of its annual member nomination campaign. More than 4000 members participated in the campaign. William D. Carey, executive officer, drew the winning entry at Association headquarters in Washington, D.C., on 13 March. Pella has been a AAAS member for 2 years and is a member ofthe AAAS Resource Group of Scientists and Engineers with Disabilities. His research areas are in neutron-knockout reactio...

Two common methods of measuring personality variables are examined with respect to the ways in which they control respondent biases. A form of the mental-test theory model is developed which makes explicit differences in score components that result from different methodological constraints imposed by the two methods. From the model, it is possible to specify the operations necessary to provide...

I. The Secretary of State for India announces that 204 medical men are urgently required to fill vacancies in the Indian Medical Service. Of these two-thirds (136) will be Europeans and the remainder Indians. The appointment of European candidates will be made by nomination on the recommendation of a Selection Committee in England. Applications from Europeans, and from Indian candidates residen...

My research areas include VLSI CAD, FPGA testing and trust design, fault-tolerant computing and parallel processing. We have also made a recent foray into optimization. Our work has received one best paper and one most-influential paper awards, one featured speaker recognition, and one best paper nomination, all at premier conferences. My research has been or is funded by NSF, DARPA and AFOSR, ...

• Contested roles and responsibilities in HWC concern issues around: – decisions to move in and allocations (and the different perspectives of older people, their families and external agencies, especially those with nomination rights); – the different expectations residents, families, providers and professionals have of HWC; – buildings and facilities provision, management and maintenance, hea...

The Jean Delay Prize is the most important award of the WPA and is awarded to any individual who has made a major contribution to the integration of biological, psychological, and social aspects of psychiatry. The 2005 prize will be awarded at the opening ceremony of the next WPA World Congress in Cairo. The nomination form can be downloaded from the WPA website (http//www.wpanet.org or http//w...