Data from past studies on adolescent alcohol misuse and family structure of adult alcoholics formulate a picture of family environment which contains high levels of anxiety, maintenance of the problematic behavior by the family, parental modeling of inappropriate alcohol use, and lax parental control. (Author)

Summarizes the state of the art and speculates about future trends in chemical process control research and education in the United States. Most chemical engineering departments will continue to offer only basic courses, while the industry is likely to go its own way. (WB)

Highlights from a study that assesses the potential for energy cost savings in Ohio schools through computerized energy management. (Author/MLF)

Models of global energy demand, a lower-growth-rate model developed at Case Western Reserve University and the H5 model of the Conservation Committee of the World Energy Conference, assess the features of decentralized and centralized electricity generation in the years 2000 and 2025. (BT)

Describes a systems approach to the job search. Notes how courses in business communications, technical writing, and report writing can help students acquire job search skills. (RL)

Humanistic management calls for a continual search for opportunities to achieve a synergistic relation between the needs of the organization and the unique capabilities and potentials of the individual employee. (Author)

Argues that organizational structure and behavior cannot be explained by considering the organization as a separate entity. Organizations must be considered within the framework of the cultural milieu in which they exist. (Author/IRT)

Advocates viewing the foster family and its specific problems as an open social system, as opposed to the closed, boundary-maintaining system of the nuclear family. (CM)

A preengineered building has the advantages of factory production and computerized quality control. Insulation efficiency and a roofing system that enables the entire roof membrane to react a full two inches to any temperature-induced movement are two of the innovations of preengineered building research. (Author/MLF)

The design, application, and evaluation of an eco-model for cigarette smoking education is proposed. (MM)

Force field analysis combines the advantages of the basic organization, objectivity, and science of systems theory and systems methods, with a simplicity and clarity that allows its mastery by policy-makers and administrators who are not specialists in engineering, data processing, or programming. (Author/IRT)

Used Lausanne Triadic Play paradigm to examine the stability and predictive validity of cooperative, moderate, collusive, and disordered triadic family alliances during play in infancy. Triadic alliances describe families' fulfillment of functions of participation, organization, focal attention, and affective contact during play. Found that…

Discusses Adolph's research on locomotion with regard to the requirements of an ecological psychology, especially the use of control laws; her examination of individual styles and normative patterns as it reflects a dynamic systems perspective; and her use of cognitive processes of decision making in explaining why infants approach or avoid a…

Summarizes leading scholars' findings in leadership theory, local politics and government, state and national school politics, and change theory. Integrating this knowledge into a systematic reform effort requires superintendents with integrity and vision; political stability; good board/superintendent relations; long-term, statewide commitment;…

The Family Assessment Device was given to 40 families of deaf and hard-of-hearing children and 20 families of hearing children in Turkey. Significant differences were found between the two groups in problem solving, but not in communication, roles, affective responses, affective involvement, behavior control, and general functioning. (DB)