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The 2013 IEEE Pulsed Power and Plasma Science Conference (PPPS 2013) was held at the Hyatt Regency in San Francisco, CA, USA in June 2013. The PPPS 2013 combined the 19th IEEE Pulsed Power Conference (PPC) and the 40th IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science (ICOPS). This conference marks the third combined IEEE PPPS meeting, following the very successful PPPS 2001 in Las Vegas, NV, USA, and the PPPS 2007 in Albuquerque, NM, USA. The most recent ICOPS was held in 2012 in Edinburg, Scotland, and the most recent PPC was held in 2011 in Chicago, IL, USA. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This article announces the 2009 Annual Meeting for the "Journal of Finance," which will be held in San Francisco, California, from January 3, 2009 to January 5, 2009, the results of the 2008 election, which includes Jeremy Stein, Darrell Duffie, and John Cochrane, and that the AFA and the Department of Finance at Ohio State University have entered into a joint venture to maintain and enhance the finance faculty directory held on the OSU Web site.

Presents a program for the 87th Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association which will be held in San Francisco, California on December 27-30, 1974.

This special issue of the California Management Review contains a selection of the best papers presented at the Ninth Annual Meeting of the Strategic Management Society, which was held in San Francisco in on October 11-14, 1989. Guest editors Robert Harris and David Mowery provide an overview of the topic of "Strategies for Innovation" (the theme of the conference) and discuss its critical importance to management practice. They provide an introduction to the articles in this special issue and conclude with an exploration of other dimensions of strategy and innovation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The ideas of the papers in this special section have originally been presented at the first edition of the workshop on Specification and Validation of Real Time and Embedded Systems (SVERTS) that was held as a satellite workshop of the UML 2003 Conference in San Francisco. The motivation for initiating this workshop was the fact that UML started to be used more and more also for modelling real-time and embedded software systems, whereas it was lacking features for appropriately modelling this kind of systems. Another motivation was the fact that UML was missing an accepted dynamic semantics, or at least a framework for defining profiles not just in terms of syntax, but also their semantics. The six papers in this section reflect all parts of this problem. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Symposium on Foundations in Software Engineering is an annual conference sponsored by Association for Computing Machinery, a computer portal and dedicated to the presentation of innovative research results contributing to an engineering discipline for software systems. This special section of the July 1998 issue of the journal IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering features three of the best papers from the fourth symposium, held in October 1996 in San Francisco, California. During its first half-decade, research results presented at this conference have covered engineering research topics. However, a number of distinguishing properties tend to characterize the best of the papers and have helped set the standards for high-quality software engineering research. The three papers in this special section illustrate these properties. One of the critical challenges for software engineering research is to find practical tools that help system builder restructure existing systems. Mark Moriconi was general chair for the symposium and deserves considerable credit for its success.

The article previews the 2006 conference of the Association of Business Simulation and Experimental Learning that will be held from March 22-24, 2006 in San Francisco, California. The 2006 program will feature papers and panels addressing on experiential, simulation and online education.

Provides information on meetings of The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) in 2005 in the U.S. The 2005 TMS Annual Meeting from February 13 to 17, 2005 in San Francisco, California; 2005 Electronic Material Conference from June 22 to 24, 2005 in Santa Barbara, California; MS&T 2005 from September 25 to 28, 2005 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

No abstract received. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article provides information on several research papers presented at a symposium on civil religion in San Francisco, California on August 24, 1975. A central question was raised by William Garrett about the existence civil religion whether it prevails as the dominant interpretive tradition through which the majority of U.S. citizens ascribe a religious dimension to their civic existence. Garrett argues his own thesis about limited scope in three parts. First, he examines civil religion within the functionalist stance which, he claims, is the theoretical framework in sociologist Robert Bellah's discussions. Then he explores both the religious roots and the carriers to civil religious sentiments through an analysis that is at once historical and sociological. The evangelical tradition in his view is the source of those ideas of natural rights which constitute the unique principles of U.S. political theory and the substantive doctrines of civil religion. He concludes that the founding fathers in effect overlaid deist notions on ideas and principles found originally among evangelicals, disestablished sects and revivalists.

Information about the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) workshop program held in San Francisco, California from August 7-18, 2011 is presented. It states that there were 15 workshops covering various topics related to artificial intelligence including microtext, applied adversarial reasoning, and game theory. Lecturers include Aristotelis Hadjakos, Boris Moltchanov, and Paul Lukowiz.

