Examines literature on the relationship among old age, rehabilitation, and related research to identify sources of problems in the optimal rehabilitation of elderly persons. Explores implications of rehabilitation for increased well-being of older persons. Concludes rehabilitation is undoubtedly beneficial for older persons and suggests new…

Describes research that investigated a method of automatically generating concept association maps that could be useful to abstractors. The use of word stems as concept surrogates, cooccurrence to define concept links, and a general-purpose graph-drawing algorithm is described; and results of evaluation of two link selection methods are reported.…

This research framework has three levels: (1) societal (individual, household/family, work organization, regional/national/international); (2) disciplinary approach (social anthropology, sociology, industrial relations, economics, politics); and (3) time (historical/diachronic, life course, routines). (SK)

A profile of the 305 accounting chairholders in the United States in 1992 shows that rapid increase took place in the 1980s and early 1990s. Areas of specialization have broadened to include auditing, taxation, systems/computers, and international accounting. (JOW)

Describes techniques used for information retrieval from free-text or document databases and presents a new approach based on signature files, or representations of documents, called the Map Array Signature (MAS) method. False drops are discussed, and results of experiments are compared to Robert's Superimposed Coding method. (20 references) (LRW)

Literature review revealed seven empirical articles exploring psychological functioning of color-deficient children. Analysis of literature indicated that equivocal nature of past research may be due to inadequate rationale explaining what outcome variables should be tied to color deficiency. Makes specific investigative recommendations to provide…

Provides a framework for researching entrepreneurship and describes enterprise training as a complex conjunction of the learning cycles of trainer and client. The delivery of training is seen as a joint learning experience in which trainer and client search for different context-related outcomes. (SK)

Summarizing the articles in this special issue on personal construct theory, the author discusses using career constructs to scan the environment and suggests future research needs. (SK)

Notes that literary journalism as a form of nonfiction prose remains largely unexplored by scholars. Recommends a number of questions for researchers to pursue. Postulates that the most fruitful investigations will explore literary journalism's ability to depict life being lived at a specific moment in a specific place. (SR)

Accomplishes three objectives: (1) to analyze the dimensions of agricultural education, (2) to summarize critiques of agricultural education research, and (3) to suggest strategies for focusing agricultural education research. (Author)

Introduces articles in special issue on families, poverty, and public policy. Provides context for considering results reported in articles by noting recent public policy, demographic, and socioeconomic trends that will influence poor families in the future. Briefly reviews and compares articles and discusses research agenda related to the…

Examines four major assumptions about change (accommodation, hope, truth, divine agent) which undergird Christian counseling. Discusses assumptions' application for therapy and research. Argues lack of careful assumptive reflection among theorists of Christian therapy leads to numerous pragmatic and scientific difficulties, including dearth of…

Promotes an interest in the scientific observation of handwriting. Maintains that, when dealing with documents whose authenticity is suspect and under investigation, a methodical and complete description of each written document would allow researchers to solve identification problems, investigate group characteristics, and bring forth new…

A review of the research literature on parents with disabilities and their nondisabled dependents found only 93 references since 1975 and, particularly, very little research on the effects of disability on the parents. (DB)

Uses the idea of "framing" as a case study of scattered conceptualization across academic disciplines. Identifies and makes explicit various uses of "framing." Argues that the field of communication can develop a core of knowledge that could translate into research models contributing to social theory in the largest sense. (SR)