Even though positive relations between children's motor ability and their academic achievement are frequently reported, the underlying mechanisms are still unclear. Executive function has indeed been proposed, but hardly tested as a potential mediator. The aim of the present study was therefore to examine the mediating role of executive function in the relationship between motor ability and aca...

The present paper focused on architecture students' learning styles based on Kolb's Experiential learning theory (ELT) and evaluated relationships between students' learning styles, degree of their academic achievement, gender, and duration of study in architecture. Based on the results of this research, divergent, accommodating, assimilating and convergent styles were the architecture students...

this paper presents a hybrid technique for simultaneous estimation of parameter and function in inverse heat conduction problems. no prior information is used for the functional form of the heat flux in the present study. the scheme presented here is a combination of two different classical methods: the variable metric method (vmm) and gauss method (gm). the determination of the unknown thermal...

The present study investigated the sociability and academic achievement as predictors of creativity among university students. The sample consisted of 300 undergraduate students (155 girls and145 boys) taken from pure sciences and arts and social sciences departments of BS Hons. classes. The age range of the sample was 18 to 24 years. Abedi Creativity Test and the translated version of Californ...

Environmental matters are more complicated. Sustainability of environment requires an integrated approach to decisions making, planning, and management. Therefore, there is a need for a professional and systematic environmental management approach to reducing the consumption of resources. This approach is generally lacking in most universities, and therefore achievement of sustainability become...

Objectives To determine the proportion of patients with psoriatic arthritis in the Adalimumab Effectiveness in Psoriatic Arthritis trial achieving minimal disease activity (MDA) and its individual components at 1 or more visits over 144 weeks, identify baseline predictors of MDA achievement, and evaluate the association of MDA status with independent quality of life (QoL)-related patient-report...

PURPOSE This study aimed to explore the associations between learning styles and high academic achievement and to ascertain whether the factors associated with high academic achievement differed between preclinical and clinical students. METHODS A survey was conducted among undergraduate medical students in Chiang Mai University, Thailand. The Index of Learning Styles questionnaire was used t...

The aim of this study was to prepare a model for computer anxiety through investigating the relationship of achievement goals and epistemological beliefs with computer anxiety. In order to fulfill this, 375 undergraduate students (218 female and 157 male) from the University of Tehran were chosen through relative class sampling. They completed a questionnaire composed of an achievement goals sc...