It has been increasingly realized that (1) multivariate methods are essential in most quantitative studies (Fish, 1988; Thompson, 1992), and (2) all conventional parametric analytic methods are correlational and invoke least squares weights (e.g., the beta weights in regression) (Knapp, 1978; Thompson, 1991). The present paper reviews one very…

Based on sample data representing five years of monthly circulation totals from 50 academic libraries in Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, and Ohio, a study was conducted to determine the most efficient smoothing forecasting methods for academic libraries. Smoothing forecasting methods were chosen because they have been characterized…

Personal marriage contracts are subjected to critical analysis and evaluation with particular emphasis on negative aspects and consequences such as: questionable legality, inability to anticipate real problems in marriage, attitude changes after marriage, lack of flexibility, and the pessimistic outlook reflected in these contracts. Some positive…

This paper compares the 1972 Norms Edition of the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale, Form LM, and the Weschler Intelligence Scale for Children, Revised (1974) from a practitioner's viewpoint. The instruments are compared in relation to (a) standardization data given in the manuals, (b) ease of administration and interpretation, (c) age-range…

Makes extensive predictions concerning life styles in the United States in the late 1980's. Viewed from what is termed a public interest perspective, trends in resource conservation, education, and areas of human relations are projected. (CP)

This technological assessment, conducted by the Arthur D. Little organization, studied the technology of electronic funds transfer. Technology assessment analyzes the economic, social, environmental, and institutional consequences of the introduction or expansion of a technology into society and alerts decision makers to the possible future…

Examined was the relationship between the Frostig Developmental Test of Visual Perception and academic achievement as measured by the scholastic Research Association Achievement Test Battery with 125 primary grade children. (Author/DB)

Reports on a study conducted to obtain indications of changes in mental level from high school through college and to investigate the relationship of cognitive level to SAT scores, college grades, and attrition. (PEB)

Examines international crises in the 1960's with relation to the conflictual aspects of interacting dyads involved in crises to discern conflictual dimensions of national behavior during such periods. Additionally, conflict behavior was examined for those periods immediately prior to and immediately following crisis situation. (Author/RC)

During orientation, 58 social work students were tested for dogmatic, authoritarian, and alienated attitudes, as well as for intelligence, to determine if any of these factors would predict graduate school performance. Results indicate that students' performance could be predicted from initial attitudinal responses. (Editor/PG)

Examines the estimates of known potential reserves of the major raw materials, future sources therof, the geological and technological problems associated with these, the manufacture of artifical minerals, and international cooperation in this sphere. (Author/GS)

Describes space-based observations and other aspects of meterology that will enable weather forecasters to lengthen the scale of predictability from the current day-to-day basis to one week or longer. (Author/GS)

The study compared the effectiveness of the Washington State High Priority Infant Tracking Project in maintaining high risk infants in continuing health care, determining health and developmental outcomes, and surveying the use of community resources with other state tracking projects. The project identifies infants during the first 30 days of…