Contains a description of the demographic diversity and spatial distribution thereof in Salt Lake City. Describes WLI and lists benchmarks, successes, and statistics regarding alumni as of April 2005.

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the association between BMI and physical activity based on the CDC-ACSM recommendation and a more demanding standard consistent with the IOM recommendation. METHODS: A random-digit-dialed survey (n=1810) used 2001 BRFSS questions to measure physical activity. RESULTS: Data revealed a monotonic association between BMI and physical activity level. ...

The British Neuropsychiatry Association Annual Meeting was held at the Institute of Child Health, London, UK, on 21-22 February 2002.

The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery had its origins in the Transactions of the American Orthopedic Association, which first were published in 1889. In 1903, the Transactions of the American Orthopedic Association, Volume 16, became the first volume of the American Journal of Orthopedic Surgery, still under the sponsorship ...

The article examines ethical considerations related to the design and implementation of rehabilitation research. The authors' primary thesis is that ethical research practice requires rehabilitation and disability studies scholars to (a) adhere to the standards of conduct promulgated in the canons of ethics of such organizations as the American Psychological ...

Samuel Greenhouse was born on January 13, 1918, in the Bronx (New York). He received a B.S. degree in mathematics from the City College of New York in 1938, an M.A. degree from George Washington University in 1954 and a Ph.D. in mathematical statistics from George Washington University in 1959. ...

The uncertain status of the recent proof of Fermat's Last Theorem (Science, 24 December 1993, p. 1967) was the hot topic in the hallways at the joint meetings of the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America, held 12-15 January in Cincinnati. But a few other topics did ...

The American Chiropractic Association (ACA) as it is known today was formed by a series of amalgamations. Starting with the Universal Chiropractic Association (UCA) of 1906 and the original American Chiropractic Association (ACA) of 1922, the two associations merged to form the National Chiropractic Association (NCA) in 1930. This Association ...

Anthropologists need luck on their side when they search for key fossils or study monkeys in the wild, but their work can still hit the jackpot. That was clear at the 61 st annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropology, which brought more than 800 anthropologists to Las ...

The Annual General Meeting of the British Association of Clinical Anatomists for 1983 was held at the Royal College of Surgeons of England on 14th January 1983. The following are abstracts of the papers presented.

The Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in Cystic Fibrosis (ACPCF) is a clinical interest group of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) consisting of chartered physiotherapists working with patients who have cystic fibrosis. Information on this page includes a mission statement, membership details and contacts.

The American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) was founded in 1931 and is a scientific and educational association with over 7200 members worldwide. The AANS aims to advance the speciality of neurological surgery and this website provides information on the organisation of the AANS, membership requirements, conference and scientific meeting ...

A prospective study of 13 patients with hypokalaemia due to a variety of causes demonstrated that six had hypophosphataemia. In 10 patients the plasma inorganic phosphate level rose on correction of the hypokalaemia. Before treatment seven patients had an excessive rate of excretion of phosphate relative to creatinine in the ...

The apical portion of the columnar cells of the sternal gland of the termite Zootermopsis nevadensis (Hagen) has been examined with the electron microscope. The cell surface abutting the cuticle is thrown into ridges upon which stand microvilli. Sections show a network of smooth membrane-bound cisternae penetrating the interior of ...