Four hundred forty-four subjects aged 6-55 years were evaluated to examine the role of COMT and SLC6A4 genes in the risk for conduct disorder and its symptomatic subtypes in the context of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. No significant association is found between these genes and the risk for conduct disorder.

This is an opportune time for researchers in higher education to examine policy via cross-state comparative analyses. Momentous court, legislative and policy developments that impact state-level higher education policy are emerging at a rapid rate. The states have emerged as postsecondary policy innovators in the areas of student financing,…

The decade of the 1980s saw a shift in paradigm in American trade and commerce, the serious beginning of a movement away from anachronistic and unwise ethnocentrism and nationalism and toward a more practical globalization of American business consciousness. The notion of business conducted in English and according to American norms began to yield…

The situation card used in the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages/Educational Testing Service (ACTFL/ETS) Oral Proficiency Interview provides a kind of linguistic-topographical map of the student's foreign language ability by measuring what the student of business Spanish is able or unable to do in business situations in that…

Students at the Ohio University School of Journalism learned to gain practical experience in assuming responsibilities of the director of development in an independent secondary school. (Author/RK)

This study investigated and evaluated speech and language arts improvement in pre-school and early elementary programs for the culturally disadvantaged. Using the Headstart and Project Follow Through programs, an examination was made of (1) the scope of the various programs as revealed by quality, personnel, finances, cost, academic emphasis, and…

Discusses: (1) the conflict about the importance of research at predominantly undergraduate schools; (2) sources of funding for undergraduate research (several of which are targeted at predominantly undergraduate institutions); and (3) undergraduate research at doctoral-granting institutions. (JN)

Responses to a survey of the environment for research in the natural sciences at predominantly undergraduate universities were received from 136 institutional representatives and more than 2,900 faculty members. There was a nearly uniform acknowledgement that time was a limiting factor for research, and that faculty had reached their limits.…

Using grant and publication data from nearly 3,000 faculty members in the natural sciences at 133 predominantly undergraduate universities, this study investigated the characteristics of faculty who received $1,000,000 or more in external grant support during the 1990s. This selection required the faculty member to receive $100,000 annually…

One of the strongest arguments made to attract increased support for science for undergraduate liberal arts colleges in the mid- to late-1980s was that the proportion of students obtaining their Ph.D. degrees was larger at these institutions than at their Ph.D. granting university counterparts. This conclusion was supported by later research, but…

This paper differentiates between sexual offending behaviour and challenging behaviour in people with an intellectual disability. There is growing awareness that people with an intellectual disability can perform both classes of behaviour. The definitions of sexual offending and challenging behaviour are almost interchangeable, due to the poor…

Objective: Preterm children are at risk for social-emotional difficulties, including autism and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. We assessed the relationship of regional brain development in preterm children, evaluated via magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) at term-equivalent postmenstrual age (TEA), to later social-emotional difficulties.…

This theme issue explores the relevance of self-determination for persons with developmental disabilities across the life span, ways in which it is or can be expressed, and obstacles to its exercise. The articles show the futility of enhancing self-determination by teaching choice-making skills if environments offer no opportunities to exercise…

This guidebook contains abstracts of papers by the following authors: (1) Michael D. Andrew; (2) Herman E. Behling, Jr.; (3) Ken Carlson; (4) Frederic R. Cyphert and John E. Nichelson; (5) Barbara Dubitsky; (6) David H. Florio; (7) Eva C. Galambos; (8) Hendrik D. Gideonse; (9) Gary A. Griffin; (10) Martin Haberman; (11) Gene Hall, Walter Doyle,…