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...

Material and Methods: This survey is an epidemiological study with cross-sectional design. According to the layered random sampling method, 15 schools were visited and taking into account the age and gender distribution a total number of 1124 students filled the questionnaire. The survey included questions about the parental and the socio-demographic features, the social and economic status of ...

Graduate students have been shafted as far as living areas are concerned since the construction of the new campus. Gradually, all else has moved uptown or further downtown to Draper, including graduate-level courses. Yet all of the on-campus graduate housing remains downtown, in Brubacher and Pierce halls. Grad students should be given a choice of where to live, and now that Indian is nearly fi...

This study uses data from 99 Chinese cities covering the decade from 2000 to 2010 to look at factors that drive urban development in China. There are data available to test standard measures of development like housing price. However, there are fundamental problems with doing so due to a Chinese housing market shaped by factors like planned construction with waiting lists, housing as the best a...

The higher education system in the United States is characterized by a large degree of quality heterogeneity, and there is a growing literature suggesting students attending higher quality universities have better educational and labor market outcomes. In this paper, we use NLSY97 data combined with the difference in the timing and strength of the housing boom across cities to examine how short...

In higher institution of learning, dormitories otherwise known as hostels or hall of residences are built for students in order to cater for their accommodation need and they are often in great proximity to classroom blocks in order to make learning more suitable and reduce the stress of commuting. Students residing in the school dormitories are often expected to be more comfortable and thus tr...

? This article was adapted from a Center for Research on the Education of Students Placed At Risk (CRESPAR) 1998 report. Reprinted with permission. Inner-city schools are populated by many students eager to learn and succeed academically despite the chronic stress of poverty and the conditions that can accompany lack of resources. Such schools can represent places of hope within communities who...

University of Education, Winneba. College of Technology Education, Department of Accounting Studies Education, Kumasi, Ghana. _______________________________________________________________________________________ Abstract This paper uses the external survey assessment techniques of the Probit model to examine the problem facing non-residential students of the College of Technology Education, U...

The impact of residential dampness or mold on respiratory health is well established but few studies have focused on university students. This study aims to: (a) describe the prevalence of exposure to residential dampness or mold in university students according to socio-geographic factors and (b) identify associated housing characteristics. A web survey was conducted in 2014 among the 26,676 s...