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This study verifies previous econometric research which found that spreadsheet prices, when adjusted for quality improvement, decline over the period 1986-1993. New econometric work is presented for prepackaged word processing software. Using objective criteria for variable selection, the model yields declining quality-adjusted prices for word processing software over the period 1985-1994. / Master of Arts

The purpose of this study was to determine how word processing is being utilized in businesses with word processing systems in the Richmond metropolitan area. No data are available about the current implementation of word processing in a major metropolitan area in Virginia. This study was undertaken in order to add to the knowledge base that already exists about the implementation of word processing in other areas. Fifty word processing managers and supervisors representing the Word Processing Association of Richmond, with members from the metropolitan area, comprised the study population. The study addressed the following research questions: 1. How is the word processing concept being implemented in businesses with word processing systems in the Richmond metropolitan area? 2. What employment patterns exist in businesses with word processing systems in the Richmond Metropolitan area? 3. What plans do businesses with word processing systems in the Richmond Metropolitan area, have for expansion of the word processing system and for the application· of emerging technologies? A nine-part instrument was used to collect the data for the study. The instrument was validated by a panel of experts and was pretested before the data were collected. The Richmond metropolitan area was selected as the survey site because it contains a high concentration of organizations that are likely to benefit from the implementation of word processing. The Word Processing Association of Richmond was selected as the survey population because this group is representative of organizations utilizing word processing in the area. The researcher conducted fifty personal interviews between May and June, 1981. The major findings of this study follow: 1. The word processing employment market is expanding. Organizations are acquiring additional equipment, are planning to support more principals, and are creating additional positions for word processing personnel. 2. Word processing systems are generally centralized, are responsible for all correspondence tasks, operate in a modular office layout, and are managed by both a word processing manager and a supervisor. 3. Although the documents most frequently processed are memos/ letters, other applications are also being processed; statistical, medical, legal, and textual documents; address lists; and forms design and completion. 4. Longhand, machine dictation, typed drafts, and optical character recognition are used as sources of input in word processing. The use of each input mode varies with the type of document and the organizational preference. 5. The CRT display system is the most frequently used type of equipment and projections indicate that it will be the most frequently used type of equipment in five years. Blind standalones, online display systems, shared-logic systems, and photocomposition systems are also in use. 6. Emerging office systems technologies are in use and their use will expand. The integration of word processing and data processing will increase. The use of shared-logic, intelligent copiers, electronic mail, desk-top terminals for principals, OCR, micrographics, and telecommunication will increase. / Ed. D.

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The purpose of this study was to compare the levels of computer use by school principals in administering their schools. Comparisons were made of the different techniques being employed by school principals as they manage the vast amounts of data that are present in today's educational process. A comprehensive collection of computer applications was identified and school principals were surveyed regarding their use of these applications. A random sample was selected from a population of 1,800 school principals in the state of Tennessee. School principals from 430 public schools and 70 private/parochial schools in Tennessee were surveyed for responses relative to their practices regarding the use of computers in the management of their school. Surveys were mailed in early January, 1992, to those principals who were identified in the sample selection. Surveys were received over a period of several weeks. A return of 71% was obtained. Findings include the determination that schools have computers specifically for the purpose of completing administrative tasks. Principals and office staffs are using administrative computers to improve their management of school data. The primary areas identified as being preformed by school principals were attendance, management of student data, wordprocessing, grade reporting, and transportation. Principals indicated that the major avenues for computer training is through seminars and workshops. The major conclusions included the need for additional computer training in principal preparation curricula, exposure to innovative uses of computers to enhance the administrative function.

The present study explores the role of the word position-in-text in sentence and paragraph reading. Three eye-movement data sets based on the reading of Dutch and German unrelated sentences reveal a sizeable, replicable increase in reading times over several words in the beginning and the end of sentences. The data from the paragraphbased English-language Dundee corpus replicate the pattern and also indicate that the increase in inspection times is driven by the visual boundaries of the text organized in lines, rather than by syntactic sentence boundaries. We argue that this effect is independent of several established lexical, contextual and oculomotor predictors of eye-movement behavior. We also provide evidence that the effect of word position-intext has two independent components: a start-up effect arguably caused by a strategic oculomotor program of saccade planning over the line of text, and a wrap-up effect originating in cognitive processes of comprehension and semantic integration.

Thesis (M.A.)--West Virginia University, 2001. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains vii, 86 p. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 71-76).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2002. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 101-108).

Thesis (Ed. D.)--West Virginia University, 2008. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains xi, 106 p. : ill. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 84-87).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2006. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 164-169).