scholarly journals A Note on the Origin, Objectives and Programme of Project Merit

1980 ◽  
Vol 56 ◽  
pp. 275-276
Author(s):  
George A Wilkins
Keyword(s):  
International Collaboration ◽  
Working Group ◽  
International Association ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
International Council ◽  
Special Programme ◽  
The World ◽  
Draft Proposal ◽  
International Coordination ◽  
Set Up

Project MERIT is a special programme of international collaboration to Monitor Earth-Rotation and Intercompare the Techniques of observation and analysis. It was conceived in 1978 at IAU Symposium No 82 on Time and the Earth’s Rotation and a draft proposal was prepared by a working group set up by the Presidents of IAU Commissions 19 and 31. The proposal was endorsed at the IAU General Assembly at Montreal in 1979 August and at the IUGG General Assembly at Canberra in 1979 December, when the organisation and membership of the Working Group were modified accordingly. The Group is affiliated to the Commission on the International Coordination of Space Techniques for Geodesy and Geodynamics (CSTG), which is sponsored by the International Association of Geodesy (IAG) and by COSPAR. Project MERIT has received the support of the International Council of Scientific Unions and of many national organisations and observatories throughout the world.

Introduction

Popular Music ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
David Horn
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Popular Music ◽  
International Association ◽  
Outstanding Contribution ◽  
Global Network ◽  
Founding Member ◽  
Vernacular Music ◽  
The World ◽  
Set Up

This issue of Popular Music is produced in honour of Paul Oliver, in recognition of his outstanding contribution to popular music scholarship.Paul was a member of the original Editorial Board for Popular Music when it was set up in 1980 and continued to serve as a member of that body, and subsequently of the Editorial Group, until 1990. He was also a founding member of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music and has maintained a keen interest in the organisation, continuing to attend, and speak at, its international conferences. His vision of both the potential and the needs of the Association as a global network lay behind his proposal in 1985 that a project be undertaken to compile a worldwide encyclopedia of popular music, an idea which subsequently bore fruit in EPMOW (The Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World). All these achievements are worth celebrating in themselves, but it is Paul's outstanding contribution to scholarship in the area of vernacular – particularly African-American vernacular – music that we wish to honour with this issue.

scholarly journals DIVISION I / WORKING GROUP ASTROMETRY BY SMALL GROUND-BASED TELESCOPES

2008 ◽  
Vol 4 (T27A) ◽  
pp. 63-67
Author(s):  
William Thuillot ◽  
Magdalena Stavinschi ◽  
Alexander H. Andrei ◽  
Jean-Eudes Arlot ◽  
Marcelo Assafin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Working Group ◽  
Present Report ◽  
Division I ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Binary Asteroids ◽  
Small Bodies ◽  
Observation Network ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Natural Satellites

At the IAU XXVI General Assembly in 2006, the Division I decided to create the Working Group on Astrometry by Small Ground-Based Telescopes (WG-ASGBT). Its scientic goals are to foster the follow-up of small bodies detected by the large surveys including the NEOs; to set-up a dedicated observation network for the follow-up of objects which will be detected by Gaia; to contribute to the observation campaigns of the mutual events of natural satellites, stellar occultations, and binary asteroids; and to encourage teaching astrometry for the next generation. The present report gives the main activities carried out in these areas with small telescopes (diameter less than 2m).

World Meteorological Organization

1959 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 473-474
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Methods ◽  
International Collaboration ◽  
Present Status ◽  
Working Group ◽  
World Meteorological Organization ◽  
Group Code ◽  
Numerical Weather ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Training Of Personnel

A meeting of the Working Group on Numerical Weather Analysis and Forecasting of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) was held in Stockholm from March 2 to 6, 1959, for the purpose of reviewing the present status in the fields of numerical weather analysis and forecasting; outlining present research and likely developments in the future; and specifying problems arising from the utilization of numerical methods for weather analysis and forecasting. These last included training of personnel, communication facilities, and the international collaboration required for successful programs of work in weather analysis and forecasting. A one-group code, capable of extension as the need arose, was proposed for the transmission of essential data.

scholarly journals The galactic constants–an interim report

1985 ◽  
Vol 106 ◽  
pp. 97-100
Author(s):  
F. J. Kerr
Keyword(s):  
Critical Review ◽  
Working Group ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Interim Report ◽  
To Come ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Do So

At the IAU General Assembly in Patras in August 1982, Commission 33 set up a Working Group on the Galactic Constants. The Working Group is charged with developing a critical review of the values of the main galactic constants, for publication before the General Assembly in 1985. It has not been specifically charged to come up with a proposal for a revised set of values, although it can do so if it wishes.

scholarly journals Brief review of modern earthquake engineering

1971 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 397-401
Author(s):  
J. Ferry Borges ◽  
J. Despeyroux ◽  
Y. Maeda ◽  
P. Mazilu ◽  
J. R. Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Earthquake Engineering ◽  
Working Group ◽  
Structural Engineering ◽  
International Association ◽  
European Convention ◽  
Earthquake Hazards ◽  
Engineering Research ◽  
Engineering Problems ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Research And Education

This review is a brief survey of the
 present status of Earthquake Engineering. It contains information on earthquake hazards, main Earthquake Engineering problems, safety of structures under the action of earthquakes, Earthquake Engineering research and education, and international collaboration. The review is prepared in accordance with
 a decision by the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering to set up a working group for dealing with “Information on Earthquake Engineering”. The decision to
 create this working group was supported by the "Comite de Liaison", which co-ordinates the activity of several international associations dealing with Structural Engineering, such as
 the International Association for Bridge and
 Structural Engineering, the European Committee for Concrete, the International Federation for Prestressing, the International Council for Building Research Studies and Documentation, the European Convention of the Associations for Steel Construction, and the International Association for Shell Structures.

