We investigated possible causal relationships between a professional association’s division network structure based on comemberships, and the division network structure based on the semantic similarity of papers presented at annual meetings. Data from the International Communication Association (ICA), a basicresearch focused organization of academic social scientists with 21 divisions, provide ...

Neither practitioners nor scientists appear to be fully satisfied with the world's largest behavior-analytic membership organization. Each community appears to believe that initiatives that serve the other will undermine the association's capacity to serve their own needs. Historical examples suggest that such discord is predicted when practitioners and scientists cohabit the same association. ...

Ro le o f s t a t e coa l i t i on s The mission of the Coalition for Oral Health for the Aging (COHA; www.micoha.org) is to improve the oral health of older people through advocacy, professional education, public education, and research by focusing on prevention, health promotion, and evidence-based practices. This mission is achieved through COHA’s organizational goals: (1) to be a resource f...

Background Professional organizations (PO) provide opportunities for networking, professional development, publications, and leadership. Little is known about university students’ awareness of PO the resources they may be interested in receiving. Objective To evaluate membership health-related types training and/or students are Study Design, Settings, Participants This was a cross-sectional stu...

The Transactions in web data often consist of quantitative data, suggesting that fuzzy set theory can be used to represent such data. The time spent by users on each web page is one type of web data, was regarded as a trapezoidal membership function (TMF) and can be used to evaluate user browsing behavior. The quality of mining fuzzy association rules depends on membership functions and since t...

I discuss the predicament that engineering-ethics education in Japan now faces and propose a solution to this. The predicament is professional motivation, i.e., the problem of how to motivate engineering students to maintain their professional integrity. The special professional responsibilities of engineers are often explained either as an implicit social contract between the profession and so...

This article examines the application of Americans with Disabilities Act requirements to professional associations like physician practice groups. In general, employers with 15 or more full-time employees must comply with the Act. However, the definition of an employee is sometimes unclear, especially as applied to business entities commonly used by physician practice groups. A recent case deci...