BACKGROUND Sleep problems, especially insomnia, are a common complaint among adults. International studies on university students have shown prevalence rates between 4.7% and 36.2% for sleep difficulties, and 13.1% and 28.1% for insomnia. Sleep problems are associated with lower social and academic performance and can have a severe impact on psychological and physical health. OBJECTIVE The go...

BACKGROUND The college environment offers great opportunity for HIV high-risk behaviors, including unsafe sex and multiple partnerships. While the overall incidence of HIV infection has seen some decline in recent years, rates of HIV infection among young adults have not seen a proportionate decline. As in the general population, African American young adults have been disproportionately affect...

This paper reports on an application of classification and regression models to identify college students at risk of failing in first year of study. Data was gathered from three student cohorts in the academic years 2010 through 2012 (n=1207). Students were sampled from fourteen academic courses in five disciplines, and were diverse in their academic backgrounds and abilities. Metrics used incl...

Electrophysiology is a valuable skill for the neuroscientist, but the learning curve for students can be steep. Here we describe a very simple electromyography (EMG) amplifier that can be built from scratch by students with no electronics experience in about 30 minutes, making it ideal for incorporating into a laboratory activity. With few parts and no adjustments except the gain, students can ...

Over the past five years, we have used our Interactive Remote Instruction (IRI) system to teach classes to various audiences. In this paper we evaluate IRI from three perspectives: technical performance, student perceptions, and instructional view. IRI scales well to multiple delivery sites and supports classes of 30 or more students, though some tools do not scale well. We compared perceptions...

This study aims at investigating Jordanian university undergraduate and graduate students' attitudes towards the learning environment where cell phones are used as learning tools in classroom. To achieve this goal, the researchers distributed two questionnaires among two groups of two different levels of randomly chosen university students at the Faculty of Educational Sciences at Al-al-Bayt Un...

During the past 30 years new medical technologies and public concern about medical ethics have led medical schools in Europe and North America to increase their teaching of formal ethics considerably. Most of this teaching focuses on dilemmas that students may face in their future practice, rather than the ethical problems they encounter as medical students. Several studies and editorials sugge...

SETTING While waterpipe and cigarette smoking have been well studied in Syria and Lebanon, data from Jordan are limited. OBJECTIVES To characterize the relative prevalence of waterpipe tobacco and cigarette smoking among university students in Jordan, and to compare the demographic and environmental factors associated with each form of tobacco use. DESIGN We surveyed 1845 students randomly...

conclusions because 66% of students were anti-hav antibody negative and they will work as health care workers in future, our study suggest vaccinating all students accepted at aja university of medical sciences. results of total 270 students, 30 were female. their age ranged between 18 and 30 years old with the mean age of 20.58 years and just 34% of students had positive level of anti-hav anti...