Purdue has not only led the way in spreading the gospel of better highway construction methods through its academic program and through regular meetings such as this one, but also set the pattern for service to the state highway department through its Joint Highway Research Project that is now being followed in many other states. And the influence of Purdue is being felt throughout the nation a...

What place is there for holy play in experience-oriented society? Is it possible and useful to make analytic distinctions between the liturgical quality of events? I explored these questions by doing research on the boundaries between the religious field and the field of leisure. Fifty site visits to public events in the Netherlands (2006-2014) resulted in a collection of ethnographic data. I u...

* We thank seminar participants at Berkeley and the AEA meetings in San Diego for useful comments and Attila Sandor Lindner for excellent research assistance.

UNLABELLED In 2015, the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) General Meeting essentially achieved gender equity, with 48.5% of the oral presentations being given by women. The mechanisms associated with increased female participation were (i) making the Program Committee aware of gender statistics, (ii) increasing female representation among session convener teams, and (iii) direct instructi...

amount of tripping?to the Isle of Wight, the New Forest, Salisbury, Porchester and so forth? could be accomplished. A fair proportion of the j hard-worked doctors, who frequent these meetings, make the occasion their annual holiday, and accompanied by wives and daughters manage to imbibe a good deal of fresh air, and forget the toils and worries of practice amidst beautiful scenery and in the e...

Our participation at meetings of the International Conference of Integrated Care and our involvement with the International Foundation for Integrated Care show that our French experience can be instructive for health and social care professionals, including geriatricians, in other countries, and also for decision-makers, managers, directors and all gerontologists interested in the complex conce...

Sometimes when a speaker uses the English pronoun you he refers to an addressee, or a group of addressees, but other times the word is used in a generic, not in a deictic, sense. This research tries to find characteristics of these different usages of you in multi-party conversations in meetings.