Background: Dysgraphia as a problem with handwriting, affects student's performance in school activities and participation. The purpose of the study was to compare dexterity and two-point discrimination of the hand between learning disabled students with dysgraphia and healthy students. Methods: Forty-three students with developmental dysgraphia and 55 normal students in grade two to four from ...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to gather qualitative and quantitative data on criteria considered by healthcare decision makers. METHODS Using snowball sampling and an online questionnaire with forty-three criteria organized into ten clusters, decision makers were invited by an international task force to report which criteria they consider when making decisions on healthcare interventi...

Peter has been a leading figure in the field of statistics in the forty-three years since he received his Ph.D. in Statistics at the age of 22 from UC Berkeley in 1963 under the guidance of Erich Lehmann. His contributions are in education, research, and service to the profession and society. In education we find more than fifty students who have received their Ph.D. in statistics under Peter’s...

Modern health worries (MHW) has been reported to covary, albeit inconsistently, with measures tapping a tendency for emotional lability. We aim to address this inconsistency, in part, by investigating the moderating influence of openness on the previously reported correlation of MHW with neuroticism. One hundred and forty-three participants completed questionnaires assessing neuroticism, openne...

Two hundred and forty three entrepreneurs in Lagos, the former capital city of Nigeria were surveyed. Results show that 69% of respondents are male and 31% female. The average age of entrepreneurs is 36.7. The time devoted to their businesses is approximately 37.8 hours per week. When asked to indicate the reasons for becoming business owners, Nigerian entrepreneurs suggested independence, sati...