Virtual Campus is a shared virtual model of Nanyang Technological University. It is a great multimedia place for electronic education and fun, research and games, meeting new friends, and immersion in campus life. It can be accessed from any Internet connected computer running MS Windows. In this place you can be anything: choose a fancy look, or turn yourself into a sports car, spooky creature...

Results. There were 150 participants in hostels (mean age 81 6 8 years) and 150 respondents to the Internet survey (mean age 70 6 5 years). Sleep disturbances were reported by most participants in both the hostel and Internet studies. In hostel participants, falls were associated with poor sleep quality (odds ratio1⁄4 4.5, 95% confidence interval, 1.9-12.2; p1⁄4 .002) and number of nocturnal aw...

A genetic and epidemiological study is especially important in those hereditary diseases for which no effective treatment is known, since then genetic counselling is the only means of prevention. The progressive muscular dystrophies are typical conditions of this sort. Knowledge of the type of hereditary transmission for a given form of muscular dystrophy is the basis for correct genetic progno...

Kitchen waste (food waste) collected from hostels and canteen has high calorific and rich nutritive value to microbes due to which efficiency of methane production can be enhanced. Biogas (Green energy) as an energy source is cost effective and generates a high-quality renewable fuel. Biogas contains around 55-65% of methane, 3040% of carbon dioxide. Methane has a calorific value of 10 kWh/Nm 3...

The study was conducted to acquire the base line information about perception of learning climate of education environment. To assay the climate of the medical education in Dhaka medical college, the Medical Education Environment Measure (MEEM) questionnaire was administered, completed and returned to the researcher by the 50 students of third year MBBS. The analysis of this inventory showed th...

This study characterizes the behavior of students in one of the Sub-Saharan Africa universities with respect to usage of valuable, but expensive Internet resources in a developing economy. Traffic allocation to web domains was compared with known statistical distributions such as Zipf and Stretched exponential distributions. Observed results show that traffic allocation follows stretched expone...

We thank all families who kindly participated in the study. We are grateful to the Housing Department of the Birmingham City Council, Mrs Daphne Agnew, the staff of the seven hostels, the head teachers of the schools involved in the selection of the comparison sample, and Mr Saeed Haque for the statistical advice. Contributors: PV participated in the formulation of the study hypothesis, researc...