Committee Method Research Articles

Electrical Standards Development Activities for Nuclear Power Plant Maintenance

This paper presents information describing the concern for nuclear power plant electrical equipment maintenance and the IEEE Nuclear Power Engineering Committee's method to address that concern. That method includes the creation of Working Group 3.3, "Maintenance Good Practices" which is developing specific maintenance good practice documents, supporting technical information exchange, and providing a vehicle to promote practices which can reduce cost and enhance plant safety.

Report of the Graduate Medical Education National Advisory Committee and health manpower development.

The federally chartered Graduate Medical Education National Advisory Committee projected a shortage of approximately 12,000 general and child psychiatrists by 1990. The committee's methods of analysis and recommendations have been criticized on grounds ranging from the accuracy of its data to the appropriateness of federal involvement in free-market issues. Yet the GMENAC report appears to have contributed to a recent reversal of psychiatric recruitment trends, and psychiatrists should be aware of its further implications for clinical and academic psychiatry. We analyzed the GMENAC process as one element among many that will determine future health care personnel development trends.

Clinical Staging in Cancer of the Larynx: A Report on 788 Cases Using the American Joint Committee's Method of Stage Classification

Clinical Staging in Cancer of the Larynx: A Report on 788 Cases Using the American Joint Committee's Method of Stage Classification

Geographers in Africa

uUMAN geography, defined recently by a group of geographers as the 1 1 geographical study of those features, objects and phenomena of the earth's surface which relate directly, or are due, to man axd his activities,1was the subject of Professor R. H. Kinvig's presidential address in Section E (Geography) at the British Association at Liverpool in 1953.2 He considered the geographer as humanist and in stressing the many-sided aspects of his study suggested that human geography provides the fundamental background for the understanding of many of the problems besetting mankind in thc local, national and international fields. In recent years there has been a tremendous increase in the number of geographical studies made of British colonial territories generally, and of Bntish Africa in particular Part of this advance may be attributed to the Tropical Africa Research Committee of Section E of the British Association) established at the Oxford Meeting of the Association in 1926. Lord Harlech (then the Hon. W. G. A. Ounsby-Gore) was President of the Section and addressed it on the economic development of tropxcal Africa and its effects on the native populatiot.3 The Committee was to inqqxire into the present .state of the Hs4man Geography of Tropical AfricaJ and to make recommendations for furtherance and development. Parliamentary visits had just been made to both East and West Africa,4 and geographers together with anthropologists economists, politicians and many others seem suddenly to have become aware of the extent of the British responsibilities in the tropics and of their owrs ignorance of the conditions and potentialities of these areas. The Committee's method was the circulation of a questionnaire5 to administrators, educationalists, missionaries and others throughout tropical Africa. Diverse questions were asked, ranging from water-supply to population data and from food crops to means of transport. The response, in both quantity and quality, naturally varied greatly from territory to terntory: but enough data came from Northern Rhodesia for it to form the basis of Professor A. G. Ogilvie's presidential address to Section E of the British Association in 1933.6 The late Walter Fitzgerald's Africa: a social, economic and political geography of its major regions appeared in the following year. This volume, now in its seventh edition still have great value, though, hardly surprising, it is showing signs that it was first published over twenty years ago.7 For geographers and many other students of Africa as well it has been an sndispensable commentary to later and more comprehensive or more detailed studies including Lord Hailey's An African Srvey which was weak on the geographical side. Fitzgerald's book has been a very real stimulus to many students in widely diffenng fields and must be regarded as British geography's

Eight Scientists Protest Thomas Committee's Methods

AbstractWe print below the full text of a telegram wired to President Truman on September 6 by eight distinguished scientists. The President's comments on this wire appear on page 292. The authors of the wire are: HARRISON BROWN, Associate Professor, Institute for Nuclear Studies, University of Chicago; KARL TAYLOR COMPTON, President, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; THORFIN R. HOGNESS, Director, Institute of Radiobiology and Biophysics, University of Chicago; CHARLES C. LAURITSEN, Professor of Physics, California Institute of Technology; PHILIP M. MORSE, Professor of Physics, Massachusetts Intitute of Technology; GEORGE B. PEGRAM, Profesor of Physics and Dean of the Graduate Faculties, Columbia University; HAROLD C. UREY, Professor, Institute for Nuclear Studies, University of Chicago, Nobel Prize winner; JOHN C. WARNER, Dean of the Graduate School and Chairman of the Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Institute of Technology.

REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON COMPENSATION TABLES FOR EYE INJURIES

Your committee has continued its activities during the last year and is pleased to report increasing use of the method advocated by it for determining the visual efficiency of an individual following industrial injury or occupational disease of the eyes. In reply to a letter of inquiry directed to the International Association of Industrial Accident Boards and Commissions of the U. S. A., as to the uniformity of methods for evaluating visual efficiency following ocular injuries or occupational diseases, and as to how many boards and commissions utilized the American Medical Association committee's methods, the secretary replied (in part): Except in states where compensation for specific injuries is written into the statutes, I think all the states compute partial permanent (disability) on a percentage of total permanent (disability), and this would apply to eye injuries as far as I know. Economic blindness is construed as total permanent disability by a