This study reports on an examination of the overlap of periodicals that are related to the discipline of education and that are currently received by the five southern University of California (UC) campuses. An estimate is made of the percentage of these commonly held periodicals that could be more economically borrowed from a regional resource…

This report concludes the second phase of a four-phase study concerning the application of the microfiche medium for onboard training. This study compared the efficiency of using microfiche versus traditional paper copy for training. Thirty experimental trainees completed the curriculum using training modules republished as microfiche. The school…

This article presents a preliminary estimate of the "loss" of investment involved in educating women for medicine. (Author/KE)

An economic analysis of the Open University with an attempt to examine the economic implications of establishing an open learning system in the United States. (Author)

Paper brings together available information on the cost of instructional radio and television and develops a methodology for analyzing that information. (Author)

Scheduling, cost control, value analysis, quality control, and contract interfacing are the final steps in the project management method of bringing a project in on time and within budget. (Author)

Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania, needed a library and an elementary school. Combining them into one facility reduced operational costs and saved over a half-million dollars in building costs. (Author/MLF)

Suggestions are offered on how to improve employees' attendance records. (Author)

A personal overview of the economics of computer use in information systems. (PF)

A simple computational model is used to predict the behavior of response time as a function of think time for different conditions of service loading. The economic implications are considered. (Author)

The direction and scope of deinstitutionalization in 75 public and 161 community residential programs for mentally retarded people in the Unites States were examined by analysis of current levels of expenditures, projected costs, efficacy of existing funding mechanisms, and identification of critical factors affecting cost variation. Results of a…

Described are procedures used in the location of a sample of individuals not responding to follow-up questionnaires, eleven years after they were originally interviewed in 1960 as 10th graders. The individuals in question were a subset of more than 400,000 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th grade students used in Project TALENT's longitudinal study of the…