Assessing recently improved precession-nutation models 

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
José M. Ferrándiz ◽  
Miguel A. Juárez ◽  
Santiago Belda ◽  
Tomás Baenas ◽  
Sadegh Modiri ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Working Group ◽  
International Association ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Fall Meeting ◽  
Individual Analysis ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Joint Working Group ◽  
Semi Empirical

<p>In 2020 new estimations of nutation amplitudes or precession parameters have been published or presented at main meetings. The derivation of corrections to improve the current precession-nutation models was encouraged by Resolution 5 of the 2019 General Assembly of the International Association of Geodesy (IAG). Besides, the GGOS/IERS Unified Analysis Workshop held in October 2019 recommended that effort to be prioritized among the tasks of the current IAU/IAG Joint Working Group on Improving Theories and Models of the Earth’s rotation (JWG ITMER).</p><p>This presentation is intended to present comparisons of some of those new semi-empirical and semi-theorical precession-nutation models developed by different authors from either VLBI solutions of individual analysis centers or combinations of them. The models recently introduced by the authors that were reported at the AGU 2020 Fall Meeting are included in this assessment.</p>

Statements of Appreciation

1967 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 12-14
Keyword(s):  
Social Workers ◽  
International Association ◽  
Close Association ◽  
International Federation ◽  
International Council ◽  
The World ◽  
Programme Development ◽  
To Come ◽  
Organizational Cooperation ◽  
Schools Of Social Work

The loss of Ruth Williams as friend and colleague will be felt in all parts of the world for long years to come. For some organizations with which she had a particularly close association, the loss dashes many plans for accelerated programme development and organizational cooperation with the newly estab lished independent secretariat of the International Council on Social Welfare. The Statements reproduced here give some measure of the esteem in which Ruth was held by UNICEF, the Non-Governmental Committee in UNICEF, the NGO section of the United Nations, the International Association of Schools of Social Work, and the International Federation of Social Workers.

The United Nations Creates a Working Group on Arbitrary Detention

1991 ◽  
Vol 85 (4) ◽  
pp. 709-715
Author(s):  
Reed Brody
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Working Group ◽  
Gulf War ◽  
Recent History ◽  
World Conference ◽  
The World ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Set Up

The United Nations Commission on Human Rights, which met from January 28 to March 8, 1991, in the shadow of the gulf war, nevertheless completed what many observers considered its most productive session in recent history. The Commission took action on a record of nineteen country situations—creating new rapporteurs on Iraq and Iraqi-occupied Kuwait—began plans for a 1993 World Conference on Human Rights, and set up an intersessional working group to complete a draft declaration on disappearances. The most important long-term accomplishment of the Commission, however, was the creation of a five-member working group to investigate cases of arbitrary detention throughout the world.

scholarly journals Progress Report on Project Merit

1981 ◽  
Vol 63 ◽  
pp. 147-152
Author(s):  
George A Wilkins
Keyword(s):  
Observational Data ◽  
International Collaboration ◽  
Working Group ◽  
Annual Report ◽  
Progress Report ◽  
Special Report ◽  
Special Programme ◽  
Preliminary Results ◽  
Operational Aspects

The origin, objectives and programme of Project MERIT, which is a special programme of international collaboration to Monitor Earth-Rotation and Intercompare the Techniques of observation and analysis, were described briefly at IAU Colloquium No. 56 (Wilkins, 1981). Further details of the project and reviews of the techniques to be used were published in a special report (Wilkins, 1980). The MERIT Short Campaign of observations was held during the period 1980 August 1 to 1980 October 31 and the preliminary results obtained will be published by the Bureau International de l’Heure in its Annual Report for 1980. The main objective of the campaign was to provide a realistic test of the operational arrangements that will be required during the MERIT Main Campaign in 1983/4. The first MERIT Workshop was held at Grasse on 1980 May 19-21 to review the operational aspects of the short campaign and to continue the planning for the main campaign. Some of the results obtained during the short campaign were presented on the following day at IAU Colloquium No. 63, and are reported in this volume. The proceedings of the Workshop will be published by the Working Group in a report that will also contain the principal results of the short campaign and information about the availability of the observational data.

World Meteorological Organization

1962 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 241-243 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Executive Committee ◽  
Working Group ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
World Meteorological Organization ◽  
Civil Aviation ◽  
International Civil Aviation Organization ◽  
The World ◽  
Legal Expert ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Regional Associations

The thirteenth session of the Executive Committee of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) was held in Geneva from May 11 to 30, 1961, under the chairmanship of Mr. A. Viaut, President of the organization. As usual two working committees were set up on: administrative and financial questions, and technical questions. Discussions in plenary were based mainly on the reports of these committees. Following the presentation of reports on the meetings of regional associations and commissions, the report of the working group set up to study the revision of the WMO convention was heard and discussed. General agreement was reached on the substance of amendments proposed for some articles, and a provisional text was submitted to a legal expert for study and report. With regard to the WMO general regulations, it was decided that modifications arising from the proposed amendments to the convention should be studied after the amendments had been approved. The Executive Committee considered reports on the WMO field programs under the UN Expanded Program of Technical Assistance (EPTA) for 1960 and for the period 1961–1962. The need was stressed for field visits, in particular to the newly independent countries, to help them in the assessment of their requirements for technical assistance. Plans for future training seminars under EPTA were discussed and the Committee recognized in particular, in view of the increasing interest in water resources development, the importance of holding training seminars on hydrological forecasting. The Executive Committee also took note of the training seminars—organized in Cairo, Bangkok, and Nicosia and carried out under joint International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)-WMO auspices—on forecasting for operations of turbine-engined aircraft.

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