Abstract We investigated the long-term effects of birthplace favoritism by top-ranking politicians on quality education in Vietnam. used over 1 million test scores from 2009 and 2014 Vietnamese national university entrance examinations. examined both different timing political terms total years favoritism. Using school fixed effects, we found that did not have any significant impacts, regardles...

The knowledge of the radiation dose received by the patient during the radiological examination is essential to prevent risks of exposures. The aim of this work is to study patient doses for common diagnostic radiographic examinations in hospitals affiliated to Kashan University of Medical sciences, Iran. The results of this survey are compared with those published by some national and internat...

Introduction: Nowadays, we are witnessing an exponential use of interventional radiology techniques in different communities. After CT, interventional techniques are the second factor of increasing patients’ doses in different societies. Measuring patient doses from aforementioned methods has been recommended by many radiation protection professional organizations such as ICRP...

In India, a single national level entrance examination for admission to undergraduate and postgraduate medical courses has been introduced. This is largely an effort towards alleviating financial corruption in admission process, improving logistics and ease of examination for students, and resource-efficacy in conduct of examination. Unfortunately, the possible educational impact of such single...

The start D’Souza,1 stated that the origins of the Periodic Health Examination (PHE) or screening occurred in a brothel in the papal state of Avignon in 1347, “when an abbess and a local surgeon, every Saturday, singly examined women ‘in the home’ and if any of them had contracted any illness by their whoring, they were separated from the rest and not allowed to prostitute themselves for fear t...

DESCRIPTORS RESEARCH, *PREDICTIVE MEASUREMENT, *AGILITY IDENTIFICATION, *COLLEGE SOUND STUDENTS, *GRADE PREDICTION, PREDICTIVt ABILITY (TESTING), COLLEGE ENTRANCE EXAMINATIONS, ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL PATTERNS, PROBABILITY THEORY, FACTOR ANALYSIS, FACTOR STRUCTURE, STATISTICAL ANALYSIS, GUILFORD ZIMMERMAN APTITUDE SURVEY. AMERICAN COUNCIL ON EDUC. PSYCHOL. EXAM, COOPERATIVE ENGLISH ...

Many nuclear weapons complex workers were required to undergo medical x-ray examinations as a condition of their employment. To ensure that their dose reconstructions are complete, it is necessary to include the contributions from these examinations. X-ray procedures that must be evaluated include: (1) posterior-anterior and lateral radiography, and/or photofluorography, of the chest; (2) anter...