The Empathetic Characteristics Comparison between Eastern Undergraduates and Western Undergraduates

Comparison of European- and Asian-Ancestry Undergraduates

One thousand fifty-two (582 non-Asian, 470 Asian) university students were assessed regarding levels of physical abuse, emotional abuse, sexual abuse, neglect, and socially desirable responding. Differences between Asian-ancestry and European-ancestry students in self-reported incidence and expression of abuse were evaluated, as was gender and the relation between self-reported abuse and social...

Teaching Undergraduates About LGBTQ Identities, Families, and Intersectionality: Teaching Undergraduates

Teaching undergraduate students about LGBTQ identities and family issues presents several challenges, or “opportunities,” which we address within personal, ecological, and historical contexts. We begin by articulating our positionality as scholars and instructors, and the feminist intersectional and queer lens that guides our research and pedagogy. We organize our presentation of contemporary t...

Pharmacology – Prep Manual for Undergraduates

Cuckoo Hashing for Undergraduates

This lecture note presents and analyses two simple hashing algorithms: “Hashing with Chaining”, and “Cuckoo Hashing”. The analysis uses only very basic (and intuitively understandable) concepts of probability theory, and is meant to be accessible even for undergraduates taking their first algorithms course.

Alcohol use behavior among undergraduates: a cross-cultural comparison between the United States and Sri Lanka.

In this study, the alcohol use behaviors and associated factors of US and Sri Lankan undergraduates were compared. A sample of 515 US (63% female) and 583 Sri Lankan (54% female) undergraduates were surveyed using a self-administered, anonymous questionnaire. Significant variations by gender and country existed. In the US sample, 89.5% of males and 76.5% of females were current alcohol users; i...