Concludes that supermarket tabloid readers are not one homogeneous group with one set of needs and wants from newspapers. (FL)

Argues that librarians should work to make new cataloging rules, classification schemes, and other codes relating to bibliographic control more relevant and more in tune with reality. An agenda for this work is suggested. (LLS)

Results from three experiments conducted among college students enrolled in introductory college courses provide evidence that the storage and retrieval of subjective units in free recall are similar to the storage and retrieval of taxonomic categories in structured lists. (Author/MP)

To discover what patterns of syndromic profiles may commonly exist among children, the data for the most recent revision of the Bristol Social Adjustment Guides are reanalyzed. The syndrome scores for all 2,527 five to fifteen-year-old regular school children in the standardization sample were grouped into similar profile patterns by hierarchical…

Examines the relationship between class inclusion and age and indicates that class inclusion frequently appears to develop at a much later age than is suggested in Piaget's writings. (Author/MP)

Analysis indicated that a surprisingly small percentage of authors used the American Association on Mental Deficiency (AAMD) classification system and a relatively large percentage of investigators misclassified their Ss when test scores were reported. (Author/CL)

Presents schemes for classifying the properties of matter and the conditions which may affect these properties. (WB)

Describes a study that developed a syllable rank order list and attempted to answer such questions as "What is the most common syllable? and "What is the next most common syllable?" (HOD)

Shows how a rhetorical classification system of 13 static, progressive, and repetitive logical topics can be used in technical writing classes, both as a heuristic for probing a subject and as guiding principles for arrangement and development. (RL)

The ability of 18-, 24-, and 30-week-old infants to learn conceptual categories regarding adult female faces was examined using a habituation paradigm. (JMB)

This paper surveys available techniques and introduces an explicit statement of a new statistic to test for equality of correlated proportions in a polychotomous response design. A set of guidelines for the potential user of the techniques is provided. (Author/CTM)

This paper presents a taxonomy of Japanese discourse types, patterned after the approach of Longacre. The types are: dialogue, narrative, procedural, expository, and hortatory. Salient features are pointed out and analyzed. (CHK)

Discusses content-based image retrieval systems that effectively utilize information from image databases, and provides a taxonomy for approaches to image retrieval. Highlights include image retrieval architecture that supports query operators; conceptual issues; and two application prototypes. (100 references) (Author/LRW)

A procedure is described that involves iterative use of univariable optimal discriminant analysis (UniODA) to construct a classification tree model for discriminating observations from different groups. The procedure is illustrated using an application that involved discriminating 125 geriatric and nongeriatric patients on the basis of their…