Improved mentoring of women graduate students and young faculty is one strategy for increasing the presence, retention and advancement of women scholars in engineering. We explore the sociological literature on interpersonallyand institutionallygenerated gender roles and dynamics that make the construction and maintenance of mentoring relationships especially difficult for women in male-dominat...

A research was conducted to evaluate cassava production by women farmers in Igbo-Eze North Local Government Area of Enugu State, Nigeria. One hundred and twenty smallholder female cassava farmers were selected using multi-stage sampling. Data were collected from the respondents using questionnaire and interview schedule. Then descriptive statistics (mean, frequency and percentage) were used in ...

This work explores sources of conflict among forager-horticulturalist women in Amazonian Bolivia, and applies life history theory as a tool for understanding competitive and cooperative social networking behaviors among women. In this study, 121 Tsimane women and girls were interviewed regarding current and past disagreements with others in their community to identify categories of contested re...

a r t i c l e i n f o The modulating role of age on the relationship between physical attractiveness and cooperativeness in a prisoner's dilemma game (PDG) was investigated. Previous studies have shown that physical attractiveness is negatively related to cooperative choices among young men but not young women. Following the argument that the negative relationship between physical attractivenes...

Abstract The present study attempted to investigate the impact of cooperation versus collaboration on college students` reading ability. To fulfill the purpose of the study, 90 participants were chosen from among 140 by means of administering the Nelson Proficiency Test. They were divided into three groups: cooperative group, collaborative group, and control group. A fifty-item multiple-choice ...

The Effects of Cooperative, Competitive, and Individual Learning on Students' Physical Readiness A. Shams, Ph.D.  B. Abdoli, Ph.D. P. ShamsipoorDehkordi, Ph.D. To compare the effectiveness of three learning styles in physical education, a sample of 120 male sixth graders was randomly selected using cluster sampling method and then randomly assigned to three experimenta...

Abstract The present study attempted to investigate the impact of cooperation versus collaboration on college students` reading ability. To fulfill the purpose of the study, 90 participants were chosen from among 140 by means of administering the Nelson Proficiency Test. They were divided into three groups: cooperative group, collaborative group, and control group. A fifty-item multiple-choice ...

in the present study, the cooperative and diminutive interplay between halogen, hydride, and cation-σ interactions are studied in hmgh···li+(na+)···nccl, li+(na+)···hmgh···clcn and hmgh···clcn···li+(na+) complexes by means of ab initio calculations. to better understand the cooperative or diminutive effects in the ternary systems, the corresponding binary complexes are also considered. the esti...

abstract- according to article 44 of the i.r. of iran constitution, the iranian economy consists of three sectors; the state, the cooperative, and the private sectors. the aim of this study was to present a hierarchy of criteria for selecting the best economic sector for agricultural development. analytic hierarchy process (ahp) was used to calculate the relative importance of either criteria o...