News and notes.

This section of News & Notes provides information on current news from Division 26, Included in this section are the meeting reports from the American Psychological Association (APA) Council of Representatives Report, August 13 & 17, 2008; History of Psychology Sessions at Southeastern Regional Meetings, 2008; and History of Psychology Sessions at Southeastern Regional Meetings, 2007. Also included in this section are member news and announcements. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

世界三大质量奖评审标准发展趋势综述

本文介绍了美国波奖、EFQM卓越奖、日本戴明奖活动开展的最新情况,并在对这些奖项评审标准研究的基础上,总结了当前国际上卓越绩效模式发展的趋势,即:更注重核心价值观的作用,强化卓越绩效模式的系统性;突出对创新的关注;持续强化对顾客的关注;注重组织的可持续发展与社会责任;关注组织的敏捷性;关注组织的核心竞争力。     

Jamie Fobert Architects: Inside Out

The architect of several artists' homes, Jamie Fobert is now landing himself a string of acclaimed arts and commercial commissions. From his warehouse in Old Street in London, he explained to Howard Watson how the sensitive integrity of his architecture has developed out of ‘an inside-out approach’, which puts particular store in ‘framing light and views’ and the sculpting of space aided by physical model-making, rather than the synthetic top-down views that are imposed by widely used CAD programs. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

The Science of Adhesive Bonding and its Transfer to Technology

Author's Note

This article is based, in part, on a lecture given by the author on the occasion of his receipt of The Adhesion Society Award for Excellence in Adhesion Science, Sponsored by 3M at the Society's 14th Annual Meeting in Clearwater, Florida, U.S.A., February 1991. The author takes this opportunity to thank the Adhesion Society for the award and the 3M Corporation for its sponsorship. It is an honor to receive such a tribute from a society and a corporation that have done so much to advance the science and technology of adhesive bonding.     

Mathew & Ghosh Architects

The work of Mathew & Ghosh Architects (Nisha Mathew-Ghosh and Soumitro Ghosh) boldly extends an abstract Modernist language and at the same time draws from the vitality of places. While the firm's early works were small in scale, mostly residential in nature and based on a reappraisal of the early Corbusian idiom, recent projects include large-scale urban and landscape interventions with diverse conceptual and metaphorical imperatives. They have moved from a more reticent stance to the urban exuberance of their more recent projects (for example, their own office building), something akin to a ‘savage architecture’ as posited by Kazuo Shinohara in the context of the unsynchronised nature of the modern city. The architects' object of contemplation is the urban ‘box’, whether a private residence, office or part of a church. The box is first fractured and reconstructed as a bricolage of tectonic fragments, memories and events, all tenuously related as if unity in a contemporary culture is for ever denied. Like the Japanese notion of ‘ma’, the moment between fragments - a slit or an emptiness between two hovering planes - is telling. Mathew & Ghosh participate in the continuity of a historical narrative yet mark out the fissures and disjunctions; sometimes negotiations with the continuity emerge from unintended interstices. While these configurations of the contemporary urban ‘box’ are both contextual and abstract, they are also phenomenologically rich. There is a sustained dialect to the architecture of Mathew & Ghosh that includes consummate materiality and fine crafting, light as a medium, and always, as Nisha Mathew-Ghosh states, ‘good spatial possibilities’. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

News and notes.

This section of News & Notes provides information on current news from Division 26, announces the winner for the Best Student Paper Award for the 2008 APA Division 26 Program, general member news, and a short announcement about Kurt Danziger's book Marking the Mind: A History of Memory. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

获胜者确定问题的建模与启发式算法

获胜者确定问题是组合拍卖机制的核心问题．因此,对基于OR与XOR标集的获胜者确定问题建立了0-1规划模型,并且提出了免疫算子与单亲算子相结合的启发式算法．提出多个启发式规则以扩大标比较范围,并应用在预处理中缩减解空间．设计了多个评价函数评估标的优劣,从而将特征知识引入到免疫算子中．仿真实验表明,对大规模问题的求解具有良好的寻优效率和求解质量,免疫算子对达优率和收敛速度都有着明显的提升作用．     

Awards for distinguished professional contributions.

Recognizing the diversity of roles and activities in which many professional psychologists are engaged, beginning in 1979, Professional Awards have been presented to individual members of the American Psychological Association whose distinguished contributions have served to advance psychology as a profession in the areas of knowledge, professional practice, and public service. In 1991, recipients were as follows: for "Distinguished Professional Contributions to Knowledge," Joseph Matarazzo and Grant Dahlstrom; for "Distinguished Professional Contributions to Applied Psychology as a Professional Practice," Stanley Graham; and for "Distinguished Professional Contributions to Public Service," José Szapocznik and Oliva Espin. For each winner a citation, biography, and selected bibliography of their works are presented. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Peter J. Lang.

Peter J. Lang is the recipient of an award for distinguished scientific contributions due to his outstanding contribution to the understanding of emotion, particularly fear and anxiety and how his work has influenced numerous doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows, as well as many scholars at both the national and international scenes. This article contains a citation and biography of Peter J. Lang. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Prix de la SCP 1986 honorant une contribution hors-pair à la psychologie en tant que profession.

Announces that the 1986 recipient of the award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology as a Profession is Ray Berry. Much of professional psychology in Canada has been shaped by Ray Berry through his leadership in the Canadian and Ontario psychological associations and the Mental Health Branch of the Ontario Ministry of Health. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)