In the Portuguese school system, form tutors (FTs) are an intermediate education management structure. The form tutor is responsible for a position of coordination and orientation with a «threefold function»: a relationship with students, relationship with the student’s family and relationship with other class teachers. The joint teaching of music is a part of the educational system in basic ed...

BACKGROUND Evaluation of speech disorders in PD taking into account sociodemographic conditions is not frequent. This paper aims to establish correlations between articulation disorders in PD patients and factors such as the patients' sex, age, education and residence. METHODS The study included 92 patients with idiopathic PD diagnosed by means of multiple neurological examinations, biochemic...

How do women with higher education view their own experiences of being educated in their everyday life? How do they understand and address gender relations as educated women? What is their analysis of gender and social transformation in the contemporary Indian society? This paper examines these questions in the light of educated women’s experiences. Stories and narratives of five women living i...

Eating disorders are a leading cause of disease burden among young women. This study investigated associations of social characteristics of parents and grandparents, sibling position, and school performance with incidence of eating disorders. The authors studied Swedish females born in 1952–1989 (n 1⁄4 13,376), thirdgeneration descendants of a cohort born in Uppsala in 1915–1929. Data on grandp...

Eating disorders are a leading cause of disease burden among young women. This study investigated associations of social characteristics of parents and grandparents, sibling position, and school performance with incidence of eating disorders. The authors studied Swedish females born in 1952–1989 (n 1⁄4 13,376), thirdgeneration descendants of a cohort born in Uppsala in 1915–1929. Data on grandp...

Eating disorders are a leading cause of disease burden among young women. This study investigated associations of social characteristics of parents and grandparents, sibling position, and school performance with incidence of eating disorders. The authors studied Swedish females born in 1952-1989 (n = 13,376), third-generation descendants of a cohort born in Uppsala in 1915-1929. Data on grandpa...

rapid economic growth and competition ability are the most important themes of the fourth development plan, without promotion and development of human capital and increasing labor productivity is not achieved and in this regard, education an important role is playing. this paper investigated the value added comparative advantages state and private education in khorasan region (including three k...

BACKGROUND Two new sets of stratification indicators--family's material affluence and adolescent's personal social position- were compared with traditional indicators of familial social position based on parental occupation and education for their ability to detect health inequality among adolescents. METHODS Survey data were collected in the Adolescent Health and Lifestyle Survey in 2003 fro...