This paper studies how students’ financial literacy affects their perceptions of returns to schooling and consequently decisions. We first propose a model human capital accumulation where financially illiterate students exhibit cognitive bias “ironing heuristic.” With this decision heuristic, tend linearize the relationship between educational investments future earnings, resulting in underesti...

For many of the 700 million illiterate people around world, speech recognition technology could provide a bridge to valuable information and services. Yet, those most in need this are often underserved by it. In countries, tend speak only low-resource languages, for which datasets necessary development scarce. paper, we investigate effectiveness unsupervised representation learning on noisy rad...

Recent event-related FMRI studies indicate that the prefrontal (PFC) and the medial temporal lobe (MTL) regions are more active during effective encoding than during ineffective encoding. The within-subject design and the use of well-educated young college students in these studies makes it important to replicate these results in other study populations. In this PET study, we used an auditory w...

INTRODUCTION Survival analysis for patients with end-stage renal disease and factors influencing their survival is crucial due to the increase in the number of these patients along with their high mortality rate. This study aimed to analyse the survival rate of patients in north of Iran undergoing hemodialysis and to assess factors influencing their survival. MATERIALS AND METHODS A historica...

BACKGROUND Alternative Medicine (AM) is gaining popularity worldwide. OBJECTIVES This study was conducted to determine the prevalence and pattern of AM use in a military sector of the Saudi community. METHODS Three hundred and ten adult patients, visiting their family physicians over 6 weeks from the 1(st) of June 1998, were selected by systematic random sampling. They were asked to report ...

It is estimated that over 60 million Americans (1/3 of the adult population) are functionally or marginally illiterate. To recognize and gain an understanding of illiteracy and its impact on poisoning, we determined if the illiterate in our community could recognize potential poisons. A prospective study involving 29 male and 21 female adult illiterates was undertaken. A personal interview was ...

The initiative to eradicate poliomyelitis globally by the year 2000 was launched at the Forty-first World Health Assembly in May 1988, when all WHO Member States were challenged to help eradicate poliomyelitis from the world, a gift to the children of the twenty-first century. In Nepal, 100-250 children per year become disabled due to poliomyelitis. The government of Nepal is determined to erad...

There is a high degree of flexibility in letter-position coding during visual word recognition and reading (e.g., “JUGDE” can be easily confounded with “JUDGE”). One leading account explaining this phenomenon is based on the presence of perceptual noise in the information used for locating the positions of objects—namely, letters— across space (overlap model: Gómez, Ratcliff, & Perea, 2008; Bay...

Background: Diabetes mellitus is one of the most common chronic diseases in nearly all countries. The type 2 diabetes.Dietarypractices diabetes patients relation with demographic variables at private and government hospitals Sanaa city, Yemen objective present study. A hospital-based cross - sectional descriptive study conducted from October 2018 to May 2019, among adultsfrom both gender attend...