Befriending ‘brothers’ and ‘sisters’ from older year groups was a strategy used by children to gain protection against being bullied same-age peers at school, especially in contexts, such as Chinese rural boarding schools, where spend long time with under limited adult supervision. However, it is alarming that close connections children, some cases, could give feeling of having power over their...

730 low birth weight (LBW) neonates and 1460 controls were selected from 13,123 neonates born from October 1988 to June 1989 in 17 hospitals and maternity units in Tehran, and were compared for mortality in the first seven and up to 28 days of life (early neonatal period). In this study all low birth weight newborns are divided according to four sub-groups of birth weight, and the mortalit...

Of the alcohol-related risks faced by college students, it is arguable that none presents a greater public health hazard than driving after drinking (DAD). The present study examined the extent to which students' injunctive misperceptions toward DAD predicted the likelihood to engage in DAD and how this relation was mediated by self-approval of DAD. Participants were 2,848 college students (59....

10.1080/14703290701757450 Innovations in Education and Teaching International 470-3297 (print)/1470-3300 (online) Original Art cle 2 08 Taylor & Fra cis 45 0 00Feb uary 2008 Lih-Ju nCh L n lins1 [email protected] This paper reports the findings of a study which observed students’ (aged 10–11) use of technology during project-based learning activities in science. As part of the overall process ...