This article presents summaries of 22 documents on preparation for regular classroom inclusion of students with disabilities, selected from the ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) and ECER (Exceptional Child Education Resources) databases. Guidelines for acquiring the documents and accessing the ERIC system through online services or…

States that one challenge to public relations practitioners is the need to foster communication between sources of industrial risk and persons who work and live in communities where this risk is located. Provides results of a survey of industrial hygienists and describes communication networks that the hygienists use. (PA)

In 1885, John H. Hickcox published a catalog that alerted the public to the availability of recent federal government publications; this catalog immediately preceded establishment of a government-published catalog, of which he was appointed the first compiler. Hickcox's work history included writing, editing, and cataloging positions. (AEF)

Finds that business magazines rely heavily on senior executives as information sources; female sources are significantly underrepresented in most occupational groups; United States business magazines significantly overrepresent sources in the mid-Atlantic region while underrepresenting the Midwestern and Southwestern regions; and Canadian…

This annual directory lists approximately 70 national organizations offering information and advocacy to professionals and parents of children with disabilities, national organizations for 85 specific disabilities and conditions, 35 federal agencies, organizations serving 17 professions, and parent training and information centers for each state.…

Describes an Internet resource, the management archive that can help students learn how to become better executives and help instructors become better instructors. (SR)

Refutes Rushton's claims regarding heritable race differences in intelligence, criminal capacity, brain weight, and his racial ordering of human evolution. Cites major studies with opposite results. Analyses the causal chain governing explicit theory and unstated assumptions; documents inadequate, spurious, and misapplied data sources; and…

A survey of 731 Iowa farmers received 432 responses indicating that (1) groundwater and water quality were of greater concern than soil conservation; (2) field demonstrations and county meetings were useful information sources on these issues; and (3) government agencies such as cooperative extension and state universities were useful sources of…

Examined impact of social contacts on getting a job. Workers (n=720) were interviewed to discover source of information about their most recent job. Results showed that social contacts were most frequently used resources during job-getting process and that these personal contacts were used more often in some occupational environments than in…

Examined intentions of parents (n=187) of adolescents to seek help from nine sources for eight hypothetical parenting problems. Intention to seek help was function of problem type and help source. Parents declared intention to seek help from many sources; being most likely to seek help from spouses regardless of issue and from professional sources…

Examined rates of childhood sexual abuse, in 300 university counseling center clients, obtained through direct interview questioning, pencil-and-paper questioning, and client records. Found significant differences in prevalence rates between clients directly queried and clients from whom information was expected to arise during course of…

Analyzes the corporate annual report as a vehicle of information and usefulness to the institutional investor. Finds that 51% of institutional investor respondents ranked the annual report as the most useful and informative source of five distinct information sources. (SR)

Discusses the recent increase in information access to Russia and other members of the Commonwealth of Independent States. Russia, the area's only English language database, Internet resources, discussion groups, bulletin boards, electronic mail, and other information resources are described; and information on how to connect to network resources…

An adult-education course familiarized participants with online consumer resources. Beyond teaching the mechanics of Internet use, it showed how to use the Internet as a tool for consumer decision making. (SK)

Reviews research and practice in cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) that seeks to support the process of finding documents written in one natural language with automated systems that can accept queries expressed in other languages. Addresses user needs, document preprocessing, query formulation, matching strategies, sources of translation…