The author's own experience as a student and later as an active lecturer in Afghanistan has shown that the methods used in the Afghan educational systems do not provide students with the minimum guidance needed to select the proper course of study before they enter the national university entrance exam (Kankor). The result is often high attrition rates and poor performance in

Abstract Emotions are important on eating behaviours but the direction of effect is unknown. The aim this study to evaluate and some related factors first grade medical students after university entrance exam. This was performed in a faculty from Ankara, Turkey October 2019. Researchers used questionnaire comprising 56 questions; 23 questions about students' sociodemographical characteristics 3...

AIM To determine attrition and predictors of academic success among medical students at University of Split, Croatia. METHODS We analysed academic records of 2054 students enrolled during 1979-2008 period. RESULTS We found that 26% (533/2054) of enrolled students did not graduate. The most common reasons for attrition were 'personal' (36.4%), transfer to another medical school (35.6%), and ...

This article presents the participation of Synapse Développement to the CLEF 2014 Entrance Exam campaign (QA track). Since fifteen years, our company works on Question Answering domain. Recently our work concentrated on Machine Reading and Natural Language understanding. Thus, the Entrance Exam evaluation was an excellent opportunity to measure the results of this work. The developed system is ...

This article presents the participation of Synapse Développement to the CLEF 2015 Entrance Exam campaign (QA track) for English and French languages. Since fifteen years, our company works on Question Answering domain. Recently our work concentrated on Machine Reading and Natural Language understanding. Thus, the Entrance Exam evaluation is an excellent opportunity to measure the results of thi...

We report on a project aiming at developing a system that solves a wide range of math problems written in natural language. In the system, formal analysis of natural language semantics is coupled with automated reasoning technologies including computer algebra, using logic as their common language. We have developed a prototype system that accepts as its input a linguistically annotated problem...

BACKGROUND Hepatitis A, a fecal-oral transmitted disease, which has been considered endemic in developing countries, seems to change its pattern in developing countries because of their improved socioeconomic status. OBJECTIVES In the present study, we aimed to determine the need of vaccination in 270 students at AJA University of Medical Sciences. MATERIALS AND METHODS The serum level of a...

This paper provides a long-term follow-up of students who participated in the Tennessee STAR experiment. The Tennessee STAR experiment randomly assigned 11,600 elementary school students and their teachers to a small class, regular-size class or regular-size class with a teacheraide. The experiment began with the wave of students who entered kindergarten in 1985, and lasted for four years. Afte...