Despite speculation that peers' alcohol-related content on social media sites (SMS) may influence the alcohol use behaviors of SMS frequenting college students, this relationship has not been investigated longitudinally. The current prospective study assesses the relationship between exposure to peers' alcohol-related SMS content and later-drinking among first-year college students. Among 408 f...

Alcohol identity is the extent to which an individual perceives drinking alcohol to be a defining characteristic of his or her self-identity. Although alcohol identity might play an important role in risky college drinking practices, there is currently no easily administered, implicit measure of this concept. Therefore we developed a computerized implicit measure of alcohol identity (the Alcoho...

Abstract Does the economic success of democratization depend on newly elected leaders’ characteristics? We exploit unique Indonesian process, where districts exogenously democratized in different years. In a census manufacturing plants, employment drops by 5% that elect non-college educated mayor, while stays constant under college graduates. Non-college mayors substantially raise taxation but ...

In this paper we use unique data to examine how college students from low income families for expectations about academic ability and to examine the role that learning about ability and a variety of other factors play in the in the college drop-out decision.

The Role of Dental Operating Microscope in Locating the Second MesioBuccal Canal in Maxillary Molars: an In Vitro Evaluation Harpreet Singh1*, Jaidev Singh Dhillon1, Mandeep Kaur1, Pooja Kapoor2 1Department of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics, Gian Sagar Dental College and Hospital, Patiala, India 2Department of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopaedics, Gian Sagar Dental College and Hosp...

The autho~ considers the distinct constructs that define moral development and the efiect that college has both on moral development and the subsequent development of such attitudes as tolerance. She presents the implications for institutional practice, especially with regard to the influence of college environment and the role of higher education in developing students along all parameters of ...

This study examines the relationships between college students’ attitudes regarding gender roles and gendered violence and their perpetration of intimate partner violence. Although findings from previous studies demonstrate associations between gender role and gendered violence-related attitudes and intimate partner violence, research to date fails to fully explore these associations. In an att...

In a new 340B controversy, OPA rebuffs a court ruling.

Background: Final exam is one of evaluation methods of students. We can utilize indexes such as difficulty index and discrimination index in order to analyze each test questions or to determine questions taxonomy. However, these methods have inter- testing look and do not consider the relationship between various tests results. Inter correlation between final exam score and the average indirect...