International Union of Scientific Psychology.

Presents a summary of activities at the Assembly of the International Union of Scientific Psychology at Montreal held June 6th. Donald Marquis and H. S. Langfeld attended the meeting as representatives of the American Psychological Association. The Assembly voted to accept Jugoslavia as a member of the Union. There are now 20 adhering countries, the last to be admitted besides Jugoslavia being Israel and Egypt. The Secretary General reported that the Union had been accepted on a consultative basis by the Division of the Social Sciences of Unesco. Subjects for research in social psychology were ranked and are listed here. The Assembly agreed that a directory of foreign psychology was desirable. The changes in the statutes proposed by the Executive Committee last July were adopted. The Assembly elected Jean Piaget president of the Union and E. T. Rasmussen vice president. The Executive Committee was elected. The Executive Committee elected Klineberg as Secretary General and Mailloux as Treasurer. It was voted that the Acta Psychologica should be under the auspices of the Union without financial obligations. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Nomenclature and definitions in colorimetry.

A discussion of the American Standards Association publication "Nomenclature and Definitions in the Field of Colorimetry" with comments concerning the new definitions of light and color. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Review of The history of the International Union of Psychological Science..

Reviews the book, The history of the International Union of Psychological Science by Mark R. Rosenzweig, Wayne W. Holtzman, Michel Sabourin, and David Belanger (2000). In 1997, the Executive Committee of the International Union of Psychological Science initiated a project to "trace the development of the International Union of Psychological Science (IUPsyS), not only since its founding at the 14th International Congress of Psychology at Stockholm, 1951, but going back to 1881 when a young Polish psychologist first proposed the ideas of an international congress and of an international association of psychological societies" (p. xi). The authors have managed to include a great deal of information, and it must be said that the result occasionally resembles a book of lists (e.g., lists of who attended the various congresses, the percentage of attendees from each country, etc.). Read from cover to cover, the book provides a very useful compendium of the proceedings of IUPsyS and its predecessors. A very strong feature of this book is its many photographs. Throughout the book there are several very useful tables that provide lists of the members of the various congresses as well as the officers of the IUPsyS. While it is as much a reference book as a history, it is still a very useful and interesting reference book that should be in every university library. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

中国与欧盟纺织品国际竞争力比较研究

从中国和欧盟纺织品的贸易现状出发,选取纺织品的贸易竞争力指数、出口产品相似度指数和显示性比较优势指数三个指标对中、欧纺织品国际竞争力进行实证研究.研究表明:从整体上看,我国与多数欧盟国家产品竞争程度并不高,但与一些国家产品相似度指数极高,存在较强的竞争性;与欧盟大多数国家相比,中国纺织品具有很强的国际竞争力.     

Annual Report of the C.P.A. Representatives to the International Union of Scientific Psychology (May, 1967).

Presents the annual report of the Canadian Psychological Association representatives to the International Union of Scientific Psychology. Included are brief notes regarding: (1) Summary report of the Moscow Congress; (2) International Directory of Psychologists; (3) The International Review of Psychology; (3) Next international congress; and (4) Next meeting of the Executive Committee. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Mineral phases and some reexamined characteristics of the International Union Against Cancer standard asbestos samples

Standard asbestos samples to be used for biomedical research were first prepared by the International Union Against Cancer (UICC) in 1966 in the United Kingdom and South Africa. Using modern techniques, X-ray diffractometry, analytical transmission electron microscopy, and thermal analysis, we have now analyzed these UICC samples to determine the mineral compositions (mineral phases) and their respective quantities. UICC chrysotile A (from Zimbabwe) contains 2% fibrous anthophyllite as impurity; chrysotile B (from Canada) does not contain any fibrous impurities, only non-fibrous minerals. UICC amosite and crocidolite are almost pure. UICC anthophyllite has 20-30% talc as impurity. The chemical compositions and fiber size distributions of the UICC asbestos samples have also been determined. The mean widths of the fibers of chrysotile A and B are smaller than those of the amphibole fibers. This agrees well with the earlier results which showed the two chrysotile samples to have a larger respirable fraction than the amphiboles.     

Union commitment: Replication and extension.

The union commitment measure developed by M. E. Gordon et al (1980) was administered to 426 nonprofessional and 334 professional members of a white-collar union. Four orthogonal factors were extracted: Union Loyalty, Responsibility to the Union, Willingness to Work for the Union, and Belief in Unionism. Factor comparisons both between the union of the present study and the union of the original study, and between professional and nonprofessional members within the same union, suggest that the factors developed by Gordon et al are consistent and generalizable across these populations. (7 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

International Federation of Clinical Chemistry and International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry 2. Properties and Units in the Clinical Laboratory Sciences. VI. Properties and Units in IOC Prohibited Drugs (IFCC-IUPAC Recommendations 1997)

The term designating a substance being an active ingredient of a drug may be a generic name, a nonproprietary name, a registered trade name, a fantasy name or other. This causes difficulties in the transmission of request and report on such substances to and from the clinical laboratories, and in the collating of this information from different sources. The document comprises a list of properties of drugs of abuse in biological fluids as defined by the International Olympic Committee Medical Code for use in electronic transmission systems. Standard systematic names are presented with a code value for each. The coding schemes thus prepared are accessible on Internet from C-NPU Home page address: http://inet.uni-c.dk/ qukb7642.     

Properties and Units in the Clinical Laboratory Sciences. IX. Properties and Units in Trace Elements (IUPAC-IFCC Technical report 1997). International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry and International Federation of Clinical Chemistry. rita.cornelis@rug.ac.be

This document is the first recommendation on the presentation of trace elements and their values in clinical laboratory sciences from IFCC and IUPAC. It forms part of the ongoing effort to standardize requests and reporting of laboratory data for transmission across cultural and linguistic domains, without attempting to standardize the language used by clinicians and laboratory practitioners. Subsequent documents deal with syntax, kinds-of-property, and properties and units used in other areas of clinical laboratory sciences.