The Standard Occupational Classification is a new approach to classifying occupations being developed that will furnish a coding system and nomenclature to meet the varied needs of those concerned with identifying, classifying, and coding occupations. (Author/BP)

After a brief review of organization classification, multivariate approaches toward the empirical identification of such classifications are discussed. Ten guidelines for conducting future multivariate classificatory studies are presented, supported by a critique of two published large-scale empirical studies. (Author)

Previous tests of Holland's theory of vocational choice among members of professional occupations have demonstrated that it is predictive, useful, and formally acceptable. In a test among members of four nonprofessional occupations, however, it was not as predictive as previously demonstrated for professional and technical occupations. (Author)

A more precise picture of the characteristics of the moral development of children in the Soviet Union is offered in a scheme of classification of development according to age. (Author/KM)

Describes an approach to constructing an Environmental Quality Index for Canada. The index is divided into air, water, land and miscellaneous sections. By looking at individual subindices, it is possible to see how environmental conditions vary across the country. By combining subindices, a crude gauge of the broad state of the environment may be…

Intended for allied health professionals, this guide provides information on seizure recognition and classification to help them assist the patient, the family, and the treating physician in obtaining control of epileptic seizures. A section on seizure recognition describes epilepsy and seizures, covering seizure classification and the causes of…

The popular stereotypical view of facts as absolute entities and values as relative entities needs to be rejected, for it stifles understanding of both fact and value. The two are inextricably intertwined: the demarcation of facts rests squarely on considerations of values; evaluations are infused with considerations of fact. A category scheme…

Using conversational analytic techniques, a study examined how and where editors placed news stories on the inner pages of newspapers. The editors of a Midwestern afternoon newspaper (30,000 circulation) with a strong liberal/progressive tradition had 10 of their conferences taped and transcribed. The transcripts were analyzed to isolate those…

The history of the "Fihrist al-'Ulum" ("The Index of the Sciences"), the first comprehensive and detailed Arabic bibliography, is traced from the work's completion in A.D. 987/988 to the discovery and translation of surviving manuscripts in modern times. The bibliography's content, classification scheme, and author are…

The major consonant assimilation processes occurring in Classical and Colloquial Arabic are listed (classified as progressive or regressive, partial or complete), and an autosegmental analysis is performed on them. It is argued, on the basis of the autosegmental approach to the underlying representation of segments and to the application of…

Holland's (1973) theory classifies occupations in terms of similarity to six ideal types (Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional) by assigning each occupation a three-letter code. Holland codes were recently developed for all occupations in the "Dictionary of Occupational Titles." The code for some…

A brief historical background of discriminant analysis is given, with a description of the variety of roles that discriminant analysis can perform. Focus is on the classification role of discriminant analysis and how it can be performed by using Fisher's classification functions or the canonical discriminant functions. A small hypothetical data…

According to Stephen M. North, most of the people in composition belong to a category he calls "Practitioners," so the description is not only applied to the University of New Hampshire (UNH). But if the instructors at UNH are most influenced by one person, it would be Donald Murray, and he is specifically listed as a Practitioner. It's…

This directory represents the start of a research program directed towards the creation of a human abilities matrix which cross-references data on real world jobs, laboratory performance tasks, and human performance models. The matrix will use the "abilities requirements approach" as the unifying element among these three dimensions. The…