34 / GENERAL INFORMATION in accounting contexts, accounting policy and rule making, and the public policy consequences of account- ing methods, rules and systems. The ARC serves as a forum for interdisciplinary research .in the School. Research results are published in professional account- ing journals and in journals in other disciplines and are also contained in a working paper series. The Center holds frequent research seminars and organizes a bien- nial national symposium on a current topic.:For infor- mation, contact Director, Accounting Research Center, 255 Business Building. INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY OF THE COMMUNICATION PROCESSES The Institute for Advanced Study of the Communica- tion Processes (IASCP) provides opportunities for Univer- sity faculty and advanced students to carry out research in the communication processes. The Institute is inter- disciplinary, with membership drawn from the Colleges of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Engineering, Medicine, Den- tistry and Fine Arts. The University of Florida in Gainesville is its headquarters, but it is structured to serve the entire State University System. Currently there are active participants from Florida State University, the University of South Florida, and Florida International University. The IASCP faculty also includes members located at other universities and research laboratories both within the continental United States and abroad. The overall objective of IASCP is the maintenance of a scientific center of excellence focused on human com- municative behavior. The Institute's program includes (but is not confined to) three broad areas: 1) the com- municator(s), i.e., the physiological/physical/psychologi- cal processes by which individuals generate and transmit communicative signals (speech), 2) the respondentss, and how receptive (hearing) and neural mechanisms function to process signals within a variety of environ- ments, and 3) the message, i.e., the codes and signs (language) that constitute the sum total of these com- municative messages. The IASCP faculty includes students and scientists with a variety of interests and train- ing. Expertise is represented by the phonetic sciences, psychology, psycholinguistics, linguistics, psychoacous- tics, auditory neurophysiology, electrical engineering, computer sciences, physics, communication studies, biocommunication, dentistry, and medicine. As stated, IASCP's overall research effort is basically an interdisciplinary one, but the focus of each investi- gator's interests is the advancement of knowledge about human communication. For information, write the Direc- tor, Institute for Advanced Study of the Communication Processes, 63 Arts and Sciences Building. CENTER FOR AERONOMY AND OTHER ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES The Center (ICAAS) is a community of scholars drawn from many disciplines represented at the University of Florida. Each scholar has an established professional knowledge and research capability in the atmospheric sciences or in physical, biological, or societal disciplines that relate closely to our atmospheric environment. As an interdisciplinary center, ICAAS promotes pure and applied research in the atmospheric sciences and-pro- vides machinery for translating research into forms rele- vant to societal needs. The aeronomical research of the Center deals with physical, chemical, and electrical processes in the upper atmosphere, e.g., the stratos- pheric, ionospheric, and thermospheric regions of the earth. Other activities include a diverse range of tropos- pheric and micrometeorological research as well as biological, ecological, and technological research related to the quality of the air we breathe. These activities are dispersed widely in the Colleges of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Agriculture, Engineering, Medicine, Law, and Business Administration. Interdisciplinary projects of ICAAS encompass 1) studies of ultraviolet radiation levels reaching the ground, and the possible influences of perturbations of the stratospheric zone layer from supersonic transport efflu- ents and chlorofluorocarbons; 2) influence of clouds on ultraviolet levels penetration to earth's surface; 3) cor- relation of ground level, ultraviolet and total ozone measurements with National Aeronautics and Space Administration NIMBUS 4 and 7 satellites measurements; 4) studies of community noise levels, architectural building codes, and noise control for the Florida North- east Regional Area; 5) evaluation of environmental im- pact for locating Florida's electric generating plants; and 6) interplay of energy production needs relative to air quality standards covering the technical, scientific, medical, agricultural, psychological, economic, and legal aspects of the energy/air quality problems. Center emphasis on sulfur oxide effects on Floridians, dose-response modeling, risk-benefits analysis, decision modeling, and public policy alternatives resulted in the report, "An Interdisciplinary Study of the Health, Social and Environmental Economics of Sulfur Oxide Pollution in Florida," published to assist the Florida Environmental Regulation Commission on sulfur oxide regulations. Alter- nate pollution abatement methodologies and their trans- formation into public policy are being studied as a followup to the study. The correlations between air quality and property values in Florida have also been studied by an interdisciplinary project team. The Center's recent emphasis has been on the inter- disciplinary assessment of the impact of increased coal use. The scoping phase culminated in a:33-author book, Coal Burning Issues, published by the University Presses of Florida in February 1980. The most recent topic of con- centration is coal conversion and acid rain. The primary function of ICAAS is to provide coordina- tion, direction, and focus to strengthen existing programs and to expand them in directions that will help mitigate the socio-technical problems arising from the degrada- tion of our atmospheric environment. The Center will also help the training of able students at the under- graduate, graduate, and postdoctoral levels in various pure and applied aspects of the atmospheric sciences. For information, write the Director, Center for Aeronomy and Other Atmospheric Sciences, 221 Space Sciences Research Building., CENTER FOR APPLIED MATHEMATICS The Center consists of faculty from the Departments of Engineering Science and Mathematics. These faculty are interested in the application of mathematics to research problems in the physical, engineering, social, and biological sciences. Codirectors are Professors A. R. Bednarek and K. T. Millsaps. CENTER FOR APPLIED THERMODYNAMICS AND CORROSION The Center facilitates cooperation between research teams at the University of Florida and the Belgian Cor-