Undergraduate Students Who Use Library Resources Are Also More Likely to Stay Enrolled

Students Use More Books after Library Instruction: An Analysis of Undergraduate Paper Citations

Rachel Cooke is Librarian for Languages & Literature, Fine & Performing Arts, and History, and Danielle Rosenthal is Science Librarian, both at Florida Gulf Coast University; e-mail: [email protected], drosenth@ fgcu.edu. In fall 2008, students from first-year Composition I and upper-level classes at Florida Gulf Coast University participated in a citation analysis study. The citation pages of th...

Are generous people more likely to vote?

Policymakers in the Unites States and many other countries encourage charitable giving through various subsidies. In the United States, for instance, charitable contributions can be deducted from taxable income making the price of giving inversely related to the marginal tax rate. However, the net effects of such subsidies can be better understood by exploring the relationship between generosit...

Food Taxes: How Likely Are Likely Effects?

Are older women likely to use medicines than older men? (Results from AHAP study)

Background: The health of elderly population in the world has been an important issue in recent century and the use of appropriate or inappropriate medications is challenging among them. The purpose of this study was to assess the pattern of medication in elderly population in Amirkola, northern of Iran. Methods: This study was conducted on 1534 elderly subjects who participated in Amirkola He...

More intelligent extraverts are more likely to deceive

The tendency to lie is a part of personality. But are personality traits the only factors that make some people lie more often than others? We propose that cognitive abilities have equal importance. People with higher cognitive abilities are better, and thus more effective liars. This might reinforce using lies to solve problems. Yet, there is no empirical research that shows this relationship ...