Some suggestions to help financial aid offices develop a rational system for coping with high traffic periods are offered. Creating a system to handle peak traffic periods involves three related components: planning, resource management, and evaluation. (MLW)

Identifies policy problems in the area of international communications and argues for the adoption of the concept of information as a basic resource that is central to the conduct of international relations. Calls for innovative thinking about the process by which the United States formulates and implements international communication policies.…

Discusses which of ten models in the Information Processing and Personal Sources families of teaching models were selected and used by competency based teacher education interns working in field center classrooms. Reports which models were employed at grade levels K-5 and how often each was used during an academic year. (SB)

Discusses how the British Post Office is using the Prestel information retrieval system. The information structure adopted for the Prestel databases and how the Prestel system hardware works are presented. Computer system software, types of information, and the impact of Prestel system on society are also presented. (HM)

Assesses information processing and memory functioning in 50 children diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD) with and without learning disabilities (LD). Both groups struggled with auditory ordered recall. The ADHD/LD group demonstrated more problems transferring information into short-term and long-term memory stores than…

Examines the relationship of the amount of available short-term memory with the complexity of tasks the subjects mastered. Presents some hints for a better design of instruction. (YP)

Describes the formation of the supercomputer system which reaches from Seattle to South Florida. Explains the major obstacles of international protocols, billing, priority routing, and security. (RT)

Summarized is the research focused on the relationship between children's increasing capacity to process information and the levels at which they should be capable of recognizing mathematical concepts. Implications for mathematics curricula and teachers are discussed. Lists three references. (YP)

Reconstructs the paths that brought Western scientific publications to scientists in the Soviet Union between 1945 and 1953 at Academy of Sciences Institutes, universities, military laboratories, prison laboratories, and forced camps. Examines the effects that the conflict between the official position and the state's scientific needs had on…

Describes the Ten Unified Program (Ten UP) a "school within a school" in which 4 teachers and 80 grade-10 students collaborate on integrated learning projects. The program integrates global education with students' personal concerns and questions in order to make learning more engaging and worthwhile for students. (LZ)

A study of 135 undergraduate students suggests that students' personality traits in general, and their self-esteem and achievement motivation in particular, have a substantial influence on their approaches to study and to levels of knowledge processing. (Author/MSE)

Discussion of information technology focuses on the future needs of computer science education. Information processing as an economic force is described; the relationship of information processing with other disciplines is examined; audiences for computing education are considered; and two examples of curriculum requirements implied by computing…

In this study an artificial intelligence assessment tool used disease-by-feature frequency estimates to create disease prototypes for nine common causes of acute chest pain. The tool then used each subject's prototypes and a pattern-recognition-based decision-making mechanism to diagnose 18 myocardial infarction cases. (MLW)

Explores the indirect method of locating for indexing the likely explicit and implicit captions of photographs, using multimodal clues including the specific words used, syntax, surrounding layout of the Web page, and general appearance of the associated image. The MARIE-3 system thus avoids full image processing and full natural-language…

Investigates the supportive side of current technology in the visual process of learning and the issues instructional designers must address to utilize these capabilities and maximize their effects. Provides an overview of visual memory and discusses information processing and analogic reasoning, cognition and visual information processing, visual…