<span>In second or foreign language learning, attitudinal factors were one of the key that determine success and achievement. In Indonesia, (English) has been taught since elementary school, however research showed most Indonesian learners in English unsatisfactorily result. This aimed at disclosing students’ learning by exploring their first experience language. qualitative study employe...

today, companies with superior performance in various industries are moving towards customer retention and loyalty. because they have found that it is very expensive to attract a new customer and to maintain its position in the highly competitive environment they need loyal customers. therefore, identifying the factors that affect on customer loyalty is very important. hence, this study examine...

Governmental and educational organizations have pointed out that students coming into the biological sciences require stronger skills in statistics data modeling are not usually addressed typical engineering-based calculus courses. Our work here documents how faculty biology mathematics this issue at a large urban university southwestern USA. The Calculus for Life Sciences course was redesigned...

U.S. Army soldiers with mental disorders report a variety of barriers to initiating and continuing treatment. Improved understanding of these barriers can help direct mental health services to soldiers in need. A representative sample of 5,428 nondeployed Regular Army soldiers participating in the Army Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers completed a self-administered questionn...

This experimental study employed a 2 2 2 factorial design to investigate the effects of type of instruction (procedural module, attitudinal module), deictic gesture (presence, absence), and facial expression (presence, absence) on student perception of pedagogical agent persona, attitude toward the content, and learning. The interaction effect between type of instruction and agent nonverbal beh...

To account for disparate findings in the literature on automatic evaluation, Gawronski, Rydell, Vervliet, and De Houwer (2010) proposed a representational theory that specifies the contextual conditions under which automatic evaluations reflect initially acquired attitudinal information or subsequently acquired counterattitudinal information. The theory predicts that automatic evaluations shoul...

BACKGROUND The severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) crisis of 2003 provided a new urgency in China in terms of preparing public health staff to respond effectively to public health emergencies. Although the Chinese Government has already carried out a series of emergency education and training programmes to improve public health staff's capability of emergency preparedness, it remains uncle...

objective: according to the fact that university students are role models for the whole society, this study was performed to evaluate reasons of and attitudes toward cigarette smoking among iranian university students. methods: this study was performed as a cross-sectional self-reported questionnaire based study among university students of kerman city of iran. our questionnaire was attributed ...