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The Agglomeration of Headquarters∗

This paper uses a micro data set on auxiliary establishments from 1977 to 1997 in order to investigate the determinants of headquarter agglomerations and the underlying economic base of many larger metro areas. The significance of headquarters in large urban settings is their ability to facilitate the spatial separation of their white collar activities from remote production plants. The results...

2016 AAAS Fellows approved by the AAAS Council.

Alison L. Van Eenennaam, Univ. of California, Davis Americans, not just Europeans—are empowered to reach their full potential as leaders.” Princess Sumaya bint El Hassan, president of Jordan’s Royal Scientific Society, spoke forcefully at WLSTE+10 about the continuing imbalance in women’s access to leadership positions in science, not only in the Middle East but also globally. “All of our socie...

Hope headquarters: recovery college.

The mental health and well being of the Australian population remains an ongoing, unresolved issue. A 2007 survey of Australians aged 16–85 years estimated that almost half (45%, or 7.3million people) had experienced mental ill health at some time in their lives and that approximately 20% of the population had experienced mental disorders in the 12 months before the survey. In addition, data fr...

AAAS-African Programs Under Way.

* PUST visit From 28 March to 8 April the AAAS, with support from the Rockefeller Foundation, sponsored a visit to the United States by the president and secretary general of the new Panafrican Union of Science and Technology (PUST), Edward Ayensu and Levy Makany. The purpose of the visit was to familiarize PUST with the operations of scientific societies and the activities of relevant donors, ...

Preliminary program aaas annual meeting, Boston, massachusetts.