Compares the newspaper coverage of three Florida Power & Light Company rate increase proposals with the size of the proposed increase. Finds that the variation in news coverage of electric utility rate increase is directly proportional to the variation in price increase. (MM)

Focuses on identifying the leading contributors to "Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development" from October 1979 to April 1984 in terms of both authors and institutions, examining the content of the articles and the type of articles and providing a descriptive profile of the articles, including average page lengths and average number of…

This study of suicide notes involved deduction of 25 protocol sentences that reflected important specific aspects of Freud's formulations regarding suicide. Independent judges noted incidence of contents corresponding to protocol sentences in 33 genuine and 33 simulated notes. Comparisons between genuine and simulated notes revealed that protocol…

Analyzes those articles of China's marriage law that deal with marriage contracts. Articles relevant to arranged marriage, marriage by purchase and dowry customs, concubinage or polygamy, marriage restrictions, rituals, and residence customs are analyzed in terms of their contexts in traditional and modern China. Implications are discussed.…

Analyzed court files for 809 defendants arrested for prostitution or patronizing to examine whether gender-based classifications exist in pretrial release decisions. Results generally showed women would not be released as quickly as men. Reforms instituted during the three-year study improved equality. (JAC)

This study gathers long term data on the counter culture and the dominant culture cross nationally and uses this data to determine whether changes of any magnitude have occurred in either cultural variant in recent years. (Author/AM)

Finds that coverage of the President continued to increase, but coverage of Congress did not over a 16-year period, based on a content analysis of the "New York Times" and the "Buffalo Evening News." (Author/RB)

This digest provides an introduction to content analysis, a systematic, replicable technique for compressing many words of a text into fewer content categories based on explicit rules of coding. This allows inferences to be made that can then be corroborated using other methods of data collection. In a technical sense, content analysis is not…

This pilot study included a content analysis of the Wall of Remembrance (also known as the Childrens Tile Wall) on display at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) in Washington, D.C. This artwork is composed of 3,324 six-inch square tiles depicting the impressions of children, adolescents and a few adults regarding the Holocaust.…

Eleven documents received by the ERIC Clearinghouse in Career Education are reviewed. They include position papers, career education models and resource materials, a student guide, an information handbook, and facility planning guides for age groups from kindergarten through adult. (AG)

Presents the idea of awakening'' and growing up''--a leveling off from tensions and disruptions of past years as the theme for the 1971-72 William and Mary yearbook. (Author)

Suggests ways for yearbook staffs to capture the mood and spirit of a school through photojournalism and design. (RB)

This paper investigates automatic resolution of ambiguities from natural language text. By learning from a series of inputs and its own errors, the system is able to construct resolution rules automatically. Results show success in disambiguation. (8 references) (Author/KE)