We conducted three sets of regression analyses. In the first one, we examined the relationship between school and individual principal characteristics and the salary of the principal. In the second, we explored the relationship between those characteristics and the salary differential between principals and teachers. In the third, we looked at the relationship between school characteristics and...

Indigenous people number over 300 million. They are inhabitants of practically each main biome of the earth and especially of the least disturbed terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems of the world. Based on an exhaustive review of recently published data, this chapter stresses the strategic importance of indigenous peoples in the maintenance and conservation of world's biodiversity. Four main link...

BACKGROUND Indigenous peoples in Canada have higher prevalence of modifiable risk factors for Alzheimer's disease (AD). The relative importance of these risk factors on AD risk management is poorly understood. METHODS Relative risks from literature and prevalence of risk factors from Statistics Canada or the First Nations Regional Health Survey were used to determine projected population attr...

BACKGROUND—Mental stress-induced myocardial ischemia (MSIMI) is common in patients with ischemic heart disease (IHD) and associated with a poorer cardiovascular prognosis. Platelet © 2014, Published by Mosby, Inc. This manuscript version is made available under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. Address for Correspondence: Wei Jiang, MD, Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Professor of Med...

India, having less awareness towards the deaf and dumb peoples leads to increase the communication gap between deaf and hard hearing community. Sign language is commonly developed for deaf and hard hearing peoples to convey their message by generating the different sign pattern. The scale invariant feature transform has been used to perform reliable matching between different images of the same...

Aboriginal peoples are among the most food insecure groups in Canada, yet their perspectives and knowledge are often sidelined in mainstream food security debates. In order to create food security for all, Aboriginal perspectives must be included in food security research and discourse. This project demonstrates a process in which Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal partners engaged in a culturally a...

For three years after developing countries open their stock markets to inflows of foreign capital, the average annual growth rate of the real wage in the manufacturing sector increases by a factor of seven. No such increase occurs in a control group of developing countries that do not liberalize. The temporary increase in the growth rate of the real wage permanently drives up the level of avera...

Salary prediction is a popular problem among the Data Science community for complete beginners. Through this regression analysis, we found perfect linear relationship between salary and job experience of people. It means more results in higher salary. This research paper presents software Prediction System that aims to address challenge accurately estimating salaries industry. The system provid...

BACKGROUND In primary care dentistry, strategies to reconfigure the traditional boundaries of various dental professional groups by task sharing and role substitution have been encouraged in order to meet changing oral health needs. AIM The aim of this research was to investigate the potential for skill mix use in primary dental care in England based on the undergraduate training experience i...