BACKGROUND Physical Activity Across the Curriculum (PAAC) was a three-year cluster randomized controlled trial to promote physical activity and diminish increases in overweight and obesity in elementary school children. METHODS Twenty-four elementary schools were cluster randomized to the Physical Activity Across the Curriculum intervention or served as control. All children in grades two and...

This study tested a structural equation model to estimate the relationship between health behaviors, body mass index (BMI), and self-esteem and the academic achievement of adolescents. The authors analyzed survey data from the 2000 study of Youth in Iceland , a population-based, cross-sectional sample of 6,346 adolescents in Iceland. The model demonstrated good fit with chi-square of 2685 (n = ...

OBJECTIVE In Ethiopia, coverage of key health services is low, and community based services have been implemented to improve access to key services. This study aims to describe and assess the level and the distribution of health outcomes and coverage for key services in Ethiopia, and their association with socioeconomic and geographic determinants. METHODS Data were obtained from the 2000, 20...

Motivation for learning is one of the things that need to be raised in school efforts. This study aims detail students' mathematics motivation distance learning. research uses quantitative research, while this type survey methods. The subject was a private high student Lamongan, East Java. instrument used using questionnaire made google form. results, including criteria each excellent indicator...

While current e-learning activities mainly focus on static mode, this paper proposed a simple Active Multimodal Presentation (AMP) application, and evaluated the student achievement in static and active modes. Of the various AMP acquisition and presentation tools, this paper addresses the use of active text as input and output interaction and animation with video for presenting some learning co...

Although Web technology is widely used in today’s classrooms, educationists are still unsure of its capability to generate meaningful learning. As the numbers of web-based learning (WBL) materials keep increasing tremendously, more students will rely on such resources in their learning process. WBL is always seen as a platform to deliver information, and as such, most of its learning materials ...

The study investigates the relationship between e-learning, blended learning and classroom learning with students' achievement. Two experimental groups together with a control group from Umm Al-Qura University in Saudi Arabia were identified randomly. To assess students’ achievement in the different groups, preand postachievement tests were used. The results of the study (N=148) show that there...

Though biometrics to authenticate a person is a convenient tool, typical authentication algorithms by using biometrics may not be executable on the memory-constrained devices such as smart cards. We present a solution of a face authentication algorithm for the open issue. Our achievement is two-fold. One is to present a face authentication algorithm with low memory requirement, which uses suppo...