Conducted a content analysis of 10 years of feminine hygiene advertisements in "Seventeen" and "Teen" magazines. Finds that advertising copy in these magazines works to dispel myths about menstruation but that few black models are shown. Discusses advertising as an element of socialization for adolescent girls. (SLD)

The study followed a four-phase design. In Phase I an exhaustive search was conducted for all English language coaching research published in journals from 1970 to 2001. In Phase II, copies of the research were obtained. An expert panel conducted a manual search and a review in Phase III to address validity. Analysis of the research was completed…

Every day we hear about new initiatives in information technology (IT) and how they are affecting various aspects of higher education. One area in which IT has the potential to make significant contributions is the field of scholarly publishing, as publishers seek to serve the needs of a growing population of Internet users who want access to…

This article discusses how Phil Davis, Life Sciences Bibliographer at Cornell University, found duplicate articles in Emerald/MCB University Press journals. According to Davis, he has found hundreds of examples of the same article published in more than one journal in at least 73 Emerald/MCB journals over 30 years. This article gives the details…

The terms religion and education do not necessarily fit easily together without a sense of tension or even contradiction between them. Religion, especially under the influence of medieval scholastic theology, but also as an expression of pure or naive piety, is often associated with absolute truths that are to be accepted without question on the…

This annotated bibliography provides abstracts for 14 resources relating to early childhood around the world. Each annotation contains: title; author name(s); Educational Research Abstract; Abstract number; Source (name of journal in which the resource was published); ISSN of the journal in which the resource was published; and Issue (journal…

The events of September 11, 2001, provoked an awakening of patriotic sentiment in Americans from all walks of life. Reflecting representation from the most diverse of political, social, and economic quarters, this patriotic movement included most everyone from across the spectrum, from politicians, religious leaders, and teachers on the one hand,…

This study examines the growth and development of structural equation modeling (SEM) from the years 1994 to 2001. The synchronous development and growth of the Structural Equation Modeling journal was also examined. Abstracts located on PsycINFO were used as the primary source of data. The major results of this investigation were clear: (a) The…

This article examines how discourses of leadership reflect and produce particular perceptions about leaders and leadership in higher education. An analysis of 103 articles published by "The Chronicle of Higher Education" between 2002 and 2003 reveal four predominant discourses shaping images of leaders: autonomy, relatedness, masculinity, and…

In this article, EP Magazine announces its adoption of the concept of positive behavioral support prohibiting the use of aversives and restraints on citizens with special needs. The concept lies in the belief that citizens with special needs, like citizens everywhere, deserve respect, dignity and humane treatment in every aspect of their in every…

Formatting magazines help students to learn new computer skills and promote creativity when they write about the topics they choose and also sharpen their skills in writing mechanisms as they edit their work and pieces written by others. The benefits of publication process, printing, and assembling magazines are discussed.

The accounts of our subdiscipline's contributions to The Research Quarterly are similar. Sociology, history, and philosophy operate at some distance from the biological sciences. The research methods used by scholars in each of our domains address distinctive issues related to objectivity and, thus, validity. The authors contributions to The…

The establishment of a national organization and its attendant major journal, historians of science and of higher education maintain, have been crucial in the process of academic professionalization. During the late 1800s a number of professional organizations that exist today (e. g., American Physiological Society; American Psychological…

Before the author became an acquisitions editor for Libraries Unlimited, she worked as a teacher and teacher librarian in Kansas for thirty years. The books and articles that she found helpful were always those written by excellent practitioners in the field. These were the people that really had something useful to share. In this article, the…

This is the story of the first American mathematics journal. According to its title page, the journal was "adapted to the present state of learning in America" and "designed to inspire youth with the love of mathematical knowledge, by alluring their attentions to the solutions of pleasant and curious questions".