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The paper discusses location factor in the redevelopment process. Specifically, the research attempts to evaluate a combination of factors which influence the location of new construction within the central city of a large metropolitan area. Initially a conceptual framework is outlined in which new construction becomes a process of redevelopment and an integral part of physical adjustment to change. Given this framework, a generalized model of location factors is hypothesized and tested against property land use and construction data from the City of Toronto in Ontario. The variability in location of new construction in the City of Toronto points both to the complexity of redevelopment and to the locational freedom of many urban activities. Shifts in the demand for space and accessibility are rapidly transforming the traditional form of selected portions of the central city. For planning and renewal purposes two major implications can be cited. First, the locational variability of new residential construction renders accurate prediction of trends exceedingly difficult, as the regression results clearly indicate. Second, the negative correlation between the rate of new construction and age of existing dwelling units indicates that the private redevelopment process is not removing the older and deteriorated housing stock.

Presents the author's speech given at the First Annual Conference of the Canadian Operational Research Society in Toronto, Ontario in May 1959. Operational research of the early years; Control of the quality of operational research.

In August 1974, the International Sociological Association (ISA) will hold its Eighth World Congress of Sociology in Toronto in Ontario, Canada, and thereby afford an accessible opportunity for many North American sociologists to participate. The reorganization of the International Sociological Association by its Council in 1970 at Varna, Bulgaria, during sessions of the Seventh World Congress of Sociology was desired to strengthen the autonomy and effectiveness of its thirty research committees. This should provide opportunity for greater involvement for individual sociologists, both in the periodic international meetings and in the ongoing work of the ISA. These organizational changes come at an appropriate period in that North American sociologists are now demonstrating a stronger interest in cross-national sociology. This article is designed to describe to the membership of the American Sociological Association the implications of the new format of the International Sociological Association for international intellectual cooperation.

The article presents information on the "Sixth International Conference on Oral Biology" to be held at Toronto, Ontario, from June 3-5, 1974. The theme of the conference will be "Pharmacology and Therapeutics." Interested scientists are invited to submit specific titles and abstracts of papers to be considered for presentation at the conference. Primary consideration will be given to research utilizing a multidiscipline approach and having a wide appeal to scientists in oral biology. Titles should clearly define the topic; a single page abstract must include a summary of materials, research methodology, results and conclusions.

Analyzes whether changes in the lending rate of the Bank of Canada have predictable announcement effects, by examining the changes in the Industrials Index on the Toronto Stock Exchange. Changes in equity prices; Complications involved in the attempt to relate equity price behavior to the expectations engendered by changes in bank rate; Increases in the discount rate.

This note highlights the sixth conference on editorial problems, which was held in November 1970 at Saint Michael's College at the University of Toronto. The conference emphasized the problem of "Editing Seventeenth Century Prose." Maurice Kelley spoke on "Editing Milton's De Doctrina." A list of the other papers read at the conference is provided.

Little is known about the extent of marihuana use among adults, except for heavy users and special populations. This study reports the extent of marihuana we among 1,200 carefully chosen adults in Toronto in 1971. It was found that 12.2 per cent of males and 5.5 per cent of females aged 18 and over had used marihuana in the past year. However, the frequencies rise to 41.5 per cent and 20 per cent respectively in the under 25 group. Marihuana use is most common among males, single or divorced persons and the better educated. However, social variable. explain little of the variation in marihuana use frequency. Multi-drug use, including higher use of alcohol characterizes marihuana users. They are similar in extroversion and neuroticism to normals but higher in both than are non-users. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article investigates the three of the largest studies of drug use that were done among high school students in Toronto, Montreal and Halifax. The purpose of the article is to report the similarities and differences among drug use rates and concomitant variables for these three cities. The article reports the similarities and differences among the three studies in terms of: (1) gross rates of use of various drugs in the total samples, (2) rates of drug use by sex, (3) rates of drug use by grade, and (4) the frequency of use of various drugs. The results of this study show that sufficient similarities exist to expect the establishment of certain general epidemiological propositions about drug use.

The article examines the aspect of gender in process and reactive schizophrenics. Process schizophrenics reported that their mothers were domineering, rejecting and overprotective in contract to the reports of reactive parents. For the study, patients in the admission units of the Lakeshore Psychiatric Hospital, Toronto was taken. The results reported in this experiment are based on 32 of the patients selected on the basis of "Elgin Prognostic Scale" scores and balanced with equal numbers of male and female in the process and reactive groups. The reactive schizophrenic group has "Elgin" scores ranging from 6-19. For the process group, it ranges from 26-42. Female examiners elicited significantly more rejections than did male examiners. No differences were found between process and reactive groups when examiners were male. Process patients formed highly generalized expectancies based solely on the sex of an individual, deriving from their family interactions. Reactive schizophrenics had varying experiences with both males and females as a function of their greater participation in social interactions.

This article examines the relationship between religious affiliation and the use of ten types of drugs. A 25-percent random sample of classes in each of grades seven, nine, eleven and twelve, in the Halifax School system, completed a questionnaire concerning their use of drugs. A slightly modified version of the self-report questionnaire used by the Addiction Research Foundation in its Toronto, Ontario study was used as the data-gathering instrument for this study. This questionnaire seeks various types of information, demographic, behavioral, attitudinal and estimates of the extent of drug use in students' classes. Research assistants administered questionnaires to all classes. Catholics and Protestants reported significantly more drug use than Jews and nonaffiliates. There was little difference in the rates of drug use between Catholics and Protestants, nor between Jews and nonaffiliates. High rates of drug use among Jews have also been noted. It seems that the socio-cultural factors that protect Jews from abusing alcohol offer no such protection from drug abuse.