INTRODUCTION Despite a large number of modern contraceptive methods available in the market today, numerous studies have shown insufficient awareness of young women about these forms for birth control. The aim of this study was to compare characteristics of common use of contraceptives as well as the awareness of hormonal contraception among female students of the Faculty of Medicine and the Fa...

1 Tamer Çatalkaya, Department of Integrated Circuit Design, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany, [email protected] Abstract  As an initiative to produce low-cost / low-time Computer Base Training (CBT) material for the education of Chip Design, we introduce our multimedia reference model and our multimedia lab. The reference model enables the cost efficient production, where t...

This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of an intervention to reduce bicycle injuries among rural middle school students in China. A one-year cluster-randomized controlled trial was conducted with seventh grade students from six middle schools in two towns in rural Chaoshan, China. The two towns were randomly assigned to either the intervention or control group. Road safety education mat...

The purpose of this study was to explore how technical skills taught and learned in Florida engineering and engineering technology-themed career academies fit technical skills desired by local employers in technology and manufacturing. The analysis utilized the narratives of 70 students and four teachers from career academies at four high schools and 27 industry leaders from the same geographic...

This article considers peculiarities of engineering students teaching to technical documentation translation. Technical translation is viewed as means of the foreign language learning, as the method to improve reading skills and as the efficient technique for the information understanding control. The aim of the following paper is to develop the method of technical translation teaching to the p...