This study examines the mediating role of student-teacher relationship quality (conflict and closeness) in grades 4, 5, and 6 on the relation between background characteristics, difficult temperament at age 4 1/2 and risky behavior in 6th grade. The longitudinal sample of participants (N=1156) was from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development. Structural equation modeling was u...

Art materials are used by individuals of all ages. Certain chemicals found in art materials have potential to cause health problems, especially if used over a long period of time. The risk can be greater for children, individuals with mental or physical challenges, and people with certain genetic diseases and/or unhealthy lifestyles. However, there are laws and regulations that serve to minimiz...

Background: Human factors have the most significant effects on the occurrence of traffic accidents among the three factors of human, road, and vehicle. The driver is a significant traffic safety concern. Interventions that enhance driver’s safety are required. Risky behaviors of drivers on the road influence physical healthy and personality. The aim of this study is to report the protocol...

This study is provoked by high prevalence of HIV/AIDS in Nigerian tertiary institutions. It examined the level of awareness of HIV/AIDS and sexual behaviour of the students of University of Ilorin, Nigeria. The study utilized both primary and secondary data. The primary data were obtained through questionnaires administration on randomly selected student of the institution. Secondary data used ...

and obscure disease. The condition is hardly diagnosed during life. There are no pathognomonic symptoms or physical signs special to the diseased condition. Neither the laboratory investigations nor the x-ray examinations are of any substantial help for the diagnosis in the ?living state. Biopsy of hepatic tissues offers the best chance of diagnosis, but most of the patients are in such a poor ...

How is information integrated across the attributes of an option when making risky choices? In most descriptive models of decision under risk, information about risk, and reward is combined multiplicatively (e.g., expected value; expected utility theory, Bernouli, 1738/1954; subjective expected utility theory, Savage, 1954; Edwards, 1955; prospect theory, Kahneman and Tversky, 1979; rank-depend...