Seated buttock contours: a pilot study of Australian senior high-school students.

Seated buttock contours: a pilot study of Australian senior high-school students

The Puzzle of Falling Enrolments in Physics and Chemistry Courses: Putting Some Pieces Together

This paper reports and discusses the principal findings of an Australian study exploring the decisions of high achieving Year 10 students about taking physics and chemistry courses (Lyons, 2003). The study used a Fmultiple worlds_ framework to explore the diverse background characteristics that previous quantitative research had shown were implicated in these decisions. Based on analyses of que...

More rural and Aboriginal students for health related university courses--are we making progress?

Gil-Soo Han is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Rural Health, Monash University. Julie Mahnken was a Senior Lecturer at the Greater Green Triangle University Department of Rural Health, Deakin University. Sally Belcher is a Lecturer at the School of Rural Health, University of Melbourne. Han and Belcher are Victorian Universities Rural Health Consortium coordinators in their respective univer...

Incompatibility between Students’ Body Measurements and School Chairs

Children spend about five hours per day sitting down while doing their school work. Considering this as well as the potential inadequate use of school furniture, it is likely that some anatomical-functional changes and problems in the learning process may occur. The aim of this study was to examine possible incompatibility between students’ body measures and school chairs they use. A total of 6...

Change in weight status and academic performance among senior high school students in Taiwan.

INTRODUCTION This study examines how the changes in weight status across the spectrum of a senior high school study are associated with academic performance measured by the university entrance exam scores. MATERIALS AND METHODS A unique dataset which compiles a national health examination profile and the General Scholastic Ability Test data bank in Taiwan was constructed. The final sample com...