BACKGROUND Cancer mortality is increasing with the aging of the population in Japan. Cancer information obtained through feasible methods is therefore becoming the basis for planning effective cancer control programs. There are three time-related factors affecting cancer mortality, of which the cohort effect is one. Past descriptive epidemiologic studies suggest that the cohort effect is not ne...

INTRODUCTION Research shows that there is a relationship between students' perceptions of classroom and learning environment and their cognitive, affective, emotional and behavioral outcomes, so, in this study the relationship between medical students' perception of learning environment and academic emotions was examined. METHOD The research method used was descriptive-correlative. The statis...

Most students, especially Indian students, can learn sufficient anatomy from one of the standard textbooks to get them through their examinations. But much of what they learn is imperfectly understood, so that not a great deal of anatomical knowledge is retained to help them through their final studies and their careers. The author, who is Professor of Anatomy in the University of Toronto, teac...

the purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between employees’ empowerment and organizational learning in physical education organization. the research used a descriptive correlation method. statistical population consisted of all employees in physical education organization (n=722) and based on cochran sampling method, 250 subjects were selected for the statistical sample. the ...

MOTIVATION Abrupt reduction/resumption of thermal fluctuations of a force probe has been used to identify association/dissociation events of protein-ligand bonds. We show that off-rate of molecular dissociation can be estimated by the analysis of the bond lifetime, while the on-rate of molecular association can be estimated by the analysis of the waiting time between two neighboring bond events...