Reports on the topics presented during the conference "Bandung and Beyond: Rethinking Afro-Asian Connections During the Twentieth Century" in San Francisco, California. Role of Radio Cairo on crystallizing a transregional anticolonial sentiment between Egypt and East Africa; Exploration of the ideological and developmental impact that Maoism had on postindependent Zanzibar; Influence of Pan-Asianism on Pan-Africanism and Afro-Asian diasporic art.

Information on several papers discussed at the 2013 Molecular Med Tri―Con international conference organized by the Cambridge Healthtech Institute (CHI) held in San Francisco, California in February. Topics include molecular diagnostics, digital pathology and cancer molecular markers. Several authors presented these papers in the conference including Richard Levinson, Keith Kaplan and Sushmitha Muhkerjee.

The article presents information on the travel funding offered by the Polanyi Society to the students for attending the Society's annual meeting to be held in San Francisco, California on November 19, 2011. It also provides the details that the students need to fulfill in the applications for availing the funds including the e-mail and postal address, student's academic background and accomplishments, and estimated travel and lodging expenses.

Information about several papers discussed at the 46th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC) in San Francisco, California on September 27-30, 2006 is presented. The papers that included in the conference are pharmacokinetics (PK) and pharmacodynamics (PD) and laboratory test for antibacterial susceptibility testing. Robert G. Webster gave topics on the evolutionary trajectory of influenza, stressing the link between avian aquatic reservoirs and human pandemics.

This essay provides an overview of the 11th International Conference of the Greening of Industry Network held in San Francisco, USA, on 12–15 October 2003. The conference gave Greening of Industry Network (GIN) members the opportunity to debate issues around the theme of Innovating for Sustainability in a location central to technological innovation in the United States. This special issue of Business Strategy and the Environment focuses on the diverse interpretations of innovation and their impacts on the different strands of sustainability. The conference was timely in its debates about the nature of innovation from system level to product level, and from technological innovation to innovations in the management of a wide range of stakeholders and the resulting impacts on environmental, economic, social and ethical sustainability. This essay briefly discusses the relationship between innovation and sustainability, and considers the factors that either facilitate progress towards a more sustainable future, or present barriers to achieving sustainability. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An awareness of the growing importance of the Chinese overseas was recognized in convening the major conference Luodi-shenggen: The Legal Political and Economic Status of Chinese in Diaspora, which was held in San Francisco, California in November 1992. The organizing committee had designated five major themes around which participants could write their papers. Panels were created around these themes, with additional panels developed around topics that emerged as being of concern as planning for the conference progressed. Concern tended to center around the general issues of overseas Chinese communities and, in particular, the origin and structure of new Chinatowns. In total, over 140 papers were presented encompassing these themes during the three days of the conference. Just under half of the papers were presented in Chinese and the rest in English. The sessions on business relations devoted much attention to the strategies of Chinese entrepreneurs within both local and regional contexts. The sessions on migration covered the gamut from theoretical, global aspects of the Chinese diaspora to local dimensions of the Chinese migrant and criminal law. Particular attention was focused on two of the main destinations of migration such as Australia and Canada.

The article presents several abstracts of papers that were presented at the Winter Simulation conference held in San Francisco, California, January 17-19, 1973. One of the papers discusses that a model of human motivation is formulated on the basis of A.H. Maslow's need theory. Additionally, behaviors are selected by degree of tension and are reinforced by environmental reactions which facilitate or frustrate reduction of tension according to the aggressiveness of behavior. In the paper "Simulation of Sequential Production Systems With In-Process Inventory," by David R. Anderson, Brian D. Sellers, and Mohammed M. Shamma, a general class of simulation models of production lines is studied to formulate theories on system behavior. All of the systems have normally distributed processing times as an approximation to conditions often encountered in the manufacturing environment. The paper "Cased Goods Conveyor Simulator," by Donald A. Heimburger focuses on the Simscript Conveyor Program that models the flow of cased goods through an accumulating powered belt conveyor system.

This article presents proceedings of the 108th annual meeting of the American Economic Association (AEA) held in San Francisco, California from January 5-7, 1996. The John Bates Clark Medal for 1995 is awarded to the economist David Card in recognition of these impressive achievements. Card has largely defined and developed the currently dominant methodology in applied labor economics. This approach sets out a testable hypothesis, searches for exogenous variation in the key determinants, and leads to the labor and time-intensive development of an appropriate data base. He has successfully applied this methodology to the most important issues in labor economics, and his research papers have achieved the status of standard references in many areas. The one hundred and eighth annual meeting of AEA was called to order by President Victor Fuchs on January 6, 1996. The first item on the agenda to be considered was minutes of the previous annual meeting as published in Papers and Proceedings issue of the journal "The American Economic Review."

