Jubilee of the Psychological Review: Fifty volumes of the Psychological Review..

Presents a historical overview of the Psychological Review, and discusses the environment in which it was founded in 1894 and its subsequent evolution. The roles of J. M. Cattell and J. M. Baldwin in founding the Psychological Review are discussed. Key early contributors and their papers are also briefly reviewed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

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)     

Microemulsion-Aided Synthesis of Nanosized Perovskite-Type SrCoO<Subscript>x</Subscript> Catalysts

Abstract  

Nanostructured perovskite-type SrCoO_x catalysts were prepared using a w/o-microemulsion as a soft template. Conventional co-precipitation and citric acid sol–gel were used as reference methods with regard to surface and bulk physico-chemical properties as well as catalytic performance in methane oxidation. The solids were characterised by XRD, SEM, TEM, EDX, N₂-physisorption, TG-DTA-MS, ICP-OES, and H₂-TPR techniques. The phase transformation temperature of the microemulsion-templated perovskites is by 150 K lower than that in the conventionally prepared ones. Therefore, this material is characterized by smaller crystallite sizes and higher surface areas. As result, it shows a higher activity in oxidative coupling of methane as compared to sol–gel and co-precipitated catalysts. The properties of the catalysts are weakly influenced by changing the specific synthesis parameters of the microemulsions.