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This research describes an experiment in evaluating a televised entrepreneurship teaching program intended for the general public. The course was followed by 21,000 people, 425 of whom were officially registered. The research provides descriptive evidence of the impact of the program in terms of behaviour and projects undertaken by 75 participants.

The study was conducted after the publication of a training course in en trepreneurship published by a Quebec newspaper. The research objectives were to characterize the profile of the 140 entrepreneur-participants by identifying the personal and contextual variables of their business start-ups and to have them evaluate the course.

The main objective of this article is to investigate the dean's roles and functions from a managerial perspective. It reports the findings of an empirical study con- ducted in selected Canadian universities which tried to identify the dimensions of an effective deanship and find correlates of effective performance for a dean. More specifically, this article focuses on the following variables and their relation- ships: dean's managerial effectiveness, dean's conflict-handling modes, length of time the dean has served in office and size of the dean's faculty.

This study lies within the framework of research that is seeking to improve the management of small-and medium-sized business (SMB) in Canada. It deals with the owner/managers of these SMBs and, more precisely, with their training and development needs. The study attempts to answer the following questions: What are the practices of SMB owner/managers in Quebec with regard to training? What factors underlie these practices? In which fields are these training needs perceived as important? What are the training and development methods best adapted to the needs of these owner/managers? The purpose of this study is to provide a certain number of concrete and practical answers to these questions. The approach taken is exploratory in an area where theoretical models are scarce and research methodologies and tools are rudimentary.

1. 1. Simultaneous direct intra-arterial blood pressure measurements and indirect measurements with the auscultatory method were made in 100 subjects. The subjects were grouped according to their Ponderal Index W/H, weight per inch of height. Sixty-one subjects were obese, thirty-nine were nonobese. 2. 2. Nine out of the ten stoutest subjects were hypertensive, whereas only one of the ten leanest subjects was hypertensive. 3. 3. The indirect method generally underestimates systolic and overestimates diastolic pressure. This holds for lean persons as well as for moderately obese persons. 4. 4. The discrepancies between the direct and indirect methods were usually minor among the lean and the moderately obese subjects and went in both directions. Falsely high blood pressure readings in lean and moderately obese persons are not common. 5. 5. In extremely obese persons the indirect method is subject to considerable error. In eight out of ten such persons the systolic pressure was overestimated, and in nine out of ten such persons the diastolic pressure was overestimated. 6. 6. Overestimation of systolic pressure in very obese persons can be much greater than was heretofore known; it amounted to 44, 50 and 51 mm. in three of our stoutest subjects. 7. 7. Falsely high readings in extremely obese subjects are caused by the large size of their arms. If this possibility is borne in mind, an unwarranted diagnosis of hypertension is not likely to be made. In dubious cases, intraarterial measurement should be resorted to. 8. 8. Many factors other than arm size may cause inaccuracies of the indirect method, and the large arm does not regularly cause falsely high readings. It is not feasible to apply a correction to an individual reading.