The article presents various announcements of several societies in the U.S. The 10th national meeting of the Operations Research Society of America will be held in San Francisco, California on November 15-16, 1956. The Johns Hopkins University will award the third annual Lanchester Prize of $1000 for the best operations-research paper published in calendar year 1956. The council of the Operations Research Society of America has agreed to underwrite the publication of a series of independent bound volumes called Operations-Research Monographs.

In this paper I explore how my values based practice has helped me develop my authenticity as a leader of a care-givers' centre. I use the American term care-giver as this is based on a presentation I gave at the inaugural conference of the Action Research Network of the Americas in San Francisco 1-2 May 2013. In the UK we are called a carers' centre and our aim is to support unpaid carers who care for a family member or friend who could not manage without their help due to illness or disability. I explore how my story from child in care to chief executive of a carers' centre and carer of my mum has developed my living theory of care-giving. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers information on the 166th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America to be held at the Hilton San Francisco Union Square in San Francisco, California from December 2-6, 2013.

Information on the 2009 Annual Meeting of The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) in San Francisco, California is presented. It notes that almost 3,700 individuals attended the meeting. It also states that 2,600 papers were presented and eight books were produced in the said meeting. Moreover, it also mentions the events and activities showcased in the Annual Meeting which address the needs of technologists towards the improvement of the industry.

The article offers information on several congresses related to the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) including the Twenty-Fifth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-11) and the Twenty-Third Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-11) to be held in San Francisco, California on August 7-11, 2011 and the 2011 AAAI Fall Symposium Series to be held at the Westin Arlington Gateway in Arlington, Virginia on November 4-6.

The article presents a reprint of a symposium about The Outlook for Productivity Growth, which appeared in the March 20, 2009 issue of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Economic Letter in California. Held November 14, 2008, the conference highlights research papers concerning productivity growth.

This article presents information on the annual meeting of the American Society for Nutrition, which was held in San Francisco, California in April 2006. The meetings were organized in special sessions. Corporate societies of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology met in San Francisco for the Experimental Biology 2006 meeting. The American Society for Nutrition had planned 45 small symposiums to present about 1246 papers on nutrition.

The article presents a discussion on the congress of American Sociological Association in San Francisco, California, in August 2004. To reflect on congresses and exhibitions is a sociological work since, in addition to the information that they provide on the development of the profession of sociologist, they have a symbolic considerable impact. Already before the globalization, several professional North American affiliations turn into the international affiliations of the discipline. What is discussed in the San Francisco congress has so many relevancy for Spain as the Eighth Spanish Congress of Sociology, in September, 2004 in Alicante, Spain. The majority of the specialties coincide. Some papers and debates are similar. The methodological problems are also common in both the congresses. The ideas that they discuss in the world, fortunately, already do not diminish to a geographical national ambience. Almost two hundred specific sessions with written communications have been distributed.

In the article, the author discusses the change in the field of sociology. He suggests that a larger proportion of sociologists are now being drawn from background, with relatively high socio-econoimc status. This makes them less Iikely to be threatened by events which may lower the status of the profession. Within this group, those who are most confident and secure of their position within the profession will lead the attack on a role conception which offers protection from a threat they do not feel. As an example, the author discusses the 62nd Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association held in San Francisco, California in 1967. The hippie influences and political activities in San Francisco are discussed. A significant number of younger sociologists and sociology graduate students embrace a conception of their professional role that differs in at least two important respects from earlier and still dominant conceptions in the profession. The author describes the newer conception to identify the underlying premises which make it differ from the more traditional view.

Information on the 107th annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in San Francisco, California on November 19 to 23, 2008 is presented. Topics include migration and transnationalism, human-animal relationships, and the ethics of field work encounters. The meeting featured anthropology experts and speakers including Emmanuel Levinas, Karen Barad, and Jake Kosek.

The article presents a reprint of the 2008 Annual Pacific Basin Conference which appeared in the March 13, 2009 issue of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Economic Letter in California. The conference featured research papers on international topics, including trade and growth in Asia, global current account imbalances, and international investment patterns.