This study was supported by the French National Research Agency; CERoPath (Community Ecology of Rodents and their Pathogens in Southeast Asia Project ANR 07 BDIV 012); Infectiopôle Sud; Center for Excellence on Agricultural Biotechnology; the Science and Technology Postgraduate Education and Research Development Office; the Office of Higher Education Commission, Ministry of Education (AGBIO/PER...

Itai Berger*, Anna Remington, Yael Leitner and Alan Leviton 1 The Neuro-Cognitive Center, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel 2 Department of Psychology and Human Development, Centre for Research in Autism and Education, Institute of Education, University College London, London, UK 3 Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Dana-Dwek Children’s Hospital, Tel Aviv University, T...

Centerscope is a publication of the Research and Training Center on Early Childhood Development, funded by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs, Research to Practice Division (H324K010005). The Center is part of the Center for Evidence-Based Practices, Orelena Hawks Puckett Institute (www.puckett.org). Copyright © 2004. Orelena Hawks Puckett Institute. All righ...

iran universities of medical sciences have experienced a period of expansion in past decades. now previous concerns are alleviated, and the former quantity-based policy has given a way to a more quality-seeking attitude. in this study, we developed a planning model for expansion and stagnation of higher education in iranian universities of medical sciences based on workforce requirements of the...

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a respiratory tract infection caused by a newly emergent coronavirus. Iran is one of the countries affected by the disease. Health center services have a critical role in response to the COVID-19 outbreak. This study with the aim of providing the functions and services of primary health care was performed by a health center in Iran during the COVID-19 outb...

Restriction of range occurs whenever design or circumstances abbreviate the values of one or both variables being correlated. Range restriction has an impact on score validity, score reliability, and statistical power. As a result, researchers need a more sophisticated concept of the relationship between.variance and correlation than the simple assumption that when variance goes down, correlati...

EDUCATIONAL DEPARTMENTS Abolghasem Amini, Jafar Sadegh Tabrizi, Sahar Farahsa. Associate Professor of medical education, Department of medical education, Education Development Center (EDC), Tabriz University of Medical Sciences Tabriz, Iran; Associate Professor of health services management, Health Services Management Research Center, Department of health services management, School of Manageme...

Janice Hansen & Lindsey E. Richland Department of Education University of California, Irvine Eric P. S. Baumer Information Science Cornell University William Tomlinson Information Technology University of California, Irvine ABSTRACT While much work has examined how students think and and learn with metaphors, relatively little research has focused on thinking about metaphors, that is, thinking ...

This paper shares a model for content development for teacher education in Western China. The goal of our project, Strengthening Capacity for Basic Education in Western China (SCBEWC), is to improve student learning through teacher education with a focus on student-centered instruction (SCI) and SCI's tie to multiple intelligences (MI). Both SCI and MI are consistent with the New Curriculum for...

Web-based learning environments are strongly driven by the information revolution and the Internet, but they have a number of common deficiencies, such as slow access, no adaptivity to the individual student, limitation by bandwidth, and more. This paper outlines the benefits of mobile agents technology, and describes its application in Web-based learning environments to improve the learning pr...