This paper presents results on the effectiveness of different human capital policies targeted to disadvantaged groups in the Netherlands. The policies considered are: class size reduction, extra resources for personnel, extra resources for computers, lowering the compulsory school attendance age and increasing the compulsory school leaving age. All results are based on some quasi-experimental r...

The use of English as a Medium Instruction to teach subjects other than is widely spread across European higher education institutions. University Alcalá has been working on the implementation English-Medium (EMI) for decades now. internationalisation process accounts increasing number studies both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels taught in English. response international students posit...

this study was conducted in delta state nigeria to establish a nexus between rural-urban migration and child labour. random sampling was applied to select rural settlements and this study covers 450 sample farming households. the results show that rural-urban migration influence child labour (p

this study examined the effects of agricultural child labour on children’s perception of farming occupation in delta state, nigeria. a total of 336 respondents comprising of 112 farming household heads and 224 children in the selected households were used for the study.farming activities of the children were highest during weekends. highest level of participation was recorded in herbicide and p...

This study examined the effects of a yoga program during pregnancy, on maternal comfort, labor pain, and birth outcomes. A randomized trial was conducted using 74-primigravid Thai women who were equally divided into two groups (experimental and control). The yoga program involved six, 1-h sessions at prescribed weeks of gestation. A variety of instruments were used to assess maternal comfort, l...

Decision augmentation theory (DAT) holds that humans integrate information obtained by anomalous cognition into the usual decision process. The result is that, to a statistical degree, such decisions are biased toward volitional outcomes. We introduce our model and show that the domain over which it is applicable is within a few standard deviations from chance. We contrast the theory's experime...