BACKGROUND Low educational level is associated with an increased risk of coronary heart disease. The aim of the present study was to examine the relationships between education and common cardiovascular risk factors in young adults. METHODS Trends in conventional risk factors of young adults aged 21, 24, 27 and 30 years in 1992 (n = 443) were examined across the educational groups as part of ...

background: relationships are the foundation of human social life. if this relationship is well established in academic environments, educational objectives are more conveniently obtained. the aim of this studydetermining factors affecting student- professor relationship in performing educational and learning activities from the perspective of male and female  apprentices, interns and assistant...

factors of educational ICT projects: A group concept mapping approach.

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether psychosocial factors (i.e., depression, anxiety, and well-being) moderated educational gradients in interleukin-6 (IL-6) levels using data from the Survey of Midlife Development in the U.S. (MIDUS). The influences of educational attainment and psychosocial factors on IL-6 in middle aged and older adults were also examined. DESIGN Telephone interviews and mail ...

Educational partnership becomes a common practice in higher education. This study clarifies the practices of educational partnership in higher education institutions. A model of educational partnership has been built to identify its successful factors. The five determinants to the partnership’s success are the following: commitment to partnerships, curriculum and learning, quality and risk mana...

background: we aimed to assess the impact of health workers’ training program on preventive behaviors of leishmaniosis based on basnef (belief, attitude, subjective norm, and enabling factors) model in the families under the coverage of health centers. methods: the study was done in rural health centers of marvdasht city, fars province, iran in 2011. health workers completed a specific question...

There are many opportunities for social technologies to create wider and more valuable educational communities. This paper presents an analysis of a Government initiative to create educational communities around schools in Victoria, Australia using social networking systems. The analysis, comparing several systems, shows that a number of factors, including interpretation of reactions by actors ...

BACKGROUND The aim was to identify the correlates of educational differences in smoking among adults. METHODS We used data from the baseline of a Dutch longitudinal study, relating to a population of 2,462 respondents, ages 25-74. Logistic regression was used to assess the educational gradient in smoking. Current smokers were compared with former and never smokers, respectively. RESULTS The...

We present a user study to investigate which factors affect student attention to user-adaptive hints during interaction with an educational computer game. The game is Prime Climb, an educational game designed to provide individualized support for learning number factorization skills in the form of hints based on a model of student learning. We use eye-tracking data to capture user attention pat...

This paper estimates the impact of three types of qualitative differences in college experiences on the earnings of recent college graduates-college major, school quality and educational performance. The analysis is based on a new statistical technique, known as hierarchical linear modeling (HLM), which distinguishes more precisely between the effects of individual factors and institutional fac...