AAAS Space Poll

2016 AAAS Fellows approved by the AAAS Council.

Alison L. Van Eenennaam, Univ. of California, Davis Americans, not just Europeans—are empowered to reach their full potential as leaders.” Princess Sumaya bint El Hassan, president of Jordan’s Royal Scientific Society, spoke forcefully at WLSTE+10 about the continuing imbalance in women’s access to leadership positions in science, not only in the Middle East but also globally. “All of our socie...

Doodle Poll Games

In Doodle polls, each voter may approve a subset of the available alternatives according to his preferences. While such polls can be captured by the standard models of Approval voting, Zou et al. [17] analyse reallife Doodle poll data and conclude that poll participants’ behaviour seems to be affected by considerations other than their intrinsic preferences over the alternatives. In particular,...

AAAS-African Programs Under Way.

* PUST visit From 28 March to 8 April the AAAS, with support from the Rockefeller Foundation, sponsored a visit to the United States by the president and secretary general of the new Panafrican Union of Science and Technology (PUST), Edward Ayensu and Levy Makany. The purpose of the visit was to familiarize PUST with the operations of scientific societies and the activities of relevant donors, ...

Patients' Opinion Poll

Physical treatment is only one aspect of the therapeutic process in a psychiatric hospital. Personal relationships between patients and members of the staff and between patient and patient in the wards are also important but little is known about the extent to which they favour recovery. In this article Dr. F. T. Thorpe describes a Patients' Opinion Poll held at Middlewood Hospital, Sheffield t...

Preliminary program aaas annual meeting, Boston, massachusetts.